Through The Storm

Sermon - Through the storm

- Last week I preached on waking up, & getting to work for our Lord that saved us & is

returning for us.

- Now, this week the Lord has put the word storm on my mind quite a bit & I

honestly hadn’t thought of a storm coming. At least not in a figurative since.

- There’s a lot of things that happen in our lives that we aren’t really ready for.

- We should be ready though!

- Listen to it again this week, Awake my bride, awake!

- Think about Mordecai we talked about Wednesday night.

- He paced, back & forth waiting to hear how Esther was doing.

- He never once stopped to call on God.

Q- Is that our method?

Q- Would we know who to call on in time of trouble?

- To be a child of God means you have the most ultimate Daddy there is, was, & ever

will be!

- Daddy is going to take care of His children!

- Open your Bibles now to psalm 91:1-16

Psalm 91:1-16

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

- This was a psalm that was sang with one group singing a line & the other group

singing the next. Almost like a response to the first.

- Then, at verse 14 it reads as though God is responding.

Q- Can you imagine this song being sung?

- This is a picture of our faith in our God, & His response.

Prayer

> Probably the hardest thing to give to God & let him take care of it is, our health. We

say a prayer, ask for help, & then begin worrying about it again. Well there’s a

vitamin out for Christians now that ensures you will have the greatest health.

> Q- Do you know what it is?

> B1.

- Be a Christian! The storms come, they devastate our lives, but we’re still alive.

- I know you could say, but so many didn’t survive the storm, but they did.

Q- How did they?

- They did it in Christ.

Romans 6:8

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

- There’s no sickness, no disease, no calamity, no power on the face of this creation

that could ever take us from the hand of Christ!

John 10:28

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

- I testify to this storm, because on days, I feel good. Then from no where, a simple

task of getting up out of a chair, getting out of the car, or especially walking turns

into, If I move this way I’m met with this sharp shooting pain, & if I move too fast my

body just freezes up.

- Then when I push through this pain, the storm is on the horizon, because tomorrow

will be worse.

Q- Does any of this get me down?