Things You Need to Know About Storms

it's great to be here with you today in the house of the Lord and I know that there's just maybe only a couple of two or three here today that even know me that's okay it's okay but let me just say to you today we're thankful for your pastor and wife what they've done here we were longtime friends with them been trying our best to get here to see the places the church and and in God's timing God knows what he's doing he really does church and today your pastor and wife they are in the will of God doing what they're doing they are and and I say today as plain as I know how I really feel very strongly and the Holy Ghost that I also today stand here today in the will of God a man praise God praise God and this service today is not a surprise to me because from the very off set of Prayer pre-service prayer and everything God's hand is here upon us today God is here leading in every way in this service you set this in motion God knew what we had need of before we even got here I don't know that you heard that or not God knew what we had need of before we even got here that's the word that's the Word of God it says that he ain't knows what we have need of before we even ask well that's power 30 labors that's powerful I've often been tempted to pull through McDonald's and when they say may I take your order please I've been aiming to say you mean you don't know God knows did you hear that you're not gonna surprise God today by your situation you're not gonna catch him off-guard today with something you say to him he already knows hallelujah he already knows he already knows praise God praise God it is my privilege to be here today and I say that it is always a unique situation when you're called a minister at a place that you haven't been to before II you begin to pray and seek after God and and in my mind I felt the Lord I felt something I really did I felt a nudge and I thought well that that would be good because I haven't preached here like a little kid in a candy store you know I can just kind of go through yeah and so I said okay that's what I'll do and so as the week progressed on I began to pray and I asked God I said God what do you want and it wasn't what I had in mind how about that and the Lord spoke something into my spirit and I said really I said yes I said okay if that's not what it means if that's what you want and I believe it is give me a fresh word for that because I have been ministering in this particular vein for a little bit and that's why I was kind of steering away but God said no it's right and so the Lord spoke a word for this church eternity neighbor said fresh word a fresh word today so I don't know who you are I don't know what you came here needing today but I will tell you this God knows he knows and he's here today to meet our every need I would ask you just if you would today to be mindful as we minister to tune your hearts and I really believe that there are those that came here today with this morning some answers and I promise you God not brother huling God will speak to your heart and minister to you I believe he's going to talk to us individually I believe he's gonna talk to us corporately today I really believe that in Jesus name if you have your Bibles I want to direct your attention to a passage of Scripture in mark chapter 4 mark chapter 4 and I say again it's great to be here thank you praise team for leading us into the presence of the Lord and thank you for everyone that's been so kind today my wife was coming with me but she received a phone call this morning around 4:30 or 5:00 her brother's name was on the list up here he slipped off into a coma this morning and and she was coming and she felt like it was needful for her to be there with her family and so I missed out and you missed out she's a sweet lady she keeps me in line hey man she really does this year in September we'll be married 34 years so you can live with me for 34 years that's a miracle man praise God hallelujah mark chapter number 4 if you have your Bibles we'll read a passage of scripture here my desire today is is that God will speak let's listen today you listen for what God would say to you mark chapter 4 and verse 35 the word of the Lord says this and the same day when the even was come he saith unto them let us pass over unto the other side when they had sent away the multitude they took him even as he was in the ship there were also with him other little ships there arose a great storm of wind the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full and he was in two hind her part of the ship asleep on a pillow and they awake him and saying Him master carest thou not that we perish he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was a great calm and he said unto them why are you so fearful how is it that you have no faith they feared exceedingly and said one to another what manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him and I don't know how many of you have paid attention to this service today but we've sang and prayed about and wind and peace and God wants to say something to us today and each one of us need to tune our ear in because what you need may not be what I need and what I need may not be what you need but you know what the beauty of this is God can supply all he's not there's no back order today in heaven on