The Fear of the Storm | Pastor Travis Gardner

Oh. Hallelujah.

How many is thankful for the blood of Jesus Christ?

I would have you know today that you didn't walk into this place

by some accident or happenstance or just some random invitation.

It's the Spirit of God and the blood of Jesus Christ.

It's reaching for you and it's calling you Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, one preacher said. If you can't.

Get excited about the blood. I don't know what's.

Going to get you excited. Oh Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. You may be seated in the House

of the Lord today. I'm going to do my best today

to, to, to follow the leading of the Lord.

Before I say anymore, I, I give honor today to your pastor, to

his wife, Bishop, give honor to all the ministry here at this

church. What a blessing it is to be here

today. Hallelujah.

It's been a long time coming. Some would say, you know, your

pastor was very gracious today. He was gracious.

He's one of only two pastors that I ever had to cancel my my

invitation to come and preach when I was evangelizing.

And some people don't let you live it down.

I'm not going to say who. But they just don't.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. It's so good.

I give honor to my wife today, to this beautiful congregation.

Give you honor today. Hallelujah.

Before we, before we go into the word of God at all, I couldn't

help today but think about what God gives us and what God allows

us to do with, with what he's given us.

And today, today, I just want to just, I just want to testify a

little bit. Because they overcame him by the

blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.

Hallelujah. So the, the clock's not started

yet. Just so you know, it's not, it's

not started. It's testimony time.

It was on the agenda somewhere. I saw it.

Amen. Amen.

I am. So I am.

I am blessed to be here today. I didn't.

I, I, I had the opportunity when I was a small child about Zuri's

age, maybe a little younger. Raise your hand, Zuri.

Just raise it up. You're the little one.

I had the opportunity to to sit under, lay under some church

pews for a little while with, with my mother, my father, my

grandparents. But that didn't last very long

as my dad had troubles living it like he wanted to.

He had a problem with failure and he couldn't, he couldn't

fail and keep coming to church. And so he said, I'm not going to

sit there and be a hypocrite. And so we quit.

We quit going to church and my father was an alcoholic and

basically the local drug dealer. And so I grew up, I grew up in a

rather interesting environment for for several years, not not a

very family friendly environment.

Had a lot of had it had a lot of effect on on what would be my

future. I made a lot of my own choices,

but there was a lot of effect, had a lot of effect on the

choices that I made as I myself became an alcoholic.

I before doing so, though, I did start going to church again when

I was 11, about 10 or 11 years old.

My father had left and my mom started taking us to a, to an

Apostolic Pentecostal church up in the up, up in the town from

us. And that's where the Lord filled

me with the Holy Ghost. You know, I wasn't even looking

for it. I went to the altar basically on

a dare. And God filled.

Me with the Holy Ghost, I was baptized in Jesus name.

But then as time would have it, I I fell away from the church as

a teenager. I was, I left high school my

freshman year. I was a full blown alcoholic by

19 years old, just a equal opportunity addict.

Just had a crazy life. But I had here's what was crazy

about it is I had a heart for God.

Strange. It doesn't add up.

I really can't paint you a justifiable picture of what my

life really was. I'm just kind of giving you a

snippet. But but I would come to church

at times I'd sit we had a balcony and I would sit in the

balcony and some some great evangelist would be there

preaching and in my my spirit would cry out to God save me.

I want free, I want I want to be saved, but my flash it, it would

hold me to the seat and I would quickly make my way at the end

of service out the back door and but, but I would come back and I

would see God move again. I think it was my 22nd birthday.

I was, I was sitting sitting at the local bar and the phone rang

and the bartender said, hey, Travis, it's your mom.

I get on the phone with my mom. She said, hey, what are you

doing? Funny you would ask.

You called the bar. She said, well, you need to tell

the bartender to make you a pot of coffee.

I've got plans for you after church for your birthday.

