Amen. Boy, it's good to be here tonight. Thank the Lord for the opportunity. It's still day outside, so there's still time to preach. Amen. Praise the Lord. I'll tell you, it is good to be here. Man, I enjoyed that, Brother Norman. That was very good. And I'll tell you, that singing, sis. Wow. And the other singing up here. Tremendous tonight. And I am thrilled to be here in this camp meeting. Amen. Thrilled to be here. I'm going to loosen up this choker. Amen. It ain't gold, but it still chokes. Amen. But it is a thrill to be here. Yesterday, or not yesterday, well today is Monday, yesterday, in our church I preached a message. And I preached on the ones God will not save. Now, I know the first thing goes in your mind, the Bible says all sin is forgiven, but the sins are blaspheming against the Holy Ghost. I didn't say he couldn't save them. I said he will not save them. And I preached on just a few topics on that, and I preached on he won't save the prideful ones that have pride in their life. He won't save them. He won't save those that procrastinate and piss it off. He won't save them. He won't save those who are pretenders. They pretend to have religion. He won't save them. And He won't save those who protest Him. Now you say, Preacher, why will He not save them? Because they will not will Him to save them. God put in the heart of three men the will whether to serve Him or serve Him not. Now said all that to say this. If we don't will Him to let us have camp meat, we won't have it. Amen. We've got to open up our hearts and let Him work in our lives. We've got to come to camp meat and say, Lord, I want You to give me something. I want You to fill my heart. Let You be real in my life. We've got to open our will up to Him and say, Lord, bless me. I heard a man say one time, you get no more out of church than what you wish while you're there. Amen. And that's the reality. You'll get no more out of it than that. But it is good to be here. I thought about it when our brother was preaching. Man, he's on the same line of where God has led my heart tonight. Not the same scripture, not the exact same message, but it sure tags together. Amen. Turn your Bibles with us in the book of Mark's Gospel chapter 4. I'm going to begin reading in verse 35. While you're turning, let me say to your pastor I appreciate him and thank him for the opportunity to come. You can stand when you find the reading of the Word of God. And I want to preach to you tonight a little bit about the storm. There's a lot of storms in this life. Recently, in the mountains where I'm at, in Tennessee, we had tornadoes. Those tornadoes were devastating and took two lives in the county. There where we're at. Matter of fact, one of the ladies' life it took was a member, or not a member of our church, but an attender of our church, and had just got saved two Sunday nights before she died. Never even got a chance to baptize her. You see, we really don't know what storms coming our way. We don't know what we're going to face tomorrow. But thank God we know the God who will keep us through it. And His name is Jesus. Matter of fact, the Wednesday night, the Sunday night before she died on that Wednesday night, she was on the altar at our church. No, the Sunday night before. And you know what she was praying for? For her husband and her son that was lost. They got spared. She got redeemed. Amen. Amen. We don't know what storm's coming our way. We don't know what we're facing tomorrow. Let us read and preach to your heart. And in verse 35, in the same day, when the evening was come, he said unto them, Mark's Gospel, chapter 4, verse 35. I don't know if I gave you the clear Scripture, but he said, let us pass over to the other side unto them, Let me start over, I've got it all messed up. And the same day, when the evening was come, he said unto them, let us pass over to the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, he took him, and even as he was in the ship, and there were also with him other little ships, and there arose a great storm of winds and waves beaten into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hind part of the ship, asleep on the pillar, and they awaked him and said unto him, Master, carest not that we perish. He arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, Peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? And they feared it seely, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him? And may God add a blessing to the reading of the word of God, and you may be seated. I want to speak tonight on a song I heard some time ago, the title of it. I don't know if it was the title of the song, but it was in the song, and that is, he's the master of the storm. Amen? Isn't it good to know that he's the master of the storm? Whatever storm may come our way, whatever may drift into our lives, Jesus is still the master over it. Now, for us to understand this story, we're going to have to go back into chapter 3 some, because this all ties together, and we find that Jesus had had a long, long days there. He had had a long day. This event which started back in chapter 3, we find that the first thing he ran into that day was a confrontation with the Pharisees. As they come against him and begin to try to entrap him, and he there, standing against the Pharisees, his family became worried about him. And we find there in verse 31 and 35, they sent for him. And they said, listen, come on with us. They brought word to him, your mother and your father and your brethren