GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD!
MY HEART IS FULL OF PRAISE!
SOME WOULD SAY HOW CAN I BE PEACEFUL IN THE MIDST OF THE STORMS THAT ARE RAGING
ALL AROUND ME, DAY AFTER DAY. IN FACT SOME OF YOU WOULD SAY THAT THE WINDS ARE BLOWING SO HARD AND FAST THAT YOU CAN'T
EVEN LIFT YOUR HANDS UP TO PRAISE HIM & YOUR JUST SURE IN YOUR MIND THAT HE COULDN'T POSSIBLY HERE YOU SPEAK HIS PRAISES
BECAUSE OF ALL THE NOISE COMING FROM YOUR WORLD BEING TOSSED & THROWN ALL AROUND IN YOUR STORM!
JUST KNOW THIS YOU ARE NOT ALONE! AS YOU ARE READING THIS THERE ARE OTHERS
READING IT AT THE SAME TIME, THAT KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE FEELING! ( EVEN IF THIS WERE NOT SO, THE SCRIPTURE
TELLS US THAT JESUS KNOWS! ) Amen!
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOMEONE ELSE THAT KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL.
MATTHEW 14: 24-33 PETER HAD WALKED WITH JESUS ON LAND AND HAD SEEN
JESUS DO MANY GREAT THINGS. BUT NOW IT'S HIS WORLD THAT IS BEING TOSSED AROUND IN THE MIDST OF A STORM AND WHEN JESUS
CAME WALKING ON THE WATER TO RESCUE HIM, HE WAS SO BLINDED BY HIS OWN STORM THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE HIS SAVIOR.
NOW HERE IS WHERE THINGS CHANGED FOR PETER & (WILL CHANGE THINGS FOR US AS WELL). PETER HAD BEEN WITH JESUS
ENOUGH BEFORE TO RECOGNIZE HIS VOICE, AND PETER STOPED & LISTENED IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM. NOT AN EASY THING TO
DO, IS IT? BUT HE DID AND HE HERD THIS, "BE OF GOOD CHEER, IT IS I, BE NOT AFRAID.
W O W ! I LOVE THAT!
WE KNOW THAT MUCH IS MADE OUT OF PETER TAKING HIS EYES OFF CHRIST & THEREFORE BEGAN
TO SINK. BUT REMEMBER THIS IS NOW PETER'S PERSONAL STORM, & LIKE EVERYTHING IN LIFE WE DON'T ALWAYS GET THINGS RIGHT
THE FIRST TIME AROUND & FOR MANY OF US NOT THE SECOND OR THIRD TIME EITHER. AGAIN, WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PETER'S
PERSONAL STORM? PETER KNEW HE WAS SINKING AND CRIED OUT "LORD SAVE ME" ! AND WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT
JESUS DID JUST THAT? OF COURSE YOU DO, BECAUSE THE WORD SAID IT, AND THAT SETTELS IT!
VERSE: 32 SAYS THAT, WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE SHIP, THE WIND CEASED.
WE MUST STOP, LISTEN & LET HIM COME INTO OUR SHIP (IF YOU WILL) & WORSHIP HIM, SAYING, OF TRUTH THOU ART THE SON OF
GOD! YOURS & (MY) PERSONAL STORM CALMER!
SO WHEN I SAY MY HEART IS FULL OF PRAISE, THIS IS WHY. YOU SEE I'AM NO DIFFERENT
THAN ANY OF YOU ARE, I TOO HAVE RAGING STORMS IN MY LIFE AT TIMES. THEREFORE I ALSO MUST STEP BACK AND STOP, LISTEN
FOR HIS PRESENCE AND IF I FEEL I'M GOING UNDER, CRY OUT, LORD SAVE ME!
BLESS HIS SWEET HOLY NAME, HE ALWAYS HAS & ALWAYS WILL!
AFTER ALL I'M A DAUGHTER OF THE KING! RIGHT!
I'VE NEVER SEEN A STORM YET THAT DIDN'T EVENTUALLY LOOSE IT'S STRENGTH. IT'S
NOT E.F. HUTTON SPEAKING, IT'S GOD! AND WHEN HE SPEAKS EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING LISTENS!
