Ahead of God

Ahead of God

God morning everyone! Welcome to the Spanduvilous Dailies with me, David Mitchell II on this Tuesday March 9, 2010. Well today I’m going to doing something a little different. Sunday my pastor, Bishop Dale C. Bronner of Word of Faith Family Cathedral Center, preached such an awesome word that I just had to share it with you guys. Out of all the many points of the sermon I’m only going to touch on two of them and of course it’s not verbatim, but the just of it I hope you will receive. He was preaching from Matthew 14: 22-33, but I will only be discussing 22-28. In the 22nd verse Jesus sent the disciples AHEAD of Him to the other side of the river. Me personally, beforehand I never thought anything of this portion of the verse, but Bishop found a great hidden jewel for us. He sent the disciples ahead of Him to place them in a STORM, in order for them to trust, believe, and grown in God. Just like in life Jesus will let us go forward in our free willed decisions, but little do we know that his presence is already at our destination. (i.e. His praying on the mountain top reached the other side before this disciples did.) In addition, even though God’s presence is all around us, even when we are terrified of storm of circumstance not knowing what to do nor which way to go. Then even when God is approaching us in the midst of the storm, we still shutter in fear questioning any and everything, even Jesus himself. Then Bishop Bronner shared with us a revelation of the word about the 26th verse. That even though we are in horrible storms in our lives, even though Jesus shows up doesn’t mean that the storm is automatically going to go away. When Jesus came unto the boat the Storm continued until He and Paul got into the boat. This lets us know that Every time we are in the thick of trouble He might not take away the trouble, but rest assured He will be by our side through the end of the trouble. Only through maturation will we be able to grow into the people God has ordained us to be. We won’t do any growing if He always removes the storms, because we will never learn how to master them. That is why He let us go on Ahead of Him so we can undoubtedly get ourselves into something and continually learn again how awesome He is. Please read Matthew 14:22-28 KJV

And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before Him unto the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.