Sent to Heal and Restore: Peace in Storms

God do that? Yep. You know what else he'll do? He'll send you in a storm when you won't go preach to people that he wants to get saved. If you're running from the will of god today, you better shake yourself and understand that maybe you're dealing with some of the stuff and having some of the thoughts that you're having because maybe you're doing the work of god but you're not completely in the will of god. Wow. You got a choice. You can see your present trial is a mystery or you can see it as a ministry. [01:20:51] (43 seconds)  #DivineStormsForPurpose

The man had been saved all of thirty minutes. Jesus gets back in the boat and takes off back with the disciples across the sea. Charlie wanted to go with him. He wouldn't let him go with him. They got the townspeople right back here, and he's been scaring them to death for years. And now Jesus is gone and he's gotta turn around. Hi. My name is Charlie. You know, the guy that tormented you. No. What happened? He simply told his testimony that god listen. God set the disciples up in a mega windstorm just so one person could be delivered and be saved. [01:19:38] (72 seconds)  #SavedForAMission

Jesus want to go to the other side. The storm's intent was to keep them from going to the other side. The storm arose to keep them from fulfilling what god wanted them to do. Jonah's storm was to turn him back into the will of god because god told him, I want you to go to Nineveh and I want you to preach because there's a whole bunch of people there that don't know the left, the right hand from the left. What was he talking about? He was talking about children. He was talking about a generation that was going to rise up and was not going to know god instead instead of somebody unless somebody would go to Nineveh and preach the word of the lord so that another generation could rise up and know the god of glory. [00:57:19] (41 seconds)  #StormsRedirectUs

You know what fear is? You know what the word antithesis is. Right? It's the opposite. So, fear is on one end of the spectrum. Faith is on the other end of the spectrum. So, fear is the opposite of what god wants you to have. You see, it's fear that cause them to question. Lord, don't you care that we're going to drown? Don't you care that we're going to perish? Because fear empowers Satan when we come into agreement with his suggestions. Do you know what a stronghold is? A stronghold is basically in my terminology is an argument with what god has already promised me. [00:54:43] (36 seconds)  #FaithAntidoteToFear

So, what happens in our lives? We lose a loved one. A partner leaves us like I described earlier. That's the source of the storm but then you gotta get up the next morning and eat breakfast by yourself. Or you've gotta go to the funeral home and make arrangements for somebody you've been married to for fifty years. Or you've gotta get out in your car and you've gotta find a rebellious child that's out there somewhere and you're afraid they're gonna do something stupid so you go try to find them because what's hap you've got these ripple effects that happen in our lives. [00:46:23] (33 seconds)  #RipplesOfStorms

No. There's a kingdom greater than the one that we're in right now and you are now a citizen of heaven because you're a child of god. Our world turns more secular by the hour. There's concern as to the world, our families are gonna inherit. Maybe we just ought to preach to ourselves just a little bit. I love what the way the Psalm has said it. Why are you cast down, oh my soul, and why have you become disturbed within me, hoping god for I shall again praise him for the help of his presence. You are not headed for ruin. You are not headed for rot and you are not headed for decay. You have a divine destiny. You are a child of god. You have citizenship elsewhere. [00:51:02] (45 seconds)  #HeavenlyCitizenship

So, what does he do? He wakes up. He gets up. He rebukes the source of the wind. Notice how he does it and then he declares peace over the effects. You ever thrown a rock in a pond? And all of a sudden, you see the rock hit the water and what happens? You get a splash of water, right? That's the source. But you ever see the ripples? Once you throw the rock and it splashes, then the ripples, that's the effects. Of the the ripples would never be there had there not been a source. Okay? [00:45:44] (39 seconds)  #RebukeTheSourceDeclarePeace

There's no repentance without faith and there's no faith without repentance. Receive that. Jonah's answer was repentance. The disciples answer was faith. All of us have been in both kinds of storms and somebody's listening and having a life crisis right now and you're wanting maybe me to say something to come to your rescue and say something's going to save you and Jesus is basically saying to you and me right now in the middle of our crisis, why don't you have any faith? Oh, we'd rather just him come and we ask him to do something and he fixes it. But if that's all he ever does, then his name is nothing more than Abracadabra. For all you my age, remember bewitched and I dream of Jenny. [01:02:36] (57 seconds)  #RepentanceRequiresFaith