well welcome to the congregation as you can see my sermon is going to be by video today so bear with me as i sit here in the chair try to relax my foot and share the word of god with you i forgot one day you know how much i talk about chickens appreciate it i'll write thank you so now we can get to the sermon my best today is that god is in the midst of our stars do you know that god is in the midst of our storms i want to give you hope that's my goal today does give you hope if you're going through a storm you're going through a trial  tribulation maybe have a loved one that's going through some kind of storm i want to give you hope again god is in the midst of our storms before i start my sermon need to be honest with you like i say in a regular basis let's get real if you're an atheist you're an agnostic you're backslidden christian you probably don't think god is a mist of the storms god we don't believe there is a god and if there is a god he's not on your side so we want dispel that notion and let you know that actually just maybe the reason you're watching this video is could god is revealed himself to you and i trust that he will speak to each and every one of you plus us as christians many times as christians we wonder if god's in the storm i think all can be honest about that so i beg of you to listen to i have to say as most of you know the reason for this video is because i broke my foot and because of a broken thought i'm in the midst of a storm i need to be honest i need to be real again that this has been a challenge for many of you that know me were probably going to stand as a challenge to me but one of the things that's been happening for me in the last week is that i've been dealing with worry crediting anxiety and that is not me whatsoever in the midst of the on this trial that i'm going through i'm bored is my foot ok am i doing wrong to my for as a going to be take a long time for to get healed i'm anxious and i'm i'm worried about what's going on and then that's starting to happen with other areas of my life and that's not me whatsoever i may have concerns strong concerns at times but i haven't been quote a worrywart and so i'm dealing to my own storm and i have to remind myself god is in the midst of the storm he's going to take care of me he has a plan he has a destiny for me the worst that could happen as i lose before i lose my leg i lose all of my limbs i still can preach the gospel of jesus christ and so whatever you're going through realize as bad as it seems as bad as it fills that god is in the midst of the storm so i want to hear you s i want you to shout this out i want you to shout out jesus is in the storm everybody do it now come on i didn't hear you you got to do it again because i didn't hear you everybody shout out jesus is in the storm very good much better all right there's a great story in the ballad talks about jesus being in the midst of the storm and how jesus deals with storms it's a mark for verses thirty five forty one that's marked for verses thirty five to forty one you can follow him in your bible or you can grab the bible writer from the pew there there's a buyable go ahead and grab that bible and look at page eight thirty nine that's page eight thirty nine i'll give you a moment to look at up again it was mark chapter four verses thirty five and forty one is a page eight thirty nine in the top of the page is a body there i can't hear you is everybody there are right ok let's read it and that day when evening had come he said to them let's go across to the other side and leave in the crowd they took him with them in the boat just as he was and other boats were with him and a great wind storm a rose and the waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was already filling but he was in the stern asleep on the cushion and they were up and said to him teacher do you not care that we are perishing and he have any a rope and he awoke every butte the wind and said to the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was a great calm and he said to them why you so afraid have you still no faith and they were filled with great fear and said to one another who then is this that even the women see obey him now we're not going to break down all that burst of time but i did that was very interested this read this again he says and they said and who is this that even the wind and sea obeys him they've been with jesus they seen all kinds of miracles now a miracle happens in their own life they are saying who is this guy now i don't want to sidetrack because that's that's an interesting issue that's right there that they would say that but what i want to do is a look real quick at the passage and i'm a show a little video so as evening time just been ministering all night long all day long the nest all day long now it's nighttime he wants to go across to the other side of the sea of galilee and they hop in the bow everything is calm everything looks nice and then all of a sudden just goes to sleep and then there's a storm that's taking place and they're frightened or scared they try to wake jesus and i want you to imagine you're one of the disciples so if you're one of the disciples maybe a one of the fishermen and so you're a fisherman you go out you know how to go out they go out at night many times in the boat because they got to go out and the it when it's dark to be able to catch the fish when they start coming up and because he's right there in the boat with them but what are they saying is jesus why don't you do something why don't you show up you see we do the same thing we see jesus when we show up we know by faith that jesus is with us he's everywhere never go everywhere but what we have seen is god where are you and then we say just like the disciples why don't you shop why not you do something this and when we say god where are you why don't you show up we're saying god is an absentee parent did you hear when you're doing something then we believe that god is going to let us perish guys go let us collapse in the midst of the trial which means we say we don't believe god has a future in his hand you're saying that god is not providential and sovereign risk saying that god isn't in control of everything that happens in our life actually saying god i don't think this pastor your hands if guys a sovereign god is a providential god if god is the god that son started if he is the god that is in the midst of the storm then guess what god is there you're saying god must not care about our future god if you saw it listen to me my fried god if you very kill about my future you would know that i have to do this and this and this tomorrow or the next day or the next the next day and i got a plane trip i got to take later and i got this and that god you don't care about my future that is where jesus said little faith in jesus would say to me would say to you why do you have little faith in what he say it is you guys been around me you know me you've seen i've worked in the past i've seen how it's what in the past have you seen how it's worked in your past and yet we're saying i don't know if you're going to work out the situation this time oh ye of little faith so here's something that came to me there is a future for those disciples who when they go across the sea something takes place and we have god's a ministry and we're going to cover that next week and i would tell you something in your own life when you go through a storm there is a future that god has for you but you can experience that future until you get through the storm did you hear me that you're not going to be able to experience what god has for you in the future into you get through the storm there is a future at the other side of the storm now if you're an atheist agnostics backslider god is the storm to get your attention god is good news in that storm to get you to a future of knowing jesus christ your lord and savior god is using the storm listen if you don't believe in god god is using the storm to get you on your knees to call out to him so that you can have the future of eternal life and the question is will you still bucking we still resist him how many times have you gone through in god carried you through him but you never gave him the credit for something to think about isn't it if your