Pastor Tim Dunn "Summer of Miracles" (Sunday 6-22-25)

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You know, I love the Lord seems pretty obvious, right,

should be. Hopefully somebody called to be a pastor loves

the Lord be a good start. Do you love him?

I mean, really, really really love him? Amen? You know

that kind of love separates you from a large population.

I would say of the world, but I'll say this

even of Christians. Amen. I love my wife. I really, really,

really deeply love her, even while everybody start laughing at that. Yeah,

even when we don't agree. I love her. Even when

she frustrates me. I love her. She loves me. Proof

is that she rode in the vehicle with me here today. Amen.

She may not always like me, but she does love me. Amen.

You see, love is something that gets you through those

times where not everything is hunky dory. Amen, hallelujah. Do

you love the Lord today? Amen? I love him. I'm

gonna talk about Summer of miracles. We're gonna talk about

the miracles of jeeps. My title today is just Summer

of Miracles, amen, and that's what we're gonna dive into

for the most part, this whole summer, at least through

the next six seven weeks, however, and so it's uh

summertime is you know, it's a lot of fun. My

family and I were out of town last week. We

weren't here, amen, we were in San Antonio, not my

ideal spot for summer getaway, but we went down there

to London, had a state skeet shoot and she did great.

Lord helped her and she knocked him out of the sky.

And so it was a lot of fun. And so

got people traveling today, families out of town. And that's good.

It's good to take some time away and spend some

time with family and friends and loved ones. But today

I want to start by talking about the miracles that

we read about, the miracles that we find throughout Matthew, Mark,

Luke and John and I thought about this. Have you

ever thought about this question? What is a miracle you

ever had? That we talk about miracles as believers, as Christians,

as followers or price we talk about miracles. But have

you ever stopped long enough to think what truly is

a miracle? The scholar John Stott says, a miracle, by definition,

is an extraordinary event. It's a creative deviation from God's

normal way of working. He goes on to say, if

miracle were to become commonplace, but cease to be miracles,

now I can see that, And then I don't know. C. S.

Lewis described miracles as supernatural events. Anybody ever had a

supernatural event in your life? Amen, I have, and I

know many of you have. The fact that we're all

here loving Jesus is a supernatural event, hemen. Man, So

we find Jesus performing a lot of these supernatural events

or miracles. And what I find interesting is that the

miracles that Jesus performed were not just some random act

of his daily life. It wasn't just something he was

bored so he just to do. No, there was they all.

If we look deep enough, we will find a greater

purpose for every miracle that he did in his journey

on the sourcet. Amen, there's a deeper meaning than just

what could be seen. We rejoice about the lame man

taking up his bed and walking. Amen. We rejoice about

blind eyes being open. We rejoice about all of these

miracles taking place. They're awesome, they're amazing, and we rejoice

for what we see. But for every act of the Lord,

there is a greater purpose, you see. This is the

thing about God. If you ever get to the point

where you think you have him figured out, well you don't.

If you live to be one hundred and eighty nine

years old, I just threw that number out if you lived,

and nobody lives that long anymore. That's my goal is

to live to be the oldest man ever. Amen, I

really do. Amen. I've got a job. I've got just

enough meanness. I think it's possible. Amen. My dad always

told me the good die young, and so and so

you can live to be however old. And our understanding

of God is minute. That's how great he is. Ephesians

three twenty says, now unto him who is able to

do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Amen.

The scripture says, as far as the heavens are from

the earth, that's how high his ways are, and how

much greater his thoughts are than ours, basically saying you

have no clue who I am. You don't understand his power,

You don't understand his ability to work, because he works

in ways in our life that we haven't even lived through.

He's working in our future just as much as he's

working here and now today. Amen. Amen. And so, and

as we look at miracles, this is what he did,

this is what happened. We find all these miracles, and

there's the greater purpose and the deeper meaning. And I

think that's the beautiful thing of how God works, that

it's not just what we see. He gives us enough

to thank him for it. He lets us see enough

so that we'll give him praise, But that's only scratching

the surface of what he's really doing in our life. Amen.

