Excited about week two of Waymaker make some noise Thank you worship team I thought we'd study in Luke chapter five today This is one of my favorite action passages gives us a real picture of three different elements of faith that I want to bring out today And one of my friends who is really astute actually happens to be my barber as well - what's up Fly Tie! Fly Tie ran a marathon Yesterday. He said Pray for me pastor.
I have a marathon. I have not trained and I said you never listen to anything I preach you can't, come on, You can't skip training and and then blame it on prayer when you throw up on Mile 6, but he finished He finished, and he was telling me the other day He said you you tricked us I thought this was a giving series at the end of the year and in a way it is because we're giving an offering like was given to build elevation Blakeney like was given to build the campus that you sit in today and We're doing that at the at the end of this series, six weeks series I believe, six weeks and That'll be very special and very important because we use that offering to build the church but God uses the offering to build your faith and So he said, I thought it was a giving series. That's really a faith series isn't it, and I said absolutely, you got it That's what Waymaker is and now faith this the way God blesses you Grace is the means, faith is the way.
Write it down, grace is the means, So we are saved by grace Through faith that's Ephesians chapter 2 and so the way that God blesses you the way that God delivers peace to your nervous system It's through your faith So if we can build your faith ending this year and going into the next year you will see God do what Ephesians 3:20 calls Immeasurably more than you could ask or imagine Today My passage may be familiar to you if you have some Sunday School Vacation Bible School experience This will probably not be strange waters for you in Luke chapter 5 verses 1 through 11 But I really like it so I was excited When God led me to preach it one day as Jesus was standing by the lake of donessa Rett The people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God He saw at the water's edge two boats left there by the fishermen who were washing their nets Got into one of the boats the one belonging to Simon later his name was Peter same guy but Jesus so Changed his identity That what people called him changed and Do you know God can do such a deep work in your life that people don't even recognize you as the same person anymore? and People who used to call you a failure will have to step back and rethink how they assessed you in labeled you when God gets a hold of your life So he got into one of the boats There's two boats he gets into the one belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore Then he sat down, and taught the people from the boat when he had finished speaking He said to Simon put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch and Simon answered (with an attitude) master we've worked hard all night and Haven't caught anything your little talk was really good But we are professionals You're a preacher you Do the preaching and we'll do the fishing, but you got to give him credit because even with the bad attitude. He obeyed God Can bless obedience even if you do it with a bad attitude?
I mean you don't really have to feel the mood for a workout for your muscles to receive the benefit We don't have to feel like coming to church for God to get a word through to you How many of you didn't feel like coming to church today alright? You're gonna get the biggest blessing of everybody 'cause that's called the sacrifice of praise It's when you don't consult your feelings because the foundation of your decisions is your faith Would y'all calm down and let me read my Scripture? !
Master we've worked hard all night, and haven't caught anything But because you say so I will let down the nets when they had done So they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break That's probably enough for us to work from for now verse 2 says: He saw at the water's edge two boats Verse 6 says: when they had done so So they caught such a large number of fish that their nets Began to break so look at your neighbor and give them my subject for today say neighbor say favorite neighbor Tell them you're on the edge of a blessing Now look at him look at him real serious now and tell him my title say, but there's a catch There's a catch Because central premise the edge of my next blessing Will often be the place of my greatest frustration And certainly the scene in Luke chapter 5 seems to be that Peter has decided to try it again tomorrow and Just at that moment when he has all the nets cleaned and ready to be stored away Just at the moment where he has the boats position to be dry docked Here comes this radical rabbi with the big crowd Standing room only everywhere Jesus Christ went to preach. People who don't like big churches wouldn't like heaven, just a side note! Everywhere he shows up, the crowd comes and the first element.
I want to mention in this sermon. I want to talk about conditional miracles Three of these points I'd like you to write them down that way you can preach them back to your wife when she's acting crazy this week Or your husband or your mother-in-law By conditional miracles I mean that there are certain conditions in which God is most likely to perform miracles There are certain conditions in which you are most likely to see the power of God now God can do what he wants to but It seems to be a pattern in scripture that over and over again. God reserves his greatest glory for our lowest points Seems to be over and over again that it is after we have fished all night caught nothing That he now after all this frustration Will give us the blessing that We could not achieve in our own strength.