true follower of christ god is using the storm to build character you hear me say all the time god doesn't want us to be a character he wants to build character in us god doesn't want me to be a worry wart that doesn't want me to be anxious in the midst of the storm of my broken foot he wants to build character in me any as i becoming more compassionate some areas i become more understanding i never was a person that worried a little harder for me to say don't worry so i have to be a little bit more compassionate with people that worry but guess what various centers no excuse for what i know that life through the mist of the storm and i say that one more time somebody is going through a storm so he's going through a trial or maybe god's trying to change your character made guys trying to change who you are as a person maybe g addressing sin in your life maybe god's address in the fact that you walk in in an sight instead of in faith maybe you're looking at your circumstances to looking at god listen the sin again the storm will not end until god accomplishes what he wants to accomplish in your life so you can either resist the storm or you can cooperate with the storm what could those disciples done they didn't like the storm but jump out of the boat and still be in the storm in the been worse how many people are jumping out of their storm in to get the bigger storm more but that's another subject another time so i have a video that i want you to watch as a short video tennis on the storms of life and i play that video speak to your heart that there be something that there speaks to your heart about your storms and how to address your storms god is in the midst of your storm god is in the midst of your personal storm in due season god will say peace be still remember when is the right time  be still and the storm stopped he immediately stopped his images be said be still your storm will stop immediately when jesus says it's time it will not be delayed year victory is right around the other corner can you praise god can you day god that listen you storm or end when he wants it to end and no devil can stop him i personally don't want jesus to say to me afterwards why do you still have no faith i want to say rich after all these years are rocking with me and you don't have faith and take care of your foot he have than a faith i don't want that for my life what about you watch this video don't take the presence of the storm did indicate the absence of god sometimes when you enter to a star and there are all kinds of storms because you get up out of bed every morning you put up your hair and put your makeup on and they don't know you put your smile on just like you did your make up and walked and smile because you're going through a secret storm see when you go  but when you're going through a secret storm there's no comfort there because nobody knows that you're dealing with a secret storm they're just that car driving not knowing  views for the position that you were promoted to not knowing that now that you're promoted you can't even rest at night can you sleep at night you've got so much pressure so much responsibility on you and all of a sudden you're in a storm and nobody even i look to the right side i look to the left side and i perceived i'm not there is god in the storm because we buy into this notion that god was with us us in a house being for closure jobs that i can't figure out how god my kids die and god be with how can my health be and firing god be with me i look for my look for him i didn't see him i looked in the night i didn't see him i looked behind me identity you said you had my back i didn't see him i looked in front of me at that he will lead the way i didn't see him you cannot see in the storm that's why i told you to walk by faith and not by sight you can see in a storm don't look for god an essential in your storm it's a faith journey he will not appeal to your senses your senses add to your comfort to make you comfortable in your storm but just because you're in the presence of a storm the storm does not negate the presence of god nor does it indicate the absence of god the bottom of the ship don't think that he jumped off the boat because you're in a storm he is with you in the storm you promise whenever god promised you something he said you may not have it in your central realm right now but i promise you he said he promised me you pastor the waters i'll be with you he would have said that if his presence was apparent because he never promised the obvious he seven you passed the waters you got my word and i am in there with you you may not see me you may not  as you watch that video can you relate to some of what he's talking about are you at a place that faith is building up within you are you at a place that going to trust jesus more with your life or you had a place to say god you know what the next storm is probably going to be bigger it's probably going to be stronger but you're just trying to build faith in me and you have that kind of mindset god whatever the devil throws at me i know you're going to come through i hope you will but i want to give you a little bit more hope i want to give another pastor scripture to give you more hope as i say of forty three one the three isaiah forty three one of three we're going to put up on the screen so you can take a look at as i talk about it he says but now that says the lord he who created you jacob he who formed you israel fear not five redeemed another pastor says there's only one savior so if there's only one savior and it says there's only one god who is the savior so if there's only one god there's only one savior and jesus our savior the lord jesus christ our around god now this go back to the passage is says when you pass through the rod or i will be with you you know anybody that passed through some waters gigantic waters moses and the nation of through the rivers they shall not overwhelm you notice what it says as says the rivers without overwhelm you does anybody know the story about rivers you have joshua this taking the nation of israel to the promised land and they pass through what they pass to the d believing disciples they were fearful anxious question jesus run for them again don't be like them believing disciples they were fearful anxious questioning jesus a lot for them you know that you know if you've been through a storm through a storm you always have those kind of fears as anxiousness or god do you really love me or god are you really there but listen this be people of faith this be people of faith one way to reflect your faith is to praise god in the storm did you hear me one way to increase your faith is to praise god in the storm don't stop washing paint him when you're going through the storm washi pam through the storm they can praise him remember he's building character in you remember he's preparing your future for you and part of your future is that you have to go through the storm so you can praise him here praise him for it you can thank him for a lot and they hear you they can be more like him after the storm because that's what happens you're more like jesus after a storm i don't care if you're an atheist i was an atheist i went to my stars to guess what right after accepting christ i was more like jesus i am more love immediately after a storm you call out the god is going to change want to let you know that next week we're going to cover more and more chapter four verses thirty five to forty one and mark chapter five regular in depth we're going to see what what about the fact that jesus was sleeping and was he really sleeping the past he says there was other boats in the area what was going on in those other boats where the storm was happening then more significant after the storm what happens after storm out chapter five talks about something significant something amazing happens in chapter five so maybe we have to get to chapter four to get to chapter five of her life but this is best or it you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as we are called upon the you accept jesus christ as your lord and savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is a war there is there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step 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