Miracles of Jesus, September 13th, 2026

- I feel like I'm supposed to say good morning, but I've already said that, right? Good morning, Fellowship. I'm so thankful for you guys joining us here today and being a part of what God's doing here at Fellowship. If you have your Bibles, I'd love for you to turn to Mark chapter four, Mark chapter four, and we're gonna read verses 35 through 41 here in just a few moments. And just to kind of add on to this, I do love our church and just the opportunity to commission new elders this morning and what that means for our church family. And if you're a part of Fellowship, you say, "Now I've never met an elder," like I don't even know that I know an elder here at Fellowship and if that's true, I would just say some Sunday morning when you can make some time, stop by our connection center because we actually will have, normally there's an elder or two or three that are hanging out there on a Sunday morning. And so they would love to just kind of get to talk with you. And if you go through our membership class, you'll certainly meet an elder there because they lead those classes. And so I just would encourage you to be a part of that as well. But I'm just so thankful for our church family and for all that God is doing in this place called Fellowship.

And we have been in this series for the last couple of weeks called the Miracles of Jesus, the Miracles of Jesus. And I hope and pray that you've been encouraged and inspired and challenged as we've seen the power, the authority of who Jesus Christ really is and what He came to do. And so I just hope and pray that you've been encouraged by that. And so as we continue this morning in this passage in Mark chapter four, we're really looking at a story about Jesus in a boat, in a storm with His disciples. It's a pretty familiar story, especially if you have kids or nieces or nephews or grandkids or if you've been a teacher in some form or fashion. Like it's a pretty well-known story about being in the boat. And it's interesting because with the storm, you know, raising up, they ask this question like, don't you care, Jesus. Right, that's the question, that's the title of the message. Like, don't you care, Jesus. I have to admit, I actually was asking that question 10, 15 last night when I was watching a certain game, don't you care, Jesus. You know, it's, no, I don't want to make a lie to that. It's, you know, when you think about our lives and you think about how all of us at some level, some point have probably asked that question. Like, don't you care that I'm dying? Don't you care that things are really hard for me right now? Like, don't you even care, Jesus?

Like, where are you in the midst of my storm? And so it's a really powerful, it's a very relevant question. What we'll talk about in a few moments is actually the question that Jesus gives back to the disciples. 'Cause they ask the question like, don't you care, we're dying. And he's gonna ask a couple of questions on the back end of it that are pretty strong and pretty convicting, quite honestly. So let's look at this morning at verse 35 through 41, Mark chapter four and see what the Lord would like to say to us this morning. Beginning in verse 35, it says, "On that day, "when evening had come, he said to them, "let us go across to the other side. "And leaving the crowd, they took him with them "in their boat, just as he was. "And other boats were with him." That's kind of interesting 'cause sometimes we hear the story, we only think of the one boat, but there are actually other boats that were kind of connected, I guess, with them on the journey. But it says, "And other boats would have been "a great windstorm arose, and the ways were breaking "into the boat so the boat was already filling." So Sea of Galilee, if you know anything about the Sea of Galilee, it actually can have, because of the way it's set, because of the geographical boundaries that are there. Man, when a storm arises on that lake, it is, it can be ferocious.

Like it can be very, very damaging, very, very hard, very, very tough. And in ancient culture, they already viewed the sea as uncontrollable. There was a view of the sea as potentially even something that was kind of evil, or a place of chaos, so to speak. Less evil, more chaos and just uncontrollable power. And so, you find yourself in the midst of a storm, the boat is already filling with water, verse 38. But he was in the stern asleep on the cushion. Now, I'm gonna show you a picture here in a few moments, so you can kind of see a little bit more of a visual of it. And I think it may even make you go, "Wow, even more." But Jesus was in a deep sleep. I mean, he was exhausted, he was tired. He was in that place where he was so tired that he literally was sleeping in a boat in the middle of a storm. that we are perishing? Don't you care that we're dying? They're waking him up. Don't you see what's happening? We're going to die." And he awoke and he rebuked the wind. I don't even know what that went down. Was it like a parent's stare at the wind? You know? Like, I don't know. But he rebuked the wind and he speaks. And he says, "Peace, be still." And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" And they were filled with great fear. And they said to one another, "Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?" And what a story. And I want to encourage you as we think about it this morning because sometimes you can hear a story like this and it almost can take you back to your childhood days or a childhood story that you hear. But I want you to realize that this story is not just for children. I mean, these are grown men, young men, but they're in a boat and they're about to die. They feel like they're about to die. Like literally the waves are crashing in. It's so tumultuous. They're like, "We are literally about to die." And they're crying out to Jesus and he is asleep.