look for you. And he made this statement, who is my brother and who is my father, who is my mother? And they wanted to bring him out, for they feared for him, is what we are led to believe here. And then Jesus takes a little boat and goes out into the Sea of Galilee, and he sits there, and he teaches all the people that surround him. He teaches them, and he begins to open up the parable to them. And after he had got through teaching them, then he sent them away, and he privately got with his disciples and explained the parable and broke it down so they could understand it. And then he said to them, he said, let's get in a ship and go to the other side. In other words, get out of this multitude and go into another multitude and I may do what my Father has sent me to do. Now, being weary in the body, this is one of the most greatest demonstrations of the human side of Jesus Christ in all the Bible. And being weary in the body, He went to the hinder part of the ship and He fell asleep. That was the man's side of Him. Listen, He knows our weariness. He knows our body's limited. He knows how that we become tired and weary in this life. He understands it ever be. As a matter of fact, Psalms 103 and 14 says, He knoweth our frame, and He remembereth that we are dust. He knows our limitations. Brother Jeff, we don't know our limitations, but He knows our limitations. He knows how much He can lay upon us. He knows how much we can take. He knows how much we can endure. We don't know it, but He knows it. And I'm glad He does. Because if we knew what we thought our limitations were, we'd quit when we got there. We just got to trust in Him. Let Him lead our lives. And so the ship, they were told to get in that ship and go to the other side. Now there's something I want you to understand here. The disciples were not afraid to get in that ship at night and go to the other side. Two reasons for that. The first reason, they were fishermen. They had been on the Sea of Galilee before. They knew how the Sea of Galilee was. The second is that history teaches us that very seldom did a storm ever come up in the nighttime on the Sea of Galilee. It's led to believe that most of the time it was in the daytime. That's why they would fish at night. It's because the sea would be more calmer and the sea wouldn't be in such an uproar. Because the disciples wasn't so afraid to do what the Lord asked them to do. Now I brought that up for this reason. The things we aren't afraid to do, we jump right in and ready to do it. And we better realize also that the things we aren't afraid in, that many times there are storms in those things. Many times we're not afraid to jump into it just to find ourselves in the midst of a storm. The disciples were not, I believe, afraid to get into that ship. You remember on another occasion, Jesus said, let's go. And they beckoned him not to go. They could see the storm was on its way. They could see the storm was coming. Matter of fact, this was the incident that Peter walked on the water. But in this situation, they were not worried. They were ready to go. And they got into the ship to go to the other side. Oh, my friend. We need not to be afraid to do what we aren't afraid of, and we don't need to be afraid to do what we are afraid of when Jesus tells us to do it, when the Lord tells us to do it. Oh, listen to me. I don't believe any preacher ever climbs in the pulpit that he hasn't got some little bit of fear in his life. And I believe the greatest fear that any true preacher has is this, will I do exactly what God wants done while I'm in that pulpit? We can adjust to congregations, we can adjust to those that are against us, but we can never adjust to the fact are we doing everything in every message that God wants to deliver. At least I'm speaking from my own feelings, and I fear that more than anything else, that God, when I get behind your sacred stand, Lord, help me to do what you want me to do, and not what I want to do. But they had no fear of the storm, my friend. But there, listen to me. I want to speak to you just three things, too, Brother Dockerman, that I've had to share with you. First of all, I want to talk to you. about the power of the storm. It was a mighty storm. The Bible says that the ship was under such stress that the ship had filled up. That means all the dipping, all the flowing out of water was doing no good. The ship was going down. The severity of it. First of all, the suddenness of it. The suddenness of it is that storms come quickly. Quickly. The Sea of Galilee is a very unique sea. It's one of the few seas, and I say it that way because I'm not sure if there is another one, but I'll say it that way. It's one of the few seas that is completely surrounded by land. I mean, there is land all around it. There is not but one exit out of the Sea of Galilee, and that is the Jordan River, which turns out of the Sea of Galilee into the Jordan River. And listen, that runs through and on the edge of the desert that the children of Israel wandered in for 40 years. I've been on this Sea of Galilee, and I've seen the mountains that surround it. And it is just an awesome picture. And I was on that ship in the middle of that sea, and I got to thinking, what was the disciples experiencing? When that sea began to rock and rave, when I was on it, it was very calm. I talked to a preacher friend of mine, and I asked him when he went to Israel, did he go on the Sea of Galilee? Did they stop in the sea and have a service on the ship? He said, no. He