Peace in the Storm

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your thing. The way God responds to storms is very different from the way

human beings will respond to storms, and Jesus tackles it. Later, he

says, why are you so fearful? So the deepest thing that God was

after was the fear that in our hearts. Mark chapter four and verses thirty

seven to forty one. This is the word of the Lord, let's read

it. And a great windstorm arose and the waves beat into the boat,

so that it was already filling. But he was in the stern. Jesus

was in the stern, asleep on a pillow, and they woke him and

said to him, teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?

Then Jesus arose and rebuilt the wind. He rebuild the wind and said to

the sea, peace be still. And the wind sees and there was great

calm. But he said to them, why are you so fearful? How

is it that you have no faith? And they feared exceedingly and said to

one another, who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey

him? Today? I want to speak to you from this very portion of

scripture about the storm, about the sleep, about the stirring, and about

success. So let's break down this verse now and see what the Lord wants

to say to us. My first thought for this morning is why do storms

happen in our life? Because all of us will definitely encounter storms. One

thing I think, if I prophesy and will definitely come true, is that

all of us will go through storms. Storms are a very real thing,

a very natural thing, and it is something that the Bible says will definitely

happen in our lives. But storms will come. In fact, someone said

before you are either entering a storm, or you are in a storm already,

or you are coming out of one. But storms are real, and

of all of us have them in our lives, not just once, not

just twice, but quite frequently, almost every year. You're guaranteed one,

you know, And it is not about the storm. Therefore, it is

how we respond to storms. So the question I have today that I believe

it's from the Lord, is this, why do storms happen? Okay,

this is a good question, and I think I have a god answer for

you. So here at the last part of the reading that we just read,

the Bible says the disciples in the boat said this, and we can

put the scripture up again. I think it's verse forty one. They feared

exceedingly and said to one another, who can this be? Who are they

talking about? Jesus? Who can this be that even the wind and the

sea obey him? Now, wait a minute. I thought that these disciples

have already been walking with Jesus for a few months, if not a few

years. Well altogether, it was probably three two and a half years,

and they walked, so maybe one year two years. They've been walking with

Jesus, just like you have been walking with Jesus. Some of you have

been Christine here for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, and we

have walked with the Lord. We have experienced God, and we have seen

him to be lord of areas in our lives, and we declare his lordship,

and we are praising him for who he is. And yet these disciples

could be so surprised when the winds stopped and the waves were come, they

had to ask this question, who can this be? But I thought that

they already knew that Jesus is Lord and he is God. So why do

you think this question was us and why did they continue to say? Who

can this be that even the wind and sea obey him? Well, let

me give me this thought. They were shocked, they were surprised they were

asking this question because they never in the last few months or few one two

years of walking with the Lord, they have never seen him actually arming the

storm, stopping the wind and giving peace to the sea. They have never

seen that part of the Lord. So can I just give you the reason

why storms happened in our lives? It happens to show us that Jesus is

lord of that situation. It's as simple as that. Because some of us

who have been healed by him can actually confidently say he's the Lord of healing.

But maybe we've never suffered from the stock market. So some of you

who have suffered from the stock market don't know that he's also the lord of

the stock market until you go in you lose all that money, or you

got scam, and then you cry out, Lord, help me, and

he does help you, and you realize, who can this be? He's

even the lord of the stock market. Yes, until you get into that

position, until you get into that place, until you get into that problem,

until you get into that sickness, you will know him as a lot.

So I'll tell you again, he brings us into storms to show us

at the end that he's also a lot of that. That's why we enter

into storms, so that at the end of the day we stand there and

says and we say, who can this be that is in control of even

the political system, in control of the government. And until you enter that

storm, you will never know. So listen to me right now. One

of the main reasons why we are allowed to go into a storm, it's

so that we can come out of the storm saying, Lord, you are

God of even this area. The question is why does God allows storms?

I believe he allows storms to show us who he really is in that storm,

and he is the lord of the winds, and he's the lord of

the seas, and that he has our best intention in mind. Now,

let me read on. Let me read on. It says here in verse

thirty seven, maybe he can put up the scripture against so that people can

remember what we said. It says, the waves beat into the boat so

that it was already feeling. So the boat was feeling. You know,

there's water in the boat already okay, And it says on that Jesus was

asleep or a pillow. He's very comfortable. He even took a pillow to

sleep on. He's comfortable. Okay, all right, So what is in

the boat? Jesus is asleep? And they ran and walk him up and

said, teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? Sometimes we

might think that God doesn't care. How many of you have ever had that

thought before? Let me see your head, Okay, few honest ones.