Of course, I would always listen to Mom and she would take me to

church. She didn't know it at the time,

but there was time. So she would pick me up from a

dope house and then she would take me to church.

She never gave up. She never quit praying.

Listen, today I'm telling you, there's nobody.

There's nobody that you know. There's nobody that you're going

to run into. There's nobody that's living,

nobody that's breathing. God cannot say that he cannot

reach, that He cannot turn around, that he cannot put up on

the wheel and make a vessel of honor out of.

That's the God that we serve. And he give me a testimony.

He give me a testimony, Hallelujah.

And I'm so grateful to be able to share it with you today.

Hallelujah. I met a man this morning and

this is what it had me thinking. I, I came down out of the hotel.

Don't judge me for this. I came down out of the hotel

near my out of my room and down to breakfast and I saw a man

there, big guy, real big guy. He had on this black leather

vest patches on it and I was intrigued.

That's where you don't need to judge because I was kind of

intrigued in years past been known to have a little

fascination with the with the whole motorcycle club thing and

and I thought, you know, I need to walk over and talk to him.

I want to go take my picture with him now that sounds funny,

but I thought no, I don't want to interrupt somebody first egg

of a morning. So I kept and I just kept

feeling like I needed to. That's it's, it's strange.

And so finally in the rain, I walked to them.

They're they're, they're at their motorcycle, him and his

wife or girlfriend, and they're suiting up and you know, the

weather out there, It's it's nasty.

And I walked up and I said, hey, how's it going, guys?

They said, all right, how are you?

I said, I'm well, I said, what's your name?

Then I thought, man, maybe I shouldn't ask that.

Maybe that's too much. And I think he told me his name

was Trimmer. Trimmer, something like that.

It was, it was definitely a nickname.

And I said, I said. I know this is going to seem

like a strange question. Coming from a guy in a suit and

tie, I said. But would you?

Take a picture with me, he said. Long as you promise not to post

it. I said, no, it's just for my

personal, No, I won't post it. And and I and I kind of give him

a little more information as to why I wanted to take a picture

with him. And, and as he as he got ready

to take a picture beside me, I'll be honest, first I was

going to throw my arm around him, but then he was kind of

just standing there. He's a lot bigger than me.

He was kind of just standing there.

I thought, yeah, I better not. But before his wife said, Hey,

let me here, I'll take the picture.

She said after, after we take this picture because somewhere

in the conversation I worked in, I said, I said I'm a preacher.

And she said, after we take this picture, would you pray with us?

I'm here to tell you today. I don't know what seed was

planted, but if God can save me, God can save that man.

If God can save me, he can reach down into that Stony heart.

He can pluck it out, and he can put in him a heart of flesh.

Don't ever judge the book by its cover.

Saying to God, don't ever. Walk by him and think.

You know what? They don't want what I've got.

Oh, they want it. They want it.

Amen. Amen.

Stand with me for one moment. I'm going to go to the word of

the Lord today. That was testimony service.

Hallelujah. Matthew chapter 8.

Matthew 8 · chapter mention

We're going to read verses 23 through 26 today.

While you're turning there, I want to say this.

I truly believe today that the Lord has a word, a specific word

for someone in this house. It may hey, if it fits, just put

it on, but I truly believe God has a very specific word for

someone in this place. Verse 23 it says and when he was

entered into a ship, Jesus, his disciples followed him.

And behold. There arose a great Temptus in

the sea, a great storm, and so much.

That the ship. Was covered with the waves, but

he was asleep. And his disciples came to him,

and awoke him, saying, Lord. Save us, we perish.

I don't know if anybody's ever been there.

And he saith unto them. Why are ye fearful?

O ye of little faith. Then he arose and rebuked the

winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Would you help me pray today? Lord Jesus, Lord, I need you in

this. Place today we need you.

God, I'm asking today that you would have your way in this

house, Lord, in every heart and in.

Every life, Lord, I pray. That you would anoint my lips of

clay. God allow.

