Finding God in Life's Storms: Trust and Revelation
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "In scripture, it's not opinion, it's the absolute truth. Some of us need some soul restoration. I show a hand, who's already severely disappointed that I'm not the country music singer, Josh Turner. That's how my wife feels as well. It is so great to be back with you guys. I was with you guys last year, and it is never, I never counted a small thing when I get to go and preach, right? Because there's always this moment that A, is terrifying, Pastor Jay Marcon and I were talking about this last night, hanging out. It's always terrifying as a broken man, knowing you're standing on a stage, communicating on behalf of a holy God, and you have your own stuff and you're like, Lord just don't kill me on stage." [10:46]
2. "So you should do everything you can to get out of pain as quick as you can. In fact, here, take this pill. I mean, how many of you in here, just by a show of hands, like you get a headache, you're immediately taking three to four Advil? Just me? Yeah, don't you lie to me, Canvas. Everybody's like, don't point yourself out. He'll call you out. But we live in this world that has made us believe that That pain's not normal. That pain is unnatural. And I think it's a relatively new thing. I mean, think about your grandparents or your great-grandparents. Like my grandfather was a farmer. My family's originally from South Carolina. Could you imagine if I had gone to my God-loving Christian grandfather who was a farmer who lost part of his finger from a plow and I went, hey, Grandpa, I have an idea. Hear me out. I've been studying scripture. And if life is hard at all, if there's any sort of suffering, I just want you to know that that must mean that God is not close to us. You know what my grandfather would have done? Slap me in my Christian mouth. Because they just understood that life was hard at times. That things didn't go right. And that that didn't say anything about how close God was to you." [34:59]
3. "Jesus rarely does the same thing twice. So Mark chapter six, what we see is there's a storm. Jesus sees his boys. They are out on the lake rowing across. Jesus walks on the water like a gangster, to them on the boat. But if you skip back to Mark chapter four, what you see is the disciples and Jesus are in another storm. This time they're crossing over the Sea of Galilee. The disciples find themselves in a storm. Jesus is sleeping on the back of the boat. The disciples think they're about to drown. Now we have to remember, these guys are skilled fishermen. It's not like they're just out on a pontoon boat and they don't know what's happening. These guys have been in storms. So this must have been a big one. And all of a sudden one of them goes, we're gonna die and the other one goes, well maybe we should wake up Jesus. So they go and they wake up Jesus. Jesus walks out in front of the boat, says peace be still, the way that it's actually written in the Greek. It says when Jesus says that, the entire environment changes. Everything in that moment changes. So it's weird. Mark chapter four, we see Jesus calm the storm by saying peace be still. Mark chapter six, he actually walks on the water, gets into the boat to calm the storm. Why in Mark chapter six, when Jesus looks out out and sees the disciples rolling across the storm, the wind and the waves that he not from the mountaintop be like, Hey, hold on one second, dad, uh, peace be still. Why is it important? And why does it matter that Jesus rarely does the same thing twice? I think he wants us to know the first thing is this. There are no formulas." [38:00]
4. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
5. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
### Quotes for Members
1. "What if the storm that you are in right now, the thing that you are facing, the thing that does not make sense, the thing that you stay up at night about, the thing that you cry about, the thing that you pray about, the thing that you talk about with friends and therapists or whatever it is for you. What if that is actually the greatest tool that the Lord wants to use to give you a revelation of who he is because really he's after your heart. What if that's it? And I think at times in the middle of our suffering and our trials, here's what we have to do. Jesus, I know I don't feel it, but you know exactly where I am. Jesus, thank you. Like, I don't know about you, I am thankful that there is not a formula I can use to control God. Because you know why? I would screw it up and manipulate it. And I'm thankful that in the darkest moments of life, the trials, the hardships, the storms, that that's actually one of the things that the Lord uses most to reveal to me who he is. Because there is something that happens, guys, and I cannot fully articulate this. I don't think anybody can. There's something that happens when the last thing you got to hold on to is the cross of Jesus." [47:38]
