Water Walking 101

So I thought today, since I have the opportunity to teach the word, go ahead and bring my materials please, I'm going to teach you a lesson today. This is more than a sermon. This is a class and the title of the class. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? I don't think you are. Come on in the chat ready now. I can't teach you how to cook. I can't teach you how to speak Spanish. I can't teach you any of that. I can't teach you CrossFit. I can't teach you hot yoga. I can't

teach you any of that. But today I want to teach a class. I want to teach a class, and I need to know who's Who's present. Let's have a roll call. Puts your name and your city, and the chat say present, present, present, present, Get your number two pencils. Welcome to water Walking one oh what are you ready? Amen? Those of you in the room remain standing water Walking

one on one. I thought we would get a jump on the school year and see what God would teach us today about the situations in our life that He has placed us over. And I just declare over your life today. Give me my camera. I'm looking at You're not going under. You're not going under. You are not going under. I declar it not going under. And so consider this your introductory class water Walking one oh one. Our syllabus is from Matthew Chapter fourteen, verses twenty two

through thirty three. I want you to find that in your Bible. This scripture is the first scripture that I ever preached on Yesterday I showed some of our staff. Or it was earlier this week actually that I showed some of our staff. Not yesterday, it was earlier this week. I showed some of our staff. The second sermon that I ever preached in the Woodmen of the World building Wow, Wow,

walk on water. And this is the first sermon I ever preached at Monk's Corner United Methodist Church for Youth Sunday. Shout out to my mom who brought me up in church. Shout out to the poor people who endured my first sermon. Now, the beauty of the Methodist Church is the sermon is only twelve minutes, so if it sucks, it's mercifully short. It's not like it is now where I don't even have a time clock because there's nobody coming in later. I'm just recording the message with a few staff in

the room who are socially distanced. But the horrible thing was I did not know the basics of preaching. Maybe you'd say, well that hasn't changed. Well, you may be right about that, but back then I didn't even know that you should practice or sermon before you preach it. And I got up there with like twelve note cards and I thought each note card would take a minute.

My whole sermon was done in two minutes. And I cycled back through the cards and said the same stuff again, and that that polite home crowd love got me through it. It's a wonder I ever did it again. But this is the passage that I preached my first sermon from. And so sometimes it's good to go back to basics. Okay, everybody wants to use basic as a slang term these days, you know, and she's basic. It's basic. Well, what's so

bad about basic? Sometimes I need to go back to the basics of faith, and this passage really helps me do that for all those who are needing God to get you over a situation that you feel like has overwhelmed you. The Bible says, immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountain side by himself to pray, and later that night he

was there alone. We talked about that a few weeks ago, didn't we We talked about lonely places, and Jesus chose the lonely place so that you and I could experience him in the loneliest seasons of our life. Now, Jesus sent the disciples out into the boat. The Bible says it was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it, and shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on the lake.

So here's our instructor for the class. Here comes walking on water, just right into your situation. The Bible says when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. Ghosts, they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them, take courage it is I. Don't be afraid. And then Teeter, Jesus star pupil, that one kid in the class who always wants to ask another question, says Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell

me to come to you on the water. Come, he said, And Peter got down out of the boat walked on the water. Wow. Everybody say wow in the chat. Wow. Wow. He walked on water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink. He cried out, Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, You of little faith, He said, why did you doubt? And they climbed into the boat.

The wind died down, and then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, truly you are the son of God. Lord. We thank you for your word today, and we thank you that it transcends time, space and geography. We ask you, now, Lord, that in this moment in our life, that our hearts would be still in your presence so that we can hear your word and move toward your purpose. I thank you for each person that you brought to this sermon today. I believe they're here

for a reason. I believe you're calling and drawing. I thank you that you are on the scene and help us on the way. Bring forth your word in our hearts. May it bud and flourish, prosper and do what you sent it to do in Jesus' name. Hey man, come on, let's clap our hands and thank God for his word. Those of you in the room be seated. I worked up a thirst. Can you thank you? Holli holiferdic everybody, Chris. But this is about the only way I know how

to walk on water that works. The simple stuff works. Simple stuff works in my life. I've read this text so many times, but I fear that sometimes we skim what God wants us to plunge into. And in our syllabus today there are a few details, you're not going to believe this. I actually have real points to dis sermon.