And so I want you to allow yourself this morning to kind of think deeply about the truths that are found in this story. So on your bulletin, you can kind of see the back there in the notes. The first thing I think I would point out is this. Sometimes storms come even when you're with Jesus. Like sometimes storms come even when you're with Jesus. Matter of fact, we know that sometimes he sends the storms. He's actually always sovereign over all the storms, none of them taken by surprise. But sometimes we encounter storms even when we're with Jesus. That's an important lesson because there are some of us who are listening to this message right now in this room in the chapel, somewhere where you're driving right now, you're listening to this message. And some of you have bad theology. And I don't want to offend anybody, but some of you have practiced bad theology in your life because somewhere along the way, someone told you or you figured it out or you interpreted it this way in your own life to say, "Man, if I go to church, if I'm in a small group, if I'm serving, if I'm going on a mission trip, if I'll give to the foster care initiative, if I'll help out on some things, then maybe Jesus will make my life a little easier and a little more comfortable." So there are some people who actually believe that if they can do enough, if they can work hard enough, if they can prove themselves by going to church, listening to messages, serving, maybe going on a mission trip, helping out in some way and living a generally good life, people feel like sometimes if I do that, then storms won't come my way. But if that's kind of what you've interpreted, if that's what someone's told you, you're being lied to. That's not the truth because the reality of it is that sometimes storms come even when you're with Jesus. Maybe sometimes because you're especially with Jesus. So what we learn and see is that no one is exempt from storms. No one. It doesn't matter if you're young, it doesn't matter if you're old, it doesn't matter if you're single, it doesn't matter if you're married, it doesn't matter if you're feeling well, if you're not feeling well, like no one is exempt from storms. They come in everybody's life, everybody's, everyone's. Matthew 5, 44 and 45, Jesus said this, "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven, for he makes his son to rise on the evil and on the good and he sends rain on the just on the unjust." So he's just reminding us that the sun shines on the evil and the good and the rain comes on the just and the unjust. He's just making the statement that no one's exempt from storms.

Like the rain comes for everybody's life. James 1, 2, 3, says this, "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." He said, "Consider it joy when you encounter various trials, various storms in your life." Now, I've got to believe that if you're not a believer in Jesus Christ today, you hear that and you go, man, that's just... That doesn't sound right. Why would you have joy in the midst of a trial? Why would you have joy in the midst of a storm? That just seems backwards. Well, I want you to know that there is truth in the scriptures that tell us that it's actually not, that he's actually working things for the good, for those who love them are called according to his purpose, that God is actually by a sovereign design, he's working in ways to grow us in faith and in grace, in ways that we can't even fully understand. And so if you're not a believer, that wouldn't necessarily make sense to you. And let me just say this, we're glad you're here today. Thanks for being here. It means a lot to us that you're here today, it really does. And we'd love to get to know you, love to get to hear a little bit more about your story, find out about your journey, maybe stop by the connection center sometime and let us talk with you, we'd love that, we really would. 'Cause our desire for you is to know this Jesus that we know that we love and serve and that you would experience his grace, his mercy, his salvation, his forgiveness, his peace in your life.

Like we would pray that for you. For the rest of us who are believers here today, young and old alike, consider it all joy when you encounter various trials. Like no one's exempt from storms, they're coming. We don't need anyone walking out of here today kind of going, I just can't believe I'm going through these things. Well, they're gonna come. I mean, I don't wanna be the bearer of bad news, but I need to be the bearer of truth and the reality of it is this, is that you've either been in a storm, you're in a storm or there's a storm coming. Like that's just a reality of life. And so we understand no one's exempt from that. And when I was thinking about storms, as I was praying through this message, my heart began to be heavy about you, about our people because storms come in all shapes and sizes. There are people right now listening to this message who are going through storms. Matter of fact, some of you feel like the storm is so heavy right now, you can't see anything bigger than the storm, the waves are crashing in. Some of you have relational storms. Like when you think about your relationships in your life, you have relational storms. So maybe that's a friendship, maybe it's a work relationship. Maybe you're single, maybe a single parent or you're single this past Tuesday at our YA ministry.