what you and I need he has a full supply of that my issue today is there in verse 37 there arose a great storm of wind everyone say a great storm of wind I want to preach for a while today on the subject of things you need to know about storms things you need to know about storms why don't you lift your voice in your hands today unless ask God to speak to us today in this place mighty God we're thankful for your goodness thankful mighty God for this opportunity speak to us in this house today mighty God in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus praise God praise God you may be seated today in Jesus name just standing over here a few minutes ago the Lord spoke directly into my spirit and spoke something to me and I want to just say it right here off the offset the storm is God's idea somebody needs to hear that today and I felt this this morning as I woke up really early the Lord spoke some things into me so many times we as individual as we give the adversary too much credit we Glyn too much credence to him let me just tell you in the Holy Ghost the adversary is not in charge of anything in my life he's not in charge of anything in my life he's not in charge of anything in your life unless you're giving him that authority in that control God turn to your neighbor and say the storm is God's idea I will prove to you in Scripture and might I just hasten to tell you today and the Holy Ghost don't fear the storm since it's God's idea don't fear the storm let me say to us today that this particular saying has been all over social media but I'm gonna use that ships don't sink because of the water around them ships sink because of the water that gets in them let me say to you today don't let what's happening around you get on the inside of you and weigh you down think about this an entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship similarly the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it and I allow it to get inside of us so I've come to tell somebody today the wind may be blowing and the may be coming down in downpours let me tell you today don't let that get in your spirit don't let that fill you up with negativism don't allow that to happen don't allow it to happen I read something recently that fit me Charlie Brown and Lucy let's do some little humor here Charlie Brown said it to Lucy said I've got too many trusts so many troubles that if anything happens to me today it'll be two weeks before I'm worried about it you know here we are gathered here today to worship God to magnify him to find direction to find help for our lives and sitting on each pew here each chair each seat is individuals that we have things going on in our lives situations that we are dealing with things that we've that's happened to us and some may know some may not know and so here we said needing God to really give us answers and talk to us and perhaps you or your bid you're sitting here today you've been through a situation and let me just even say maybe even a storm when you didn't understand that but I'm talking to us today about things you need to know turn to your neighbor and say that things you need to know about storms sometimes we need to stop and consider but before we get completely frustrated about the storm where did this thing come from we just mentioned that it's God's idea this one the ones we're gonna preach about today since since storms are God's idea and let me just you know we'll just have to mine the Holy Ghost here and see where he leads us but you know since storms are God's idea maybe we should examine a few passages of scripture today and see what it is that God is trying to say to us every one of us in this room today you hear me today every one of us in this room we're currently in a storm we just came out of a storm or you're about to head into one say oh brother preacher can you be encouraging today are you listening to God huh we either in a storm just came out of a storm or you're just about to go into one that's just the simple fact and since that's it we might as well look and what's taking place and what God would be trying to say to us that would help us if possible determine the reason for the storm more difficult to deal with the storm if we can't determine the reason for it if we can't deal with the storm it'll deal with us and I hear me here the Lord today God's desire let's say God's desire is to use the storm of life to develop us Satan's desire is to use the storms of life to destroy us that's why some people get frustrated and living for God they think the devil is doing all of it job said this when all of that happened to him there in the beginning of his life he said the Lord giveth and the Lord say that out loud yea taketh away we love that part of God given but the taking away part we're like okay God you know you just took some of my toys you took some things there that everyone say he's the taker he's also the giver hmm three types of storms we encounter and we're gonna go somewhere just here in a minute there are three types of storms that we encounter put your hand on your chest and say storms that we cause it's gonna help you today if you listen storms that we caused usually that's the hardest to bear because we know that that happened because of most the time our ignorance or our stubbornness me I'm just speaking about me you know it's