Creating Storms
Are you going to pray with me?
Intro.
I have found that this life is truly filled with trouble. Problems seem to have permanently taken residence in our lives. Job says man born of woman are but a few days, and those days are filled with trouble. Are there any witness in the house? Every weekend somebody is killed. Whether it be gang related, or accidental like last week when the 13 year old girl took her mother car, went joy riding killing 3 of her friends. Trouble never takes a vacation or a day off. Trouble never goes to sleep on it’s job. And trouble is never hard to find.
Trouble come as problems looking to be solved. Trouble comes as illness’ looking to be healed. Trouble comes as burdens looking to be boor. Trouble can even comes look like a blessing, but it turns out only to be trouble. Have you every gotten something and oh how happy you were when you got it, but down the road it turned out to be trouble, more trouble than it was worth? A friendship that turned out to be trouble. A car that turned out to be trouble. A job that turned out to be trouble. A dog or cat that turned out to be trouble. Trouble hides in good intention and lurk in good ideals. Trouble sits on counter tops that are too high or lay down on floors that are too low. Pastor Nance most of us are but one step behind trouble and trouble is waiting to happen. You can be sailing on the sea of life and all of a sudden out of nowhere, the winds will begin to blow, the waves will become boisterous and when the storms of live are raging and there is nothing that you can do, but call on the name of the Lord. Has anybody every had to call on the Lord. Has anybody ever laid prostrate before the Lord calling on his name. If you ever been there you can say Amen when I say this life is filled with trouble. Pastor Nance and with all the trouble that is in our lives I stop by new prospect to tell you we need not create storms. Sister Ackers will you pray with me?
***Fail to do what God told you to do***
God says to Jonah go to Nineveh and preach to them against their wickedness, preach to them repentance for the day of the Lord is at hand. So Jonah says to himself, I am going to go to Joppa and head for a place called Tarshish. In fact, what Jonah says is no. I am not going to Nineveh and preach to them. I am going to go as far away from Nineveh as I can. Challenging God’s authority Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
I need to tell you that is where so many of us are today. We challenge God’s authority, by shake off the Holy Spirit’s umtion and do what we want to do. Have you ever had a mind to do one thing and you did another? Sometime the Lord speaks to us telling us what to do and we do something else.
We all have kick ourselves for being stupid because something told us before it happen, that it was going to happen. Brooks we are losing a bolt and we say this tool is going to slip and I will hurt my hand. But we keep on pushing and the wrench slips and hurt our hand. My first mind told me to take the street, but I say the freeway is faster and so I took the freeway and low and behold, I get into a car accident. My first mind told me you don’t need to go out to night, but rather than listen I go out. I get in the car and at the first light and somebody pulls out a gun and rob me. A good day turned out to be the day I was robbed at gun point. My first mind told me not to give him my phone number, but I saw the suit and the Denzel smile and gave him my phone number, now he is stocking me.
We challenge God’s authority directly by being disobedient to his word. The word of God says in 2 Cor. 6:14 don’t be unequally yoked, with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And yet some how we end up in unequally yoked relationship and our life are miserable. Somebody say creating storms
We challenge God’s authority indirectly by being disobedient to his law. What law. The law that says children be obedient to your parents, the law that says obey them that have the rule over you, the law that says follow the rule of the land. Now somebody is saying where does the bible say that. Do you remember Jesus and the fish? Matthew 17 whereas Jesus tell Peter to get the money from the fish’s mouth pay tribute. He saith, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his moth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee. The law that says let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. That mean the police. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, that’s the police and the law resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Somebody say creating storms.
Place others in danger
We create storms in our life and when we create storms in our life, it does not just affect our life. We are not on the ship by ourselves. Don’t you know when you create a storm, everybody get soaked. Jonah decides to create a storm and everybody on the ship felt the ripple of the waves, every body on the ship was in distress fearing the ship was in danger of breaking into peaces. Tell your neighbor don’t get me wet.