said it was a bad storm the day we were there. He said, a bad storm. He said, the captain said, this very, very seldom ever happens, that there be a storm like this in the day. And they were not able to park. Listen, the Sea of Galilee is only 13 miles wide and 7 miles long. That is approximately, they tell me, 150 feet deep. But what we have to realize is that the Sea of Galilee is surrounded by mountains. And on the other side of those mountains are the desert I talked about, that the children of Israel wandered in for 40 years. And what happens is the wind will build up on that desert, and it'll come across that mountain. And when it comes across that mountain, it is like a downdraft that goes down the other side, and it creates waves that they tell me can be from 15 to 20 feet high. No wonder the disciples were fearful. It was a sudden storm. It was a great storm. But the severity of it was that this storm was about to overtake the ship. Let me back up a second and say this. In life, sudden storms come the same way. The preacher has already preached about it some tonight. I told you right in line where I was. He's already preached about his son. You know what Job 14 and 1 said? Man is born of a woman, is of a few days, and full of troubles. We have storms in this life. Actually, Acts 2 and 23. For all our days are sorrows, and in it prevail grieves. Yea, the heart taketh not rest. In the night this is also vanity. Storms happen suddenly. He said it a while ago. One moment things is going good, then all of a sudden it's tore apart. suddenness of them storms that falls our way. Think about it. You receive one phone call. Listen, and your whole life falls apart. In a 24-hour period, it can change so drastic, and your whole life never be the same. Listen, it happens suddenly, suddenly in the hearts of God's children. Listen, I want you to know something. One doctor visits. can change our whole life. We're walking along and everything's good. Everything's going right. And then they tell us some tragedy in our lives. We didn't even know what's present. And we have to readjust our lives and get ready for the change that is. I heard someone say this one time. You are either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or headed to a storm. I want to add something to that. Or headed to heaven. That's the only way you're going to escape storms, is to go to heaven. It's the only way. So life is full of troubles, and suddenly they come up into our lives. And the severity is strong sometimes. As I said, the boat was full of water. I like what I heard one preacher say, Brother Jeff. They didn't need to worry. Jesus was in the ship. When we're in the ship with Jesus, why do we get so fearful? When we're in His ship, why do we get so fearful? They didn't need to worry, but the ship was sinking. It was rocking. The waves were pouncing in. It was filling up with water. The violent storm was against it, and it was night. They couldn't see where they were going. They didn't know where the other ships were that were out there with them that the Bible said also went out. They didn't know where it was. The storm was surrounding them. They didn't know where the shoreline was. They didn't know where the rocks was. And that's the way we get when storms get in our way. We get in chaos with ourselves. Because we don't know what's going on. We don't know what's happening. But we can always know that Jesus knows. Jesus is in control. And so we find that in life there are storms of suffering that we have to go through. There are storms of sorrow that we face. I heard our dear sister say up here tonight that they had suffered death in their family and around them. I think she said family. I know they said that she had been around death. What are you saying, preacher? There are sorrows in the life of a preacher, but God is still on the throne. He is still on the front. Amen. Listen, the sorrows come, the troubles come, and sometimes we have storms. That is because of the sin in our lives. Those are the ones we don't want to own up to. Amen. How many times have I heard this? I must be doing something good for all this trouble to be coming to me. Very few people ever walks up to me, preacher, and says, you know, I may be sinning somewhere with this happening in my life. Very few people does that. Most of them goes to the back top. I must be really living for God. Look at the storm that I'm facing. Listen, sometimes storms are caused by the sin that's in our lives, the sin that we are approached. When sin enters into our heart, it comes with a cool, calm way. It's just lovely. It looks beautiful. The flesh says you need it. The flesh says, follow it. The flesh says, take it. And before we know it, there's a raging storm all about us. Man, there's problems all around us. All because of the direction and the things that we have allowed to come into our lives and be a part of our lives has brought a storm in the midst of us. A storm all around us. They were in the midst of a storm. The storm of sin. When it comes in your life, it'll rip through you like a tornado. In matters of seconds, destruction everywhere. When the tornadoes come up through there where we were, I stood in my yard and I heard it when it passed by. It was about five miles from my house. And it took it not much more than three minutes from the time I heard the sound until it passes out of my hearing. And listen, I'm listening to it. I've talked with some that was in the store, and they said, Preacher, it was a