I think it's so we'll know who blessed us when he does that's the best thing that I can figure I Was at this location a few weeks ago Actually was was there at the Sea of Galilee the NIV calls at the lake of Janessa Rhett It's more accurate to call it a lake when you call it the Sea of Galilee It sounds major, but it it isn't necessarily a major body of water It's the largest in Israel for fresh water, but it's also the lowest is it's the lowest It's the lowest This place would become the base of Jesus' earthly ministry 18 of 33 miracles that the Son of God performed on the earth would happen around a Sea of Galilee This is the region where he revealed his glory and so is there any Significance I believe there it is to the fact that Jesus Christ picked the lowest point this is the lowest Lake fresh water lake in all of the earth Did he choose the lowest lake? to do his ministry Because it was the closest or does it say something about a God who often chooses our Lowest moments and our weakest places to do his greatest work. Now, That's not for everybody Some people are doing just fine without God and you got money and you got women and you got stuff and you got a full Schedule and you don't have time for this God thing, but just in case there is anybody in here Who has been in a little bit of a low place?
The conditions touch somebody say the conditions are right for a miracle Its conditions for a miracle because not only is Peter frustrated having fished all night and caught nothing but the people are frustrated because they can't get in to hear Jesus and and the Bible uses a Phrase you see it over and over again in reference to Jesus you even see a little Later in Luke 5 we don't have time to tell you about one time Jesus is preaching in the house And the bouncers wouldn't let this poor man in But his friends wouldn't take no for an answer so they go to ripping off the roof do not try this in overflow I Promise you we've got armed guards that will do something about it. If you try But they rip that roof off and got that man down because the Bible says there was such a crowd to hear Jesus That they couldn't get in and so then you have excuse makers who would turn around and go home And then you have way makers who decide I'll do What I have to do and lead what I have to leave in order to experience a touch from God, so it's crowded and and Peter is fishing so we gotta we got a full crowd and empty nets and in this condition God performs a miracle they were listening to verse 1 the Word of God what were they doing they were listening to The Word of God not like you're listening to the Word of God today what you are doing today is Listening to someone attempt to preach the Word of God That's not the case here because you got a you got to understand John chapter 1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was with God in the beginning Through him all things were made Without him nothing has been made that has been made in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God who is this word that was made flesh and Dwelled among us so that we could behold his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth They were not listening to a man preach about the Word of God they were listening to the Word of God Preach the Word of God an encounter with the word wrapped in flesh They were listening to the Word of God Heaven had a committee meeting Needed to find a way to get the word into the earth How shall we do it, how shall we get the word into the earth? perhaps we could find a Palestinian teenager a virgin womb Perhaps he could be born into a crowded stall Perhaps he could be born into a place that no one would have imagined nor would they have sought him there God likes unlikely conditions To perform great miracles.
I'm just pointing out a pattern I'm just pointing out a pattern that it is often at the place of your Greatest frustration that God will reveal his greatest glory I've seen there's so many ways So many ways in in in my ministry even in creativity sometimes It's when you're just about to give up on an idea how many creative people do we have? Just when you're about to throw it away That you'll see what it was meant to be all along And we write songs for our church all the time and some of them are better than others Some of them you never hear and you ought to thank God that you never hear him We don't want to inflict that kind of pain on you some of them are just private songs but sometimes you work and work on a song I Remember back in 2014 and I sent this screenshot to Holly on on Thursday because I wanted her to see something just a contrast of How something starts and how something finishes? And I sent her a voice memo because I walk around mumbling all the time little voice memos little melodies do I Have been known to slip away from the table at a restaurant go in the bathroom stall and sing a song idea Into it so if we ever share a restroom spaceman, and you hear some weirdo how that might be me that might be me And I sent her a memo of this this old song that I tried to write weird little idea called my life being alternate it was it was a Really bad idea that it was a very complicated Thought that I had for the song so I gave it to wait and I was like do something with this This is 2014 and he went over to try to write something with it.
We were on a songwriting retreat He came back into the room five hours later. I said you got something you got something Did you just don't know whether this good idea right? He said?
Yeah, well you know we uh? We fished all night. We caught nothing it basically is what he said he said we tried We just can't find anything going on I said yes, kind of dumb idea.