one thing you know after you come through the Christmas season you know January February bills start coming in you kneel down and you're praying oh god you know we've got $2,000 on this credit card and the Lord said hold on that's your storm not mine I didn't cause that anybody hearing me today and it's it's it's funny you know how many times we think we think God's picking on us and God had nothing to do with it okay it's quiet right now need somebody to help you'll get an answer today if you'll just listen and anyway and we'll stop pointing fingers like I said we we blame too many things on the devil the devil's nowhere near our situation everyone say storms that I caused hmm those are hard you know because a lot of times we find ourself back in it again and I would I need to move on I don't want to get bogged down because I don't think that's where the Holy Ghost really wants us today number two storms that others cause usually the hardest hardest to handle because others initiate it and we have no control over it but number three then there are the storms that God allows we will look at some scriptures this morning on two or three accounts of maybe two or three or four different ones and in the Bible and you will find that there's there was a something that happened in this when the Lord began to begin to speak to his disciples and he said let us he said he constrained his disciples on more than one occasion to get into the ship and go everyone say go to the other side can I tell you today in the Holy Ghost that I feel like the Lord is compelling us to go to the other side some of us have been dwelling in the same place way too long and the Lord's call is I am here today that I'm constraining you to get in the ship and go to the other side and if you'll hear the word of God today you got to understand this when he constrained his disciples to get in the ship and go to the other side does anybody in here besides me believe that God knows everything huh if he knows everything and when he's constrained them to get in the ship and go to the other side he sent them directly into the storm really God couldn't you do like one of them big cruise liners and just GPS around this thing wish I could have downtown today with all the iron man thing going on I needed Jesus when I got here to church hey my goodness I know a lot about Chattanooga today that I didn't know before I came here streets and turns and lights and nothing worked because it was all blocked off and I'm like seriously but couldn't you just GPS us around this storm and the Lord's tell no because this storm is my idea this is my wheel and see in this room today there are those has been praying for God to do some things in your life and to do some things in this community to do some things in this city do some things in this church and the Lord is gonna he has sent us into some things that we can't even explain oh god I believe I too went around that if it had been me how to win around that hmm but that's his idea of go ahead wants it to the other side look at the word of God you got the account in the Word of God of Jonah chapter number 1 Jonah chapter 1 and verse 1 now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of amadee I saying arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry against it for their wickedness has come up before me but Jonah rose up to flee unto tercius from the presence of the Lord went down to Joppa found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the fare there Evan went down into it to go and with them on to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord now well twice and this well first of first of all you know if you've read the Bible you've read this story you know what happened after the people founded the waves begin to beat into that ship and bout to break it up and everything was happening and they cast lots and Jonah they found that Jonah told him he said the problem is me you don't have to cast me overboard they they finally just went through the process there and found out Jonah was telling the truth but that storm was said by God oh and that storm was sent by God because Jonah was going somewhere he shouldn't be going he was not doing the will of God and so here we find our dona found himself right in the middle of a storm that was about to sink this ship and take those people out and he said doesn't had to throw me overboard can I tell somebody today the reason why the storm has hit some people's lives it's just simply this God is trying to get you back on track people gets off track I get off track I try to do things my own way do it my way and the Lord said look you're not even going the direction I asked you to go you're not even doing what I asked you to do and now out of my mercy and my goodness and my love I'm sending you a storm to get you back on track so before you start making fun of your storm and calling it all kind of names it's not Pentecostal names huh be mindful of the fact that storm is there because of God two times in that same verse two times in that same verse the Bible said he went everyone say from the presence of the Lord we've sang about it here today from the heat going from the presence and so the storm came why because the Lord said look Jonah no matter where you're hit you're headed away from me right now you're headed away from me right now