I had a chance to be able to share with our young adults. It was a great time to be with them and we talked about singleness. And I hope you know that if you're single and you're in our body, we're so thankful that God's gifted you the way He's gifted you, that He has you in the season, that He has you, that you have so much to offer to this body. The church is not just for married people, it's for single people too. And we're a family of God together and we need each other in the midst of this. I hope you know that. I hope you feel that at fellowship because we do love you. We love the role that God has for you to play in this body, to be an influence in this body. But maybe you're in a relational storm right now. Maybe you're looking around kind of going, I don't know what God's doing and you're saying to Jesus, why don't you care? Feels like you're sleeping. There's marital storms. Look, there are people right now in our body that are fighting to hang on to their marriage because things have happened, sin has happened, damage has happened, things have gone on, things have been misunderstood, things have been misspoken, selfishness has ruled the day. And so there's marital storms. It's one of the reasons I'm glad that we have

the reengaged class that we're doing for marriage to help strengthen, to help encourage, to help people out as they walk through this journey called marriage. And some of you are in a marriage storm right now and they just feel like the waves are crashing in. And you know it. Parenting storms. There are some prodigals, some prodigal sons and daughters that have left the faith, have never been in the faith, that are living far from God right now. And some of you parents, you get on your knees, you go for a walk, you drive in your car and the tears stream down your cheeks because you're praying that God would have mercy on your son, that God would have mercy on your daughter, that he would somehow bring them back to him, that they would somehow be reconciled with God and you're feeling the storm in your life right now. Some of you have young kids, you're parenting, you're in the storm, man, you feel it. You're thankful for these little blessings that God's given you, but some days it's hard to see that they really are a blessing. And it's just busy and it's hard and parenting is not for the faint of heart. And some of you are in the midst of that toil right now and it feels like a storm. Financial work storms. Some of you feel like your job's not good enough,

you don't have a job, the pay is not good enough, you're feeling the stress from a boss or employee, from something that's going on, from work relations that feel tense, from ethical things that you're wrestling with. Some of you feel the storm in your life from a financial, from a work perspective, from a school perspective of your student and you feel like it's kind of overwhelming. What about mental emotional storms? There are so many people that struggle with mental health today because it's such a real thing, anxieties and fears that are happening in the brain, and emotional things that are happening, and all the health struggles that kind of come with that mentally and emotionally. And there are storms that are out there. Maybe you find yourself in that, or you know someone in that storm. What about medical storms? The diagnosis, the sickness, the illness. Maybe you've been living with it for a while, maybe for a long time. And it's just been one thing after another, or just one hardship after another. Maybe it's the loss of a loved one. Look, they're all kinds of storms, and you know that. And Jesus has something to say in the midst of that. Second thing is this, we fret in the storm while Jesus rests in the storm. When you look at the story, what you're seeing is this,

these disciples are fretting, they're worrying, they're fearing, they're in the midst of the storm, they can't see anything bigger than the storm, and it's coming into them, and they're thinking they're going to die. They're actually feeling that physically in that moment that we're about to die. And so they're fretting, they're worrying, but yet Jesus is physically resting. He's mentally, emotionally resting as well. He is resting, we're fretting, he's resting. Now I said I would show you a picture of the boat, so I want to show you a first century boat that actually is near the Sea of Galilee, and you can kind of see, they found this. In the 1900s, they found this, and they date it back to a first century boat. So this is very, very similar to what Jesus and the disciples would have been in. You can't see the full thing of it, but look, you kind of get a better angle that way. But can you imagine? And Jesus was sleeping in the stern, to my knowledge, that's the back of the boat. Can you imagine? I mean, this isn't some yacht, this isn't some really spacious big boat that can handle it. We're looking at this boat right here. It's a miracle they didn't die, and it's a miracle that Jesus was still asleep.

And so you begin to kind of picture your own mind, and you're kind of seeing the scene, and we're fretting in the storm, while Jesus is resting in the storm. We're choosing worry and fear over trust and rest. And I think when you begin to think about that, it's not that it's natural to fret, like it's natural to be able to do that. No one's judging the disciples in the sense of kind of going, man, this is a fearful situation. This would cause you to cry out to God. This would cause you to feel stress, maybe an anxiety to a lot like it. We're not denying the natural feelings there. So when you're going through a storm, yes, you're gonna have sad days, you're gonna have hard days, you're gonna have doubts, you have questions, you're gonna have fears that arise in you, like those things are going to happen. This is just making a statement about us, right? We've said this many times, it's one thing to read the Bible, it's another thing to let the Bible read you. And when the Bible reads you and me, what it says is that in the storms, we lean towards fretting. That's where we go. Jesus, he's resting. He's resting. And what you find out is that what unsettles us is never unsettling to him.