And So if God has done something recently in your life,

just know, give him praise for what you know about,

but give him praise for the ways he's working that

you don't even realize yet. Amen. I praise him for

what I see, but I also give him glory for

what will I don't know and what I can't see,

because He's working in realms and in ways that I

can never even fathom. Amen. That's a good God. Amen.

I hear music. Amen. Yeah, yes, Lord take me, now,

take all of us, not just me, all of us.

Sorry that was a little selfish. We're ready, Amen, hallelujah.

The Lord is good. So I want to start this

series off with a miracle that we find in three

of the four Gospels. We're gonna look at Mark chapter

four for this. Matthew depicts this miracle. Mark depicts this miracle,

and Luke. But Mark has a little nuance to this

story that Matthew and Luke don't detail. And it's not

a big thing, but it's it. That's why I chose Mark.

So Mark chapter four, verse thirty five. And on the

same day, when evening had come, he said to them,

let us cross over to the other side. Now. When

they had left the multitude, they took him along in

the boat as he was meaning, they didn't take time

to go gather material, supplies, change of clothes. They just went, okay,

it's like rushing out. And the other little boats were

also with him verse thirty seven. And a great windstorm arose,

and the waves beat into the boat so that it

was already filling up verse thirty eight. But he was

in the stern asleep on a pillow, and they awoke

him and said to him, teacher, do you not care

that we are perishing? Verse thirty nine. Then he arose,

and he rebuked the wind and said to the sea,

peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was

a great calm, And 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? I want to quickly point out something here

that we find in this story by mark the weariness

of the body of Jesus. Though he had power, dominion,

and all authority of heaven, he was still flesh and blood,

and his physical body wore down. Anybody testify to that, man.

And I point to that to remind you that the

Lord understands weariness. Amen. He understands being weary in mind, body, soul,

and spirit. Amen. Man, he understands what it means to

feel the tiredness of mind, the tiredness and the weakness

of spirit. And Jesus understands the need for rest, amen,

the need for stillness of mind, stillness of body and spirit.

That's why David wrote the words in Psalms twenty three

to two. He leads me, he maketh me to lie

down in green pastures. Man, he leads me beside the

still waters. Amen, he makes me lie down in green pastures. Amen.

There's a new restoration when we find ourselves at rest.

And so this summer, some are on vacation now this week,

and and that's great, But vacations can be a lot

of things. Sometimes they are just being just going out

of town. It's not really rest. We can fill our

vacation time with so much stuff that when we get

home from vacation, we feel like we need a vacation.

Anybody testify to that. Amen. So whatever you do this summer,

you need spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically to find rest. It's

good for the soul. Amen, it is. It's good for

the soul. And the Lord understands that that was the

whole design behind the Sabbath. It was a day of

rest to focus on him. Amen. And so you get

away this summer, fine time to rest. If you go

to the beach, don't fill your day with nine to

five busyness. Spend a day just flaking out. Amen. There's

power in the flake out, I promise you, Amen. So

all right, I'm gonna move on from that. That's not

my message this morning. So this body of water that

they were on was was surrounded by mountains, and it's

been documented that in that part of the world, and

that that body of water that storms could blow in

over the mountains in an instant, really really fast, and

they would the winds would pick up, and they would

come in and they would create this this storm on

the on the water, very very quickly and almost in

an instant. And this appears to be what took place,

that this sudden storm blows in and begins to ravage

the boats. And I've heard it preached about our life

being like this, the storms come out of nowhere. Amen.

Everything seemed to be going good. You've got plans and

you're following your plans and everything going good, and all

of a sudden a storm blows in your life and

you're like what And it takes us by surprise, and

we feel tossed about, and we feel overwhelmed, and life

seems to be that way. Amen. This story, though, as

I mentioned earlier, has greater purpose than just what we read,

just what we see in front of us. It has

a deeper meaning, and this is what I want to

focus on for just a few more minutes. This miracle

was not just about keeping the disciples safe. It wasn't

just about making sure they reached the other side, Amen,

though that was important. This was about revealing something about

himself that even his disciples didn't know yet. Man. And

I know I've said this before, but I believe that

God desires to use every time he shows up in

our life to reveal something brand new about him. Amen.