No it's not dumb We just can't you know I just don't think I don't know I just know and and this little thing had been sitting around Alex For six months I should come over to School of worship and play it for him I'm not gonna play it for the whole church It's way too humiliating But it's at around for six months and and and Wade said he couldn't make anything out of it And and Chris said that he didn't ever really get it either and they all said it real politely But they were basically saying the same thing and I said well, we should probably just throw it away unless hang on What if it wasn't? My life be an altar Well thing is just like no. It's just like 6/8 time and it was like oh not that moody vibe that I had down there, but just like what it's just uh o Come to the altar Okay, you know like oh oh come to The altar am I exaggerating the story Chris the father his arms are a little bin wide what if it was just that And Chris goes oh if you're gonna do that I?
Got this thing that I've been mumbling into my phone that I thought was stupid too, and he plays it And it says all you hurting and broken within, yeah I said Chris Did you just say are you hurting and broken within he said no all you hurting and broken within I no its are you hurting and broken within it's a question. It's gonna open the whole song It's gonna be an invitation and four hours later. We had the song and three and a half years later this week It was the number one song on all Christian streaming songs But I will I was telling you that Cuz you got some things in your life that you're just about to throw away I mean I was just about to quit I just when I thought it was nothing God said give me that back Just when I was putting up the boats on the shore just when you were walking away from your marriage Just when you are about to quit praying for your kids God says it's not over high five three people and say not yet, not yet The temple thought he had him on Saturday, but there's a catch touch your neighbor say there's a catch Cuz it's conditional.
What's a conditional upon your obedience? your perseverance your Willingness to do something you don't understand how much this this is this is funny Possibly illegal What Jesus does next I think so? because Jesus Who is the word of God who spoke the world into existence Colossians 1:16?
needs a way to Get out into the world that he made the message that he is He needs a way This is crazy because the maker in the beginning was a word in the Word was with God in the Word was God He was with God in the beginning Through him all things were made that were made and without him nothing has been made that has been made that one the maker Needs a way to get the word the word Needs away the maker Needs a way to get the word Into the world that he's so loved that he came wrapped in flesh he needs a way and it says that he saw two boats at the shore and One of them was belonging to Simon watch what he does verse 3 he got into one of the boats Okay, you're looking like that's normal. No conversation No lease agreement You don't think if you don't think if you don't think this is weird, try it when you leave church today No, I'm serious. If you don't think this is weird just find the nicest car that you like in the parking lot just The nicest one don't do a Camry There's nothing wrong with Camry, but if you're gonna steal a car pick the nicest one in the parking lot and just do what Jesus did just get in it and When they come up to the window and ask you what are you doing in my car say I notice your elevation sticker.
I figured you're a Christian. I need to use it Can I have your keys because it's essentially what Jesus does he sits down in the boat the one belonging to Simon Peter Okay, why did Jesus pick Peter you ever thought about that I? have because I can think of a lot of reasons why he wouldn't pick Peter a Lot of reasons why I wouldn't pick Peter Peter was impulsive Peter wasn't know at all Peter was Violent you don't cut off people's ears if you had a normal upbringing.
That's not something that Peter had a filthy mouth Peter Peter Peter, I heard one preacher said cuss Peter was bold. That's why Jesus liked and he was ball. I Don't think so Because remember the the Bible was written pre Uber and Jesus had a lot to accomplish in three years The word had to get out Touch somebody said we got to get the word out How are we gonna get it out?
No Facebook No YouTube no Instagram You know why I have come to believe that the reason Jesus picked Peter is because he had a boat How else okay, let me preach point number two I want to talk about creative collaboration Because now here is the creator partnering with his creation Here is the Word of God who has the ability to walk on water. Don't forget that if Jesus had wanted to just get away from the crowd and preach and create a little distance We know from Matthew chapter 14 that if a storm comes up and the boat is not available and Jesus needs to get somewhere He will just suspend the laws of buoyancy that he himself created in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God if Jesus can't find a boat to ride on he'll speak a word and walk on the word that he is to the place that he But You don't want to do it like that and I would have done it like that cuz this is early in his ministry, and if you moonwalk back on the water and Then preach to the crowd. They'll pay more attention Don't you think he said no.
I want a boat I Want a boat I want his boat I? Want her boat I? want to use their life I Want to Yeah, I want to use their weakness I Want to build a church I Want to call people together from All different nations around the world will be a part of the EFAM.
