By India McCarty
Author and public speaker Priscilla Shirer is reminding us that we “limit our experience of God” when we ask Him to fulfill our prayers exactly as we ask.
“If we limit God to what we can think and what we see…we have not even considered the categories of opportunity that this divine holy almighty being has accessible to Him,” Shirer said in a video recently posted to TBN’s Facebook page.
She continued, “He’s not just thinking about you. He’s thinking about your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren and those that are to come and how His kingdom’s purposes are going to be outworked in this generation.”
Shirer explained that “we box God in” when we ask Him to “answer my request in this particular way.”
“Do you know that you limit not God, but you limit, I limit, our experience of God when we say, ‘Lord, answer my request exactly this way,’” she said.
Shirer added, “I have learned to pray, ‘Here, Lord, is my request. You said that I can make it known. Here’s how I would like to see You move in my circumstance. Thank you, Lord, that I can come boldly and make my request known.’ So I’ve made my request. But at the end of that prayer, I’ve learned to pray, ‘Lord, do it or do something better.’”
Shirer often speaks about the importance of prayer and how it can be used to reinforce and strengthen our faith.
“Prayer is the key that God has given us to unlock the power of heaven to be unleashed in the circumstances of Earth,” she told Kirk Cameron during a conversation on TBN, calling it one of the “weapons of righteousness.”
Related: Priscilla Shirer Explains Why We Can Trust God’s Promises
During a recent speech at Liberty University, Shirer encouraged the audience to listen for Jesus’ knock on their door and to be ready for a relationship with Him.
“This is the King of the universe ready to stand at your door. I want you to see and celebrate the patience of a Savior who is willing not just to save [us], but then to keep showing up at the door…and stand there and keep on knocking on our door,” she explained. “May it never be lost on us, may it never be casual to us, that a God like that would stand patiently waiting for us.”
Shirer continued, “At some point, we as believers in Jesus Christ have to answer the knock at the door, fling it wide open, invite Him all the way in, and say to Him, ‘Everything is at Your full disposal — my mind to think Your thoughts, my hands to do Your work, my feet to walk Your path, my mouth to speak Your words, my eyes to see Your will, my ears to hear Your voice. Every part of me, Father, is at Your disposal because not only do You belong here, but You own the whole house.”
Shirer’s encouragement to surrender to God and His plan is a reminder that, while He might not answer your prayer the way you imagined, He will “do something better.”
Read Next: Priscilla Shirer Reveals Just How Powerful Prayer Can Be
- Content: +1Share:
- Content: +1