I believe he does that. I believe he desires to

know that. And that's when I say that's why I

say be careful of thinking you have it all figured out,

because He might just create something in your life to

reveal something new about him. Amen. And sometimes in our stubbornness,

it takes a storm in order for us to pay

attention enough to learn something new about him. And so

what happens here is a revelation if we really strip

it down and look at it, It's a revelation of

who he really is. And so every trial, every storm,

and every battle is an opportunity for a brand new

revelation in your life. Amen. It is I've often thought,

what did they expect Jesus to do when they woke

them up? I mean when they went to him and said, Lord, teacher, master,

we are about to drown. Do you not even care?

At that point when he woke up? What was their expectation?

Because obviously they were surprised by what he did? When

we call on him? What is your expectation when you

hit your knees in desperation and cry out, Lord, God

of Heaven, and you awaken him? What's your expectation? Do

you have one? That's something to think about? When we

cry out to him? What is our expectation of his

response to our cry? Amen? And so they awake him,

and a teacher, you don't even care? Do you expect

a miracle when you cry out to him? Do you

expect to see something you've already seen? For him to

show up the same exact way he has in the past. Amen?

What do you expect? A miracle? Is a deviation from

the normal? Amen? And I believe we are such creatures.

I know we're such creatures of habit that we attach

that to the Lord, and that when we go before

him and we begin to cry on him, cry out

to him in our mind and our expectation. We think

he's going to show up and move the same way

he does he has before. Amen. And that's not how

the Lord works. Amen. If you need evidence of that,

just look throughout scripture. Amen. You'll find that he works

in mysterious ways. Amen. He will get your attention, he

will reveal himself to you. Amen. If you don't leave

that there's a certain donkey that talked, I mean, that's

pretty mysterious. A dead man walked out of the tomb,

that's pretty mysterious. Amen. Peter of all people, anger issues,

walked on water. That's pretty mysterious. Amen. Man. None of

those things were the normal. Amen. It was a deviation

from the normal. And sometimes we need our faith to

believe for something more than the normal. Sometimes our faith

has got to reach a point where we believe God

will show up in a brand new way, so we

can see Him in a brand new light, and so

we can reveal have a revelation of who He is

in a brand new way. Amen. We need that kind

of faith. Simply, we need to believe for a miracle. Amen. Hallelujah.

Amen.

And so I don't know what the disciples expected. It's

obvious that they didn't expect this, because we find this.

And he arose, and he rebuked the wind and said

to the sea, peace be still. And the wind ceased,

and there was a great call. 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 phrase struck me,

Who can this be? They'd already seen him perform miracles,

they'd already seen him do supernatural things. But just in

a few spoken words, Jesus revealed the words that we find.

Paul wrote in Colossians two nine when he said, for

in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead. Bodily. Amen,

You see that peace be still wasn't about safety for

the disciple. It was about revealing his true identity to

his followers. It was about showing them I don't just

have authority over sickness. I don't just have the ability

to speak and forgive sins. He says, I have all

authority in heaven and earth. Even nature obeys my spoken word. Amen.

That's what this miracle was about, is a revelation of

who he truly was. Amen. The power that he holds.

And so this instant is not the only time we

find Jesus simply speaking a word and the miracle occurs.

And man, he didn't touch the water. He just spoke,

and the wind and the water obeyed. Hallelujah. When Jesus

said peace be steal, the voice of authority exercised dominion

over the created wind and waves and water, and it

became calm. Amen. And what was in a moment a

storm became illness. Amen, from storm to steal, from chaos

to calm peace. Amen. I want my wife to come. Hallelujah.