I want to want to call people from different backgrounds I want to call people of different kinds different types I Want I want I want some people who own their own businesses, I want some people who are unemployed I Want some people who suffered great abuse in their childhood? I want to bring them together I? want to I want to use your boat and It's the hardest thing for us to understand sometimes.
Why would the one who can walk on water? Have any use for our boat And I think the devil uses it to give us excuses why we don't offer god what we have because My boat's not as big as his My boat My boat my boat's dirty My become a boat. I fished all night.
I caught nothing what would you want with me Jesus? So I went from thinking Jesus needed Peters boat To realizing that Jesus didn't need Peters boat Peter needed Jesus blessing on his boat Because that same thing happened to me in the area of giving when we give the offering I Thought that giving was the way that we supported the church to keep the lights on to keep the salaries paid Forgive me for being so naive, I thought God needed my boat, I thought he needed my gift a Little bit of life rolled by and I realized that God was God before I ever showed up And I'll put this out to you there were two boats on the shore So I believe if Peter had said no Jesus would have gotten the other one Means he doesn't have to use us he chooses to use us So we get up here this time of year, and I gotta say, I'm pretty impressed because usually in a church when you go To a series where you challenge people to give like we're challenging every person in the church young and old to Give a gift to God at this you're in to begin to tithe if you're not doing that To begin to give the first 10% of your increase to God to set it up online so that you're not praying about something that God has already clearly commanded And then to give above and beyond that when we challenge you to do that We are not speaking the language of obligation We're speaking the language of opportunity You know the difference you know the difference It's in verse 3. It says that he got into the boat belonging to Simon And I love the phrase it says and he asked him you want to do this I mean you don't have to I Can totally do this without you?
But I like your boat, bro, I like your I like your boldness I like your brokenness Can I borrow your boat Can can God borrow your boat The gifts that he gave you Can he use them for his glory or did you get so confused? About who made the trees That you lost sight of the fact that everything that God gave you is on loan you can't take it with you Giving releases me to remember that it was his boat to begin with in the beginning was the word and The Word was with God in the Word was God He was with God in the beginning through him all things Were made Peter had a boat But the boat had to be made of something Peter had a boat but the boat had to come from somewhere and Now the one who spoke the Cedars and who spoke the Cypress into existence The one who spoke the ocean and the chemical balance of the ocean that would create and sustain the life of the fish The one who put the gills on the fish that Peter was looking for at the bottom of the ocean Unsuccessfully said can I get on your boat? Because it's a cool thing when God becomes your partner.
He knows the best spots to fish It's a great thing To have the Son of God on your boat It's a great thing when you don't have to fish alone It's a great thing when you say God all I have is yours. It's a freedom to it. I Can't explain it if you've never experienced it but it's a freedom to it when you come to the end of yourself and your boats are pulled up on the shore and Jesus says now that you've done all you can do Will you give me a push and?
All Peter had to do watch this no 10 year plan all he had to do was obey and Give Jesus a push now when he pushed that boat out into the water He thought he was loaning Jesus the boat for an hour He did not know because God will trick you into stuff somebody said there's a catch. There's always a catch He did not know that he would spend the next three years taking this crazy miracle working He didn't know that the deaf ears would be opened after they got off this boat He didn't know that blind eyes would see because Jesus got a ride on his boat You never know what God will do until you let him on your boat You don't know you can't know That's what faith, this is pushing out into the deep when you don't know the result and It's letting down the nets for a catch somebody say there's a catch. There's a catch There's a catch all Jesus said I know you can't see it But I can see it because I stopped these waters you're fishing in there is a catch See I think Tom Lehman was telling me this he said fishing is like the Holy Spirit You can't see the fish, but they're there and the more you learn about it the more You will know how to fish in the right places?
The more you follow him the more you hear him the more you get acquainted with this voice and say I don't see it I don't feel it, but God if you speak it I'll do it not because I feel it not because I see it not because I Understand it and not because it makes sense, but if you say so I will if you say do it. I'll do it I want the obedience of God to be the guarantee of my inheritance and This brings me to my final point Can't believe it's over already. Can you I don't think I'll be able to preach it this way again This is a special moment God is doing something in this moment.