2. "So what we're going to talk about today, really as much of my life does, it comes from reconciling the good and the bad. And I'm going to talk about the good and the bad. And I'm going to talk about the goodness of God and also pain and heartache because that's life, right? It's reconciling these two things. How do you hold the tension that God is amazing and beautiful and good and awesome in the world sometimes is really hard and painful. And so what we're going to do to look at this, we're actually going to look at one of my favorite passages in scripture. We're actually going to look at Jesus walking on water. So if you have your Bibles, aren't you turning with me to Mark chapter six, and we're gonna look at verse 45, Mark six, 45. And I just want to encourage you to take notes. Um, because if you take notes, you get to pick where you live in heaven. So, um, I don't know if you guys knew that. Um, that's what actually pastor J Mark's preaching on next week. Um, some of y'all are like, Oh dang. Okay. All right. 45. It says this immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to Bethsaida while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake and was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn, he went out to them walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them. But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately. He spoke to them and said, take courage. It is, I don't be afraid. Then he climbed into the boat with them and the wind, he died down and they were completely amazed." [16:43]
3. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
4. "Jesus rarely does the same thing twice. So Mark chapter six, what we see is there's a storm. Jesus sees his boys. They are out on the lake rowing across. Jesus walks on the water like a gangster, to them on the boat. But if you skip back to Mark chapter four, what you see is the disciples and Jesus are in another storm. This time they're crossing over the Sea of Galilee. The disciples find themselves in a storm. Jesus is sleeping on the back of the boat. The disciples think they're about to drown. Now we have to remember, these guys are skilled fishermen. It's not like they're just out on a pontoon boat and they don't know what's happening. These guys have been in storms. So this must have been a big one. And all of a sudden one of them goes, we're gonna die and the other one goes, well maybe we should wake up Jesus. So they go and they wake up Jesus. Jesus walks out in front of the boat, says peace be still, the way that it's actually written in the Greek. It says when Jesus says that, the entire environment changes. Everything in that moment changes. So it's weird. Mark chapter four, we see Jesus calm the storm by saying peace be still. Mark chapter six, he actually walks on the water, gets into the boat to calm the storm. Why in Mark chapter six, when Jesus looks out out and sees the disciples rolling across the storm, the wind and the waves that he not from the mountaintop be like, Hey, hold on one second, dad, uh, peace be still. Why is it important? And why does it matter that Jesus rarely does the same thing twice? I think he wants us to know the first thing is this. There are no formulas." [38:00]
5. "What if the storm that you are in right now, the thing that you are facing, the thing that does not make sense, the thing that you stay up at night about, the thing that you cry about, the thing that you pray about, the thing that you talk about with friends and therapists or whatever it is for you. What if that is actually the greatest tool that the Lord wants to use to give you a revelation of who he is because really he's after your heart. What if that's it? And I think at times in the middle of our suffering and our trials, here's what we have to do. Jesus, I know I don't feel it, but you know exactly where I am. Jesus, thank you. Like, I don't know about you, I am thankful that there is not a formula I can use to control God. Because you know why? I would screw it up and manipulate it. And I'm thankful that in the darkest moments of life, the trials, the hardships, the storms, that that's actually one of the things that the Lord uses most to reveal to me who he is. Because there is something that happens, guys, and I cannot fully articulate this. I don't think anybody can. There's something that happens when the last thing you got to hold on to is the cross of Jesus." [47:38]
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1. "In scripture, it's not opinion, it's the absolute truth. Some of us need some soul restoration. I show a hand, who's already severely disappointed that I'm not the country music singer, Josh Turner. That's how my wife feels as well. It is so great to be back with you guys. I was with you guys last year, and it is never, I never counted a small thing when I get to go and preach, right? Because there's always this moment that A, is terrifying, Pastor Jay Marcon and I were talking about this last night, hanging out. It's always terrifying as a broken man, knowing you're standing on a stage, communicating on behalf of a holy God, and you have your own stuff and you're like, Lord just don't kill me on stage." [10:46]
