A Lesson #6

Perhaps the writer of Psalm 93 understood what the disciples -- in the storm, in the boat, with Jesus -- didn't quite get:


The floods have risen up, O LORD. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.  But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore— the LORD above is mightier than these! 

Psalm 93:3-4 (NLT) 

A Lesson #5

Luke 8:22-25

After He calmed the waves and winds, Jesus asked His disciples, "Where is your faith?" He didn't ask, "Why don't you have faith?" He asked them where had they put their faith. Was it in what the winds were saying? Or in what the waves were threatening? Apparently they had not put their faith in what Jesus had said -- that they would go across the sea.

When struggles overwhelm us, Jesus asks the same question of us: "Where have you put your faith?" We can put our faith in the winds and the waves that batter and badger -- and find ourselves trembling with fear and assured of failure. Or we can trust in the One who said we would get to the other side of the sea, and find ourselves at rest in His arms throughout the storm.

A Lesson #4

Luke 8:22-25

Jesus calmed the storm. He could have just helped the boat get through the storm. I can't always know which he'll do with the storms in my life. But I can know He will get me through them.

A Lesson #3

Luke 8:22-25

The disciples were experienced fishermen. For them to be afraid of the storm meant it was a very big, very bad storm. It was bigger than they could handle. Sometimes I don't acknowledge how big the storm is. I don't admit  how bad the storm has become. Therefore I don't recognize how much help I need.

RANDOM #3

Luke 8:22-25


Really?  The disciples woke up GOD to tell Him that He was going to die in the storm?  Really?



Other "random" blogs:
#7, #6,
#5,  #4,  #2,  #1

A Lesson #2

Luke 8:22-25


Don't trust the bluster of the wind and the waves. Trust the power of the God who is at rest in the boat.

A Lesson #1

Luke 8:22-25


Jesus said, " “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.”  I can trust him to get us to the destination, despite the storms along the way.

My mistake

Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God." Mark 12:24

Christ's comment to the Sadducees is His answer to me when I bring Him the confusions of my beliefs. He doesn't argue with me in the twists and turns of my own thinking. Instead He takes me back to basics: Know the Scriptures. Know the power of God.

God made THIS day

This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 

 

Silly me. I look at the day ahead and think it is mine.

But God made this day. It is His.

Wonder what He has planned?

How to pray the Lord's Prayer

STEP 1: Remind myself Who I am talking to.
a. He is mine: Our Father
b. He is God: which art in heaven, 
c. He is good: Hallowed be thy name.
d. He is great: Thy kingdom come.
e. He is able. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. 

STEP 2: Request what I need:
a. Provision:     Give us this day our daily bread. 
b. Pardon:        And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.
c. Protection:   And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. 

STEP 3: Remind myself Who I am talking to.
For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever and ever. Amen.