2.15.2026 Walking And Sinking

Today Jesus is seated at his throne in heaven and the storms of sin and death are under his control because he's overcome them. The storms and the waves of sin and weariness and suffering are within his hands. But you know how he overcame all of that? Not by walking onto waters. but by walking to a wooden cross. Giving everything for you. And he stayed there even when we sink. [00:34:59] (41 seconds)  #CrossConquersStorms

He's holding you so that you would cry out to him because he is faithful even when we take our eyes off of him. He doesn't let you fall just because you're scared. He doesn't abandon you just because you failed again. Listen to me. I want you to see this in the text. Your eyes, like Peter's, like mine at times, may be off of Jesus but his eyes are never off you. [00:31:37] (24 seconds)  #HeldWhenWeSink

Did Peter lack faith? Did Peter doubt here? Yes. But here's the good news. It doesn't stop Jesus from saving him. He doesn't wait for him to fix his doubt first. He doesn't wait for him to get his eyes fixed. He saves him just because he asks for help. Peter's lack of faith kept him from walking on the water. Yes, but it doesn't keep him from experiencing the salvation of Jesus. [00:33:05] (31 seconds)  #SavedWhenWeAsk

Faith in the Bible is always about the object of faith, not the subject of faith. So it's not about us. It's about what you're placing your faith in. And the point that Peter is receiving from the Lord Jesus, and what we should receive from this comment of having little faith, is that his little faith is because he took his eyes, his hope, off of Jesus. The text is very clear. He saw the wind, the effects of the wind, and was afraid. [00:25:55] (29 seconds)  #FixYourEyesOnJesus

Faith is only as good as the object of your faith. If your object is not trustworthy, if your object isn't secure, if your object cannot secure victory on a regular basis, your faith is not good. According to biblical use of faith. Faith is only as good as the object. [00:27:02] (17 seconds)  #TrustChristNotSelf

It's a supernatural sinking. Jesus is holding him even as he's taking his eyes off of him. Because what would happen to Peter otherwise by natural means? Boom, into the water. He is slowly sinking because Jesus carries him even when he's failing just like he carries you and me. He is faithful even when we are full of fear. [00:30:20] (33 seconds)  #CarriedWhenWeFail

When it rains, it pours. That seems to be the human experience. When one thing goes wrong, you almost anticipate many things going wrong. And maybe you find yourself in the midst of that. Maybe not like mine, but different. And yet it feels like difficulties are piling. And maybe you've come out of that season. Maybe you're still wrestling with the effects of a season where it feels exhausting, overwhelming, and hard. [00:02:18] (28 seconds)  #SeasonsOfStorms

The moments in which you find yourself in the midst of great trial, difficulty, suffering, and storms are the exact moments for which God may actually be most seen in your life. It is the middle of the storm where the presence of Christ becomes tangible. Where his words, I will be with you, always become real. He is present in the storm. [00:19:01] (28 seconds)  #ChristMostSeenInStorms

Maybe consider, as I've been wrestling with this week, that you may find yourself in the middle of a storm at this exact moment because God most clearly wants to show himself to you in that storm. So don't miss out. Don't miss out. In those moments of pain, difficulty, and suffering, maybe actually the very moment for which God wants to show you how real he really is. [00:19:50] (26 seconds)  #GodShowsInStorms

Will your doubts keep you from experiencing the power of Jesus? Sometimes, yes. But will your doubts and fear keep you from the salvation of Jesus and love of Jesus? Never, never. Will you, in your struggle and your fear and your failures, ever keep the love of Jesus away? Never. That's the point we should see here. [00:33:37] (30 seconds)  #DoubtNeverBlocksLove

Faith, if you think about it that way, as in you have to muster it up, or you have to have more of it, means that faith is from you. And that's not the biblical understanding of faith. Faith is not something you muster up. Faith is something you're placing it in. So when Jesus tells Peter, and to us, we have little faith, he's not telling us, he's not telling Peter, you have to try a little harder. You have to hope a little harder. [00:25:23] (27 seconds)  #PlaceYourFaithNotProduceIt

And so he knows your storms, the ones that you're going through, the marital strains, the vocational insecurity, the strained relationships with your children. He knows those particular storms. He knows the death of lost ones. Some of the storms are because Jesus sends us right into them. He's in control. Actually, that's one of the main reasons we'll look at in the second truth to give us hope. But he's able to use even the broken, sinful circumstances that we find ourselves in to mold us more into the image of himself. [00:09:37] (39 seconds)  #JesusKnowsYourStorms

But sometimes we find ourselves in storms, not because Jesus sent us there, but because we walked into them foolishly or disobediently. Sometimes by foolishness and sin, we find ourselves in suffering and in difficulty because we walked somewhere where Jesus would not want us to walk into. And in those circumstances, Jesus is also still in control. The response he wants from us is initially to repent, to turn away from those circumstances. But again, the good news is that he's also in control of those circumstances for which we walked ourselves into, not that he sent us into. [00:10:33] (35 seconds)  #RepentAndFindGrace

When you're in the middle of a storm, you know one of the lies that Satan tells you? Is that to isolate us, to kind of take us out of the mission. And if you're in a moment of self -pity or just anger and you can't hear God, Satan uses this lie and may not be verbal to you, but you feel it at times that you are alone, that no one gets you, that no one understands. [00:20:32] (24 seconds)  #YouAreNotAlone

That's a lie. That's very much. If you've ever heard that in your storms or your difficulties, or you've felt that, that is a lie from Satan himself because he's the great liar. He's going to try and distract you. He's going to try and take you out of the thing that God wants you to see in the storm. He's going to lie to you and say that no one understands. You are completely alone. And that is a lie because Jesus is in the middle of that storm. He is in control of it. [00:20:57] (30 seconds)  #JesusIsInTheMiddle

You may be looking at the effects of the storm. You may be looking at the effects of your life and your eyes are everywhere else but Jesus and you are afraid but he never stops holding you and looking at you. He lets us sink just enough so that we would cry out to him and when Peter cries out, look what he does. [00:32:05] (23 seconds)  #SinkingToCryOut

And notice the kind of pattern that's occurring here. He does incredible ministry and then he goes to pray and be with the Lord. Actually, I think we kind of do things opposite. We tend to pray before things happen. How often do we pray after things happen, especially if they're successful? Jesus is modeling for us an important part of a life following the Lord, which is a life in solitude and in prayer. [00:06:50] (26 seconds)  #FindSolitudeAndPray

It's more accurate to say, since I know it's you, Lord, tell me to come to you on the water, is what he's saying. He trusts Jesus' authority and power. Peter understands Jesus' words can actually bend the natural and make supernatural. He's seen it. And so he says, Jesus, tell me to come on the water and I can do what you're doing. [00:22:40] (21 seconds)  #StepOutAtHisCommand

If that is where you find yourself today as a son or daughter of Jesus whether you're in a storm or not truly this is the son of God who walked not only on water but walked carried a cross stayed there kept his eyes and arms wide open even when you and I fail. And that is good news. Friends, if you find yourself in the middle of a storm whether right now or you find yourself in one in a week in a month or in a year I pray you turn to this text and you get hope because Jesus carries you even when you sink. [00:36:01] (35 seconds)  #HeCarriesYouThrough