matter of 30 seconds, and it was gone. 30 seconds, ripped homes apart, listened, killed, and took lives, tore brick houses, and took the whole tops out of them. My friend, storms, when it gets to rage, it happens suddenly, and it happens quickly, and it does devastation when it's named. That's what the storm of sin does. When we allow sin to get into our lives and into our homes and into our surroundings, listen, it brings troubles into our lives, storms that surround us. Satan, if he can get into your life, will destroy you in matters of seconds. He'll destroy you. He brought all the hardship through the men of God in the Bibles in matters of just a little bit. In matters of just a little bit. We'll talk about it more in a few moments. What about David? Just a trip on the rooftop. He was in trouble. Just a trip on the rooftop. Now that wasn't the beginning of his problems. We know that. The beginning of his problems began when he wasn't where God told him to be, doing what God wanted him to do. But the point is, that one trip to the rooftop cost him his children, cost him his kingdom. It cost him him many days of sorrow. Just that little sin. I'm glad God's a merciful God. David's kingdom was restored to him. I'm glad God's a merciful God. But do we want to go through the sorrows that sin brings up? The preacher quoted one 1 Peter 5 and 8 while ago about the devil. Do we want to go through the problems that the devil brings in matters of seconds that'll take us years of our life to even consider getting away from? Even consider. My pastor told me, When I started preaching, this is one advice he gave me I never forgot. He said, Brother Bailey, he said, you're starting on a journey in a ministry. He said, it'll take you years to build. He said, it will not happen overnight. It'll take you years to build it. He said, but it only takes a moment to tear it down. That's the way Satan works. Sin enters in and sin gets in us. I'm here to tell you, but there's a God who sits in heaven that can limit what Satan can do. Amen. His torment can only be shored up. When God gets involved, it can only be shored up. So we see here, listen, the power of the storm, it hit them suddenly and it hit them quick and it hit them hard. But now let's talk about the problem in the storm. They're in the midst of the storm now. They've only left the seashore. They're out there in the midst of the storm. And the Bible says in verse 38, and he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow, and they awake him and said unto him, Master, carest not that we perish. The problem in the storm wasn't the winds that was blowing on the ocean. The problem in the storm wasn't that a boat was filling up. The problem in the storm wasn't, listen dad, that ship was about to go down. The problem in the storm was they had lost their faith in God. They no longer had the faith in the Son of God that would win them the misdeed. That's the problem in the storm. The problem isn't that we're in the storm. The problem is that we lose our faith in God while we're in the storm. The heart of the disciples become faint as they lost their faith in God and in the Son of God that was with them. How many times have I seen that happen, Bridget? Amen. You tell them just hold faith with God. Hold faith with God. Don't lose faith with God. No matter how bad the storm gets, don't lose faith with God. And, buddy, they'll bail out the ship and they'll lose their faith with God. The disciples here, the first problem they had was they doubted the goodness of God. They're doubting the goodness of their Savior. They doubted the fact of what the Son of God has said. And He said, let us go to the other side. Don't let's doubt what God has said to you and I. And God has promised us in Hebrews, He will never leave us nor forsake us. Thank God. Let's don't have the power of our Almighty God. Let's don't have, listen, a problem in the midst of the storm because we're doubting God. And it's so easy to do after being in the storm a long time. Paul is a proof that we can be in the storm and not doubt God. He stayed in the storm three days and three nights, seeing no light. The darkness was about him with a storm that was raging on the sea, and yet he held to his God. He hailed to his God. I like what Paul said. He said last night, or he said that God visited, I don't remember if it was last night, but he said God visited him and said, just every man stay in the ship and there'll be no loss of life. Brother, we need to stay in the ship until God tells us it's time to get out of the ship. Amen. How many times have I seen it, Preacher Jeff, in churches? They'll get a little miff, get a little pouty, and they'll jump ship and run somewhere else. Just for the pastor to find out six months later they're not going to church anywhere. You got to stay in the ship. You can't abandon ship just because there's a storm. I told our church just a few days of Sundays ago, I said, it don't trouble me that there's trouble in the church. It don't bother me that there's trouble in the church. Bless God, I've been married to my wife 35 years and there's still trouble in my home sometimes. Amen? You know what bothers me? It's when we can't work those troubles out. That's what bothers me when we can't work them out and they'll bail out the ship. The problem is we lose faith. I'm telling you that the disciples had seen the mighty work of God's Son. They had seen His compassion. They had seen His love. They had seen Him take care of diseases. They had