Me to be a Horico and a vessel God through.

Which you speak today, Lord, do the work through me and in this

place is only you are able to. Do somebody said in Jesus name,

you may be seated in the House of the Lord.

Why are ye so fearful? An.

Interesting question concerning considering the circumstances.

Have you ever been? Has somebody ever.

Asked you a question and and the answer was already obvious.

Is it not obvious why we've come to you?

Is it not obvious why? We have awakened you, but

understand today Jesus. Ask him this question.

While the storm was still raging.

The storm hadn't stopped yet. The boat was still being tossed

to and fro. Waves were crashing over it and

before anything else happens, Jesus just looks at him and

said. Why are you so fearful?

He could have saved his question for later.

He could have just immediately said peace be still now.

Why are you so fearful? But he didn't ask that.

He got up immediately. After before he had rebuked the

storm. He's why.

But. Since you've decided to wake me,

let's have this conversation. I don't know about you, but once

someone wakes me, I'm awake. So what do you need?

I'm not going to go. Back to sleep.

What do you need? No, it's it's.

Fine, whatever. You just tell me what you need.

What is your deal? Why are you so fearful?

Well, how about we start with the storm that is?

Currently raging all around us and threatening to capsize our

vessel and drown us all. How about we start there?

I don't know if you've ever felt that way.

If you want to know what the problem is, is we're getting

ready to die. I'm getting ready to drown in

the sea. The storm that's raging all

around me is getting ready to consume me.

But it's all. Starting to come together now.

It's all starting to make sense. You see, the disciples just stay

with me. Don't write me off.

The. Disciples suffered from a

condition. That Jesus didn't have it all

came together I. Figured it out.

There's a condition, it's called.

Astrophobia, That's what the That was what the disciples

suffered with Astrophobia is an abnormal fear of Thunder and

lightning or an unwarranted. Fear of scattered and or

isolated thunderstorms. A type of specific phobia, the

term astrophobia. Is composed of the Greek.

Words astrophae meaning lightning and Phobos meaning

fear. It is one of the most common

specific phobias. It's the fear of the.

Storm. It's the fear of the storm.

Listen, Astrophobia. It's real.

It causes anxiety and may also cause physical symptoms.

Such as chest. Pain, dizziness, diarrhea, race,

heart racing or heart palpitations, Nausea.

Vomiting, shortness of breath, sweating.

Or tremor. Tremors.

Or, you know, uncontrollable shaking.

Their anxiety, you hear me today was through the roof.

They were fearing for their lives.

Between them, they could have checked the box on every symptom

listed under the. With the help of the Lord, today

I want to preach to you from this thought.

The fear of the storm, the fear of the storm.

There are several things that are going.

On here and not everything that's.

Going on here is just. As it would seem, some would

surmise that the storm was an attack from hell, sent from the

devil with the intention of sinking their boat, effectively

killing everyone on board. That's what some would surmise

and. While that could be a.

Possibility hell would only have been able to do it.

God allowing it. That's the only way hell would

have been able to go through with that plan.

It would be. God having allowed.

It now understand occasionally, occasionally, God has granted

Satan such power, power over these naturally occurring

events. That does not mean that he has

unlimited power. People give the devil way too

much credit. Pastor, what you need to

understand. Is that the devil only has the

power that God has allowed him to have, and if God allows him,

it's for a purpose. And it's not Hell's purpose,

it's God's purpose. In the In the midst of your

storm, somebody needs to hear me.

In the midst of your storm, you need to understand this one

thing. Hell might have a reason for it,

but God has a purpose for it. Hell might have an intention

with it, but God's purpose for the storm is greater than Hell's

intention. If Satan.

If Satan could impact. The weather it would only be by

God's permission and restrained. You can only go so far.

How many remembers Job? Well, in the case of Job, Satan

was allowed by God to torment Job in order to test him.

This included the fire from God, probably lightning.

Which fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and.