So every note taker who has ever been frustrated by my abstract mode of teaching is going to be in heaven today because I at least have six thoughts from this passage water walk one oh one, and I might put in a seventh for extra credit if God blesses

us with the time. But I noticed that a lot of times, when we get in a situation like these disciples were in, and maybe like you're in right now with your job, or maybe like you're in right now trying to figure out what to do with your family, those kids, your quiver is full right now, how many of y'all? Your quiver is full, and your quiver is of to be quite honest, your quiver is quivering, little Bible humor there quivering. And when we find ourselves in

these situations, there is a tendency to blame. You know. The disciples like to fight and like to argue with one another any chance they got. But yet the storm brought them together in a unique way. In Matthew chapter fourteen, trials sometimes tighten our focus, and so one thing we I don't see in this storm is Peter and John going back and forth, or Andrew and Bartholomew talking about who's rowing the hardest. They just need to make it through the storm. But what really got my attention was

a detail that I must have skimmed over. Like I mentioned, and today since we're in class, I want to study it a little more deeply, is that blame doesn't get you through a storm. And the detail I noticed in verse twenty two presented on the screen for me again, it said that Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. You know how people say the devil made me do it. Jesus

made the disciples get into the boat. He didn't ask them, he didn't recommend, he didn't suggest, And now it would be one thing if he didn't know. But he's of God with all wisdom. So how did the one with all wisdom send them into something that threatened their life? I want you to write down point number one in the class and put it in the chat. Certain storms are unavoidable. I just need you to know that certain storms. You know what I mean by storm, right, It's not

always physical. Sometimes there can be an emotional storm. Sometimes there can be a psychological storm. Sometimes there can be a relational storm. You know, these storms we get into sometimes we are so busy trying to figure out how to get out of them that we expend all the energy that we could have spent trying to learn what God wants us to learn through the storm. There's two ways to get through the storm, and one is as

a survivor. And how many know iss good? Just to celebrate that you're still here in case you had a bad week, I'm gonna give you fifteen unscripted seconds to praise God for the storms that you have survived. And you can sit there cute if it's been sunny in your neighborhood. But if you survived some depression, and if you thought you were going down but you made it, say given praise. To survive the storm is a miracle.

To survive abuse is a miracle. To survive an economy that is falling apart, but God provided is a miracle. But then God God says you can be a survivor. But then if you want to, there are certain people that they decide I'm not just gonna be a survivor. I'm gonna be a student of the storm. I am learning to learn from the storm. I am learning to learn from the storm. The thing about it is there are certain things that I can only learn in storms.

And the second thing that I want to point out to you in the text is that God's timing is designed to teach you to trust. When Jesus, who made the disciples, get into the boat, the Bible says that when he decided to reveal himself to them was just before dawn. If the goal that God has is to comfort us, then this is a late appearance. But if God's goal is sometimes to change us, then it makes

sense that he would show up late. Once one a time, I taught a sermon called Trusting God's Timing, and the idea behind it is that when we're experiencing something and it's very intense, we just want relief. And I get that. I mean, I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that there were times that I just wanted God to make stuff stop. And I just want to check with you real quick. Have you ever just wanted God to make it stop? Just make it stop. Just make it stop, God.

I'll do anything, Just make it stop. God, I'm sorry about that thing I did when I was in seventh grade. Just make it stop. And I mean, it can be a heartbreak, it can be a lot of times a loss in your life and you just feel like you're hemorrhaging and hurting God. Just make it stop. In the King James version of Matthew chapter fourteen, it says that it was the fourth watch of the night when Jesus came to them. That's the very last one. That's three

am to six am, the fourth watch. And yet, interestingly enough, the Bible says he went on a mountain to pray. I've actually been to this site. And when our guide took us to show us the mountain that Jesus might have prayed on, do you remember how he left us up there for a moment. And he really tricked us because when he left us up there, he was designing to show us that the seed that the disciples were straining in was visible to Jesus from his prayer station