2. "So you should do everything you can to get out of pain as quick as you can. In fact, here, take this pill. I mean, how many of you in here, just by a show of hands, like you get a headache, you're immediately taking three to four Advil? Just me? Yeah, don't you lie to me, Canvas. Everybody's like, don't point yourself out. He'll call you out. But we live in this world that has made us believe that That pain's not normal. That pain is unnatural. And I think it's a relatively new thing. I mean, think about your grandparents or your great-grandparents. Like my grandfather was a farmer. My family's originally from South Carolina. Could you imagine if I had gone to my God-loving Christian grandfather who was a farmer who lost part of his finger from a plow and I went, hey, Grandpa, I have an idea. Hear me out. I've been studying scripture. And if life is hard at all, if there's any sort of suffering, I just want you to know that that must mean that God is not close to us. You know what my grandfather would have done? Slap me in my Christian mouth. Because they just understood that life was hard at times. That things didn't go right. And that that didn't say anything about how close God was to you." [34:59]
3. "Jesus rarely does the same thing twice. So Mark chapter six, what we see is there's a storm. Jesus sees his boys. They are out on the lake rowing across. Jesus walks on the water like a gangster, to them on the boat. But if you skip back to Mark chapter four, what you see is the disciples and Jesus are in another storm. This time they're crossing over the Sea of Galilee. The disciples find themselves in a storm. Jesus is sleeping on the back of the boat. The disciples think they're about to drown. Now we have to remember, these guys are skilled fishermen. It's not like they're just out on a pontoon boat and they don't know what's happening. These guys have been in storms. So this must have been a big one. And all of a sudden one of them goes, we're gonna die and the other one goes, well maybe we should wake up Jesus. So they go and they wake up Jesus. Jesus walks out in front of the boat, says peace be still, the way that it's actually written in the Greek. It says when Jesus says that, the entire environment changes. Everything in that moment changes. So it's weird. Mark chapter four, we see Jesus calm the storm by saying peace be still. Mark chapter six, he actually walks on the water, gets into the boat to calm the storm. Why in Mark chapter six, when Jesus looks out out and sees the disciples rolling across the storm, the wind and the waves that he not from the mountaintop be like, Hey, hold on one second, dad, uh, peace be still. Why is it important? And why does it matter that Jesus rarely does the same thing twice? I think he wants us to know the first thing is this. There are no formulas." [38:00]
4. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
5. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
### Quotes for Members
1. "What if the storm that you are in right now, the thing that you are facing, the thing that does not make sense, the thing that you stay up at night about, the thing that you cry about, the thing that you pray about, the thing that you talk about with friends and therapists or whatever it is for you. What if that is actually the greatest tool that the Lord wants to use to give you a revelation of who he is because really he's after your heart. What if that's it? And I think at times in the middle of our suffering and our trials, here's what we have to do. Jesus, I know I don't feel it, but you know exactly where I am. Jesus, thank you. Like, I don't know about you, I am thankful that there is not a formula I can use to control God. Because you know why? I would screw it up and manipulate it. And I'm thankful that in the darkest moments of life, the trials, the hardships, the storms, that that's actually one of the things that the Lord uses most to reveal to me who he is. Because there is something that happens, guys, and I cannot fully articulate this. I don't think anybody can. There's something that happens when the last thing you got to hold on to is the cross of Jesus." [47:38]
2. "So what we're going to talk about today, really as much of my life does, it comes from reconciling the good and the bad. And I'm going to talk about the good and the bad. And I'm going to talk about the goodness of God and also pain and heartache because that's life, right? It's reconciling these two things. How do you hold the tension that God is amazing and beautiful and good and awesome in the world sometimes is really hard and painful. And so what we're going to do to look at this, we're actually going to look at one of my favorite passages in scripture. We're actually going to look at Jesus walking on water. So if you have your Bibles, aren't you turning with me to Mark chapter six, and we're gonna look at verse 45, Mark six, 45. And I just want to encourage you to take notes. Um, because if you take notes, you get to pick where you live in heaven. So, um, I don't know if you guys knew that. Um, that's what actually pastor J Mark's preaching on next week. Um, some of y'all are like, Oh dang. Okay. All right. 45. It says this immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to Bethsaida while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake and was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn, he went out to them walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them. But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately. He spoke to them and said, take courage. It is, I don't be afraid. Then he climbed into the boat with them and the wind, he died down and they were completely amazed." [16:43]