Right? What unsettles us is never unsettling to him. When we're going through the relational conflict, when we're going through the hardship, the difficulties, when we're dealing with the ravages of sin and living in this broken fallen world, it unsettles us. And what happens is when you choose fear over trust, then you start doubting, anger starts growing, resentment starts growing, disobedience starts happening, apathy starts happening. That's what happens whenever we begin to choose fear over trust. We begin to worry over resting in the Lord and who He is. Psalm 107, I found this to be really powerful in verse 23 and 30 through 30, and Psalm 107, it says, "Some went down to the sea and ships "doing business on the great waters. "They saw the deeds of the Lord, His wondrous works "and the deep. "For He commanded and raised the stormy wind," which that's interesting, right? That God can do that. He would raise the storm and he could do that. "Which lifted up the waves of the sea, "they mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths. "It's showing us His power, His might, His authority. "Their courage melted away in their evil plight. "They reeled and staggered like drunken men "and were at their wits end. "Then they cried the Lord in their trouble "and He delivered them from their distress.

"He made the storm be still and the waves of the sea "were hushed, then they were glad that the waters were quiet "and He brought them to the desired haven." I mean, God's been calming the waters since the beginning of time. Like, this isn't new to Him. And what's unsettling to us is never unsettling to Him. Psalm 89.9 says, "You rule the raging of the sea "and when its waves rise, you, Like this story absolutely affirms the power, the authority of Jesus, of God, over nature, the power and authority over all things and how strong He is. So what unsettles us is everyone selling to Him. The next thing is this, we ask, don't you care? While Jesus asks, why are you so afraid and where's your faith? So we ask our natural response is, don't you care? Don't you care that I'm dying? And Jesus asks, why are you so afraid and where's your faith? So what we see in this is that the storms expose our battle of unbelief. The storms expose our battle of unbelief that we really don't believe that Jesus is strong enough to save us, to keep us, to secure us, to help us. Again, it doesn't deny that when you go through storms that you won't cry, it's gonna be hard, it's gonna be frustrating, there's gonna be doubts, there's gonna be questions. And God's not asking us to remove those emotions,

but what He's saying is this, is that He wants us to believe, to trust Him in greater ways. And the storm exposes that battle of unbelief. There are plenty of you here today, including me, that we've had moments in our life where we say, Jesus. It feels like you're asleep in the middle of my storm. It just feels like all these things are coming against me and you don't care. And one of the worst things that can happen in relationship is when you feel like someone doesn't care. When you feel like someone's more concerned about themselves, when you feel like someone doesn't really care about all the things that are going on in your life, they're not listening, they're not caring for you, it's super hurtful. And they're saying, don't you care? Feeling like he's asleep, but he does care. We need to feel the freedom to lament in the storms, to let our requests be made known. I wanna make sure that we're very clear on that. We need to be able to lament. I'm looking forward to preaching through Job, starting in January. We're gonna talk about the language of lament and kind of what that looks like in our lives and how we do that in biblical ways. No one's asking you to stuff your emotions down deep. Matter of fact, we don't need believers who when they go through the storms, say, everything's great.

I love this storm. Please let me have another one. Like no one's saying, we don't want people at fellowship, we don't want believers who are living in such a way that when you ask them how they're doing in the midst of a storm, they're going, okay, I'm great. It's amazing. No one's asking you to deny the feelings that you're feeling in the midst of that, but we do. We are asking that God gives us the strength and increases our faith in him in the midst of the storm. And it's interesting to me that Jesus responds with some strong questions. Now, Jesus is gentle and lowly. He loves us, he's with us, he's for us. But it is interesting to me that sometimes we want coddling Jesus, you know? Like sometimes we want him to go, hey, I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to do that. But Jesus in this moment, he leans in, they're like, why are we dying? Now he actually helps him in that moment. He gets up and says, and everything calms down. He solves it in that moment. He doesn't always choose to do that way, but he did in that moment, he calmed it. But then he turned around and asked him a question, hey, why are you so afraid?