Now watch this Jesus, teaches a parable.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son. Whereas he talks about a father who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. Somebody say creating storms.
He created a storm for himself. If you keep reading you will find out that, the father sat on the porch day in and day out looking for his lost son. And the bible says he saw his son afar off and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
He was in the mist of the storm because of his son foolishness. He lost his joy, he was hart broken, it was not until the lost son came unto himself and came home before they began to be marry.
Don’t you know when you create a storm, everybody get wet. The 13-year-old little girl who decided to take the car for a joy ride killing her three friends created a storm. Her mother is in the mist of the storm; they are talking about putting her in jail. Three sets of mothers and fathers are in the mist of the storm, they are talking about burring their child. Can you imagine the burden you bear at the death of your child? Countless brother, sister and friends are in the mist of the storm, talking about how to live without their love one.
Don’t create storms because everybody get wet. Think about all the mother and father who stay up late at nigh praying for that child who has created a storm. How often does some parent put their house up for hock, because that nappy headed boy created a storm.
Place your self in danger
Finally, when you create a storm, you place yourself in danger. Jonah created a storm, place the others in jeopardy and when Jonah had to face up to his mess, he finds himself being caste overboard into the sea.
God has fit it so that you can run, but you cannot hide David looks over and see Bath-sheba, he creates a storm. David tries everything to cover up his mess, he lies, and he kills, but in 2 Samuel 12:1 Nathan comes unto David and David faces up his mess and if you read12th chapter of 2 Samuel you will find out that he was punished. Judas, thought better to have silver and Gold than Jesus and create a storm, but when he faced up to his mess, he found himself at the end of a rope.
When you create storms you will come to a point when you will have to face up to your mess and you will be punished. God has a way of shining his flashlight in the dark places of our lives. You remember Jimmy Swagger and Jerry Fallwell preached the gospel all over the country, but God flashlight shined in on their lives. Not long ago somehow God’s flashlight shined in on Bill Clinton’s life. Koby Briant went to Denver create a storm, and God’s flashlight took him into view.
Our children are creating storms, driving by and shooting, babies having babies, starting habits that they cannot stop, dropping out where they cannot drop in, getting in where they cannot get out. Somebody needs to tell our children what they do in the dark, will soon show up in the light.
Somebody need to tell our parents, that their children are not their friends, and when you make your children your friends you are creating storms. Don’t give them everything they see, don’t pick them up every time they fall, let then cry every now and then. Stop saying I am not going to treat my children like my parents treated me.
(Preclose)
And Somebody needs to tell husbands and wifes, stop putting every thing and everybody first, or you will create a storm. Stop putting your jobs first. I know that you must work, but mates come before jobs. Stop putting friends first, because mates come before friends. Stop putting children first, they can be replaced and made over again, that why mates come before children. Stop putting church first, worship at home because mate come before church. The only thing that comes before a mate is God. Put God first that every thing else will fall into place. If you put God first, you won’t create storms. I did not say you won’t have any storms, I says you won’t create storms.
Jonah made a mistake and fled from the Lord, he did not put God first, but that’s alright, that’s alright because God is so good. God prepared a fish just for Jonah. He carved him out to hold Jonah on the inside. He filled him with air to keep Jonah alive God is so good.
Close
I know God is good. He is so good, when we refused to put God first, he sent his only begotten son to a hill called Calvary and on that hill, they crucify my Lord and savior. On that hill, they place a thorny crown on his head. On that hill, they nail his hands and spike his feet. And on that hill, Jesus, I said, Jesus put his head in the lots of his shoulder and gave up the ghost. He died, somebody say he died, say he died, tell you neighbor he died. He went into a barrowed grave and set the captive free, and he remove the sting from death. And early Sunday morning he got up and stood on time and eternity with all power. he did so I can make it through the storm and through the rain. If any body ask you how I made it over say Jesus,
