What To Do When Your Sink Is Sinking

THREE KINDS OF STORMS WE FACE IN LIFE:

1. SStorms. 

“When calamity overtakes you like a storm…” Proverbs 1:27  (NIV)

2. RStorms. 

“I’m sleepless, shivering in the cold, forlorn, and friendless, like a lonely bird on the rooftop. My every enemy mocks and insults me incessantly…” Psalm 102:7-8 (TPT)

3. E Storms.

“Human life is a struggle, isn’t it? It’s a life sentence to hard labor. Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday, I’m given a life that meanders and goes nowhere— months of aimlessness, nights of misery! I go to bed and think, ‘How long till I can get up?’ I toss and turn as the night drags on—and I’m fed up!” Job 7:1-6  (MSG)

THREE TRUTHS ABOUT STORMS OF LIFE

1. Storms in life are

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith is forced into the open and shows its true colors.” James 1:2-3 (MSG)

2. Storms in life are

Without warning, a furious storm came up…”    Matthew 8:24 (NIV)

2. Storms in life are

“…God who shows no partialitiality.”   Deut. 10:17 (LB)

“God doesn’t play favorites with the rich and famous and slight the poor? Isn’t he equally responsible to everybody? Job 34:19 (MSG)

“For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too.”             Matthew 5:45 (LB)

“Other boats were there too.”   Mark 4:36b (GN)

 WHEN YOU FACE A STORM YOU CAN BE

1. Filled with

 “The disciples went and woke him, saying, ‘Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!’”  Matthew 8:25 (NIV)                 

2. Filled with

   “…but Jesus was sleeping.”  Matthew 8:24 (NIV)                                                                                                                                     

“If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus.”           Philippians 4:7 (LB) 

HOW DO YOU MAKE IT THROUGH A STORM?

1. Remember God’s

“Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him.”                      Matthew 8:23 (NIV)

LESSON #1: God is with me.

“…And never forget that I am with you every day.” Matthew 28:20 (TPT)

“You always have God’s presence. For hasn’t he promised you, ‘I will never leave you, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your life!’”  Hebrews 13:5 (TPT)

2. in God’s care.

“The disciples said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’” Mark 4:38 (NIV)

LESSON #2: Godabout what I go through. 

“Pour out all your worries and stress upon him and leave them there, for he always tenderly cares for you.”                1 Peter 5:7 (TPT)

3. on God’s control. 

“Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.” Mark 4:39 (NIV)

LESSON #3: God is in control.

“Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.” Jeremiah 32:17 (KJV)

“Jesus replied, ‘You of little faith, why are you so afraid?’” Mark 8:26 (NIV)

“Without faith it is impossible to please God.”Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)

LIFE’S GREATEST LESSON: Jesus can be in life’s storm..

“The men were amazed and asked, ‘What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!’”       Matthew 8:27 (NIV)

“What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax… Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard thing comes up when the time comes.” Matthew 6:30,33 (MSG)

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