King over the Storm
On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.” They left the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him. Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.
Mark 4:35-37
Charles Spurgeon said, “Storms help to make sailors sturdy, and trials help to make Christians strong in faith.”
Consider it a great joy whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:2–3
But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”
Mark 4:38
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?… No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39
So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.
And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?” They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, “Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!”
Mark 4: 39-41
"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
“There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.”
- Corrie Ten Boom
How can we not just have a Sunday-morning faith but a Monday-morning reality?
When a crisis hits: What is your first response? Taking control or inviting God into the situation?
Are you allowing fear to doubt God’s love, or is fear driving you into the arms of the Savior?
Do you know WHO IS THE MAN IN THE BOAT with you?