The servants. This was followed by a mighty

wind, likely possibly a tornado, that destroyed his eldest son's

home and killed all of Jake, or all of.

Job's children So if the fire from heaven and the tornado were

somehow caused by Satan, they were still they were still under

the. Ultimate control of God and for

His purpose. With this understanding, we

would be foolish to think that every storm that comes our.

Way is sent by hell. That's that's what I wish people

would quit saying. That's what I wish people would

quit doing. Not every storm that you face in

this life. When I say storm, I mean not

every test, not every trial, not every mishap, not every flat

tire, not at, not everything that comes your way.

We sit by hell. You're giving them way too much

credit. Please understand storms are

naturally occurring. They happen.

They're happening right now. Storms are are.

Happening Some storms are isolated.

In the next town, there might be a storm going on right now.

Hey, in the next seat beside you, there might be a storm

going on right now. It's not affecting you it.

But they're naturally occurring. Some are isolated, some are

scattered, but at the end of the day, from what I understand, God

has all the power and God is he's got to, oh, if I'm going

to. Get him ahead of myself.

But if you've taken on the name and you're one of his, I would

say today that there's nothing going to come your way that God

doesn't already know and that God doesn't already have a

purpose for. It's a part of life.

Storms, they happen. For some sitting here today, the

skies are clear. For others, the winds are

threatening to seek your boat. I would submit you today that

this storm was not an attack of hell.

This is my own. It's just my thinking.

I don't believe that their storm was an attack of hell.

I don't believe that this was the enemy's attempt to drown

them in the sea. Rather than an attack of Hell.

I would submit that it was simply a natural occur, a

naturally occurring event. There was going to be a storm

that day. That's all there is to it.

There was going to be a storm at.

That being said, I would say that this wasn't Hell's attempt

to to destroy them. More I would say this, if I was

going to give any credit, I would say the deaths under this

was God's perfect timing. There was no accident the moment

he come down off that mountain. Every footstep was timed, every

footstep was numbered. The moment that he got on the

boat, it wasn't by accident. The moment they set sail, it's

timing was perfect, it was impeccable and they set off at

just the right time to. Catch this naturally occurring

event. No credit to hell for that.

God did have a purpose. God did have a purpose for the

storm. I know some of you think today

that every storm that comes your way, it's only purpose is to try

to destroy you, and it's only purpose is to pull you out of

the church and pull you out of your family and pull naturally

occurring events. And God is the order.

God had a purpose in the storm. That purpose was to reveal to

his disciples who He truly was. Who was He?

He was the mighty God. He was the Word made flesh.

God manifest in the flesh the great I am.

And He did it by showing them the power that he possessed.

If you would have continued reading today down to verse 27,

it would have said this. But the men marveled, the men

marveled, saying what manner a man is this, that even the wind

and the sea obey him? I want somebody to understand

today that just as God could use naturally occurring events for

His. Purpose he did.

We've got right to where I was going.

Hell also attempts to do the same.

Hell wants to do the. Same.

God uses it. God used it.

God still. Using it for his purpose.

And we know that all things work together for good to them, that

love God, to those who are called according to His purpose,

all things, every situation, every heartache, every trial,

every pain. But Hell attempts to do the

same. The storm was not an attack of

the enemy though, nor was this storm Hell's attempt on their

life. However, what Hell did was use

their circumstances to have them drowning in.

Fear. Drowning in their fear.

These were disciples of Christ. They watched him perform.

Miracles. They had forsaken all other

things. They put their trust in Him.

They followed him. And there they are.

In the moment, still following Christ, Christ got on the boat.

The disciples following Christ, trusting Christ, went ahead and

got on the boat with them. Who am I to say that they didn't

look up at the sky and say, you know what, fellas?

I don't think this is a good time to be on the boat, but they

got on the boat anyway because they were following Christ and

they had put their trust in Christ.