The enemy loves to disrupt one thing, and that is

our peace. Amen. He loves to create havoc. He loves

to create chaos in our mind, in our lives and

our emotions, spirit, and our families and our marriages, all

of it. He is. He's a creature of chaos. Amen.

And if he can rob us of our peace, he

can plant seeds of doubt in our mind and our spirit. Amen.

But I believe that there is still a peace that

passes off understanding, hallelujah. And I believe it's still available, Amen.

And I believe it's available at just the spoken word. Amen,

I still believe in his spoken word, we find Jesus

doing this. He spoke, peace be still, and the wind stopped,

and the water became still. He spoke, and Lazarus walked

out of the grave. He spoke and sins were forgiven.

He spoke, and diseases were healed. Amen, by his spoken word,

by his spoken word. Hellelujah. Paul wrote in Philippians chapter two,

verse ten, that at the name of Jesus, every knee

will bow. Of those in heaven and those on earth

and those under the earth.

Amen, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bow.

Amen. Your storm must bow at the name of Jesus.

Your battle is one at the name of Jesus. Amen,

chaos becomes calm at the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. By

Jesus said that whatever in you, I quote this all

the time. Whatever we bind on earth is bound in Heaven.

Whatever we lose on earth is used in heaven. Man.

And I believe this this morning, as I was preparing

for this, as I was reading this, I just felt

this nudging of the spirit to speak peace over every

mind in every life here today. Amen, So I want

to ask you to stand with me. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Ak Jesus, hallelujah.

Do you believe him? Do you believe in his power?

Why don't we take a moment right now before we

move on. I wonder if we could take a moment

to just close our eyes, and I want us to

declare our faith and our belief in his power. Hey, man,

why don't you just talk to him right now? Make

a declaration. Lord. I place my trust in you. Lord.

I believe in your word. I believe in your power

to speak peace over my life. I believe in your

power and your ability, and your authority and your dominion hallelujah,

over all of the things that go on in my life. Lord,

I speak it right now. Lord, I make a claration

today in this place, in your presence, Lord, that I believe,

I believe in your word. I believe in your spoken word. Hallelujah,

in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah. With every

eye closed. This is what I felt to do at

the end of this service. Hallelujah. If you came in

this morning and you have been your mind, your spirit,

your soul has been in the midst of chaos and turmoil.

If there's a storm brewing, if there's a storm raging

in your life, a man, I want to speak peace

over you right now. And if any of these define

where you may be today or this week or this month,

I wonder if you would lift your hands to Heaven Helenua,

signifying a surrender to the power and the authority and

the dominion of God Almighty, Hello, Amos, and the mighty

name of Jesus. Right now, not by my power, but

by your power, Saith the Lord. I speak peace over

this congregation right now. I speak peace over every mind

in the name of Jesus. Or every lie of chaos,

I rebuke it in the name of Jesus, every lie

of the enemy and of Hell, I rebuke right now

in the name of Jesus. And by the power of

the Blood of Jesus Christ, I speak peace, and I

lose peace in this building and in every life, and

in every heart and every mind and every soul and

every spirit. God Still, those raising waves of every storm

right now, that's raaking havoc in every life and every

heart and every mind. In the name of the Lord

God Almighty. I speak it in Jesus' name, hallelujah. Why

don't you raise your voice right now and receive the

peace of God that passes understanding in this place. Hallelujah,

in the Mighty name of Jesus. Hello, Moo shanda yaha,

in your precious and holy name, in the mighty name

of the Lord. Hallelu hallelu hallelu yah. Yes, Lord, we

receive right down in your mighty name, in your mighty name.

M hm helen, hallelu in the name of Jesus, in

the name of Jesus, Hallelujah, in your.

In your holy name, Oh worship, we worship you, your press.

Just sit Holy Day, I speak the name of Jeese,

I speak the name of Jesus, Old piece.

Over every mind. Hallelu the peace of God begin to

move head the name of the Why don't you just

talk to him right now? Hallelu hallelu hallel O, your precious.

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