the whole time. And he said, just because they didn't see Jesus didn't mean Jesus didn't see them. Zero point two, Part B. This won't be on the test just because I don't see him doesn't mean he's not watching me. And he left us up there on the mountain. He left us up there for an hour. The guy we went to Israel, and I cried about the times of my life where I thought he had left me. The Fourth Watch, the fourth Watch. The first Watch isn't so bad, Second Watch, third Watch. I feel like we're in a

moment right now, at least in our nation. I don't know exactly what it's like in your country. It feels kind of like the Fourth Watch right now for a lot of us, not for all of us. The novelty has worn off of everything. Oh when we first started going into quarantine, I was like, well, this is kind of cool. You know, life's slowing down a little bit. We have a little more family time. Yeah, my quiver

is full now. I've had enough family time to last me till my daughter is forty and she's nine right now, and I love my kids. Well, how about fourth watch? Faith? See, I've seen a lot of people with first Watch faith, second Watch faith, Third Watch faith. But God's timing is not designed to give us relief. So if it's not designed to give you relief, what's it designed to give you?

Revelation curse. I'm a run a lad. I'll be right back. Hey, I know y'all can't see me, but if you can hear me, shout that just because you can't see him doesn't mean he left you. Come on, I what's on the book? The whole time, he's watching you. He's watching you, he's watching you, He's guiding me, he's leading me. So it's interesting that God's timing. You know, our timing is usually allocated around when we think God should do things, and then we start. The longer it goes, this is

just in my life. Okay, So you know, please send me a critical email if you found God to be different in your experience contradicts what I'm saying. I found that the longer I wait, the louder my what ifs get. But the third thing I wanted to tell you in water Walking one O one? Are you enjoying the class so far? Now? This is the point in the semester where you need to cancel if you want to drop the class. This is the last point to cancel. Okay, if you're still in, say i'm in, I'm in, I'm in,

I'm in. I want to teach you something very powerful. And this is what I really want to teach you about. What if works both ways. The wind was against them, the word was for them, and what if works both ways. So when we get into hypothetical situations, the longer that we wait on God to change certain situations. And once again, how many are there right now? And maybe you even feel like you're drowning in what you don't know and you've analyzed it and there's a certain element of it

you can't control. Because the devil didn't start this storm. Jesus sent them directly into it. So a lot of us we would turn around at this point and say, well, maybe we didn't hear him right, But they pressed to the other side because watch this are you are you awake? What if there's something on the other side that is worth going through the storm for it? Ah, I feel the spirit of God. Is it just me? Or or or or? Or? Is it harder sometimes for us to give faith to the what if than it is to

give fear to the what if? And just like the wind blows, you know, the wind can blow in either direction, so can the what ifs. And a lot of times in my life I've learned that fear is just faith in the wrong. What if so watch this? What if we fail? What if we don't. We're here with a lot of our staff. We had some training, and I asked them to stay around and help me preach to you. And we told some of the stories, but we didn't tell all the stories about when we started the church.

Hollywood was reminding me of one the other day where just as soon as we went to start the church, the resources that were supposed to be given for our salary were pulled back. And then somebody else was going to pay our insurance and that got pulled back. Now, if my faith in God was contingent upon the conditions, I would have taken that as a sign that God

didn't speak to me to start the church. But if the wind is proof that what's on the other side is so significant that you have to push through to get there, a lot of us we interpret the wind as an indication that we should turn back around and head home. But in this particular situation, Jesus said, I want you to go to the other side. Now Here comes the wind. That represents resistance for you, That may

represent depression for you, that might represent anxiety. We all go through different storms, and as I've talked from this pulpit before, comparing the size of your storm to my storm, and the significance of my storm to your storm, storm serves no purpose. The greatest thing about the passage is that Peter didn't even really express faith. He just considered possibility. And I'm going to show you this. He didn't say, Lord, I know it's you tell me to come. He said, Lord,

if if, if? If? What if? What if works both ways? What if can make you give up? What if can make you freak out? Or what if can make you step forward? And yet I want you to notice something Jesus did. Are you ready? This is where it gets good. This is where it gets good. He said, if this, you give me a word. And Jesus took him really literally. He gave him one word, one word, one word, one word. Did you see it in the text? Come? Yo? I had at chihuahua. That's how we talk to the dog.