I want to talk to you about connected blessings The biggest problem that Peter and his boys had before Jesus occupied their boat was no fish One word from Jesus and their biggest problem was breaking nets That's the way, I really see the the church that God is building here, and he's building it But we get to let him use our boat You see the volunteers out there. That's that's that's people who brought their boat to church. Oh And in every church, there's there's two different groups there's the crowd and They get the message They come they get the message if they feel like coming they come if they don't Facebook But then Within every crowd there's a crew And when Jesus spoke to Peter he said I see you out there in the crowd Would you be interested in?
stepping out of the crowd and Be a part of the crew Can I use your boat? Now the crowd is not bad. It's a great place to start the crowd gets the message the crowd gets the message But the crew gets the miracle when they had done so They took in such a large number Of fish that the next thing they had to do was call their partners I believe this is verse 7 so they signaled their partners in the other boat see here's what God will do Will bless you so much that other people will get blessed Just because they were next to you touch somebody and say you ought to be glad you're sittin next to me today Because I am so blessed with the presence of God everything next to me is gonna get blessed to good measure That's down.
Shake it together come on Blakeney of seven years That's why I come to church I'll set the boys down. I set the boys down somebody say there's a catch, okay Don't say I didn't warn you there is a catch to this message? I?
Set my boys down Yesterday to write my check for this offering I Always hate these series until I write my offering Cuz it's a process of going through Inventory my nets and my boats and seeing how much of it I still think is mine and Asking God do you want to use anything that you gave me now when people do it they do different amounts? some people their amount may look big to somebody But it might be a million dollars people have done that but for them. It was something They could do alongside somebody who could do fifty dollars Then you get to see everybody do something together The rich man's gift the Widow's mite now blend it in these walls so We get to do something bigger together when we partner together when we connect together we can do something that none of us could do alone because we got to get the word out and The crowd just takes the word in but the crew gets the word out And every blessing that God has given me in my life has been connected to my obedience To his word And every blessing that God has given me in my life I can I can prove to you if I if I had time from the first campaign that we did in the church in 2007 make some noise if you are really really Elevation old school, and you were here for the dominate campaign when I stood up and I said we're taking an offering, but we're not gonna do it today in fact We're not taking an offering today at all we're giving the offering away And I told everybody to look under their chairs true story look under your chairs And there is money under your chairs Reach under your chairs half the people didn't move because they thought I was pulling something on them But there was really money money under every chair at the at the church.
Don't go feeling right now I don't do that anymore the church is too big that was a one-time thing But it was some of the Lord spoke to us And I've had him pull out the money different amounts some were a dollar most were a dollar there were some $5 $10 hundred dollars even $1,000 in $1,000 But I said that money is yours we're not taking an offer and we're giving away the offering this week the amount that would normally Be the offering it's under your chairs. We divided it up. It's under your chairs, but there's a catch There's a catch Don't spend it Use it to bless somebody Put it online what you did.
We'll see what God can do through us and Everybody I think everybody did it. I prayed that everybody who spent the money will get diarrhea, so But here's the point I Said it's a blessing under your seat. You're sitting on a blessing, but there's a catch.
You don't get to sit on it You don't get to spend it Use it and the next week. They came back, and we had we had high attendance next week And I said hey did y'all enjoy that last week. We're gonna do it again and Everybody looked at me like you're kidding right and I said yeah, we're gonna do it again I said but this time we called it the bless back project God has blessed you he gave you your boat to be a blessing I Said so, so here's the here's the deal we're gonna do it again, but uh this week the money is not under your chair It's in your bank account There's a catch There's a catch it's a mentality What happens next in the passage proves that the greatest blessing that God gave Peter?
Was never the fish in his boat Because when they saw what Jesus was able to do only after they had obeyed Can I say that again? They only got the blessing? after they obeyed The way we would have liked for Jesus to do it if we had been loaning him our boat is To fill the boat with fish, and then you can use it to preach.
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"God, you bless me And then I'll bless others," but the scripture says something very interesting - "Give and it will be given to you," whatever it is - encouragement, finances, time - "give and It will be given to you. " So it is only after - study the construct, check me out, see if I'm right - it is only after, not before, only after obedience that evidence is manifest. Only after "Yes, I'll do it.
" Only after "Okay. " God has you right now on the edge of a blessing, but there's a catch There's a catch the blessing will follow obedience, it will not precede it. It wouldn't take faith.
