It's often hard to see the significance in your season | Savage Jesus | Pastor Steven Furtick

[Applause] well take a seat we're so glad you're here today we're continuing in the series savage Jesus from the Gospel of Mark believe me when I say that I never thought I'd say this is the tenth installment of this series I usually preach short and sweet but I got in the Gospel of Mark and and then I couldn't get out so today will be in mark chapter six I want to introduce my scripture by way of a story when I wrote my first book I had the privilege to record the audio book myself and they sent a very professional recording engineer from the publishing company to record the book and he would stop me and correct me if I made any mistakes if I got a little too southern he was a northern Pharisee and he judged my accent and he'd say it's a little twangy let's get it again or if I smacked my lips or mispronounced a word back back it up and make me catch it again and it was annoying but I appreciated his professionalism and because the publisher was the largest publisher in the world now not the publisher that I wrote for the publisher that I wrote for was owned by a publisher who was owned by a publisher that was the biggest publishing company in the world this guy worked for the big publisher and because of it he had worked with a lot of big names and this was my first book and my first time and I kept having to take breaks and my mouth would get dry and so during one of those breaks I realized that this guy had worked with a lot of famous people and I asked him to tell me a story to entertain me during my break I said tell me about somebody you worked with that was difficult and he told me a story about a very well-known political figure I don't know if the story is true but why let the truth get in the way of a good story that's my motto so I'm gonna tell the story I'm not gonna say the name but it was a famous political figure who was recording his memoir about his life that was after he had served his term for eight years something like that in office now I can tell you it was but he said that when they were recording the memoir it was very long it was about a seven or eight hundred page book and it had to be an abridged version and so when they were recording the audiobook they had to decide which sections to leave and which sections to skip and at one particular point in the memoir there was a section about a scandal that happened in this particular notable figures life related to offices of oval nature and things of this sort that happened during his tenure in what some call the highest office in the United States of America and when he was telling me about it he said when they got to the part about the scandal he said that the person who wrote the memoir the former president say this is falling apart said he stopped in he was gonna skip it and he stopped the recording and he said I don't think people really I think people are sick of hearing about this by now I think we can skip this part I mean do you think this is really significant and the audio engineer said that it was a real challenge to look back at somebody who had been the most powerful man in the world at one point and he said I had to look at him and say yes mr. president this is significant and that's my title for my message today look at your neighbor and say in your best Bill Clinton voice tell them this is significant this is significant our scripture lesson for today comes from mark chapter 6 something that marked the Evangelist included in his gospel record that he thought was significant for us to know about the ministry of Jesus Christ mark chapter 6 verse 45 records immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida he did not tell them to pack ponchos he did not give them a warning about the storm that they would encounter just a simple instruction I wonder if God doesn't tell us everything because he knows we could not handle the details so he dismissed the crowd and sent the disciples to get a head start I'll meet you on the other side you're almost gonna die on the way he didn't tell him that but after leaving them he went up on a mountainside to pray later that night the boat was in the middle of the lake and he was alone on land he saw the disciples straining at the oars because the wind was against him shortly before dawn he went out to them walking on the lake he was about to pass by them but when they saw him walking on the lake they thought he was a ghost because God often looks like fear from a distance they cried out because they all saw him and were terrified immediately Mark's favorite word he spoke to them and said take courage in his eye don't be afraid and then he climbed into the boat with them and the wind died down they were completely amazed touch the neighbour you've been ignoring and say this is significant so if you've ever been around church at all you've heard this Bible story if you've ever been anywhere near a church you've heard about this Bible story if you ever happen to drive by a church by accident you heard this if you ever playing on Church softball team you heard curse words and this Bible story was a significant story because it teaches us that Jesus Christ is Lord of all creation theologically he is sovereign he is sovereign it's an epiphany story in that it gives us a revelation of Jesus Christ that is consistent with the revelation of Jesus Christ that was given in the Old Testament in a concealed form when a bush burned and a man named Moses was meeting with God the disclosure at that point was I am Moses said who are you God said I am now it's interesting how God would spend the next several centuries filling in that blank that they would need to know him to be water in a dry place that they would need to know him to be a warrior in their battles they would find all of this out that he is sustainer in their weariness really the rest of your life will be spent filling in that blank in just about the time you think you've got it figured out who God is life will so shift beneath your feet that you will realize you didn't know him at all