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Everything You’ve Always Wanted
 
/Scriptures: Ephesians 2: 11-22; Mark 4:35-41/
 
 
*There is always a counterfeit that confuses people relative to the things in life that drive people forward.*
Relative to peace, we hold out the hope that we can eliminate storms in our lives and therefore have it.
It would be a nice thought but it cannot be guaranteed.
They think that they may want this or that when in reality they are longing for something deeper and lasting.
*You cannot satisfy a spiritual need, longing, deficit, with material means.*
I believe that is the reason that so many people today are so disillusioned with life.
They chase this or that thinking that they will experience fulfillment and satisfaction but they in fact are further away then when they started.
*What are the things that rob a person of peace of mind?*
 
·     *Guilt – haunted – forgiveness*
·     *Greed – wanted – Why do you spend your money for that which does not satisfy?
– contentment*
·     *Worry - Trouble and difficulties *
·     *Boredom – restlessness*
·     *Loneliness – self-image, inferiority*
·     *A driven nature*
 
Lessons From the Life Boat
 
1.
Different kinds of weariness.
Some people come home stressed out and others come home spent from having given of themselves for a purpose.
2.
Many fishermen don’t swim.
You would think it to be the most basic and desirable of skills for someone who would spend their life on the water.
They were very familiar with this body of water and yet were at the end of their resources.
3.
Often when we don’t see God automatically rise to our  cause, we believe that he doesn’t care.
4.
Panic can cause us to lose sight of our own abilities and resources.
It is usually at this point that we become serious about getting in touch with God.
They could have wakened him earlier.
There are most likely those points in our lives where we operate according to our own abilities
 
5.
They weren’t looking for him to do what he did.
They just couldn’t believe that he was sleeping while they were desperately trying to stay afloat.
What were his options?
Panicked
Bail
Calm the storm
 
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They were terrified even after the storm was dissipated.
There are people in the world today who may live in the absence of the storm and yet lack peace in their hearts and minds.
The counterfeit
 
 
I have the wrong spouse
I have the wrong job
I have the wrong boss
I have the wrong pastor
I have the wrong church
 
Talked to Troy about staying here for the long haul.
I would hope that there would be nothing more appealing in any other place in the universe that would make him think that he would be more successful in youth ministry than the things that we have here and now.
Only Jesus can calm the storm in the inner soul.
There are certain practices seemingly insignificant repeated without thinking that see us through in the rough times of life.
Jesus was not a sailor and yet he calmed the experienced seaman.
There is never a time when God’s eyes are not upon you.
A relationship with Christ is foundational.
Learning how to say “NO” to the person who will not hear it.
There are things that we could work out on our own that we’d be better off to forget.
THE SERENITY PRAYER
 
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him in the next.
Amen
 
Reinhold Niebuhr
 
A reporter asked the late President Herbert Hoover, "Mr.
President, how do you handle criticism?
Do you ever get agitated or tense?"
"No," President Hoover said, seemingly surprised at the question, "of course not."
"But," the reporter went on, "when I was a boy you were one of the most popular men in the world.
Then, for a while you became one of the most unpopular, with nearly everyone against you.
Didn't any of this meanness and criticism every get under your skin?"
"No, I knew when I went into politics what I might expect, so when it came I wasn't disappointed or upset," he said.
He lowered his familiar bushy eyebrows and looked directly into the reporter's eyes.
"Besides, I have 'peace at the center,' you know," he added.
Inner peace comes from looking to God, our source.
Peace is the gift of Jesus Christ.
Jesus, before leaving His disciples, said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you".
(John 14:27)
 
Call Time Out
 
I wasted an hour one morning beside a mountain stream,
I seized a cloud from the sky above and fashioned myself a dream,
In the hush of the early twilight, far from the haunts of men,
I wasted a summer evening, and fashioned my dream again.
Wasted?
Perhaps.
Folk say so who never have walked with God,
When lanes are purple with lilacs and yellow with goldenrod.
But I have found strength for my labors in that one short evening hour.
I have found joy and contentment; I have found peace and power.
My dreaming has left me a treasure, a hope that is strong and true.
From wasted hours I have built my life and found my faith anew.
Surrender
 
John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer
 
I am no longer my own, but thine.
Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee,
Exalted for thee or brought low by thee.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God,
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