3. "And my daughter spoke in a, in a full blown miracle. I call my wife. She was at target, of course. And I go, you need to come home right now. She goes, why? I go, Riley's talking. She's like, well, she, I go, you need to come home now. My wife walks in the door. I'm sitting on the couch. Riley's in the middle and my son's on the end. Me and my son, Aiden, we're just, weeping. My wife walks in holding target bags. I went, you checked out. What is wrong with you? Like I'm not an addiction specialist, but at this point, my wife walks in, Riley looks at her and goes, Hey mommy, my wife drops the bags and we just all start sobbing. So then I go back to trying to write my sermon. Maybe, you know, that one's going to be different. So I start wrestling with the Lord. God, why like this? Why like this Lord? I'm always very careful when I say I feel like the Lord spoke to me. I don't, I don't say those words lightly and I'm trying to wrestle through God. Why, why not in a prayer meeting? Why not when we were anointing with oil? Why not at a worship service? Why not in any of the other moments, Lord? Why like this? Cause the only thing I can come up with Lord from the way you did it is PlayStation four brings healing. Like that's all I got. I'm sitting there and I'm writing and all of a sudden I hear the Lord say to me, if I had done it when you were doing anything, you would have made it a formula. And I went, well played Lord. I would have, you guys would have seen me on TBN two weeks later, selling that thing with a prayer cloth because we all want that. And I think the reason that we rarely see Jesus do the same thing twice is at the end of the day, he wants you to understand I'm Jesus. I can do whatever I want and I can do it however I want." [43:31]
4. "Jesus rarely does the same thing twice. So Mark chapter six, what we see is there's a storm. Jesus sees his boys. They are out on the lake rowing across. Jesus walks on the water like a gangster, to them on the boat. But if you skip back to Mark chapter four, what you see is the disciples and Jesus are in another storm. This time they're crossing over the Sea of Galilee. The disciples find themselves in a storm. Jesus is sleeping on the back of the boat. The disciples think they're about to drown. Now we have to remember, these guys are skilled fishermen. It's not like they're just out on a pontoon boat and they don't know what's happening. These guys have been in storms. So this must have been a big one. And all of a sudden one of them goes, we're gonna die and the other one goes, well maybe we should wake up Jesus. So they go and they wake up Jesus. Jesus walks out in front of the boat, says peace be still, the way that it's actually written in the Greek. It says when Jesus says that, the entire environment changes. Everything in that moment changes. So it's weird. Mark chapter four, we see Jesus calm the storm by saying peace be still. Mark chapter six, he actually walks on the water, gets into the boat to calm the storm. Why in Mark chapter six, when Jesus looks out out and sees the disciples rolling across the storm, the wind and the waves that he not from the mountaintop be like, Hey, hold on one second, dad, uh, peace be still. Why is it important? And why does it matter that Jesus rarely does the same thing twice? I think he wants us to know the first thing is this. There are no formulas." [38:00]
5. "What if the storm that you are in right now, the thing that you are facing, the thing that does not make sense, the thing that you stay up at night about, the thing that you cry about, the thing that you pray about, the thing that you talk about with friends and therapists or whatever it is for you. What if that is actually the greatest tool that the Lord wants to use to give you a revelation of who he is because really he's after your heart. What if that's it? And I think at times in the middle of our suffering and our trials, here's what we have to do. Jesus, I know I don't feel it, but you know exactly where I am. Jesus, thank you. Like, I don't know about you, I am thankful that there is not a formula I can use to control God. Because you know why? I would screw it up and manipulate it. And I'm thankful that in the darkest moments of life, the trials, the hardships, the storms, that that's actually one of the things that the Lord uses most to reveal to me who he is. Because there is something that happens, guys, and I cannot fully articulate this. I don't think anybody can. There's something that happens when the last thing you got to hold on to is the cross of Jesus." [47:38]
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