\u2018Jesus said to His disciples: \u201cLet\u2019s cross over to the other side of the lake.\u201d So they took Jesus in the boat and started out\u2026 But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back\u2026 with His head on a cushion. The disciples woke Him up, shouting, \u201cTeacher, don\u2019t You care that we\u2019re going to drown?\u201d \u2026He rebuked the wind and said to the waves, \u201cSilence! Be still!\u201d Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then He asked them, \u201cWhy are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?\u201d \u2026\u201cWho is this man?\u201d they asked each other. \u201cEven the wind and waves obey Him!\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Mark\u00a04:35\u201341\u00a0NLT) Following Jesus doesn\u2019t exempt you from life\u2019s storms, so you need to: <\/p>\n
(1) Remind yourself who\u2019s with you\u2014Jesus!<\/i> Think about it: if Jesus can calm the storm, surely He can prevent it. But He permits us to go through storms to prove we don\u2019t have a problem He can\u2019t solve. You may be powerless in the situation, but He\u2019s not, and through it you\u2019ll come to know Him in a way you never have before. His goal is to bring you out stronger on the other side. <\/p>\n
(2) Trust what He has told you.<\/i> When Jesus tells you, \u2018Let\u2019s cross over to the other side,\u2019<\/i> there\u2019s not a wave big enough to take you under. The truth is, \u2018We cannot stand in the storms of life based on someone else\u2019s faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.\u2019 (See 1\u00a0John\u00a05:14\u201315) What has God promised you? Stand on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Jesus said to His disciples: \u201cLet\u2019s cross over to the other side of the lake.\u201d So they took Jesus in the boat and started out\u2026 But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back\u2026 with His head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}