Jesus talked to Peter like I talked to yo yo. That that was the dog's name, Yo Yo. This is a confession. I had a chihuahua named Yoga yo Yo Yogo yo yo Yo Yo yo we would say, come, stay, stuff like that. Jesus talked to Peter like I talked to yo yo. And here's why I think, all right, you don't know what this makes me think that sometimes the deepest things that God speaks will also be the simplest, because sometimes we can we can confuse deep with confusing.

And I noticed a lot of times I would rather learn something new than practice something old. Some of the deepest things that God will speak will be so simple, like come, okay, Well, Jesus, I was expecting a little more. I never walked on water before. You're gonna give me any pointers? Yeah, anymore, like a little bit of coaching, like should I go? Should I put all my weight on one foot? And you gotta remember, we read these Bible stories and we just compare walking on water to

pay in our bills. He was walking on water. We making mean whenever we want changing a tire, walking on water, right, Peter is transcending the laws of buoyancy. And yet Jesus does not give him details, just direction. So if God hasn't given you details right now, ask him for direction instead. Some of the biggest words God ever spoke to me in my life were just directions impressions in my spirit.

Can I share one with you? Here's one. Sometimes God will speak to me and they tell me go say I'm sorry, Like, well, Lord, I I would rather do a Bible study on forgiveness. You see how sometimes we want something deep so we don't have to do anything with it. I've been guilty in seasons of my life at highlighting my Bible right, But at the same time I was highlighting my Bible, I wasn't even willing to

embrace the simplest habits like gratitude. I know in my life that being grateful is the greatest way for me to have joy. So why is it the hardest thing to do? Because it's so simple? See right now in this season, maybe we need to simplify what God is speaking to us to understand everything. Some of us have so complicated what we need from God to move forward in faith. But all he said was come. Sometimes all he'll say to you is is peace. Sometimes all he'll

say to you is law. Sometimes all he'll say to you is forgive. And I found out that sometimes God will not give the details, He'll simply set the direction. Wow, all right, come, Wow, you really took me literally there if this youth tell me to come, come. Oh man, God was speaking to me studying this. He said, you know how you want confirmation to obey me sometimes? You know, like God, I'll do it if you give me a sign,

give me a sign that I'm supposed to do it. Yeah, and you know you're supposed to do it to something you know you're supposed to do anyway, God, give me a sign and i'll tie. Give me a sign, and you know you're always supposed to do it. You know you're to do it. God said, the command is the confirmation. Well, God, I don't know if I can. I wouldn't have told you to come if you couldn't let me bring this home. I wouldn't have made you his father if I wouldn't

enable you to raise him. So, when I don't feel like i'm enough, I realize if God gave it to me, he put it in me. He put it in me. So when he said come, when he gave the command, he also supplied the strength for me to step on step out. Yes, Lord, I can do it, Yes Lord, I can make it. You wouldn't have told me to preach if you wouldn't enable me to preach. You wouldn't have told me. The same voice that told him to come would be the same word that would enable him

to do it. So I don't need any more confirmation but that he told me to Wow. But Lord, are there any sub points like come? Come? Is the Roman numeral one? Right, there's a class, right, all right? So come left foot first, right, Well, show me how to do it. Come, and Peter did, which is what makes the next part really weird. I mean really weird. I'm gonna lose some of y'all here because it's really weird. How many disciples y'all answered so slow, like it was

a trick, like I was gonna go deep on you. Well, actually, we're all disciples of the Lord, so as actually are more than twelve. It's twelve in the boat that day. How many disciples? Twelve disciples? Let's don't put Judas in eleven disciples that didn't suck. Eleven sincere disciples and Judas all going to the other side. Now there's an assignment on the other side. Everybody say, there's an assignment on the other side. Come on, say it right now. In

the chat, there's an assignment on the other side. There's an assignment on the other side. There's an assignment on the other side. But God is weird because he gives the test before the lesson. They don't even know what's on the other side, and neither do you. Neither to you, none of us do what's on the other side of what we're currently going through. I told our staff today our new church logo. It used to be one of these.