the disciples have been with Jesus now for quite an expensive class they've seen him touch lepers they've seen him heal paralytics they've even seen him raise dead people in certain situations and yet there was something that and maced them in this moment something that they had not seen about him before was significant that Jesus told them to go forward in the wind was against them that's significant significant because a lot of times I assumed in my life that if God sent me to do something the wind would work with me that's pretty much the premise of early Christianity you know turn your life over to God and he'll take your burdens away turn your life over to the Lord and you know what used to keep you up at night won't keep you up at night anymore because it'll be replaced by other stuff that'll keep you up at night fill in the blank you realize that a lot of times our claims to faith are actually our efforts to manipulate God until we discover in the course of time that just because the wind is against you doesn't mean that God is not for you many times the confirmation that God has spoken to you is the fact that the wind is against you we're discovering this in our study of the Gospel of Mark we are learning that resistance is often the greatest place for revelation would you please take that elevation pin that cost about 11 or 12 cents and before you steal it from the church and use it to sign a check this week write it down resistance leads to revelation resistance leads to revelation the wind was against the disciples not because they disobeyed the words of Jesus but because they went in the direction of his command he sent them to Betsy de they went to Bethsaida I got it when it was Jonah because the wind was against Jonah because he wasn't going to Nineveh he was going to Tarshish and God said go to Nineveh and when you go to Tarsus when you should go to Nineveh expect the wind to be against you because God didn't send you to Tarshish he sent you to Nineveh so I expect the wind to go against me when God told me to go to Nineveh and I went to Tarshish but when he told me to go the best sailor and I went to Bethsaida I expect the wind to work with me I expect God to bless me when I come to church I expect good parking places cuz I came to church I expect those shoes to go on sale cuz I came to church I expect a promotion cuz I came to church makes me mad when somebody who didn't come to church they slept in and they get big in a race and I give fired and I can't understand how God could be with me and the wind could be against me but often the confirmation of the Word of God is the resistance of the enemy to show you you're on the right track here's what Phil I preached it here's why I'm a hub somebody you want to turn around and go back home because the wind is against you the wind is against you so that you will know that it is the Lord's presence with you that makes you successful if the wind was working with you you would think the wind when you got to your destination if it were easy you would think the wrong things if the wind wasn't against you you wouldn't need the Lord to come and step into the wind and sweet pace to the wind so the wind has to be against you to prove that the Lord is with you calm down verdict this is just the introduction [Applause] and so Jesus Savage Jesus the Jesus that's in the Bible not the Jesus this on Pinterest Savage Jesus real-life Jesus Monday morning Jesus yeah Friday Jesus Saturday Jesus not not not that Jesus that as is playing a harp and stroking the the will of the lamb but the Jesus who sends his disciples into a storm and watches them strength I got to go you don't believe this you about to be really jealous I got to go and sit on the mountain where Jesus prayed and the man who took us there last year he knew everything about everything I think he was Jesus he took us up there he said here's where Jesus was praying in Mark chapter 6 and then he pointed to the the lake that the Bible mentions where the storm was and from that mountain you can see the whole lake and he dropped this on us right before he left us he said so the whole time they were straining Jesus could see them and he walked off and I cried I have a picture of me sitting on that mountain and there's Kleenex all around me because Holly just kept handed them to me one after another that he saw them in the storm that he saw them in the storm and then I was after I got done crying because I realized he sees me in my storm and he knows what I'm going through and he knows what I deal with and he knows what people have done to me and he sees tears that I've cried on my pillow that nobody else knows about him that he sees what's going on in my soul that I can cover up in front of people but I can't hide from him after I got done crying about that I got kind of angry because I thought if he could see them why didn't he stop it all of a sudden it felt kind of cruel to me that he would send them into a storm and see them in the storm and not stop the storm so I think it is significant that the Bible says that he saw the disciples verse 48 straining at the oars because the wind was against them shortly before dawn he went out to them this is 48 be walking on the lake he was about to pass them by I thought he would never leave me I thought he would never forsake me I thought he promised his presence to me and so he's about to pass them by and they were afraid one interesting thing about this particular record in Mark's Gospel is that it was recounted by a man named Peter have you heard of him he was a very outspoken disciple of Jesus Christ he was the one I don't know if you're like this he would say what everybody else thought he would he was filter free and so when he was right he was really right when he was wrong he was really wrong I'll prove it to you he said you are the Christ the Son of the Living God she said you are Petros this rock you're Peter not Simon not shifty upon this rock I'll build my church the rock of his revelation of who Jesus was a few verses later Jesus said get behind me Satan and he was pointing at Peter because Peter