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! \\ */Scriptures: Matthew 8:23-27/*
/Most of us have much trouble praying when we are in little trouble, but we have little trouble praying when we are in much trouble.
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/ Richard P. Cook/
*Intro:* The disciples were transporting Christ across the lake to facilitate his ministry.
The large majority of these men were sailors.
They knew how to navigate, how to harness the power of the wind whether it was favorable or not.
Really the calm was more the difficulty for the sailor than even an opposing wind.
Although they could not take a direct route into the opposing wind they could “tack”.
They could sail in a zig zag pattern ultimately going where they wished to go regardless of the way that the wind was blowing.
!!! "The Winds of Fate"
One ship drives east and the other west,
With the selfsame winds that blow.
*‘Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,*
*Which tells us the way to go.*
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life.
‘Tis the set of the soul, that decides it's goal,
*And not the calm or the strife.*
Not only were they seasoned sailors, they were seasoned disciples.
In the short time that they had been with Jesus they had seen miracle after miracle.
He was a man in demand.
Actually this little sail was as much as anything else, an escape from the press of the crowd.
Jesus did that every now and then.
Luke 5:15,16.
“But the news about spread all the more so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
But Jesus often withdrew to loney places and there prayed.”
He had never failed to come through and least this far and so they had no reason to doubt.
But they did.. .
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It only required a storm.
It wasn’t as though they had never seen a storm before.
But perhaps this one was just a little more than they had faced.
It taxed their sailing skills and frightened them.
It was beyond their resource and so they beat a path to Christ who was calmly sleeping in the boat.
And they woke him.
They had been content to let him sleep.
They didn’t need him to help them sail the boat in calm seas.
He wasn’t a sailor anyway, but a rabbi or a teacher.
What would they know about sailing boats?
Jesus knew as well that they didn’t need him and so he relaxed and trusted himself to their abilities, and napped.
So it seems to be with God when we don’t need him, he is silent, removed.
We do the same thing today in our lives.
Unconsciously perhaps we send the same message to Christ.
You are going to work tomorrow.
“Don’t worry, God I have this in hand and you just relax.
Until the storm begins and then we wonder where He is and in the words of Mark in his own account of this story.
Mark 4:38 “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?
How many times have we asked the same question of the Lord?
! 1.Interpreting the Storm
We interpret:
q the absence of the storm as the presence of Christ.
How many times have we found ourselves relaxed and content in the times when there is no storm.
We believe that this means that God is with us or that he is good at least.
No problems equals the presence and blessing of God.
It could mean nothing more than divine inactivity in our lives.
q the presence of the storm as the absence of Christ.
And then when the storm comes we wonder where his is or like the disciples we query, “Don’t you care if we . .
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! 2.Capitalizing On The Calm
q What happens in the calm?
*/As we need God less we experience him less/*/./
We live in a society that has openly declared and we reinforce it that we barely need God anymore.
We rely on our talent, our ingenuity, our creativity and we have crafted a clever existence where God doesn’t routinely show up when we think he should.
He seems to be present in miraculous ways in societies today that we would see to be less civilized than our own.
The child like faith that characterizes the experience of Christians in third world countries tends to shame our own.
All the time, God wants us to move back to a position of simple trust in Him.
Our experience in the time of crisis is shaped by our experience when there is no crisis.
We will not know God better on the rough sea than we do when it is calm.
He does not change or adjust according to the circumstances of life.
He remains the same.
Get to know Him when there is no trauma or tragedy and then you’ll find His help more readily when you need Him most.
ISA 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners
When you read this scripture and see that the concern of Christ was to minister to the people that he did, do you wonder why you may not be experiencing him fully.
Not because you are not needy – more because you don’t realize it or that you refuse to admit it.
When you read this list of various needs do you see yourself listed in one of these categories.
Specifically Jesus came to minister to these types of people.
If we’re no one of them, then it’s no wonder that we are not experiencing the ministry of Christ fully in our own lives.
q *The Poor* – Perhaps you may not know financial need but you may have found yourself at one point or another at the end of your own resource.
The place where you can go no farther.
It’s sink or swim time.
Unfortunately it is at this point that many people begin to search for God but they wouldn’t know Him if he tap danced across their foreheads.
We’re all beggars in God’s eyes.
Someone said of salvation that we are just hungry beggars telling other hungry beggars where to find bread.
q *The Brokenhearted* So much of this is difficult to admit.
Has your heart ever been broken?
Mine has.
I was brokenhearted when my first girlfriend broke up with me.
It hurt.
I was brokenhearted when my family, as imperfect as it was came apart.
It tore me up inside as though some foreign hand reached into my soul and scrambled my emotional circuitry.
I cried as much as I could cry without letting anyone else see and then one day I just stopped, thinking that it was over.
It wasn’t and ever since then God has been maintaining a broken heart.
q *The Captives* And aren’t we all.
What is your carefully covered area of bondage?
You know what I mean?
The thing that you would identify as the major obstacle that prevents you from experiencing total victory in your Christian life.
He has come to be your deliverer and one way or the other He will do it for people who trust in Him beyond their own ability.
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