Priscilla Shirer shares a powerful reminder for all believers: stop thinking like a slave and start acting like a freed child of God.
Priscilla Shirer
The Christian actress and motivational speaker was invited to Social Dallas Church last weekend, where she delivered a sermon that reminded Christians about their identity in God.
Priscilla referred to the Israelites and their journey in the wilderness as the basis for her message. According to the 48-year-old preacher, after living under the rule of Pharaoh in Egypt for 400 years, the children of Israel had developed a mindset and perspective of a slave.
When God delivered them from slavery, He had to teach them to no longer think and act like slaves. The journey of the Israelites to the promised land took 40 years because God was addressing their identity.
Priscilla expressed, “Those 40 years were about their identity in the wilderness. They had been freed from Egypt, but Egypt needed to be detached from them.”
Continuing her sermon, she questioned the significance of being legally free while still living like a slave. She emphasized the need to break free from thinking, operating, deciding, reacting, and relating to others as if one was not truly free.
“Making decisions out of scarcity, lack, fear, and intimidation. Therefore, Yahweh spends 40 years recalibrating their identity,” Priscilla explained.
She further shared God’s deep passion for teaching His children about their true identity. With conviction, she stated, “God says to them, ‘You are not like this. You are who I say you are.'”
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Jesus’ finished work
And so, this points to what Jesus has done for everyone. He has paid for our freedom so that nothing can hold us back from fulfilling what God destined us to have, and that is abundant life.
Today, God has made us free in Christ. So, let us start acting like the child who God says we are. We are freed, redeemed, and loved.
