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*Stepping into the Storm*
There is this nonsense within church people that people think that when we become Christians that pain, distress, trials and calamity will never come our way.
However, this thinking is completely contrary to scripture in fact the Bible implicitly states from a biblical point of view that affliction gained entrance into the world through sin.
After Adam and Eve sinned God spoke to them:
*Gen 3:16-19*
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18     It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19     By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Part of the curse of sin is the affliction it brings and because of sin unfortunately misery is a common human experience and our short life is full of trouble an trials.
*Job 14:1-6*
“Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2     He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
3     Do you fix your eye on such a one?
Will you bring him before you for judgment?
4     Who can bring what is pure from the impure?
No one!
5     Man’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6     So look away from him and let him alone,  till he has put in his time like a hired man.
The bible acknowledges that it is difficult to understand the many afflictions of the righteous.
Psalm 34:19
19     A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;
 
It is no wonder that when God sent his servant to the world to save it he just didn’t send him as an obedient servant or a submissive servant or a compliant servant God sent him as a *suffering* servant.
*Isaiah 53:2-6*
2     He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.
He had *no beauty or majesty* to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3     He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and *familiar with suffering*.
Like one from whom men hide their faces *he was despised*, and *we esteemed him not*.
4     Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
5     But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
6     We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
The suffering servant showed us not only the power we have through him to overcome, but it reminds us that there we would be many trials and sorrows for his followers.
*John 16:33 \\ *33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.
Paul taught that entrance to the kingdom of God comes with many tribulations.
*Acts 14:21  \\ *21 They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of disciples.
Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, 22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith.
“*We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God*,”
 The trials that we go through should not shake or Christian faith
 *1 Thess.
3 \\ *So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. 2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and God’s fellow worker in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, 3 *so that no one would be unsettled by these trials.
You know quite well that we were destined for them*.
4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted.
And it turned out that way, as you well know.
5 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith.
I was afraid that in some way the tempter might have tempted you and our efforts might have been useless.
In Mpact I have asked you all many times the question What is your call but I think as we can sense by taking a quick look at how sin as brought pain, affliction and suffering in the world that although we are God’s people we aren’t exempt from the suffering of the sinful things in the world.
Last week I talked to you guys about being spiritually minded about how those who are saved are carrying a piece of eternity in them.
In other words our bodies have become a temple for the Holy Spirit.
The joke I told earlier was funny but how many of us have felt like the guy the bear is going to eat.
We believe in God we know he is real but our prayers aren’t turning out how we think it should.
These things happen and it really throws off our thinking, it shakes or even breaks our Spirit, but worse than that feeling is that it causes doubt in our hearts.
I have begun to realize that in my own life when I allow myself to lean toward doubt I become a hypocrite to faith.
The Spirit that God has put in us gives a piece of eternity, it unlocks God’s original intention in each one of us, and even more than that it gives us access to God’s thrown.
How many times in our lives though we live in the natural, we see our trial in the natural, we feel the effects of the trial in the natural, do we react to it in the natural, rather than looking beyond, looking higher, and rise above our situations by allowing God into them.
There is a familiar story in the Bible that we have all read that I want us to take a quick look at it that deals with this very topic.
*Matt 14:22 \\ *22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
23 After he had dismissed them, *he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray*.
When evening came, he was there alone, 24 but the *boat was already a considerable distance**** from land and the waves repeatedly struck the boat because the wind was against it*.
25 During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.
26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified.
*“It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
*27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “*Take courage!
It is I. Don’t be afraid.”*
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, *“tell me to come* to you on the water.”
29 “*Come*,” he said.
*Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus*.
30 But *when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out,* “Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.
“You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” 32 And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.
33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
In prayer meeting Wednesday night I was praying and the Holy Spirit began to dig this scripture into me deeply and he showed me some things I have never seen before.
As we have been talking about there are times in our lives the Lord testes us.
This is one of the passages.
From the outset of this passage in verse 22 we see that Jesus sets them up for a test.
It says that he told them to “Go ahead of them to the other side.”
Often times in our own life we feel God speaking to us and like the disciples we are obedient and we go.
However, like Israel in the Old Testament, although we are obedient and are doing God’s will, I believe there are times where God pulls back a little bit in our lives to see how true are faith really is and how much we rely on his word.
Jesus sent them ahead of them and so the test begins.
Now what is interesting is verse 23 because what I began to realize is that Jesus and the disciples are going to the same destination but what is different is how they get there.
It is interesting to note that the disciples, although they were obedient in doing what Christ told them to do, they went about it under their own strength.
Jesus’ destination was across the water also, but before he went, in his divine wisdom, he first went to the mountainside and prayed.
My guess is that he was thanking God for the miracle he had just done as well as he was refueling for the situation to come.
Now as a pastor the saddest thing I see in dealing with people from all different backgrounds and religions is that some people have absolutely no prayer life whatsoever, and even more disturbing is they have no idea how to pray.
By allowing this flaw in your theology you become a victim to situations rather than a victor in them.
This brings us to the next verse.
However, I am going to switch to Marks account of this story for a moment.
Mark 6:48 \\ 48 *He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them*.
This is awesome!
You see the disciples were in Gods will, they were obedient to what they were suppose to do however, they skipped over some important principles and went before Jesus.
This left them out to sea, powerless, and straining toward their Goal.
The power of prayer is an absolute necessity in our lives.
As we see it keeps us in the mindset we need to be in to go before the storms in our lives.
Jesus found strength in prayer it was his connection to God through the Holy Spirit.
Some scholars believe that Jesus spent 4-6 hours a day praying.
Maybe that’s why he needed only to speak a word and people were healed.
There is something about the humility of prayer that brings forth the power of God in our lives.
In my opinion I believe it is why we see decrees of Christ daily in the world and the up rise of secular progressiveness in America.
The facts are we are so natural minded we tend *not *to* *see reward in spending time in prayer. 1 Thess 5:17 says to pray continually meaning never ending.
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