and and out of the goodness and the mercy of God he said I'm gonna send you something because Jonah what you don't understand is you can't live without my presence is anybody hearing me right now you can't live without my presence you may exist but you're not gonna live over why is that true because in his presence is fullness of joy and his right hand his pleasure forevermore I'm going to tell you something I'm thinking God there have been times in my life he said me a storm to get me back in his presence no it wasn't fun at the time but it was God being merciful it was God being kind amen it was God reaching out to me again with his love and His mercy huh can I tell you this morning God will do whatever he has to to keep us in his presence he'll do whatever he has to to keep us God God cared enough about Jonah that he sent him a storm he sent him he cared for him enough that he sent him a storm let's move ahead here look at something else and I feel I really feel a challenge and the Holy Ghost here as we approach this that the Lord would have me be here in this particular example today to this church it's the example there in Matthew chapter 14 verses 22 through 33 it's that setting and can I tell you we've already mentioned it also in this setting here he constrained and once a constrained his disciples to get into the ship and go going to the other side is also God's idea it's his idea and the storm is his idea Matthew chapter 14 verses 20 beginning at 22 we might begin at 26 and when this disciples we can be against three just fine straightway Jesus trains his disciples to get into the ship go before him to the other side and while he sent the multitudes away you know the Bible to the ship was there in the midst of the sea tossed with ways for the wind was contrary hmm and the foot and in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the sea and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were troubled saying it's a spirit they cried out for fear but Jesus but straightway Jesus speaking of the city saying be of good cheer it is I be not afraid turn to your neighbor and say don't be afraid of the storm and that amazing that the first thing that Jesus is that he addressed was their fear Peter answer and sitting him lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water and he said every once they come now hmm this is cornerstone apostolic correct God look at this Peter had the nerve to say if it's you bid me come guess what Jesus said come you know my deal is brother look serious I don't went seriously good did you know did you skip that science class now I can float that's cuz I'm a big guy but I can also sing cuz I'm a big guy that doesn't do it big it's just gravity but you've got to get this picture you got to get this picture if it's you Lord bid me come Jesus said come he was literally inviting Peter to do something that was humanly impossible wandering this room if there's people that I'm preaching to today that you feel like in the Holy Ghost that God has been asking you to do something that in your flesh that you feel like is humanly impossible beside the fact jesus said come and the Bible tada I did it I did to me a little quit what do you call him little where they come surveys I did one myself about this message I did I went around one night in prayer meeting and asked 10 different people what do you think about when you think about the life of Peter I just did didn't prompt them didn't I said what do you think about it was amazing the answers I got really it was but let me let me read to you this passage Scripture he said come and Peter was come down out of the ship and when Peter was come down out of the ship he walked on the water to go to Jesus everyone say he walked on the water that's exactly what he did I don't try that without a life jacket but he walked oh now if I don't went to school the next day somebody said something I said dude I walked on water yesterday I wouldn't said a thing about sinking and you wouldn't of either he didn't say the Bible says and he walked on the water so this storm here is being designed by God and can I tell you that evidently this storm here is designed by God to invite us to go to another dimension in him that we've not ever gone to before and there's fear that plagues us the fear of failure the fear of what our friends are going to think the fear of what somebody else is going to say but I feel the help of my Holy Ghost preaching to us today and saying to us the invitation stands come come it's time for you to get out of your comfortable positions your comfortable surroundings your associates that are trying to talk you out of doing what you know God is compelling you to do and he's inviting every one of us every once they come to another dimension in him that we have never been to before and can I tell you it's amazing what we do what I do when these things happen the fear that plagues us the Lord told me personally reason personally I personalize this you know what the Lord said to me personally I'm not preaching to you right now I'll tell what he said to me personally he said Keith you can ride in the boat long as you want you can ride in it long as you want I'm not gonna toss you out of it but I am inviting you to experience something in me that you've never experienced before and the only way that you're gonna crawl