Act 27.. “Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.”
Have you ever been hit with storm after storm, never coming up for air. To be honest with you, I have been so beaten down with a year of sickness..a stoke, blood clots in my legs, respiratory virus which lead to the Corona virus, along with battling progressive MS. From June 9 2019 till now June, 2020 I have been rehabbing. The Lord had showed me Acts chapter 27, Paul was taken as one of the prisoners to sail to Rome. He warn the crew about the disasters that would come upon them, but they wouldn't listen. Instead of listening to Paul, they followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship. With the storm continued raging, they finally gave up all hope of being saved. When they ran out of food, Paul gave them courage that they will endure this hardship, because the Lord's angel spoke and appear to him.
When we go into battle after battle, it's easy to reflect what did I do wrong to bring on this mess. Even Paul told them, if you would only listen to me, not to travel through Crete. I find even going through a year of sickness, the the peace of Jesus has covered me not only showing others the testimony that Jesus can keep me smiling and finding the good even in the bad.
When we go into battle after battle, it's easy to reflect what did I do wrong to bring on this mess. Even Paul told them, if you would only listen to me, not to travel through Crete. I find even going through a year of sickness, the the peace of Jesus has covered me not only showing others the testimony that Jesus can keep me smiling and finding the good even in the bad.
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We all have those times when there are no flashes of light and no apparent thrill to life, where we experience nothing but the daily routine with its common everyday tasks. The routine of life is actually God’s way of saving us between our times of great inspiration which come from Him. Don’t always expect God to give you His thrilling moments, but learn to live in those common times of the drudgery of life by the power of God.
Sometimes, the daily grind can become so rote that we have to physically leave the familiar to reawaken our senses to the value of “ordinary things.” And when we stop to think about it, we’ll realize just how much we take for granted.
It’s hard to make sense of what’s going on in the world right now. Many of us have begun to ask: why? God, why is this happening? Why are we experiencing this? God doesn't tell Paul a whole series of explanations for why he faced a shipwreck or was bitten by a snake. He doesn't give him a reason; He gives him a revelation.
Since Paul had already received the revelation that God wanted him to go to Rome, a shipwreck and snake bite can’t stop him. We have to learn how to operate by revelation in our own life and find the opportunity God has waiting for you on the other side of the attack.
One text message can set us back for years, in Acts 27, the apostle Paul’s boat was stuck in a storm so bad that many of the men on board, “...finally gave up all hope of being saved.”
But just because things looked bleak and just because it was hard and just because they thought it was all over, doesn’t mean God abandoned them. Someone on that ship had a promise from God. They were going to survive.
Like Paul, we have a promise from God and this is not how your story ends. We’re going to make it to shore, it just might not be in the way we expected.
Paul was like the rest of us, made of flesh and blood, and therefore liable to be depressed: he had kept himself calm at first; but, still, the strong excitement of the day had no doubt operated on his mind, and when he was lying in prison all alone, thinking about the perils that surrounded him, he needed good cheer, and he received it. The bravest man may find his spirit sinking after the battle, and so perhaps it was with the apostle. When if all others despised him, the smile of Jesus was enough.