Here they are following Christ, and they find themselves in the

midst of the storm. The enemy didn't need to kill

them. I know that that's what some

people think is going on in their lives right now.

The storm, the things that are happening.

People think this is the enemy's plot and the enemies attacking,

the enemies trying to kill me. Oh, let me tell you something,

though. I've been in this long enough,

Pastor, and I can look back on my life and I can look back on

my ministry with my wife and I can say we've gone through some

storms, we've gone through some trials.

We went through the struggle. At the time, it felt like hell

was trying to destroy me. I'll just give up.

It'd be easier if I just. Quit.

Hey, you know what? I just leave these keys to the

church right here and I'll go on down the road because I but I've

been in it long enough to understand this one thing.

Every storm that I've been through, every trial that I

faced, God had a purpose in it and God was using it.

I am what I am today because of the storms that God allowed to

come my way. Don't you despise what you're

going through right now? So they're following him, but

they're still in the storm. The enemy didn't need to kill

him, nor had he been granted the authority or the power to.

That's something to take home with you.

He wasn't the enemy. Hell does not have the authority

to destroy you. The gates of Hell shall not

prevail against the Church. He's not been granted the

authority to do so. He hadn't been granted the

power, and he didn't need to kill him.

They were, however, in the moment, drowning in their fear.

Oh, I don't know if you've ever been there drowning.

I'll testify about it. I've been there.

Pastor McGee, where I have absolutely no.

Idea what to do and I feel like I have nowhere to turn and fear

and anxiety have gripped my life and it's got me so weak and

beggarly that I don't even hardly know how to walk anymore.

Oh, but there was a purpose. Drowning in their fear.

The enemy wanted them to doubt. You hear me today.

The enemy wanted them. Wanted them to.

Doubt who it was. That they got into that boat

with. The enemy wanted them to doubt

who it was that they had been following.

We've been following this far. We've seen him do this.

But here we are now. We followed him.

We knew better. We were looking up, but we

followed him. And here we are in the midst of

the storm, and we're going to die.

But neither hell nor the disciples truly understood who

it was. That was asleep in that boat.

This was no ordinary man. This was the word made flesh,

the man Christ Jesus. That's who was asleep in the

boat that day. So what was Hell's part in all

of this? Fear and doubt that.

Was the whispers in the ears for the whispers of hell in the ears

of the disciples that day? It was fear you're going to die.

It was doubt. He's not going to save you.

It was fear you're going to perish.

It's fear you follow the wrong word.

It's fear Hell wanted them to fear and doubt.

Oh, but that. Plan came to a screeching halt

when Jesus lifted up his head off that pillow and he stood up

upon that boat and he spoke to the wind, and he spoke to the

storm, and it had to obey. Don't ever underestimate church.

Don't you ever underestimate the plan nor the power of Jesus

Christ. You're not going to die in your

storm. You're He has not brought you

onto the boat with him to let you drown.

He's the same God now that he was back then.

He has not changed. Why are you fearful?

Why are you fearful? I want to reveal to you today

what the most successful weapon is that hell has ever deployed.

And not to give the enemy any credit, that's not what I'm

doing. I want to reveal in order to

dispel. And destroy it.

So if you understand the weapon that's coming against you and

you can dispel it, you can destroy it.

If you can dispel it and destroy it, it no longer has any

authority over you. It no longer is able.

To do what it was intended to do.

That weapon is fear. The.

Weapons. Not the storm.

The weapons, not the storm. It's the fear of the storm.

It's the fear of the. Storm fear has been Hell's most

successful weapon against God's people.

And Hell has. Weaponized fear against the

church. And.

All too often I have. Seen God's children crippled and

paralyzed by fear sent by hell not They were not crippled and

paralyzed by the storm. They were crippled and paralyzed

by fear that the outcome of the storm might not be what they

expect. And that, my friend, is hell.

'S intention to cripple and paralyze the church.

That is Hell's intention, because a crippled, paralyzed

church is not capable of moving forward.