out of that boat is that you put all of your faith and your trust can I tell you Church very much in the Holy Ghost hey I've got a foot out I got one dollar the other ones still in and I'm like okay God what job could I ask this church today if the Lord was to come and remove all of the fear and the failure out of your life in my life what would it be that we would do today what extreme when we go to today in the Holy Ghost if the fear and failure was removed I know some of your saying well brother healing you just you need to read on he did begin to sink yes he did you know what Jesus did he reached down and got him and saved him I asked you I asked you in the Holy Ghost to examine the scriptures and see how they got back in the boat with me I've already done it examine it I thought well maybe Jesus picked up Peter and just carried him back to the boat and it doesn't say but I'm don't tell you I'm going to tell you what I think and feeling the Holy Ghost I believe bro when when he began to sink and Jesus reached out and got a hold of him and he be he's - come on Pete let's go and they made their way back to the boat walking on the water together and what you and I fail at trying to do by herself when we get hooked up and linked up with Jesus all of those things that we can't do all of those things that are humanly impossible all of those things then with Jesus we can walk on water then we can do the things that can't be done in the natural but in the supernatural it can be done can be done yes the Lord the Lord did it for me a few years ago he's done it many times for me and my wife but it's approaching that time that a few years ago this month my youngest son graduated from high school and I didn't even get to go to his graduation I didn't get to go to my own son's graduation because they had slammed me in the hospital and did surgery on me early that Friday morning took a foot of my colon out and I'm telling you all this for a reason because the storm was raging the wind was blowing you and even believe the whole scenario of that story but just about three days prior to that when I went in for some tests the urologist he checked me out and he tested me he said brother human or dumb brother he said Keith he said you got a hole in the top of your bladder they called it at the time a fistula had developed caused a hole in my bladder and I know this is very personal but waste was even coming out where it wasn't supposed to and so they said we got it you're gonna die if we don't do something so they did surgery but but but here's the deal the doctor looked and and two or three occasions some things happen where some words were spoken and prayers were prayed and literally I felt God's heal me I'm healed and I went into surgery came out just two days prior the doc said you had a hole in your bladder they did take out the foot of colon because that was where the issues was that but he said something strange was we can't explain he said we got in there he said we could not find the hole in your bladder he said hold on you got to hear this I he said we could we filled your bladder up with whatever they filled it up with some kind of dilute stuff what he said we filled it up on two different occasions and he said we did not find the hole in your bladder so so they fixed the colon did all that so after the fact guess what me and God is going to have a conversation seriously right now people you got to hear me because I please I think that's a help us all I said okay God now that all this is done you've brought me through safe and I appreciate that thank you but now me as your child and you as my father have a question why did you not completely kill me why did you choose to take care of the bladder and not the colon I don't understand that I said I don't believe I serve a God that does things halfway so I'm your child and I believe that you'll give me an answer and see and I'm hurrying through this if you've ever had to live on whether they call it FMLA you're your short-term disability it's not a lot of money I think it was about three hundred dollars a week my wife had no income he was the one income family yeah somebody came over the house one night knocked on our door and they said we needed to talk to you came in sat down visited with us for a little bit before they got up they said we just wanted to give you this envelop before we leave God spoke to us told us to get it and appreciate it brother they walked out I opened the envelope up and there was ten $100 bills in that envelope now I'm not going to go into every detail but I'm gonna tell you by the time three and a half months was up God had put six thousand dollars cash in our hand to take care of us I wrote down every name every mount every dollar so that I could personally thank the people they took God I don't say God in the storm took care now so this conversation that I'm having now I waited a while see yes I did because I'm thinking you know you know I'm not God I don't know all things something but but I waited about before I did that I waited about two or three months to something like that and so I said okay God I don't understand why he said I'm gonna tell you why did someone tell you why I didn't heal your colon when I did your bladder he said because if I would have healed you all that you would have known me as was a healer he said