Quotes from Priscilla Shirer

I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, chin nestled in my hands, to see what God is going to do. With my children. With my husband. With me—a regular, everyday woman choosing to surrender to a life interrupted.

Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love.

Nope, he penned these words of worship while sitting on the cold-floor, cold-food, maddening reality of Roman confinement. House arrest. Guards at the door, preventing his escape. When he wrote this glorious sentence, he was under a sentence himself, probably for as much as two years. Locked up. Locked down. Imprisoned.

He just flat went ahead and "tore down the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph. 2:14 hcsb) that had stood between them for dozens and dozens of long, gray-haired generations. He wasn't appealing for peace but was proclaiming peace—"peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near" (Eph.

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

Humility is always the hardest lesson for a Prince Warrior to learn

Praying with precision is key. When we pray about the places where we seriously suspect the enemy is at work—that's how we keep our prayers focused, not only on particular situations but on biblical truths that are consistent with maintaining victory in the midst of them.

Someone has written, The hardening of a tender heart almost always starts with a justifiable action.8 We think we know what we're doing. We consider our resistance toward God's plans and our lack of surrender to be minor compared to what others have done. We figure we do a lot of good things that ought to make up for our admitted weaknesses here and there, in one or two areas. We don't think God expects us to be so radical and on guard all the time. We've still got to have a life, right?

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

Righteousness is like a weapon. It deflects the enemy's attacks and positions you, God's warrior, for victory.

Praise: Thank Him for reigning in power and supplying you with the weapons of victory. Repentance: Admit where you've been angry and distracted, fighting all the wrong people. Asking: Ask for courage, for discernment, for patience, for diligence, for laser-like focus. Yes: Because the Lord is with you, and He will fight the real enemy through you.

The apostle Paul, writing in the New Testament, reminds us that the difference between the relationship we have with the one true God and the relationship pagans have with their idols is that their gods are silent (see 1 Corinthians 12:2).