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Here is what I know about you – you are either going through a hard time, just came out of a hard time, or you are about to go through a hard time. This is the human experience and we all go through this cycle of life.
Recently, the incredible Bible teacher Priscilla Shirer adressed this issue. I found her words so challenging, so comforting, so insightful, and so practical I wanted to make them available to you. This short video will encourage all leaders.
The following are 17 Quotes From Priscilla Shirer’s Must-Watch Video On Trusting God When Life And Leadership Hard:
- A Leader’s Life Is Hard – “Life is hard. Stuff happens.”
- Leaders Sometimes Have Legitimate Questions About Their Faith – “We have questions sometimes that cause us to have to wrestle through our faith. Our faith is strengthened and it is encouraged through the wrestle.”
- God Hears Every Leader’s Questions – “God hears every question you are asking, all the ponderings of your heart.”
- God Loves Leaders – “When your reality changes and there are new questions to ask in that circumstance, you need to know God loves you enough to give you margin and grace to ask the questions that you need in that season of your life.”
- God Is Not Mad At Leaders – “If you wavered just a bit, if you wandered, if you’ve asked questions, you need to know that our God is not mad at you.”
- God Sees Leaders – “You need to know that our God sees you. He knows where you are. He knows where I am. He sees every single tear that falls from our eyes.”
- God Captures A Leader’s Tears – “Not one of those tears have been captured in the carpet fibers of your bedroom floor. All have been captured by almighty God.”
- God Wants To Hear Your Questions – “God, have I put my eggs in the wrong basket? Are you really who you say you are? …Jesus heard John’s questions and He was not mad at him for asking the question.”
- God Is Not Mad At You – “If you wondered if God is mad at you, I came to tell you He’s not.”
- A Leader’s Faith Is Best Built In The Gymnasium Of Obscurity – “I came to tell you that sometimes our faith is best built in the gymnasium of obscurity.”
- The Leader You Are Now Will Not Be The Leader You Will Be 5 Or 10 Years From Now – “The woman you are going to be 10 years from now is going to be strengthened and reshaped. The woman I’m praying I am five years from now is going to be different because of the struggle I went through in my faith during this season in my life.”
- Struggle Is Necessary For Strength – “It is the wrestling that strengthens us.”
- Jesus Gives Us Margin To Ask Questions – “Jesus doesn’t rebuke him (John). He gives him all the margin he needs to ask all the whatever questions he needs to ask.”
- “Jesus doesn’t change. The reality of our lives does.”
- God Gives Us Grace – “If the people of God, the church, would give each other as much grace as Jesus gives to us.”
- Only One Leader Has The Right To Cast The Stone – “There is only One who has been able to say, ‘He who is without sin case the first stone.’ There’s only One who’s ever had the right to cast the stone and He chose not to do it.”
- Let People Struggle – “As people struggle with their faith, just let them.”
What is one thing Priscilla said which encouraged you today?
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