A crippled and paralyzed St. of God is not able to keep going in

the direction that God would have for them to go.

A crippled and a paralyzed. Church, you know what they're

not capable of doing? They're not capable of fighting

and. I'll tell you.

Why? Because I'm so scared that even

if I do get through this storm, Pastor McGee, I'm scared that

the next one's going to come. And I'm, I'm scared if I do too

much, I got, I just got to hide over here a little bit and maybe

hell won't see me. And that's where Hell's back,

Hell's back. The church into a corner,

paralyzed in fear, crippled by fear.

But you need to understand today that if God has allowed it, then

God has a purpose. And if God has a purpose, hell

cannot destroy you. Hell cannot drown you.

Hell cannot stop you. But as long as hell.

Can keep you in that state. He doesn't need to destroy.

You. He doesn't need to kill.

You because you pose no threat in that current condition, if I

can. Just.

It's time to get up, Church. It's time to get up.

I don't know who I'm speaking to today.

It might be a whole bunch of you, but it might be just one.

But I'm here to tell somebody in the House of God today.

It's time to quit cowering in the corner.

It's time to time to quit hiding in fear.

It's time to get up. I came into this house today to

tell somebody. Silver and gold have I none but

such as I have. Give I thee in the name of Jesus

Christ, rise up and walk through your storm.

If, if hell could have stopped them, if hell could have stopped

the disciples, if he could have kept them from moving forward,

he would have successfully delivered a punishing blow to

the church. Don't let hell use you.

God's purpose. Has never been for you to sit.

Back and cower. I'll tell you what.

If the early church would have cowered in fear, they would have

never The gospel would have never spread.

Hey, if the threat of some whips could have stopped Paul, his

message would have. I'm not saying he didn't.

Go through the storm. But God had a purpose.

Hell wants you worried. Hell wants you.

Trembling. Hell wants you caloried.

Hell wants you tormented in fear.

People freeze in. Fear, anxiety, now more than

ever, runs. Absolute rampant in our

churches. In this world, I'm not saying

that. That that.

That that, that every anxiety. Or every person that suffers

with anxiety is suffering solely from from the.

Fear of hell, and I'm not saying that.

But there's a great deal. Of them in the church today,

that is suffering from anxiety. Hell has people living in

constant anxiety, not just while the storm is raging, but when

everything is sunshine and roses.

Sister McGee, they're still coward in the corner.

When everything's going good and there is no storm, they're still

living in fear because I don't want them to recognize me.

I don't want to do anything to get Hell's attention.

You're that would be a. Successful attack from hell if

if during. The times of plenty, and during

the times you're cowering over in the corner when you should be

marching forward. Hell has used it for.

His own purpose. What many preachers have said.

Through the years. You've heard this before.

Somebody in here has heard this before.

I've heard it. They would say listen.

They tell some young preacher, some young, you know, some young

couple that's started the ministry, listen, some young

pastor, you know what? Listen when you start moving

forward. You're going to face hell, I'm

afraid. That some of them done more

damage than they did good. Because you know what they've

created? They've created an an.

Atmosphere. Not an atmosphere of God, but an

atmosphere of fear. An atmosphere this has.

You better not tread on hell too much, because if you do, Hell's

going to rise up against you. I'll tell you what those

preachers left out. They should have said listen.

Listen, young man. They're God.

You're going to face hell. But greater is he that's living

within you than he that is in the world.

Go fight hell. Go.

Don't you live in fear? Don't you cower to those giants

you fight hell tooth and toenail, and God's going to take

care of you. You're going to fight hell.

But don't you cower. You're going to fight hell.

But don't you run. You're going to fight hell, but

don't you be afraid. That's what they should have

said. But hell weaponized the.

Statement. To keep people from moving.

Forward. I've seen it, I've done it.

The church now lives in. Fear of the storm?

Even the storms that don't. Currently exist.

Let's not do. Too much.