said you can't go to the cross and Peter opposed the very thing that Jesus came to do all in the same Bible chapter this is Peter Peter is the one telling mark about this story so mark can write it down Peter is the one recording the audio book okay Peter is the one giving mark the Gospel account mark wasn't a disciple mark was an evangelist he compiled the story and Peter told look I'm gonna show you something we have four of these four gospel accounts the gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ when we say the Gospel of Mark it's the Gospel according to mark when we say the Gospel of Luke the Gospel of John the Gospel of Matthew that's the gospel account that they wrote down John said that Jesus did so much if you wrote a whole book you tried to write down everything he did the whole world could not contain it if you wrote down all the works Jesus did Wikipedia would break so they had to decide what was significant enough to put in the gospel account that would that would prove what they wanted to prove about who Jesus was so when Mark got ready to write he said Jesus walked to the disciples in a storm and when he got in the boat the winds died down when Matthew got ready to write it he he included something that Mark left out and I'm gonna read you now from Matthew 14 it's the same story but there's one detail in this story that is omitted in Mark's Gospel which is based on the recollection of Peter and it's in Matthew's Gospel but not marked so here's what we'll do this will be an inner interactive class when I get to the part that wasn't in Mark's Gospel stop me when I get to the part that where you're saying wait that wasn't in the other one that you read before I want you to wave your hands and stop me this is the only time that you are allowed to tell me to stop preaching you can tell me to preach any time you want preach vaster but when I get to this part today I want you to stop me in every location let's start in verse 22 immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side while he dismissed the crowd after he had dismissed him he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray later that night he was there alone and the boat was already a considerable distance from land buffeted by the waist because the wind was against it so far so good we're good to go you go yeah it's similar very similar very similar if you did words different same same stuff shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them walking on the lake when the disciples saw him walking on the lake they were terrified it's a ghost they said and cried out in fear but Jesus immediately said to them take courage it is I don't be afraid or if it's you Peter replied tell me to come okay okay okay it's wrong with you Lord Lord if it's you Peter replied tell me to come to you on the water commie said this is it's amazing hey hey if this if I was writing my memoir I'll put this in cuz what's your high position then Peter got down out of the boat walked on water and came toward Jesus well I'm totally putting that in I'm totally including the part where everybody else was in the boat crying out in fear and I was walking on water transcending the laws of buoyancy babe if I ever walk on water and then I die and they're writing a story about my life you make sure they don't take that part out if I ever walk on water I'm and I know I do metaphorically in your heart but if I ever physically if they ever write about me I'm not saying they will but if they do leave this in and touch somebody say this is significant so how can Peter this is a good question how can Peter walk on water and when it comes time to tell mark what to write about this night on the sea tell mark you know I think people probably just about sick of hearing about this thing do you really think this is signature to your neighbors say yes mr. president this is significant wonder if um I wonder if he left it out because of verse 30 I mean cuz verse so far this is amazing Peter Peters like if as you tell me to come she's like it's me come and you know the wind is blowing so you can't hear that good so Peters like did you hear that is Miko and John John's like no he said Peter your dome cuz every two people can hear the same thing it's yanny not Laurel but by the way it's Jenny its Jenny it's yanny come to the altar it's Yeti you need to ears open I lost half the church you're the the same word a different way no the other disciples were operating on what Jesus told them before they left which is go go to bed Ceyda I'll meet you on the other side Peter is operating out of what he feels in the moment and he says to Jesus if it's you tell me to come and I've often preached about Peter getting out of the boat but sometimes the more significant faith is the willingness to stay in the storm not the impulse to escape it I'm not saying Peter was wrong I'm just saying that it takes faith to keep rowing when you can't see the shore sometimes it takes even more faith to stay in the boat than it does to step out of it and Peter gets to this part of the story in his recollection he does not see fit to include the part of the story where he said to Jesus if it's you tell me to come and I wonder if it's because of what happened in verse 30 that he left this out of his gospel account because the Bible says that he took several steps toward Jesus and for a moment he was walking on the water and for a moment he was experiencing a miracle but verse 30 says when he saw the wind sea he heard the word but then he saw the wind and I relate to this because sometimes I pay more attention to what I see than what God said and anytime I give more focus to what I see then what God spoke I start to sink Peter's doing pretty good as long as he's going off of what he heard faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God and all you need is one word from God Peter wasn't walking on water he was walking on a word and when you have a word from God your kids can be acting crazy your money can be acting funny you can be in the darkest night of your life but declare he is Lord then he saw the win and the Bible