seen Him take care of depravity. They had seen Him take care of, listen, every many different things and yet now they're here and they say to the Son of God, carest thou not? Carest thou not they were doubting his goodness. Don't never doubt the goodness of God. The devil will slip up to you and the devil will say this, if God loved you, he wouldn't let this be happening to you. Amen? You know how I know the devil will say that? He said it to me. Amen. He said it to me before. They were doubting His goodness. You know what the problem was? They were looking at the situation rather than the Savior. Amen. That's the problem. We get to looking at the situation rather than the Savior of our Lord and God. They begin to think about the facts rather than the faith. The facts was the ship was sinking. The faith was, if they put their trust in God, they were going to the other side. They looked at the facts rather than having faith in God. The doctor said, this is what it is. And we look at the facts and we lose faith in God. Let me tell you a story, then I'm going to go on. An incident that happened in my ministry. There was a man who had severe heart problems. He had a major heart attack. We took him, or we didn't take him, the rescue took him to the hospital. The hospital transferred him to Charleston, South Carolina, to the medical university. They did everything they know to do for four days. We was up at the Charleston Medical University, and they were expecting him to die at any time. The doctor come out one night, and the doctor said, hey, listen. We're taking him off the respirator. That's what the family has decided. The family decided to take him off. And he said to the family, when we take him off tonight, I doubt he even lives an hour. He said his heart is just too weak. It's too weak. So his brother and sister, they go back to Conway where he lived. They start making arrangements with the place to burial. Start getting things in order. We was up at the hospital with the three children. And we looked at the three children and I said, listen, David said, as long as there's breath, there's hope. I said, have faith in God and then accept what God's will is. Don't give up faith. David did not give up on his son until his son took the last breath. Amen. So they did that. They stayed there. They prayed. We prayed in the lobby. We talked to God. The next morning when we went in to see him in the ICU unit, he was setting up and eating breakfast. What are you saying, preacher? I'm saying, don't look at the facts. Look at the faith in God, Jesus. Look at the faith. Have faith in God. Have faith in the Lord. Hebrews 4 and 15 says this, For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched, with our feelings of infirmities, but with all points tipped like we are, yet without sin. There was a problem on that ship that day, but it wasn't with the waves and the waters. It was with, it was with their doubt. They doubted the source of God's ability. They doubted He could deliver them. Now why do you say that, preacher? Because they went to Him and said, cares not that we perish. They doubted His ability that He could stop what was going on. We can't have that kind of doubt, church. We've got to have faith and hope in God. You see, we've got to understand something, that He was the Son of God. Now, we know more than they know, because we have the writings of what He did many days after that. But they had seen the experience of it and seen what He could do. They had seen Him turn the water to wine. Amen? They had seen that. They had seen what he could do, but yet they doubted him. Sometimes we become so wrapped up in what we see we can't have faith. We can't have faith in God. The problem was their lack of faith in God. I'm going to share another story with you. This is about me. I had a hernia. Located right up here in the soft cup before it goes into your stomach. This was back in 1980. 1979, not 1980, it was 1979. And the doctors, as I went to the doctor because it was a severe pain, it was severe, it would wake me at night, it would be so bad. And the doctors had told me, because then they didn't have the technology they have today, and they had told me that there was nothing could be done. They said, you will have to live with this for the rest of your life. One of the circumstances of living with it was to do away with Coca-Cola's. I loved Coca-Cola's. Amen. I'm telling you, I loved them, son. One would say I was addicted to them. I loved them that good. And I thought, man, I don't know if I can live without Coca-Cola's. But I started putting them down, not drinking as many because it hurt so bad. Let me make the story faster though. So one night, I got saved after that. I got saved in 1980 in January, the 14th. And I got saved, and six months after that, or eight months after that, I was at a revival. Preacher, some of you preachers may know him. I know Preacher Davin knows him. Preacher Norman Johnson was preaching the revival. And I was at that revival. I hadn't been saved but just a few months, about eight months. I was at that revival, and service was concluding. All the praying had already been done. And the service was concluding. I had gotten to church late that night because my wife happened to be in the hospital. And I went by the hospital. I visited with her. And then I went to church. Oh, you say you're a fanatic preacher. You've got that right. I love Jesus. Hey, it's been all these years and I still love Jesus. Amen. Now, don't get upset. I