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Good Morning, please turn with me in your Bibles to .
Why is it that the Early church was able to take the gospel to the ends of the Earth even across the Roman empire even though they came against
I wanna peak with you this morning on this subject, WHY DID YOU DOUBT?
Matthew 14:22
Matthew 14:23-
Do you ever doubt?
Do you ever struggle with faith?
Last week we talked about walking by faith and now were going to talk about struggling with faith.
It never ceases to amaze me, any time a family is ready to surrender all and follow the Lord, there is always a crisis of belief.
A couple hasn’t been in church in awhile and they begin to come and then something terrible happens, it becomes a crisis of faith, a test of faith, a teenager hears the word and call of God at camp and then he comes home to find teenagers his age mocking him, and all of a sudden the fire that had been sparked deep down within begins to dwindle, what has occured?
A crisis of faith.
A struggle with faith.
Do you ever struggle believing that God is really gonna come through?
Do you ever struggle with any feelings that things just arent going to turn out?
I think all of us struggle with that sometimes, I think we can all understand with the man in the NT who said to Jesus Lord I believe, but help my unbelief.
The Priority of Jesus
What is the priority of Jesus?
Jesus has just fed the 5,000 that is the only miracle in the NT that is recorded in all the gospels.
(13-15,000)
That miracle of feeding the 5,000 shows alot about Jesus it shows he is God in the flesh, He is enough HE CAN TAKE CARE OF ANYTHING AND NEED IN THIS WORLD WITH MEAGER RESOURCES.
When you have Jesus He is the source and after this amazing miracles He sends His disciples to go ahead of Him across to the other side of the sea of Galilee.
Then he goes back and He nis going to send the crowds away but He also sent them away bc He just wanted some time alone.
With God the father, how many of you have ever said you know what I really would like some time alone?
I just wish I could get alone with God, I just wish that I could just spend some time just me and the Lord hey if you feel that way, your alot like Jesus, bc He did it often.
He often would go off alone and spend time with the Father, we read in
The Bible says
Now when is the last time you spent the whole night in prayer, now dont tell me, that you cant do it, there are people who will get drunk in Tallahassee Florida stay out all night boozing it up going to wild parties and they are mad when the sun comes up bc that tells them they oughtta go home and go to bed.
Now if they can go out and live like the devil, dont you think that every now and then the people of God every once in awhile, oughtta stay up all night and pray?
“There are people all over London who spend all night in drunkenness why cant the people of God spend one night every once and awhile in prayer?”
There have been may nights when I havent stayed up all night praying but darn near close.
But it is funny how when things begin to get difficult, how our first reaction bc of the stress of life is not to stay up all night in prayer but rather get our rest for what lies ahead tomorrow.
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Jesus loved His father so much that He spent a night alone in prayer, and probably more than one.
That is what He did right before He chose the 12 disciples, If we would pray more about our decisions, we would make better decisions.
All of this emphasis on prayer is why it is not surprising to read here
Jesus sent them away so that He could pray, this always amazes me, that Jesus the Son of god God in the flesh needed to and wanted to pray.
He was a prayer warrior, He prayed at His baptism
When Jesus prayed the entire Trinity burst forth at His baptism He is there getting Baptized He is looking into Heaven He is praying, How manof you want to live under an open Heaven.
The Spirit of God comes down in the form of a dove and the Father speaks form Heaven THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED!
Man when you pray God starts talking to you, when you pray the Spirit of God anoints you, when your pray the Heavens open, IF YOU DONT PRAY NOTHING HAPPENS!
This is Jesus’ priority in life He is a prayer warrior.
He wants to see His father move in the lives of the people He is ministering around.
Luke 22:
Now if you look at our Bible you will see that Jesus was on the cross, how many hours does anybody remember how many hours?
6
From 9-3 pm
Do you know what 9 in the morning was?
It was the Jewish time for morning prayer.
Do you know what 3:00 was?
It was the afternoon time for Jewish prayer.
Jesus was on the cross at both of those times, and He went from the morning time of prayer all the way I dont think that is a coincedence do you?
I dont
He starts of His 7 statements from the cross He begins with a prayer
FATHER FORGIVE THEM THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
He is praying that at 9:00 guess what He is doing at 3:00 He is praying INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT!
EVEN IN HIS DEATH HE IS ALL ABOUT TALKING WITH HIS FATHER!
Jesus prayed at the times of prayer Jesus was the greatest prayer warrior to ever live.