but I wanted to take it a step higher and take your life to another level and show you that not only am ia healer but I am a provider we've heard it and we know it but until it happens to you personally you can't even begin to know I'm talking people that didn't even have a right coming up and giving us money I'm talking poverty people coming up and giving us twenty and thirty dollars a brother huling is that a lot of money compared to the thousand absolutely it was God providing in the midst of a storm and what he was saying was I'm trying to take you to another dimension in me that you've not been to all you're doing is preaching about the God of the Bible the God of Abraham the god of Isaac and the God of Jacob now you can preach to people about the god of teeth healing the one that provides and heals here we are here we are so I the Lord has challenged and he's challenging us today about the storm come on somebody don't fear it turn to your neighbor and say don't fear the storm you may have lost your job you may have got a bad report from the doctor something bad may have happened but can I tell you biblically it's only temporary it's only temporary it's only temporary it's not gonna be forever God is trying and he's desiring and he's compelling and he's asking should I even dare go here today should I even dare go here I thought about this can you imagine I don't know the scenario people but can you imagine let's just bring it down to today's society let's try to picture 11 or 12 of us being on a boat me and you brother Logan and Logan is the one that gets out and goes walking on water we get home at night and I tell Jordan you ain't gonna believe what clothing did damn are their friends you ain't gonna believe what George Logan did he walked on water he did yeah that was all 11 12 of us disciples was on board and Jesus said come Logan just stepped out of the boat and started walking he did that yeah what'd you do dad I set and watched we had good church tonight we had good church today at Cornerstone you did yeah sister so and some brothers so so was loose ship and they touched gun what happened to you what you do I watched I watched because there was a little bit of fear really dad you let you you let Logan do that all by itself can I tell you the invitation is not just to Peter it's not just to Peter it's the cornerstone church today you said brother healing we we just got big devils and big things we're fighting that's all right we got a big God we've got some big situations to somebody we got a big God well you don't understand we're like David we're out here fighting we got this big old gladware that's all right the God that I serve heaven and his throne and the earth is his footstool I can assure you today I don't care what size giant what size it is you're fighting or what it is it's come up against you the God that you and I are serving is far bigger and far greater than that that's coming against you it is it is it is it is far greater far greater I have lots of notes but I'm just gonna try to cut through some things here in Jesus name Jesus let me read some scriptures to you I say at 25 and 4 just read some scripture huh I said 25 and for for thou has been a strength to the poor hey strength to the needy and his distress a refuge from the storm everyone say a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat let me back up everyone say a refuge from the storm well I really want to talk about that you've gotta help me I might maybe but let's go on Nahum looking here at nee m13 look at this versus scripture the Lord is slow to anger great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the Lord have his way in the whirlwind and in the storm everyone say he has his way in the storm in Psalm 107 and 29 once 107 and 29 says he maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still so I jump ahead today I jump ahead today there's a song and perhaps you've heard it the verse one of the verses go like this trouble waters come came my way the angry storm drew near I prayed for God to speak the word to make it disappear it seems the winds would not obey the master's call for peace but then the Lord spoke to my soul reminded me he has controlled and said this time his words were meant from me the next verse says circumstance may overtake and bring me to my knees that's when I feel I can't grow without life's trouble seeds grow with this life's troubles I called on him whose voice can steal much straighter storms than these his words became peace into my soul when he says child I'm in control and with one touch he comes the storm in me and the verse the course the course says this sometimes he calms the storm and sometimes he comes me sometimes the storm rages on but I feel the sweetest peace it's such joy to know that my lord knows just what I need sometimes he calms the storm sometimes he calms me go do your search go do your study all these storms I've preached about today there's something common and every one of them turn to neighbors say he was present he was in every single one I've come to tell you today I'm compassionate with you today about the pain you're going through and the pain you feel but can I tell you he's there whatever circumstance you're encountering you may not have an answer for it can I tell you he's there he's there he has not deserted any of us