Where Is Your Faith Series

WHERE IS YOUR FAITH

LUKE 8:22-25

22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water and were in jeopardy.

24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

25 And he said unto them, where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, what manner of man is this! For he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

Have you ever sat on the front porch and notice black clouds rolling in? You can see something coming and you can only think what will be in this coming storm.

There are times in our life's storms will arise, they will come on suddenly, swiftly and sometimes severe.

We will be tested during those times in our lives.

Vs 22- Notice here Jesus said, “Let us”, He is making it known to them that he also is involved. Any time you are going to have to cross over, cross under, Jesus will be there.

VS 23 – Here we see Jesus falls asleep, the rest stay up and worked at what they were doing. Jesus already knew what was going on and he did not need to go worrying anymore about it.

The Bible says, “They were filled with water and were in jeopardy.”

You can mark it down; storms will arise in your life. Here the disciples were as close to Jesus as anyone, but they could not escape the storm that came upon them.

In the verse we see the word “water”, which in the Bible translate to the “Word of God”, and I’m sure these disciples were filled with the Word that Jesus had told them. Even with the knowledge of the Word, life storms will still come over you under you and all around you. You may even feel in jeopardy.

Satan will still attack the Christians. Satan just won’t lie down and forget you are even around no more. He wants to ruin that testimony, that fruitful living. Satan still wants to get that jab in and make it hurt. Sometimes he can hurt us bad but thank God He can’t kill that spirit in us.

VS 24 – Here in this verse the disciples went to Jesus.

If there is anything we need to learn here is that we need to go to Jesus during the storms in our lives. Jesus wants us to come to him. He is our father, and he loves us, he cares for us.

I want to tell you something church, these disciples went to Jesus and called him Master, not once but twice. These boys were scared. They were in some kind of storm.

** I can picture all of this going on in that boat as the waves were crashing against the boat, coming over the sides and filling the boat up.

**I can see John over there with a bucket in his hand bailing away.

** I can see Matthew; he is jumping all around the place bending down and bailing out the water with his hands.

**I can maybe see James; He just don’t know what to do. But he is trying his best to stay away from the water that is coming over the sides of the boat.

** Then you have Thomas, everybody has some type of Thomas with them. He was just sitting there and saying, “I knew this boat was too little, this boat was not large enough, I know we are not going to make it to the other side.”

** Then church you have Peter! Bless his heart, I probably think he was near the front of the boat and kicking and screaming and kicking the boat. Then once his foot got too sore from kicking, he properly started cussing!

Then Peter notices the other’s trying to bail out all the water, and he tells them, “Boys this storm is just too big for us to fix. We are goners for sure, then he just sits down and start more complaining.

Peter see’s Thomas over there doubting everything and Peter starts yelling at him and tells him it’s all his fault, it sure wasn’t mine. I would just stay on the other side.

Just when all seems lost, as these disciples thought, here in verse 24 they said, “We perish.”

When things are the darkest, when things look like there are no other options, we just need to turn to Jesus.