Now it's a question mark. That's our new church logo, were we're gonna open all the buildings a question mark. And yet at the same time, I love how Peter of all the eleven and Judice Peter was on I had the faith to step out, and I get with that because you know, do it big, you know, do it big. You're gonna do it? Do you know? Go big? Peter this year, tell me come come. So he makes this big move and the Bible doesn't say how long he walked on the water. He must have made it

pretty far. And I'm gonna tell you why I think this consider with me. They couldn't see Jesus up close enough to know whether it was a ghost or really Jesus. He needed to hear him to know. The only way that they heard the word was the wind carried it. The wind that was against the disciples carried the voice of Jesus. Some of the things that are against you will enable you to hear God more clearly. But the

other thing is when Peter fell. The Bible says a word that started the passage as well, and you can look this up. In verse twenty two. It says immediately Jesus made them get in the boat to the other side. And then it says that when Peter got out of the boat, everybody say, big move Immediately when he started to sink, Jesus grabbed me. It doesn't say he fell immediately. It says that as soon as he started to fall, Jesus called him. Now, when Peter fell, and Jesus called

him immediately. The next thing Jesus said is something that he said a few times in scripture. He said, you of little faith. That offended me. If anybody deserves to be called little faith, it's Judas. You're going to single out Peter. And that bothered me that he called that little faith. I mean, if you think it's little faith, you go do it. When someone says, ah, that sermon's pretty good, it wasn't your best. I'm like, will you preach one, I'll go listen to yours. I'll go listen

to your best one. Preach your best one. You do it, you know. I just think you need to be more patient with your kids. Good. I'll send them over to you and you can give them the patience I haven't been giving them lately. You do it, That's what I was thinking. So I sat with it because last week I preached about little did you hear that sermon? Take

the lid off a little? And the whole phrase got me, You of little faith, and I thought, well, we're all doomed if he thinks that's little I mean, it's all I can do to get in a five minute prayer time right now and not get distracted and start checking my phone. So if that's what he thinks is little faith, I'm definitely not making it to heaven if that's little faith. But the phrase you of little faith doesn't necessarily refer to quantity. It refers to quality. So it's not how

much faith, it's how far faith. Little faith it doesn't mean that it wasn't strong. It means that it wasn't sustained. So I want to show you something now, and I want you to lean into this because I thought, well, Jesus, if that's little faith, then what is big faith? And boom, it hit me a scripture that I read about one of the two times that Jesus was actual amazed. There are only two times in the New Testament that the

Bible says Jesus was amazed. One time was in his hometown where they had no faith in him because they were too familiar with him. That's a whole sermon that we don't have time for in this class. That's familiarity one oh one, and we'll do that class on another day. How familiarity can be the enemy of faith, how you can start just getting so comfortable in your life that you're afraid to do anything else. So that's one time

that he was amazed that they're lack of faith. But what I want to show you is in Matthew chapter eight. And if you go with me to Matthew chapter eight, we're going to see one of the times that Jesus was amazed. The Bible says that there was a centurion, a military official who had a sick servant. He had an issue. His storm was not a hurricane, or wasn't rain and thunder and lightning. His particular need revolved around

the sickness of someone that he cared about. And when Jesus Matthew chapter eight, verse five, had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him. Now listen, this word is right for you. The spirit of God gave me this passage because I couldn't figure out if that's little faith, then what's great faith? And he asked Jesus. This centurion he asked Jesus for help. Lord. He said, my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly. And Jesus said to him,

shall I come and heal him? Now, let's contrast. Peter said, if it's you, tell me to come. Jesus asked the centurion, well should I come? And what I saw next blew my mind. I never saw it before. I've been preaching since sixteen I never saw this before in the scripture. I never saw it. The centurion reply, Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority with soldiers

under me. I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes. I say to my servant, do this, and he does it. And when Jesus heard this, he was amazed. He was blown away. He was poor Emoji. He was amazed. And he said to those following him, truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. And the Lord spoke to me this. One disciple said, Lord, if it's you tell me to come, Jesus said, that's little faith. One man said, Jesus, I know who you are.