because the storm was his idea anyways we tell you another statement that God spoke into my spirit the storm is not designed to destroy us or kill us it's not it's not so now these are things that we need to know what it is that's going on in your life and going on in my life it could be that somebody's sitting here today God's trying to get you back on track and then it may be that there's somebody else here today that God's trying to take us all to another level would you come stand with me this morning let me let me let me just while you're standing picture with me picture with me the back of that chair where you're sitting or you're standing is your boat it's your boat and the Lord is saying gun recently I can't go into a lot of detail I did share I did share some of it was someone here already but we just came out of revival a few weeks ago in on a Monday night everyone say Monday night Monday night a revival all right one of our probably its off night the evangelist was preaching spirit of faith at that place and a challenge of God for our church to give was to give everyone say Monday night probably not even no more than a hundred and twenty-five people there be evangelistic say 150 but I don't think there was 150 I don't and by faith he was preaching and that night a $30,000 cash offering was received I'm saying it for a reason up so I'm sitting there trying to figure out and the holy ghost what I'm supposed to be giving doing the budget doing the math was not most time I do a lot of my giving online but you know what I did that night I picked up the checkbook brought it to church because I had to pay somebody that just did some work for me built me a handicap ramp now when I picked that checkbook up off the table the Lord said you'll need that tonight I'm not here it's not in here I don't mean this routes not in the business of anybody what what my wife and I gave but we gave a sizable offer from that night the next day everyone said the next day we got that back Plus that much again in a cheque that came in the mail you know Church I'm trying to tell Corson God's trying to get us all to a place that we'll stop doing like Peter and looking at the winds boisterous and the waves and get our eyes back on Jesus because there's not a need that we have too big Corrie ten Boom made this statement there is no pit too deep that God is not deeper still these things that we learn today about storms are going to help us they're going to help us because of some things that you've been going through things that you've gone through or something you're fixin to go through that's just the way it is don't you lift your hands all over this place today allow God to speak into your spirit right now can I tell you what the Holy Ghost just spoke to me just now just now the Holy Ghost oke to me and said this there are some of you in this room right here today simply because of a storm that God placed in your path because you were headed in a different direction I feel his love here right now church I feel his love here today thank you Lord for caring when I didn't care thank you for loving when I didn't know how to love why don't somebody let him just love on you a few minutes lift your hands why don't you allow him to love on you a little bit why don't you allow him to put his arms around you right now as an act of faith as an act of faith that seat that you're at is your boat and God's calling us all to come maybe you don't know right now and that's okay but as an act of faith I don't you get out of your boat and make your way down to the front say God whatever dimension it is that you're trying to take me to whatever level that you want me to go I want to be willing come on somebody got to set up no I'm not gonna fear the storm everybody listen to me right now you remember that one account that we read to you in there in mark 4 anybody would know where Jesus was that in that boat the Bible said he was in the hind her part asleep everyone say the hind her part could it be that some of us have put Jesus in the back in the hind er part of our life instead of the forefront the other day brother Logan the Lord spoke something so plain to me and it was so good I felt it was for me I'm gonna share it with everyone here today we everyone here probably can quote Psalm 23 it's quoted at grave sides it's quoted it's a very very very popular scripture and that Psalm talks about he leadeth me beside the still waters he leadeth me in the paths of rights and ever so he leadeth me say it out loud he leadeth me then it dawned on me it dawned on me I was headed directly into a storm I was headed directly into a valley I was headed directly into this but then it dawned on me he is too because he's out in front of me leading me leading me he led me right and you know after he got me there the psalmist's went on and said thy rod and thy staff it comforts me I not fear them you know that shadow because thou art one say with me he led me there and then he stayed with me he didn't desert me in my valley he didn't desert me in the shadow of death he stayed there come on somebody lift your voices in your hands right now entertaining let Jesus love on you let him love on you let him love on you let him love on you thank you for caring toss a turkey on dobut aha here take a something about Yamaha yeah yeah they say under the bouquet day