Jesus Calms the Storms Within and Without

You know, it's interesting because when Jesus invites us somewhere or God invites us on a particular path, sometimes we feel like that's gonna be like going down the yellow brick road and follow la la la and, you know, doing the, you know, skip down the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road. Everything's gonna be dandelions and rainbows. It's gonna be all good, but but Jesus God doesn't always call us to a place where it's gonna be easy. That's not the call. The call is not ease. The call is obedience. And just because we're obedient doesn't mean that that's gonna be a determinant of our ease. [00:37:43] (35 seconds)  #ObedienceNotEase

Just because we're willing to go somewhere doesn't mean that it's going to be easy. It's gonna be filled with some hardship, and and the hardship that we overcome, the hardship that we're able to go through is just part of the journey. And what what is happening in that journey when we come up against opposition or obstacle or disease is something that is just preparing us ultimately for the destination he wants us in. He wants us to be able to trust more. He wants us to be more consistent. He wants us to be sturdy, stable, on solid ground. He wants to be balanced. He wants us to be people who can function in the fullness of his calling once we hit that destination. [00:38:19] (37 seconds)  #TrialsPrepareYou

So the preceding afraid means cowardly, but the preceding afraid after the miracle happens is reverence. It's a whole different fear. It's a whole different fear because what it does is it it it calls the disciples as ones who would shrink back from the environment because they are being cowardly to then press in to the holiness of God who stilled the sea. So so cowardly means I shrunk back from my situation. Reverence means I pressed into God. Yeah. Yeah. [00:49:28] (35 seconds)  #FearToReverence

And so many times we wanna look out there and say, this is how it's affecting me. But there's not a whole lot of times where we like to say, this is what's going on me, and it's affecting what's going on out there. Yeah. There is power in the spirit, in the soul that has the power to affect an environment. [00:56:52] (17 seconds)  #InnerPowerChangesOuter

Y'all can work. I know that my god is in control. My father is in control. You can push against something and feel like you're not making any headway, and the water's actually just getting deeper. The storm is getting more threatening. It's getting more powerful. It's getting more cataclysmic. But just know that God is in control. So much so that Jesus shows us right here that in the middle of a hurricane, he can take a nap. [00:41:15] (31 seconds)  #GodInControlAlways

But when they come up on the shore of the Garrison's, this man runs out full of demons, which shows me that there's actually at this point a paradigm shift where the external was once affecting the internal on the sea. Now the internal is affecting the external on the shore. Yeah. That there is something going on in the soul of this man that is creating a storm in the environment. Because the people are afraid. He's cutting himself with rocks. He's screaming at the top of the lungs. So the storm that is internal is manifesting in the external. [00:55:32] (43 seconds)  #InnerStormsManifest

But when you experience the faithfulness of God in the less than marvelous, it proves the marvelousness of him who is marvelous. And so if we're veiled by the less than marvelous around us, Surpassingly marvelous is our God, and we can marvel at him, which is a beautiful gift because life is broken and it's hard. [00:29:53] (43 seconds)  #MarvelAtHisFaithfulness

You know, it's interesting because when Jesus invites us somewhere or God invites us on a particular path, sometimes we feel like that's gonna be like going down the yellow brick road and follow la la la and, you know, doing the, you know, skip down the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road. Everything's gonna be dandelions and rainbows. It's gonna be all good, but but Jesus God doesn't always call us to a place where it's gonna be easy. That's not the call. The call is not ease. The call is obedience. And just because we're obedient doesn't mean that that's gonna be a determinant of our ease. [00:37:43] (35 seconds)  #CallOverComfort