says when he saw the win he began to sink and he cried out lord save me and I thought well that's why Peter left it out because I think people don't really need to hear about this we can leave that out can't we you know you want to leave certain things out of your story skip over start certain parts and certain failures and there's some stuff honestly that you don't need to share with everybody there's some stuff that they don't even need to know about sometimes your greatest testimony is that you went through the fire but you don't smell like smoke and when Peter was telling Marc what to write I imagine Marc saying shouldn't I put that part in where you climbed out of the boat and Marc said ah I don't think I don't think you want to leave that out Peter said no no it's been a while now cuz this gospel is written decades after it happened you know and by this point Peter has discovered something look verse 51 mark chapter 6 verse 51 then he climbed into the boat with them and the wind died down Peter said it's not significant what happened when I climbed out of the boat let's read it again then Jesus climbed into the boat Peter said don't tell him what happened when I climbed out tell him what happened when he climbed in that's so good I want to sit down and then stand up and run a lap around this Ballentine building all by myself it's not important what happened when Peter climbed out it's not important what happened when Peter stepped out it's not important what happened when they were straining all night all night long they strained to get to Jesus but the wind didn't stop while they were straining the wind did not die down because Peter came to Jesus the wind died down because Jesus came to Peter and that's the gospel not that I came to God not because I was so good not because I was so glorious not because I got my act together no I'm not racing him cuz I got out of the boat I'm praising him cuz he got in and the wind died down now go ahead and worship Him for 18 seconds not cuz I got this he got in I thought somebody say this is significant not that I loved God but then he loved me and I'm gonna start right now but the storm is not significant cus help is on the way [Applause] it's the contrast of straining versus submission and he was showing them to do what he commanded the wind to do submit [Applause] and they they were amazed at this they were amazed they were amazed that the wind did what he said in fact the wind did what he didn't even have to tell it to do let me preach to LJ for a minute he gets bored back here because he has to play three times on the weekend I just want to tell him this real quick cuz I didn't mention in any other of the worst experiences last time Jesus calmed a storm he said peace be still so he calmed the storm with his words this time if you check the record he didn't even say anything to the storm the storm stopped just because he sat down in the boat with the disciples that lets me know that all I need is his presence all I need is his presence I don't need proof that he is with me when he got in the boat the storm sat down when he sat down why he is above it he is the Lord he is the great I am he is the bread of life [Applause] and he sent them against the wind because he needed a situation to reveal his sufficiency that's what he needed and so the storm served that purpose just like the hungry crowd just like the hungry crowd because verse 52 tells us why they were amazed look at somebody said this is significant come on only about forty five percent of you did what I told you to do tell him this is significant they were amazed for they had not understood about the loaves their hearts were hardened well what this bread have to do with a boat and this is where we need to mention a significant miracle this miracle is so significant that Matthew Mark Luke and John all put it in their memoir their audio book they put it in even though it wasn't a resurrection or a healing one day Jesus fed 5,000 men the women and the children and he did it with a little boys lunch I personally think Peter beat up the little boy and took his lunch only reason why I have kids I've never seen my kids voluntarily do anything sacrificial so in my mind the little boy did not willingly offer his lunch but you read the Bible how you want to read the Bible on your own time right now I got the microphone Peter beat up the boy took his lunch brought it to Jesus this is significant this miracles so significant because Jesus when he was feeding the crowd he was he was revealing himself as the Christ and everybody ate and they all got their fill that day pointed out real quick while we have a moment because I don't know when I'll get to see you again some of you don't come to church enough just while we're here the miracle came from somebody who was not even included in the official count it was 5,000 men women and children God's greatest miracles often come from what people consider insignificant sources that's why you can't let the world ever define your significance because the world celebrates all the wrong stuff all the wrong stuff we find significance in status we find significance sometimes and we even call it our significant other okay but this is an announcement you don't need any other to be significant I'm not against a turn I'm not against the term but you don't have to be a duchess of Sussex to be significant no not not to be significant in the eyes of God if significance was predicated on marital status Jesus was insignificant he was never married and neither was Paul but the world celebrates all the wrong stuff and so we wait for it significance to be assigned by something outside of God but I am NOT significant because somebody recognized me as significant I am significant because of someone who died for me who created me and who lives in me this is significant real quick real quick I'm I'm really proud of elevation worship they got nominated for a billboard or Christian album Christian song o come to the altar and I think that's really cool and I think it's wonderful and I don't know if we'll win it or not somebody said we probably