Hey, let let's just fly under the radar here in Mount Carmel.

We don't want to stir up too much.

Hey, we're not marching down to the enemy's camp today.

We better put that song back in the book.

We don't want to get. Hell stirred up.

Listen, I. Hate to be so.

Secular today, but I'm going to be.

Iron Mike Tyson. I don't know if you know that

name. Maybe it's just me.

Iron Mike Tyson, one of the greatest boxers to ever step in

the ring. It would be said of.

Him that he had most of his opponents defeated before they

ever got in the ring. Is that possible?

Oh yes, it is. He had most of his.

Deponents feeded before they ever stepped the first foot into

the ring. Before they ever.

Arrived at the arena, he had them defeated before the day of

the fight. He had them defeated and likely

before they ever knew that they were going to fight the champ.

He had them defeated because of fear.

They were so terrified. He was so intimidating that even

if they were a better boxer, even if they were a better

fighter, they wasn't going to get in the ring and and pose any

threat because he had them by the head.

He had their mind. Oh, come on, somebody.

Don't. Don't you let steps.

Don't you let Theo grip you. Fear defeated them, but I.

Didn't just. Come here with a message of

fear. Today I came here.

In the in the closing moments, hopefully of this sermon to tell

you this, you need to remember who it is that you got into the

boat with. You've got to remember who it is

that's he's right there with you.

He's right there beside you. There's nothing.

I don't know about you. But when I was a young man, I'm

not a very big guy. And when I.

Was like 1819, I was a lot smaller than I am now and.

You wouldn't have known it. By the way, I talked and acted,

but there's. Something I learned to do.

I wasn't the biggest guy. And I.

Wasn't going to whoop the. Biggest guy.

But you know what I did, Bishop? I had friends.

Man, and they were. I'm with him.

Oh. Yeah, you got a problem.

Hey, we can take care. Of it.

Because I knew. Who it was that I was standing

with, I knew who it was that was walking with me.

And if any threat came upon me, I knew that the guy standing

next to me was big enough to deal with the problem.

Understand Today, put your faith, your hope, your trust in

the one that's in the boat. Jesus.

Is in the boat. Why are you so fearful?

From from Genesis 15 to Revelation chapter 1, God was

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redundant with one statement. Fear not, Fear not, Fear not,

Fear not, Fear not, fear not. You don't have to.

Live in fear of the storm. You don't.

You don't have to live in fear of what might come.

You don't have. But yet hell has manipulated.

The church into living with anxiety and trembling in fear.

But let me tell the. Church today, Church something

today. We don't need to use scare

tactics. For we have weapons.

You hear me today. I don't need you to intimidate

hell with fear. You don't have to intimidate.

Hell, with fear, you don't have to act bigger than you are

because we have some weapons. The church has some weapons that

if they would pick them up and dust them off and use them to

fight the good fight, there would be No Fear that.

The weapons. Of our warfare are not carnal.

Oh, you hear me today. The weapons of our warfare are

mighty through the pulling down of strongholds.

While half of the. Church is trembling, I want you

to understand. Something.

When I speak, when I walk down to.

The enemy camp Sister McGee and I speak the name of Jesus.

I'm here to tell you that all hell trembles and hell shakes in

fear, and hell is crippled and hell is paralyzed at the name

of. You don't have to.

Come up with some new way to fight hell.

You've already got it. How to speak the name?

Jesus. Jesus over this situation.

Jesus in my family, Jesus in my church, Jesus in my mind.

Just realize. Who you're in the boat with?

Just know who it is. That you're in the boat with.

Listen, you need to understand. The power and the authority that

is in the name that you took on when you were baptized, the name

of Jesus. In that name there is healing

power, saving power, restorative power, triumphal power, power

over fear, power over anxiety. Somebody needs to speak it

today. Somebody needs to speak it into

your fear and into your storm and into your situation and

power over all of hell. Hear me today.