You can stay. And the Lord said, sometimes it takes greater faith to stay. Stay you will keep him in perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on me. I hear the Lord saying you can come, And that's fine. That's little faith. But sometimes the greatest faith is when you stay because you trust that the one who spoke the

word has authority over every situation. And see, right now we're in a storm where we don't really have anywhere to go, and there's really only so much we can do, and I don't really have a whole lot of options. And God said, when I see you staying in praise and staying grateful and staying encouraged, and staying on the job, and staying in the ministry and just staying staying. That's great faith. It's great when you say you can come

if you want to. But Jesus said, great faith, it's when you know that if I said, let's go to the other side, there's no storm in Galilee, there's so defin in Hell. They's so virus in the world. So number five is big moves don't always prove great faith. I'm preaching to somebody right now who you're walking on water, but you're doing it in little steps. I mean, some of these people they walk on water fancy, but you're just like, uh. God said, that's great, that's great, that's great,

that's great, great faith, he said. He said, I don't even need you to come. I don't need you to come. Peter said, if it's you tell me to come, come, he said, I don't even need you to come. I don't even need all that. I don't even need a film. I don't even need a confirmation. The command is a confirmation. If you said you never leave me or forsake me, you made that promise, you gave the guarantee. That's good with me. I know what authority looks like because Jesus said,

that's great faith. It's great faith. Sometimes we think people have faith when they're really just freaking out, really just doing stuff. Oh wow, man, that SuDS great faith. This man said, I don't even need a dramatic sign for you to do it. God doesn't always need drama to do it. Such a simple word, such a deep expression of faith. And yet that's really not the message, is it. Because he still fell. No, this encouraged me. He failed

the test, but he still got the lesson. I said, everybody who wasn't a real good student, this is your part to shout on. He failed the test. Everybody who's nervous about home school and your kid, this is your point to shout on. He failed the test, but he got the lesson because it really wasn't a lesson about water. It was a lesson about worship. Truly, you're the son of God. And they begin to worship him, and the wind died down when he got in the boat. Now, Holly,

will you come. The essence of salvation is this, by grace, through faith, you are saved. Everybody say, by grace, through faith you are saved. This not of yourselves is the gift of God out of work, so that no one can boast Ephesians to eight and nine. So I never saw this as a picture of salvation because I was so focused on the storm. And you know, sometimes we go through things that we get so consumed by the

test that we don't even get the lesson. But I want to show you in the text that Peter beginning to sink, I don't know who this is for. It might not even be for anybody who's in this room. But Peter's faith was not in his ability to make it to Jesus. The Bible says that when he started to go down, immediately he reached out his hand and caught him. Reach out and catch my hand. You can't unless I'm close. So my faith isn't in how far I can walk. Do you remember when Graham started playing

at catcher and he got pretty good at catcher. I was so proud that my kid was good at a position on baseball, just like me. I was a catcher when I was a kid. I was proud. And the league that they were in, usually they wouldn't even try to make a play at home because all the catchers sucked except ours. Oka our kid was the only good catcher, and the coach trying to get the third baseman to make the throw at home, but he wouldn't do it.

And I remember one time that the coach was yelling at the kid playing thirty, was like, make the throw at home when he's when he's going home, you throw him out. He said, I can't make the throw. The coach said, that's all right, you got a good catcher. That's something in my mind brought me back to remind you today in waterwalk in one oh one that you got a good catcher. You got a good catcher. Put it in the chat right now. I got a good catcher.

I don't know if I can make the throw. I got little faith, but I'm gonna go ahead and throw it out there because not because I'm gonna make it all the way, not because i can predict the past, not because I know how this ends, not because I Winsteyn down, not because I'm so good at walking on water. I'm trembling in. My legs are weak, and I don't really know, but he's close enough for child point number six.