somebody might aha thank you Jesus thank you Jesus maybe the end o course under about a table aha thank you Jesus yeah I know they'd be case under ba ha hang on every word sometimes this came to me the other day his first time I'm gonna mention it I believe in a message storms sometimes our sin to upgrade us make about it to upgrade us no it didn't hurt me or destroyed made me better it made me better because he got in the boat with me and the disciple said of a truth this is the Son of God they got a revelation and sometimes not in my notes sometimes the storm brings us a revelation of who he is that we didn't have prior to I think it's Jesus he's here right now somebody reach out for your help that told me under somebody reach out for strength don't be afraid to go to the next level cornerstone don't be afraid to go to that next level what your pastor challenges you to do something and go to that next level embrace it don't embrace the fear embrace the God embrace the God embrace the God yeah yeah a case somebody might ah ha yeah yeah somebody Makabe ha EDM okay uh maybe uh huh take a inaudible saya behind to care the bus at Omaha Jesus yet enable Sunday diem acabo de arma tapa de que se Jesus Jesus yet Abelson am i thank you Lord for helping me to trust you today thank you for helping me to know thank you for helping me to know why that storm really happened by that storm really came what the purpose of the storm was for thank you for it today Jesus thank you for it today Jesus thank you for it today Jesus thank you for it today Jesus in a bush Sunday Cuba take a say so brother preacher I lost my job it's just temporary I don't really understand I maybe I don't either but maybe God has a better one for you I don't understand this diagnosis it's okay doesn't matter it's a new disease ain't heal all diseases it's okay it's okay it's okay I'm not gonna fear the storm need to go to my site buy Jesus name come on people Church isn't God great to us isn't God good to us he could have just let me went on my way but he put a storm Raptor in my path and he said I need you to get back on track I need you to get back on track take a swim that oh Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Tukaram uh Santa so the challenge to brother huling today help me pray church help me bring God's compelling me he's inviting me to go to another dimension but but but Logan I'm confessing my faith Lord say us I'm bigger I'm greater but you can ride in the boat long as you want cornerstone the challenge is here this city's not too big this community's not too great and the Devils not too big God is greater God is greater God is greater God is greater and I'm gonna tell you today in the Holy Ghost he desires to do for this church the same that he did all through this Bible is this okay I love reading about these miracles in here I love reading about it but I've told the Lord recently in my hunger and my thirst I said go it I don't want to just talk about what you did for Abraham and Daniel and the three Hebrew children but now come on church if you've been praying that alone if you've been praying that don't get mad at God when you're picked up and thrown in the fire so for you tonight at how the testimony that the three Hebrew children had somebody's going to be tossed in the fire now I recommend brother Logan that's what I've been telling people I've been recommending I've got a recommendation for lots of people just don't jump me in there God not okay I've got a few people I could suggest to be chunked into the den of lions too but if we're going to go to that next dimension it's gonna require facing some things then we can't face on our own okay we can't do it so I'm trying to get out of the boat somebody help me trying to get out of the boat I'm trying to go to that next dimension I'm trying to go to that next level I want to go I close with this story my grandmother lived with us till I was about 14 or 15 years old she was a praying grandmother she had a cancer on her chest protruding out two inches I remember her going to the altar when tonight I'm telling this for a reason remember her going to the altar one night and she wanted prayer they got the bottle of oil then ordered her with oil her testimony was this she said while she had her hands raised toward heaven she said the parcel and came down from above with its finger pointed and it came down and touched her right on the tip of that cancer interesting thing we could not get her to go back to the doctor the why she was convinced God healed her didn't matter what you say didn't matter what I said she live with us she's in the kitchen sweeping the floor there in the kitchen about six or seven or eight months later and that cancer falls off on the floor and behind that cancer it was like the flesh of a baby that's a great story but I want my own I want my own and for us to have our own you're gonna have to travel some valleys you're gonna have to travel some mountains you're gonna have to travel some lonely roads you're gonna have to go through some dark nights you're gonna have to face some big enemies but when we come out on the other side Jesus name when turn this back to the brother but turn to your neighbor as he comes and says this this the Sun will shine again tell somebody the Sun will shine again he's gonna make that storm become a man in Jesus