I'm with you, I'm in the boat with you. Why are you so afraid? Where's your faith? Why is your faith so little? And the reason that's important is this, because a lot of times when you're in your storm, guess what? You can't see anything greater than your storm. But here's what we know, Jesus is greater. You can't see anything bigger than your storm, so you're going through the marital issue, you're going through the kid issue, you're going through the work relationship thing, something's going on in your life, and you just feel like the waves are crashing in. You feel beaten down, you feel like you're gonna die, you feel like Jesus is asleep, and you can't see anything bigger than the storm. And this story shouts, Jesus is bigger. He's greater than any storm that we go through. And that truth should give us a foundation to stand on when things are extremely hard. Next point is this, our reasonable fear is replaced by a reverent fear. So when you follow this story, you end up at the very end and the disciples, they've just transferred their fear. They were fear in the storm, now they fear Jesus. They're like, who is this guy? That the wind and the waves obey him,

that's some serious power right there. That's some serious authority, we don't need to, I mean that storm is power. we're gonna fear him. So there are reasonable fear, the fact that like man, this is something that would make you afraid, there are reasonable fear turns to a reverent fear, a holy fear, a standing in all fear to say, you are more powerful than anything, that you are stronger than anything, that you are greater than anything, it turns into a worshipful moment, a reverence and an all for Jesus. And this is why this is important, because a greater fear and a greater affection leads to greater trust and greater obedience. Do you realize that? A greater fear and a greater affection leads to a greater trust and a greater obedience. See, the problem with some of us is the reason that we're giving in to sin, the way that we're doing is because we don't see a greater affection for Jesus. The reason that we're not trusting him is because we don't see a greater fear than the fear that we're swimming in. And we're being driven by that. We're being led by that. When I was in high school, I played basketball and I was skinny in high school. I used to go to bed, eating peanut butter,

jelly sandwiches and praying that God would make me bigger. And he did not really answer that prayer back in those days, although he's helping me now. And so I, you know, I played basketball and I had to find ways to make it work. I played at a small school and I was very bony. I had bony elbows and I figured it out that I could, if you put an elbow right in the sternum of someone, you can do some things, right? I'm not encouraging you to go do that, all right? I'm not. But that was one of my tricks when I played basketball. I had several other that I can't share here today, but I had some things that I would do. And what would happen is I'd get in there and rebound and if I got my elbow just in the right place, even some, now some guys were so muscular that maybe it just didn't really work, but a lot of guys, like you get that bone right there in their chest and it, you could drive them back. 'Cause this is hurt. And what bothers me is that some of us, that's what fear is doing to us. Fear is like this bone in our sternum and it's just driving us everywhere we go. And what this story is teaching us is there needs to be a greater fear, not of what's going on here, but a fear and awe of God that leads us to a place of trust and security and worship. Hebrews 12, 28, 29 says,

therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken and let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire. Let us be grateful for a kingdom that cannot be shaken, cannot be moved, a Jesus who can calm the storm, say peace in the midst of our storms and let us offer him acceptable worship. Let us praise him. Let us move from fear of this down here to a fear and awe and reverence of him that changes things. I need to wrap this up. Here's what I want you to know today. I think that there are three things I think out of this passage that are really important to know. One of them is this, Jesus is able to transform your fear into faith. He's able to transform your fear into faith. Like you don't have to stay in the midst of your fear. He can actually transform it into a greater faith. He can expand your faith. That's what happened with the disciples in this moment. He's like, man, I'm more powerful than this storm. Let me just call him this storm right now and just show you my power. He's able to transform that. Mark five, 35 through 36 says this, while he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house, some who said your daughter is dead,

why trouble the teacher any further? But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear, only believe. Do not fear, only believe. He's leaning into us growing in our belief in who Jesus Christ is and what He's done. This isn't on the screen, but in John 629, Jesus told them, this is the only work God wants from you. Believe in the one He has sent. He said, the great work that you need to do is not all these other works. The great work you need to do is to believe in Jesus. Believe in the one who's sent. Believe in the work that He has done. That's what brings the peace. That's what gives the calm in the midst of the storm. Is our belief in Jesus and who He is. Second thing is Jesus is able to calm the storms in your life. He's absolutely able to calm the storms in your life. There's nothing too difficult for Jesus. And what a joy and strength when Jesus speaks peace into our lives. Jesus is able, that's our theme this year, that God is able, Jesus is able to calm the storms in your life. That doesn't mean he's going to. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. But you need to know this, that he is always able to do it.