went back by the hospital on the way home. Amen. I didn't forsake her completely. But I went to church that night, and listen, when I got to church and service was concluding, God said, if you'll come down and let the man of God pray for you, I'll heal you. I'll heal you. And they were getting ready to close, and the pastor said, anybody else has something on your heart like a lot of pastors does? I said, yes, I have something. God told me to have the evangelist to pray for me, and I'd be healed. And the pastor said, well, come on, brother. He didn't know me. I hadn't been in Conway but eight months. I didn't really know the pastor. I knew the evangelist, but I didn't know the pastor, because the evangelist was out of our church, our home church, and I knew him. And I went down there, and he laid hands on me, and he prayed for me. And when he prayed for me, I felt the healing hands of God. They flooded my soul. I felt the deliverance come. And Preacher Norman looked at me and said, God healed you tonight. I said, I know it. Amen. I went back by the hospital. I stopped to visit my wife before I went home to where someone was watching our children. And I went back by the hospital and I said, Kathy, I was at revival tonight and God healed me. He took that hernia away, and I rejoiced in the Lord in the hospital room. I went home that night. Then I went to bed. I was feeling good. I was in a shouting mode. I was feeling good. Four o'clock the next morning, that morning, bam, hit my chest like you slapped it with a two before, like it did every night. Every night, slapped my chest. And I laid in that bed as a young Christian and I said, Lord, I know what you told me tonight. I know what you spoke to my heart. Lord, I felt you touch me. What is going on, Lord? I listened to the devil on one side saying, God didn't heal you. If God would have healed you, you wouldn't have that pain tonight. He said, God didn't heal you. The Holy Spirit on the other side saying, trust God. Trust God. Trust God. It was a battle in that bedroom that night. Had the devil working on one side and God working on the other side. Man, I fell out of that bed. I fell down on the side of that bed. I began to pray. I just began to talk to God. After a while, I didn't hear the devil no more. And God said, Son, I healed you. And I said to the Lord, I said to the Lord, I said, Lord, if I wake up every morning at four o'clock in the morning, I'll never say you didn't heal me. I'll just believe the devil put something else there. Oh, listen to me. And that's been since 1980. And I've never woke up another morning. I've never had another problem with it. Don't tell me that facts don't overweigh faith. Faith don't overweigh facts. The fact was I was hurting. The faith was, I believe, God. And the faith won over the facts. Amen? What do you say, preacher? We can't lose the faith. We can't have the problem of the lack of faith. We've got to hold on to God and trust God in it. Trust God in it. They doubted His ability. They doubted the fact that with God comes a guarantee. He said, let us pass over to the other side. That was the guarantee, brother. They weren't going to sink in that ship. You know why the Lord can lay in that ship fast asleep, the man side of Him and not worry about nothing? Because He knew what His Father had already told Him. His Father told Him He was going to die on the cross of Calvary. He wasn't going to die in the middle of a sea. Amen? How are you saying, preacher? We've got to hold on to the Lord and hold on to His guarantee. Hold on to the fact that He will keep us. He will sustain us. He will go with us to the very end. And when that end of time comes, and we come to lay down this old wretched body, He'll go with us over to the other side. Because He's going to stay with us to the end. Don't doubt God's guarantee. Don't doubt it. It didn't last tonight. We looked at the power of the storm, the problem in the storm, but why? What about the purpose of the storm? Why did God allow it to begin with? Why did God allow it to take place? Maybe it was because He wanted to demonstrate His powers to the disciples that night. Sometimes God allows things to happen in our lives just to demonstrate how powerful He is. and just what kind of God He is. Oh, you say, Preacher, listen to me. That ship was never going down. I believe that with all of my heart. The disciples still lacked some faith, that's for sure. They lacked some faith because He said, as we already said in the Scriptures, and listen to what they said about Him, when He stood on the bow of the boat and spoke, peace be still. They said we have never seen it in this fashion. Never seen it in this fashion. To demonstrate the power of Him. I don't know the reason, but it could have been to demonstrate His power. The Bible said in Matthew 28 and 18, And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. We've got to believe, brother, that He is more powerful than anything else in this world. He's more powerful than all the devils, all the imps of hell. He's more powerful than any. Now listen, I remember one time, preacher, I was talking with a church out there about being their pastor. We did not become their pastor. It wasn't because of what this man said. It was because of what God said. But we were talking in the pulpit committee that night. And when we presented who we are as a pastor, and I believe we need to do that. We need to let a church know who we are. Amen. Don't be like the little girls of this life here. Say, well, I'll