Deep Cries Out To Deep Series

Now let me connect it link back to Psalm 42: all your waves and breakers have swept over me. It shows what Pressure, pain, and trial. You might think God is abandoning you, but God uses even trials that is not from Him, to form you, to grow you so that you can become mature and complete lacking nothing.

When James says that trials help us become “mature and complete, lacking nothing,” he’s showing us that God uses difficult seasons to grow us spiritually. Maturity here doesn’t mean age, but depth — a faith that has been tested and proven. It’s about becoming someone who doesn’t just know Scripture but lives it out, even when it’s hard. Being “complete” means being whole — not divided, fake, or half-formed, but solid and integrated in our character.

And “lacking nothing” doesn’t mean you’ll have every physical thing you want, but that you’ll be spiritually equipped with everything you need: wisdom, strength, peace, and endurance. James is teaching that when we persevere through trials with faith, God isn’t just helping us survive — He’s shaping us into people who are spiritually grounded, resilient, and fully ready for every good work.

It brings me to my last point this morning. That in the deep is where you will encounter God. It means that when you give over to God, when you allow to be deep and to trust Him, you will encounter him. You know if you did not know this by now, but Peter is one of my favourite people in the bible. I think I like him so much because he was stubborn and even though trough everything, God still used him in a mighty way, but we see in a few places where Jesus called Peter to go deep. We read in Luke 5:4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch Jesus did not tell Peter to stay in the shallow waters, he called him to go deep. The miracle was in the deep. When Jesus asked him to climb out of the boat, it was not on shallow water, it was in the deep, he had to trust God completely and not rely even on his own understanding. He met God in the deep, He met God in the storm, He met God when he did not look at gravity and only what is humanly possible, no he walked on water in the deep because his eyes were focused completely on Jesus. Same with us, for us to venture out in the deep, we need to do the same, we need to go deeper, go more where we trust Jesus without borders, without terms and conditions.

The supernatural didn’t happen while he was sitting. It happened when he stepped. “You’ll never experience the deep things of God from the comfort of the boat.”

Whatever storm you’re facing—don’t waste it. Ask: “God, what are You building in me through this?” Let the pressure push you into deeper trust, not away from it.

So, what do we do, how do we venture out in the deep, how do we do it practically. Started fasting and seeking Jesus. Join a circle, man Louis I am not a people person well you cannot be in the boat, you need to move out. For some of you, you been in the faith in the church for many years, but you never shared your faith, you never prayed for someone, you never invited people to church. So maybe it is time for you now, to share your faith, to pray to invite.