Grace and faith go hand in hand. They go hand in hand when you don't really believe in the grace of God. You don't have faith in God because until you really believe he's close enough to catch you, you will always stumble. Peter's faith was not in his feet. It was in Jesus' hand. And it is by grace through faith that God is going to get you through this storm. And I need you to praise him right now for little faith. Watch this. I got little faith, but I got great grace. Oh God, great grace. AH

got a big God. I gotta good God. He's gotten me and he won't let go. Come on, throw up your hands and give him worship. Give it worship, Give it worship, given worship. So I found out how to walk on water. I don't walk on water with my feet. I walk on water with a word. He said, Lord, any crazy that when Peter's legs failed in his mouth saved him. He cried out, Lord, save me. And immediately I'm telling you, if you reach for grace right now now, my confidence is not in the fact that I'm able

to walk so perfectly. My confidence is in the fact that He's close enough to catch me. And so my message today, my message today is that sometimes the way you go to deeper faith is to just fall in the right place. This concludes water walking. If you know that he's the one who can make the wind die down with one word from his mouth, give him praise right where you are. Give him praise and honor. Come on, I got a good catcher. I'm a lobbly walker, but

I got a good catcher, So I'm going farmer. I'm not going under. And you know what. That wind is tricky. You know Peter came toward Jesus, but he looked at the wind, and right now in your life, listen to me. Listen to me. I want to say this like I would say it to one of my kids. What you have to learn to ignore is just as important as what you have to learn to walk toward. Some of us are walking toward the right thing, but we are not ignoring the others. You gotta get your eyes on

the grace of God. You gotta get your mind on the goodness of God. You gotta get your thoughts on the possibility. I mean, what if he doesn't What if he's guiding you? I know you even thinking what if I fall? What if he catches you? What if you worship? What if you put your worry in reverse. Oh Lord, I believe that all things are working together for my good. And I don't know who this class is for, but it's just basic faith. Man, that my faith is not

in my faith, it's in the grace of God. So listen. I hear him saying, come, the same thing he told Peter. I hear him saying to me. I hear him saying to you in this season, and that means something different right now for each of us. For you, maybe that means to draw near to God in this season because you haven't been hearing his word. You've just been blown by the wind. For some of you, that may mean that you stopped walking toward what God gave you to

do because of what was against you. But remember, the wind can carry his word into your heart. And for a lot of us, it means that in this moment, I just need to stop and say, Lord, I'm drowning. Oh God, I can't. I can't stay out here by myself. Would you save me? Would you help me out? Would you show me how to do it? Just say the word, the centurion said, my servant will be healed. Lord. I thank you for the privileged to minister your word today.

Your word is powerful, Your word is eternal, Your word is living. We put our hand in your hand right now. We put our faith in your grace. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. We open our mouths to say that truly you are the son of God. It's the fourth watch of the night for somebody, and literally they've been wondering, am I going down? And is this? It? Is there even another side? I don't know it anymore. I thank you that your eye is upon them now. You sent your word today

to speak right to that situation. After all, we can't really walk on water, but we can walk on your word. Say the word, speak it to their heart right now. You know what they need to hear, calling them closer and telling them to come, upholding them with your righteous right hand. I speak your word today over every city, over every country, over every child of God who's joined up with this ministry in this moment, Send your word

and heal them. The centurion said, I don't even need you to come, if you'll just send the word to my house. Send your word to their house. God, send your word to their house. Send your word to their house. Send it with power and authority and glory and break strongholds and speak peace by the power of your word in Jesus's name. In Jesus' name, Come on, let's clap our hands and thank God for us. Come on, clap those pass This is how this is how you are. This is how you watch him. This is how you

watch him. Thank you Lord, come on, give him great praise on a thank you Lord. I wish I had a certificate to give you for water walking one oh one. Did you enjoy the class? Hey, you know, even beyond just enjoying it. You know, the word doesn't work until we work it. And so I'm just praying that you would act on something simple from God this week. And it can be the littlest things that make the biggest difference.

We talked about that last week. It's kind of a theme, and I believe God's going to give you the strength to get through the storm, and not only to survive it, to be stronger because of it. I know that sounds like a cliche, but I'm believing it for your life by faith. Hey, thank you for being a part of our ministry. We don't take it for granted, Holly, and I love you. Our team is so grateful for the privileged to minister to you. Don't forget to subscribe, but

also share. Get the word to somebody. If you know somebody who's going through a storm right now, maybe this message will help them to get their eyes on Jesus and keep moving toward God's purpose. You're going to walk on water, one foot in front of the other. I'll see you next time. I love you.