marry him now and change him. That don't work neither. And neither are you going to go in a church and change it. You might as well tell them where you are from the beginning. And if it's God's will, you're going anyway. So what does it matter? Amen. If it's God's will, they can't stop it. Amen. But anyway, this man looked at me after we got through talking. And he said, maybe God don't want you here. Don't mind if I apply words to him. If God wants me to be here, I'll be here, and there's nothing you can do about it. I believe that, brother. Why, preacher, why do you believe that? Because I believe that God's power is stronger than evil. I believe that. There's a purpose in every storm, everything we face, there's a purpose. But we've got to believe that Jesus is all power in heaven and in earth, or His purpose will not be fulfilled. Sad to say, God allows man to change his purpose sometimes. I'm not going to take time to explain that to you, but I believe you can see the evidence in even churches of the day. When God has one purpose, but man don't want it, and God allows it to be changed. I believe that. I believe it with all my heart. He said you have all power through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 3 and 20 says, Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundant above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us. His power in us when we believe His power is real and His power works in us and we believe that He has the greatest power of all. He can do great and mighty things with the church. He can do great and mighty things with the individual when we realize that His purpose, that He wants and let His power work in us. We can do great and mighty things. I could stand up here all night and tell you great things God done. But I won't. It's dark so I reckon it's time to go home. Hey man, his power is real. I believe that Brother Darby, Brother Jeff, I believe that Preacher David. Preacher Brian, don't you believe that his power is real? Don't believe there's no power greater than his. I believe his power parted the Red Sea. I believe his power stopped the waters of Jordan from running. I believe his power brought down the walls of Jericho. I believe his power tied the lion's mouth when Daniel was slowed in. I believe his power sheared the Hebrew boys when they were cast into the fire. I believe his power was there the day the devil had a hold on me and God took down and delivered me and saved my wretched soul. I believe his power was there. His power is real. Maybe he wanted to show his power. It's for sure he declared his promise. Because they went to the other side. Amen. They did. They went to the other side. And it showed His presence. Amen. It showed that He was with them. Don't you love it when He shows His presence? Amen. He showed it a little bit tonight, hasn't He? Amen. He showed His presence a little bit tonight. I know, as I said in the early start of this service, there are pretenders. But I can tell you, you can tell when those possessors find His power. It gets real, brother. There is no pretense in it. There's some that can stand and pretend. But when those that possess get turned loose, you know it. Amen? You know it. You know it. He showed them his presence. They found his peace when he stood out on the edge and said, peace be still. Let me close with this tonight. There is one, if your storm is raging, and His name is Jesus. And He knows your storm. He knows exactly what your storm is. And He is able to calm it. He's able to cease the pain, whatever you're suffering in. He's able to comfort the soul in whatever you're sorrowful in. And He's able to deliver you and set you free, if you're willing to do so. If you allow Him, would be a better word, if you allow Him to do so. No matter what you face in the night, in this sanctuary, if you allow Him, He'll take care of it. Whether it's salvation that's needed, whether it's strength that's needed, whether it's sickness that is needed to be touched, or whether it's just sorrows you are burned down with. If you allow Him on this altar, He'll take care of it. I'm going to ask Brother Jester, let's get a song. And you come tonight. Do what the Lord speaks to your heart. Bless the Lord. You've got burdens. You're in a storm. You have heart. Maybe there's sorrows. Heartaches. Storms that you need God to say, Peace, be still. But you've got to come and you've got to come in faith. Believing. Not faith wavering. Faith believing. Knowing that God is going to answer that prayer. Come and trust me, as they're coming all over the congregation. Just find a place to meet them. The Father has a plan, though it's hard to see it now. You feel you're walking all alone But he is there, no doubt When the storm around you rages And you're tossed to and fro When you're faced with last decisions Not sure which way to go Stand still And let God move Stand in still It's hard to do When you feel you have reached the end He'll make a way for you Stand still and let God move When the enemies surround you And the walls are closing in And the tide is swiftly rising And you wonder where he's been Friend, there never was a moment That his arms weren't reaching out But you can rest assured And be secure God is moving right now Stand still And let God move Standing still is hard to do When you feel you haven't reached the end He'll make a way for you Stand still and let God move When you feel you have reached the end, He'll make a way for you. Stand still and let God move.