Priscilla Shirer - What We Can Do in the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm thinking about the dynamic of our households, because the
reality is, sometimes when we hear the word being mission
minded in the midst of crisis, mission is such a
big word. So we're thinking of the world and we're
thinking of what we need to go do for other people.
And sometimes the hardest mission field is our house. It's

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actually it's actually just being committed to the purposes of
God to the people that we actually live with. Sometimes
that can be the hardest dynamic of all. Some people
live alone, and that's one dynamic, but there are others
that live even with a roommate, or it's just you
and your spouse, or maybe you have children or teenagers

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or young adult children that are now coming home, or
whatever your dynamic is. Sometimes a lot of times the
hardest mission field is actually your house. And I'm thinking
about the number of times throughout the scripture that we
see God send folks on a mission, but the first
place they have to go is back to their own homes.
It happens all throughout the Gideon is going to win

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this incredible victory for the entire nation. But the very
first thing Gideon had to do before he ever went
to the battlefield for the country was to go back
to his own home and tear down the idols that
had been indicative of his entire family line. When Jesus
in the New Testament would send out the disciples and
he would say to them, listen, I want you to

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go to Jerusalem, and then Judea and Samaria, and then
the uttermost parts of the earth. We're always thinking of
a mission in terms of the other most parts of
the earth, but it started in Jerusalem, which is the
city they came from. He didn't say go everywhere else.
He said just go, just go home. So I want
to make sure that whether or not you're called to
full time ministry is irrelevant to the conversation we're having

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right now. He has not called you necessary to the
masses or me. What he's called me to be diligent
to is this husband that I've been given to be,
to these three sons that He's entrusted to me to rear.
And I can pray right now in the midst of
this crisis, and literally, because this crisis has relegated us
all to our actual literal homes. The prayer needs to

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be Lord before I even ever begin to look outward
to how my family can be a blessing outward? What
have you called me? What mission fields have you called
me to in these hours and days and weeks turning
into months potentially that I'm going to be here in
this household? What am I supposed to do? How am

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I supposed to extend your grace, your love, your patience,
your kindness to these people that are right underneath the
roof of my own house. I mean, listen, some relational
dynamics are either going to change for the worse or
for the better out of this. So we get to
decide what kind of impact we're going to make within

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the confines of our own homes, and I think we
need to consider that to be one of the most
important missions as well. Hi everybody, I hope you enjoyed
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