won't win it this year and it's not a competition but I'd love to beat Hillsong don't put this online edit this out and one day maybe we will but I'm not waiting to see if we win the award here's why I saw oh come to the altar when it was born I remember when we wrote it and imagined our church singing it and then I saw the church start to sing it and I saw people baptized while we were singing o come to the altar I saw people baptized while we were singing the father's arms are open wide forgiveness was bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ so I don't need billboard to tell me what baptized I'm already dead so if Chris Brown gets an award that's wonderful but if billboard didn't recognize oh come to the altar touch somebody say it's still significant and if people appreciate me that's wonderful but if they never recognize me I'm still significant there's a word somebody if I got a date great if I don't I'm still significant if I get the job wonderful if I talk I'm still significant if you like me good let's hug it out [Applause] [Applause] I'm almost done this is significant this is significant because I saw Chris Brown in a prison during love.we he wasn't a member there voluntarily for the record he was singing and he finished singing and we were leaving I preached he saying and a prisoner came up to me and said before you go can you single come to the altar that's the song that got me through and I hope he can get a billboard but I watched him single come to the altar to one prisoner and that was significant this is significant this season it's hard to see the significance of the season you're in you see it better when you're out of him it's why it's hard to raise kids I love being a parent I joke about it a lot is actually my favorite thing that I do I just play around like as hard it's really for me it's just super easy I just I always know the wisdom and I'm always like watching my kids play all these sports it's kind of hard sometimes cuz now they got so much pressure on us as parents maybe this is a suburban thing I don't know you got to be at every recital or your kids gonna end up in therapy as a serial killer it's pressure about try to get out there sometimes there's running around and is this significant is this significant and then I get I get caught up in insignificant things and I miss significant things like like the disciples almost missed the miracle that day of the feeding of the 5,000 the one that's in all four Gospels maybe that's why they all included it because they all almost missed it because they wanted to send the crowds away I'll show you something real quick this is um this is Graham y'all got it in the back I didn't use it the other times but yeah this is Graham pin and a joker was good it was a little tournament that was the championship match of the tournament it was on a Saturday normally I'd be preaching that particular Saturday I had somebody else preaching for me look who he's looking at now I guess who guess who he's looking at when he's been minute I mean he just pinned him the ref just left the mat and he looks up like what and I like it because I like it because what he said to me when he came back up I said in they cool how I wasn't preaching today so I could watch you in this tournament and what if I had missed it he said well if you had missed it I probably wouldn't want it and I was like if you never say anything but just never talk again until you go to college let's end on that note the same thing I you could take it down although I'll be happy to put it on Instagram for you insta gram anyway it's hard to know sometimes you don't always get to see the gold medal they don't hand out a gold medal in fact when it says that the disciples did not understand about the loaves they were amazed because shove the verse again verse 52 this verse got my attention really this is my my whole message because it says they were amazed when he got in the boat in the winds died because they had not understood about the loaves it just happened it was it was the thing that happened right before the storm it had just happened it wasn't years later and they forgot it had just happened you know how God provides for you and then you go into a different test and you forget the lesson because it's a different test and God provided for you in a bigger way back there but now you're struggling with a little thing here and you trip over an insignificant thing when God has already done the most significant thing which is to save your soul they understood about the loaves on one level physically they ate they understood about the loaves on one level the crowds were fed but what they didn't understand is that Jesus did not feed the multitude so they could know what he did he fed the multitudes so they could know who he was the lesson of the loaves is not I am your Burger King your way right away the lesson of the loaves is not that you will never be hungry or you will never hurt or you will never wonder or you will never doubt the lesson of the loaves is I am the bread of life I am it is me it was me when you were hungry it was me when you were lonely it was me when you were depressed it was me when you were anxious it was me on the mountaintop it was me in the valley the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want I will fear no evil he is with me in this moment it's me it was me then and it's me now it was me that got you through that it's me that will see you through this and if I am in the boat the wind must submit to my word with you and they didn't get it they saw the miracle they experienced a miracle they're the ones who handed out the bread to the people but you can experience a miracle and miss the significance so God saved you but what did he save you for so you could spend the rest of your life carrying the shame he died to take away and nailed to his cross is that what he saved you for God saved you but what did he save you for so you could live the rest of your life just as selfish as you lived the first part of your life but with a cross around your neck this time what did he save you for you can