And that knowledge changes everything. That Jesus is able to do it. And we need to pray. And he may do it, he may not do it, but he's absolutely able to do it. He can calm the storms in your life. Third thing is this, Jesus is able to calm you in the midst of the storms in your life. He's able to calm you in the midst of the storms of your life. There was an old song, a guy named Scott Crapain saying years ago, I'm not sure you've ever heard it, but the lyrics said this, sometimes he calms the storms, and other times he calms his child. It's okay to pray for both, but sometimes he calms the storm, and other times he calms his child. So he may not take you out of the storm that you're in right now, but he can calm you in the midst of that storm. He can be with you in the midst of that storm. His presence can cover you in the midst of that storm. And that's a beautiful life-changing truth. Psalm 139, 70-12 says, "Where shall I go from your spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed and shield, you're there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. It's security. If I say surely the darkness shall cover me and the light about me be night, even the darkness is not dark to you, the night is brought as a day, for darkness is as light with you. Some of you are in a dark, dark storm right now, and what you need to know is this, it's still light to him because he sees and knows everything. And the reason that Jesus can sleep in the storm is because he knows who's in control. That's the reason he can sleep in the storm. Because Jesus is absolutely able to do this in our lives. I talked with someone at the last service and we were talking about a situation where you record a game to watch and he and his wife are recorded or raised about a game to watch and they went home to watch the game. I think it was a basketball game last season. And somebody accidentally texted him before they watched it and he knew the outcome. He knew that we won, but he didn't tell his wife. That may be another story, but he didn't tell his wife, but he said we watched the game like two different people. She was up and down just getting nervous and all these kind of things. This is terrible.

Stop the head on team and no, that was great shot, bad shot. Like she's watching all that. And he's over there just kind of just watching calm, just cool, collected. And we were talking about, he's like, the difference is, I knew that we won. I knew that we won. It just affected me differently because I knew that we won. Let me tell you something, Jesus Christ went to the cross. He died on the cross and God raised him from the dead. He has won and it affects the way that we live our lives in the storms. Let's take a moment right now. And the worship team's gonna come. And I just want you to kind of bow your heads kind of right where you are. The way that I set up those last three points of just saying that there's something I want you to know, that Jesus is able to transform your fear into faith, that Jesus is able to calm the storms in your life, that Jesus is able to calm you in the midst of your storm. Can I just say this? In addition to knowing that truth, would you be willing to pray that truth today? Maybe you need to turn that into a prayer. Maybe today you need to say, hey, Jesus, would you transform my fear into faith? Would you help me? Maybe you would just pray today to the best of your ability with all of your heart.

Jesus, would you calm the storm in my life? Would you calm the storm in my life? Ask him, make your request known to him, let him give him your peace that passes all understanding. Ask him to calm the storm in your life. We know that he can do it. He's a miracle working God, he's done it. He can do it again, he will do it again. It may happen in your life, it may not, but ask him. And the third thing is, would you just say, Jesus, will you calm me in the midst of this storm? Even if it's gonna last for a little while longer, would you just calm me in the midst of the storm and know that you're in control of all things that are going on? As you sit there, I really do, I'd love for you to just kind of respect the moment with your eyes closed, kind of head bowed or whatever. But can I just ask you honestly, this morning? If you're in a storm right now and you just say, I just need prayer 'cause I'm in a storm right now. If that's you, would you just kind of slip your hand up where you are this morning just to say, I'm in a storm, yeah, thank you. I appreciate your honesty. And I just pray that you'll know that Jesus is with you in the midst of your storm. Jesus, I just come to you right now, and I thank you for your word, and I thank you for this amazing story.

And that's more than just words on a page. It's actual truth that's good for our lives. And Jesus, you're powerful enough to say peace be still. You're able to sleep and rest because you know who's in control, you know the end of the story and how it works out. And Lord, you love us in the midst of our fretting. You love us in the midst of our fear and our worry. Like you love us in the midst of that, but you don't want us to stay there. And so I just pray for each heart that's here this morning for those that raised their hand. Lord, would you be their rock and their shelter and their fortress and their strong tower? Lord, if it would please you, would you calm the storm in their life? Lord, you can do it, and we ask you to, for your glory and for their good. Lord, if you're not going to do that, would you calm them in the midst of their storm? Would you be their peace and be their rock and that they would experience that in the midst of their storm? Lord, we come to you in this moment and we just say help us because you're the one who can. We love you, Jesus, in your name we pray. Amen, let's worship together. - Thanks again for listening to the Word of God. We are blessed to reach you throughout the week through whatever platform you're listening on.

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