Or maybe we haven't gone through such a hard time, hard enough to actually

challenge us to think, God you even care? Because I'm going through so

much and you haven't come through for me for weeks, months, years,

Lord, when are you? Do you care? Not? God? Do

you care that I'm not married yet? You know I'm already thirty nine and

I'm not married. I Do you even care? Lord? I'm married for

ten years and I have no children? Do you care not? You know?

Sometimes you come to a place wherebody's been so long and you think that

God doesn't care. But I can't tell you this that the way God responds

to storms is very different from the way human beings would respond to stomps.

We usually respond to the first thing we see. Now I ask you a

question, what do you think Jesus would have done should have done with this

situation? What do you think Jesus should have done in this situation? Number

one, he shouldn't have been sleeping. They don't want to see you resting

when there's something to be done. He shouldn't be sleeping. The last thing,

at least wake up and at least look like you care, even if

you couldn't do anything about it, at least look like you don't you even

care. Well, he cares, but he cares very differently than we.

And we will go immediately to the thing we can see. And if Jesus

was like that, you know what he would have done. Who would have

gone first to scoop up what they from the board? Yes, because water

was already feeling the board. We will respond very differently. I'm not this

woman. Our manners who will do that. They will go and attack and

address the very thing that fell off the ground. And this is the first

thing. And they're troubled with the first thing. They are rowed up by

the first thing. They can't stand the chair not being straight, and so

they want to go and handle that first, and and sometimes the devil gets

our attention on things that, yeah, it's important, but might not be

the most important thing. And Jesus tackles it later. He says, why

are you so fearful? So the deepest thing that God was after was the

fear that's in our hearts or the faithlessness that's in our hearts. This is

very important, but the devil will want us to concentrate on the current immediate

thing. Now that's not always it's okay to immediately do something that you know,

emergency or urgency or yeah, fight, I understand it, but you

also understand what I'm saying. That our eyes can be on things that the

law's eyes are not on. So Jesus shouldn't be asleep on the pillow,

but he was. And what that tells us is that we must all of

us find what it means to rest in the Lord. Jesus was wrestling on

a pillow because he's not worried like you are worried. He's not concerned like

you are concerned like me, I'm also concerned about many things. He says,

do not worry. And so he's asleep on a pillow, not because

he didn't care. But because he is not as worried as you are.

He knew that his life was in his father's hands, and some of us

in his room need to know that our lives are in our father's hands.

Somebody say, a man, do not allow fear to drive you to do

things. Do not focus on things that doesn't matter. They woke him,

he was sleeping. They thought he didn't care. But I want to say

to you that God cares very different, and we need to learn to care

like God cares, see like God sees, respond like God responds. Settle

down, don't be afraid, be focused on the Lord. Look to the

Lord and seek his wisdom, and seek his peace in everything that you're dealing

with. Number two for what we learn from this. When Jesus arose,

he did not scoop up water from the boat that was not so important to

him. He didn't want to spend his time his energy on things that wasn't

really important. What he did was immediately he rebuked the wind and said to

the sea, peace be still, and the wind sees, and there was

a great calm. Let me do some teaching here. Now. Jesus is

a creator, and the wind is a creation. So is the sea and

everything else we can see. The creator doesn't have to rebuke his creation,

he can just speak to it. The reason why I believe Jesus had to

rebuild the wind instead of saying stop insself, of just saying calm down,

the reason why I believe Jesus had to rebuild the wind is because it was

demonic. It had a drive that was spiritual. And so this is the

first thing I want to tell all of you. A lot of things in

our lives, we try and try and try, and we find that it

doesn't it doesn't really break true, it doesn't happen. So I can I

want to reintroduce to you now that there is an evil one that is a

devil that Jesus prayed. Father you all remember the whole thing, our Father's

God in heaven towards it end, he says, and lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. It's supposed to be prayed

every day, every day. This is a prayer of the Lord. That

means that Jesus himself knew that we had to pray to be delivered from the

evil One. Means to say that every day there is an evil one working

very real okay. And the more you don't leave it the board, the

devil likes it because then he can do harmed you. They can come to

continue to disturb you. Okay. He can do it with children, he

can do it with animals, he can do it with doubts. He can

do it with your finances. I've seen actually, And because I spent three

years studying on on healing deliverance, demons and how God casts them up,

so I know that demons can even move things. Now he can, he

can disturb children, he can disturb your health. I think. I think

after studying three years on on healing, I think ninety percent of the sicknesses

that we have and the diseases our evil spirit or unclean spirits motivated. Okay.