Thats not an accident, thats is all providential.
The Bible tells us what Jesus is doing right now even as I speak.
He is praying
Your gonna make it your salvation is secure bc Jesus paid for it and He is praying for you, Jesus is interceding for you.
Now I just wanna say this IF THE SON OF GOD MAJORED IN PRAYER THEN HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU AND I NEED TO MAJOR IN PRAYER?
It should be our priority, you might not get out of bed tomorrow, you might not eat tommorow you might not work tomorrow you might not talk to people tomorrow but I’ll tell you this, if you will pray to God tomorrow you will have an amazing day tomorrow if you’ll just spend time talking to the Lord.
Prayer had GOT TO BE THE PRIORITY OF OUR LIFE.
A day without prayer is wasted day.
If your not talking with God your not walking with God, when prayer becomes your priority then God becomes your priority.
There is nonothing more important in your day than prayer, prayer opens the windows of Heaven and lets the eternal light of God shows through you, prayer brings down the power of God into your circumstances, prayer keeps you from worrying and it moves the heart of God, Prayer builds your faith and faith moves mountains STOP MAKING EXCUSES ABOUT HOW USY YOU ARE AND START PRAYING!
Jesus did not make excuses He trusted His Father and prayed and walked in faith.
If you are going to walk by faith you going to have make prayer a real priority.
The Problem of the Disciples
Anybody got a problem out there?
They had a problem…
The dsciples were in a troubled time the wind was against them, they were working as hard as they could to keep the boat on course they were tired they were vulnerable, they were worn out, they were scared.
These were men who were fishermen but Jesus was not with them and they were scared what were they going to do?
The waves are crashing in on them.
The winds are against them, I WANT YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING IF YOU FOLOW JESUS THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A CULTURAL HEADWIND AGAINST YOU!
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A STORMY SEA, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A STORMLESS CHRISTIANITY
“EMBRACE THE ADVERSITY” knowing that THERE IS ONE WHO HAS A REASON FOR THE SEASON YOUR GOING THROUGH AND THE STRENGTH TO BOTH CARRY YOU THROUGH AND BRING ABOUT YOUR GOOD AND HIS GLORY!!@!
But they all felt this could be it we could drowned, this could be the end of life as we know it.
They began by trying to be obedeint to Jesus who sent them over to the other side but now they were so sure they were going to make it.
How many of you ever felt that way?
You began in obedience but then the headwind shifted and you became afraid that you would not be able to finish?
That is where the disciples were.
WE MUST REMEMBER THE GOD WHO SENT US INTO THE STORMY SEA, SENT US THERE BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT TO MAKE YOU MORE LIKE CHRIST TO GIVE YOU THE GREATEST JOY HE HAS TO FIRST STRETCH YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF JUST WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE IS CAPABLE OF!!
Have you ever felt battered by the winds of life?
Have you ever been in the boat with the disciples?
Have you ever felt like you were a long distance from any relief that you really didnt have alot of hope?
have you ever felt like that?
I have and I think most of us have and if you havent just keep breathing itll come your way.
What should you do when you face a problem in life?
PRAY IN FAITH!
Thats why Jesus is back there praying, He is praying because He knew they had a problem coming up He was praying about His problems and their problems.
I wanna say this some of you do you know what your problem is? you have got so much experience you think you think you know how to handle everything now.
Sometimes your experience can be your worst enemy, bc God might wanna do something totally new that He has never done in your life, or in the life of this church, sometimes some of you think well I have been here I have done this I know what to do..
MAY WE NEVER CAST OFF THE NEW WORK JESUS WANTS TO DO BECAUSE OF AN OLD WORK THAT HE DID BEFORE!
WE CANNOT COAST OFF THE FUMES OF PAST SUCCESS WITH THE LORD
THAT’S WHY IT IS CALLED WALKING WITH GOD AND NOT SITTING WITH GOD!!
God has got to direct you, maybe God wants to do something different than the last time this thing came around!
DONT LEAN LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL THAT YOU DO, HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE.
YOU CANT GET PEACE WITH MONEY, YOU CANT GET PEACE WITHA BIGGER HOUSE, BETTER CAR, ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES FOR PEACE.
Let me tell you where peace is, its where you get down on your face before God and your pour out all your cares upon God and you give Him your hopes and your dreams and your future and you put that in the palm of His hands and trust Him to guide you!
There are alot of people out there who would give alot of money to have some peace, but I’d rather have peace than have all the money in the world.
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