experience the miracle of salvation but missed the significance of it God didn't just save you from he saved you for a purpose a mission a calling and the miracle was not just that the people were fed the miracle was not just that they ate bread the miracle is not just what God does for you the miracle is that you see who he is this is beautiful it is so beautiful that it bears repeating it bears bears repeating and in Mark chapter 8 this miracle is so significant it happens again one way you can tell when something is important is when it is repeated so the disciples find themselves in a situation that is very similar there's a big crowd and there's no food you know like last time when you were worried and upset and you didn't think you were gonna make it and you made it and now here you are again and the winds blowing again and you don't think you're gonna make it but spoiler alert you will that's the lesson of the loaves that's the lesson of them I didn't mean to ruin the movie for you but at the end of this thing you're gonna be in Bethsaida because if he told you I'll meet you on the other side you don't die in the lake in the middle of the night come on church has he not shown you don't you see it don't you hear it the same voice the same God and so he feeds the crowd in mark chapter II and the Bible says mark 8:14 the disciples had forgotten to bring bread stand up it'll make me close quicker don't leave it'll make me angry the disciples had forgotten to bring bread except for one loaf they had with them in the boat I don't mean to correct the scripture but there were actually two loaves in the boat one of them was the bread they could see be careful jesus warned them watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod he is warning them against the seemingly insignificant compromises that corrode your faith watch out he said your words are significant your habits are significant your friendships are significant watch out for that that ye stand when he said yeast they thought about bread and they discussed this with one another and said it is because we have no bread he still didn't get it they saw him do it and they still didn't get that he was it they're still worried about provision you're still worried about bills you're still work we're still thinking on the level of what we can see Jesus aware of their discussion ask them a question why are you talking about having no bread why are you worrying about something that I've already worked out why are you doubting something that you've already seen me do so many times before do you still not see or understand are your hearts hardened do you have eyes fulfill to see and ears but fail to hear do you still hear Laurel when it's really yanny and don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up twelve they reply when I read that I thought the significance of the miracle is in the numbers you know five is the number of grace in the Bible it represents grace is symbolic twelve disciples twelve tribes a number of government so I thought it was about the numbers but then verse 20 says when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand how many basketballs of pieces did you pick up and then I said well sevens the number of completion and four thousand really I can't really do anything with that they answered seven he said do you still not understand and then I read it again verse 19 verse 19 verse 19 when I broke and then I read verse 20 when I broke and I realized the significance of the miracle is that the bread had to be broken they wouldn't understand this really until he went to the cross they ate the bread but they did not understand the significance until he was crushed for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities because the bread couldn't be given until it was broken when you are in a breaking season of your life and you are being broken of your pride and your stubbornness your opinions and your straining against the wind it is easy to begin to believe that it is going to break you but God will not allow life to break you that's his job and when you're in his hands like the song said prepare that chorus we'll do it again we're gonna sing it I'm still in your hands we're gonna sing that and we're gonna understand that the lesson of the loaves is not that everybody went home with a full belly the lesson of the loaves is this the end of your story is not that you are broken the end of the story is the basket false this story does not end in brokenness this story ends with leftovers I want to let you know today this is significant God is not done with you I said God is not done with you I'm preaching this word for somebody who's been straining against the wind grace is coming through your boat the bread is in the Masters hands and the bread was only broken to be given lift her hands in the presence of God no one moving this is my confidence that he is faithful I'm stealing your hands this is my confidence you never you promised tears there's green is your faithfulness babe [Music] [Applause] I'm stealing your heads this is my confidence you never you promise still stands great is your faithfulness faithful [Music] see you this is my confidence listen here's what you do you take what you learned from the loaves and you remember it in the storm you take the basket full from the last time that God provided for you and the next time the wind begins to rage in your life you remember that if Jesus is in this boat with me if I draw near to God he will draw near to me and as we worship Him as the son of God today the wind has to die down anxiety has to shut its mouth and the presence of God because we know who he is and we've seen what he's done we have faithful he's gonna do does anybody believe he's with you in this season hey thanks for watching two things I want you to do first click our logo to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video second you can click the give Now button to support the ministry and we'll be able to continue reaching people all over the world thanks again for watching

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