God's greatest goal for your life is not fish. It's faith So God wants to know, Do you have the faith to fish in the midst of your frustration? Do you have the faith to push the Word of God out and to trust Me to fill your boat?
And when He does. . .
"Simon, let down the nets" the boats are full. Hey get over here Hey Come on over boys come on over, come on over James, come on over, help me out, and the boats come over and it's Amazing and the boats - look at verse 7 - got so full that they began to sink both boats got full: Peter's boat and his boys' everything connected to Jesus got blessed! I want my life connected to the one who is the Creator.
I want to stay connected to my source and not dependent on my stuff. And when Simon Peter saw this - verse 8 - he said, boys get the scales ready. We're about to be millionaires And Simon Peter saw this (that wasn't the real scripture) He fell at Jesus's knees and said I don't deserve this That's a good posture.
I know I don't deserve it. I told the boys the other day when I sat them down Sat them down. .
. I know I brought it up here. .
. Yeah, this checkbook. I had to teach them what a check was I've done this before I said we're getting ready for the offering.
I took them back to 2007 when the people gave toward a building that we hadn't even identified yet We didn't even know what we raised the money for just Raising it by faith, and they did it They did it And over and over again You can see it now 17 campuses all the millions of dollars of outreach all around the world That the online community getting the Word out, just getting the Word out, getting the Word out, thousands of people getting the word get in the word out getting the Word out, getting the Word out, getting the Word out And so I explained the story behind this offering to them This is one of those that I did not ask Holly's permission before I wrote the number because It's significant to me because its amount of money of something that was a dream of mine that came true this year And I don't have one stream of income I have different streams of income and this is a stream of income That I've been praying for not not the income but the influence that Created the income and I've been praying for it for many years now In fact without going into great detail about it, I prayed about this before I prayed about starting the church And it happened for me at a new level this year without boring you on the details of that I Went and looked up the exact amount of the increase that came from that from that dream that came true in my life and I made the check to the exact amount to the penny of that here's why here's why I did it because I was studying about this passage and I noticed how Peter the moment of this great miracle In verse 11 well we should probably read verse 10 when Jesus looked at him and said don't be afraid From now on You will fish for people and Then I read what Peter did next is said that Peter pulled his boat up on the shore and not just Peter, but "they" Because the people connected to you will follow your example: fathers, mothers, So they pulled their boats up on the shore left everything They left what they had just been blessed with for a greater blessing that was ahead So I heard An impression in my heart God speaks to all of us in different ways he said do you want the fish or the favor? Do you want to keep the fish, or do you want to flow in the favor That told the fish where to swim to begin with Ain't it It's expensive too But I Imagine on the day of Pentecost and this is what I told the boys I said look around and all this that God has given Us and I don't just mean the house the house is nice the house is nice I Don't I don't just mean your switch, so what it's called I don't just mean your clothes I mean this The ability to touch people's lives, I mean this Just us being together I said everything we have is a Result of God's favor following our obedience, and I don't want it to ever stop So you can have the fish I want the favor. You can have the fish, I want to walk in the favor of God and Surely goodness and mercy will follow me All the days of my life if I follow Jesus Favor follows me You can have my boat you can have my heart You can have it all Stand up God is moving in this place.
You'll never miss the fish that you leave behind to follow God in faith You think Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and preached and three thousand people got saved and revival was unleashed in Jerusalem that led to revival in Judea that led to revival in Samaria that led to Revival to the ends of the earth you think Peter was standing up there in the pulpit on the day of Pentecost thinking man I missed those fish Because long after the fish stink, The favor of God will still be. Long after the stuff is out of style, Only what's done for Christ will last. Only one life It soon shall pass.
Only what's done for Christ will last. Can I get a push? The Word of God needed a way into the earth Can I get a push?
That's what God is asking His church today, as so many times before. Do you want to go deeper? Do you want to go farther?
Do you want to float? Do you want to flow in the favor of God? Let Me use your boat If you don't want to it's fine Because there's another boat - there's always another boat.
I sure would like to get in yours. Because I made you And I gifted you, I graced you, and I blessed you, and I kept you. I put you where I put you.
Can I use your boat? We pray another prayer of surrender Not my will, but Yours be done because You say so I'll let down then that's no negotiation no justification. We don't need an explanation.
We just need a Word. Speak, Holy Spirit.