So that's why when Jesus came on the earth, he many of the

people he prayed for he cast up cast out demons. So is because we

are living in a world where by we don't talk about demons and I clean

spirits so much, that's why we think they're not there. They are,

okay, and they can affect our finances. You're trying to break out from

pornography, you're trying to break up from pornography, but you still go back

to it every time you say, oh, forgive me Lord, I've seen,

forgive me Lord, ive seen, but he's still going back. So

some people call it bad habit, But a bad habit is also spiritually backed

up. And until the time when that spirit is cast out, you and

I will not be able to overcome it no matter what we try. So

this is the basic thought for you. If you've been trying and trying your

best and trying going on for therapy, you're going for discipline, staff,

you're going for it, but you cannot overcome it. It is usually spiritual.

I didn't say always, but usually spiritual. So understand this. Jesus

stood up from his sleep when probably to the side of the boat, and

he looks at the wind. He looks at the waves, the waves he's

bringing the water. He didn't spend his time scooping up the water. He

rebuked the wind. Boom stop you win, stop now, stop your works

enough you don't you don't have to rebuild wind whatnot. You can just say

wind stop, calm down, no. But the Bible says he rebuilt the

winds he knew what was causing that wind to be violent. And it was

because of that wind that the seas were raging, because if the wind wasn't

violent, the seas wouldn't rage like that. But he dealt with the seas

so differently. It should have said the Bible should have said, if we

wrote it, if we wrote it, he should have said he rebuilt the

wind and the seas. He didn't say that. He says he rebuilt the

wind and said peace. He knew exactly what was causing your problem. What

was stirring and what was being stirred two different things. And as Christians,

I hope I can give you this truth so you can add truth to your

prayer life. And if you know, okay, how come my son always

like this? Okay, I'm going to as a mom, I'm going to

rebuild the very spirit that is behind this. Maybe because spirits have to have

an open door. So maybe the dad or maybe the grandfather somewhere the door

was open. You see the character in the character same life who got anger

problem. Because the anger problem goes all the way down to grandfather. So

a door is opened. In Jesus name, I canceled that door. I

command the spirit of anger out of this child in Jesus name. But a

lot of us think are oh, but pastor, you know, I sent

him to another pastor and prayed for and already cast out the demon a device

to another. The waves is still stirring. Even though the one who stirs

has stopped, the one who is being stirred is still stirring. You get

this, So right now, maybe something sharp, you know, penetrated my

wife's skin went into a limit of a flesh. It's called a fiery that

we know, the fire that is spiritual. So we cast out an uproot

the fiy that is then, is there not still pain? One day,

two days, five days? If you don't take care of that pain,

it will still be pain. You had to take care. You don't rebuild

that pain. You rebuild the firy that that came. And now that you've

rebuilt the fire that the wind had sees but the sea is still stirring.

And a lot of people don't understand that. They good, lie, But

I've been prayed for already. No, no, no, no, listen,

I know you've been prayed for. But the pain is still that the

stirring is still that very important understand this because people they don't know, they

don't know what's happening. They go. They still blame the the devil.

They still blame this. They say, oh, God, never answer my

prayer. God is so cruel. God doesn't care. No, listen,

I rebuild the wind I say peace to the storms. The devil needs to

show a thought, just needs to show a thought of fear. And so

you have to have peace and stop talking like that, Stop confessing like that.

Stop saying, oh, I don't know, I don't think God did

it. No, he did it. He did something for you already.

So every day you know what you need to do. Just give thanks,

because giving thanks continues to help you keep that healing going. So Jesus rebuilt

the winds and said peace. Be still. That's why the Bible also says

in Psalm forty six ten be still and know that I am God. Be

still and know that I'm God. I will be exalted among the nations.

I will be exalted in the earth. Stop you stir and peace you who

are stirred. That's why a lot of us are han't yet seen our break

through because we don't know the prayer. We just go for a prayer.

One time, two times cast out. They didn't know. It's got to

be the rest of it is the shause. Sometimes we go out and we

still complain. We prayed it, but we go out and still complain.

We'll get prayed for when you're going to say something else after that. No,

you want you want to abide in the Lord. Abide and remain in

the Lord. How to remain every single time you're attempted to say something else,

you give thanks and every time you were about to say something opposite from

God's word your worship because you need to understand what is full, complete break

truth. It is not only in the rebuking of the wind, but also

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