I'm I'm I'm closing. He wasn't done yet.

He wasn't done yet. You don't even.

Make it to the. Next chapter.

I've come to empower. Somebody today, you don't.

You don't even make it. Brother McGee, there's not even

another verse in between What happened there and what would

happen next that would further bring an understanding to not

only hell, but the disciples just who he was.

He said. I'll tell you.

I'll show you what kind of a man I am because they marveled.

What kind of a man is this? So there he is, verse 27.

They marveled. Verse 28 it says and when they

were come to the other side of the country.

The Gurga scenes. Country that I don't know good

enough. For me there met him too.

Possessed with devils. Coming out of the tombs.

Exceeding fierce that no man. Could pass by that way.

Long story short, if you. Go on down it does 32 it says.

And he said unto them, Go, he said.

Him. He looked.

Hell in the. Face and he said go, and that's

all that he had to say. And when he said go, they went

because he had the power over hell.

Not just the power over the storm, but the power over the

enemy. Let me say it again.

Hell has no power that can compare to the power that we

possess in the name of Jesus. Jesus is with you in the midst

of your storm, and He will you through.

Stand with me. You're on the boat with.

Jesus today. We need some people in the.

Church that will start walking in this Apostolic authority.

We need some people who speak. To the storm today in the.

Authority of the name. Of Jesus Christ.

Can I tell you something? They didn't even have to wake.

Jesus up you understand that They went and they woke him up,

but they didn't have to I. Assure you today.

And they just grabbed a hold of the side of that boat.

And they just rode. Out the storm with Jesus.

Guess what? They'd a steel came to the shore

safe. They'd a steel made it to the

other side. Why?

Because Jesus was in the boat and they were with Jesus.

And if you're with Jesus, there's no weapon of the enemy

that's formed against you that's going to prosper.

So whether your storm ends? Today or not?

I'm here to tell you, you don't have to live in fear.

Of it. You can live above it.

You can live above fear, you can live above anxiety, you can live

above your storm because Jesus is in the boat with you.

We need some people that would be like.

Those three Hebrew boys. They were.

Faced they could we can either bow down and be delivered, or we

can face the fire and when they. Were presented when the.

When the king presented them with that.

You know what they said they said.

If it be so, our. God.

Whom we? Serve.

Is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace.

But at the end of the day, you understand when you really get

some faith in Jesus, when you really understand who it is that

you serve. You can look hell in the face

and say, you know what my God's evil.

But if he doesn't, if I go down with this ship, he's still going

to be with me and he's still going to deliver me out of your

hands. Because hell has.

No power over the church. You don't have to walk in fear

anymore. Either way, we're going to.

Be delivered. Whether the storm.

Stops or not, it doesn't. You hear me today, somebody.

It doesn't matter if the storm stops or not.

Why? Because there's a fourth man in

the fire with you. Why?

Because Jesus is in the boat with you.

Why? Because Christ is in us.

The hope of glory. I want somebody just close.

Your eyes today lift your hands toward heaven with me.

Somebody needs to give their fear and their doubt and their

worries to Jesus today. I want.

Somebody to hear? Me.

If you would be willing. Today and you would say I'm

tired of living in fear. I'm tired of the anxiety.

I'm tired of cowering in the corner.

I'm tired of being crippled by hell.

Would you just step out then say Jesus, I'm done with the fear?

I don't need the anxiety anymore.

God, my, my troubles, my my stars.

I'm going to bring them to you today because they're bigger

than me. And I'm going to lay.

Them at your feet, and I'm going to trust today that you're in

this boat with me. You can be set free.

Today somebody you can be set free from your anxiety.

You can be set free from your fear.

You can be made whole today. Hell has.

No power over you. Listen, this boat ain't going.

Down as long as Jesus is on it. Come on, would you pray?

Today. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, God, I know that you're with us.

God, you'll never leave us. You're not.

Going to forsake us. God you're going with?