At Your Word Jesus

AT YOUR WORD

LUKE 5:4-5 – LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A DRAUGHT. SIMON SAID, MASTER WE HAVE TOILED ALL NIGHT AND HAVE TAKEN NOTHING NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR WORD I WILL LET DOWN THE NET.

JOHN 21: 1-5 – JESUS IS WALKING DOWN THE SHORE OF THE SEA OF GALILEE AND HE SEES THE DISCIPLES COMING IN FROM FISHING AND ASK HAVE YOU CAUGHT ANY FISH? WITH A LOOK OF DISCOURAGEMENT, THEY REPLIED, NO, WE HAVE FISHED ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT NOTHING.

NOTHING CAN CRUSH LIKE DISCOURAGMENT!

DISCOURAGEMENT STEALS THE JOY FROM YOUR HEART – IT SNATCHES THE SPRING FROM YOUR STEP – IT TAKES THE SMILE FROM YOUR FACE -

IT REMOVES THE SPARKLE FROM YOU EYE – IT BLOWS OUT THE CANDLE OF EXPECTANCY – IT QUENCHES THE FIRE AND IT IS THE FORERUNNER OF DEFEAT.

DISCOURAGEMENT WILL CAUSE YOU TO:

PRAY WRONG – MOSES PRAYED TO DIE; ELIJAH PRAYED TO DIE; JOSHUA SAID LORD I WISH YOU WOULD HAVE LEFT US ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN; JOB WISHED HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN.

THINK WRONG – STINKING THINKING… DISCIPLES SAW THE STORM… JESUS DO YOU EVEN CARE THAT WE ARE PERISHING? JOHN IN PRISON, IS THIS THE CHRIST?

DO WRONG – MOSES SMOTE THE ROCK, PETER CURSED AND DENIED JESUS

SEE WRONG – TEN SPIES SAW GIANTS INSTEAD OF GOD; THEY SAW THE PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF THE PROMISE

WRONG SPIRIT – SPIRIT OF DEFEAT; SPIRIT OF MURMURING; SPIRIT OF CRITICISM

WRONG PLACES – JONAH IN WHALE; PETER SITTING AT THE ENEMIES’ CAMP FIRE

WHEN YOU GET DISCOURAGED, DON’T LOOK AT THE PROBLEM, LOOK AT THE PROBLEM SOLVER. DON’T TELL GOD HOW BIG YOUR PROBLEM IS, TELL YOUR PROBLEM HOW BIG GOD IS. WHEN YOU FEEL YOU CAN’T GET A CAN OPENER (PHIL. 4:13 – I CAN…)

JESUS SAID GO OUT INTO THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A GREAT CATCH. PETER SAID - AT YOUR WORD!

LUKE 5: 6-7 – AND WHEN THEY HAD DONE THIS, THEY CAUGHT SO MANY FISH THAT THEIR NETS BEGAN TO BREAK AND THEY HAD TO CALL ON ANOTHER SHIP TO COME HELP THEM BRING IN THE FISH AND THERE WERE SO MANY FISH THEIR BOATS BEGAN TO SINK!

WHEN JESUS SPEAKS: FAILURE TURNS INTO SUCCESS; DESPAIR TURNS INTO HOPE; SORROW TURNS INTO JOY; DISCOURAGEMENT TURNS INTO COURAGE; PESSIMIST TURNS INTO OPTIMIST; DEFEAT TURNS INTO VICTORY; FEARS TURNS INTO BRAVERY; DOUBT TURNS INTO FAITH; DREAMS TURN INTO REALITY; FRUSTRATION TURNS INTO PATIENCE; MIDNIGHT TURNS INTO DAY; FEEBLE KNEES ARE STRENGTHENED; HEAVY HANDS ARE LIFTED.

WHEN JESUS SPEAKS, THE DEVIL IS DEFEATED AND THE ENEMY IS CONQUERED.

JESUS SPOKE… ALL OF CREATION CAME TO BE; THE SUN TOOK ITS POSITION IN THE SKY AS THE KING OF THE DAY; THE MOON STARTED ITS NIGHT STROLL; THE STARS DANCED INTO PLACE; THE BIRDS BEGAN TO FLY AND SING; THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS SPRANG FORTH; ADAM AND EVE BEGAN THEIR EARTHLY WALK.

JESUS SPOKE… RED SEAS BECAME DRY HIGHWAYS; LIONS LAY DOWN LIKE HOUSE DOGS; GODS CHILDREN COME WALKING OUT OF THE FIERY FURNACE UNHARMED; THE WINDS QUIT BLOWING; THE RAGING SEA CALMS DOWN; THE BLIND CAN SEE, THE LAME CAN WALK; THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND EVEN THE DEAD ARE RAISED TO LIFE.

WE NEED SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE WILLING TO SWING OVER HELL ON A ROTTEN CORN STOCK AND SQUIRT THE DEVIL IN THE EYE WITH AN EMPTY WATER PISTOL.

WHEN PASTOR SAYS GO GET MOBY DICK, YOU SAY WHERE IS THE BOAT AND THE TARTAR SAUCE.