God’s Power is without limit. The same God who will heal the sick can calm the raging storm; with Him absolutely nothing is impossible. Ephesians talks about the surpassing greatness of His Power which is available to those who believe (1:19). When I had cancer, God healed me; when I was in prison, God set me free! - It all begins when we believe!
Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marvelled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:23-27, NKJV)
Who is Jesus? What kind of Man is He? Yes, He is the Son of God, but do we really understand who He actually is, how great His Power is? In the story, Jesus got into a ship with His disciples; by this point they already knew Him well, they had travelled with Him, seen many miracles: in fact, earlier in Matthew 8, we read that Jesus healed Peter’s own mother-in-law. But now something was to happen that would shock them, that would cause them to look at Jesus in a completely different way, so that they would begin to question, What Kind of Man is He?
For the early disciples, they had become accustomed to Jesus working healing miracles, but the ability to calm a storm, that was shocking. For us, we are accustomed to our salvation, but can prayer really make a difference, can sick people be miraculously healed? - When we see something out of the ordinary, we all question, Who is this Jesus?!
With my God nothing, absolutely nothing, is impossible. Our God is so powerful. No miracle is too big. No obstacle too great. I found God as an 8-year-old, and He has never left me, and He never will. When I had throat cancer in 1964, when I had lung cancer in 2003, when I was arrested and imprisoned for Bible smuggling, I KNEW Him, I KNEW how to call upon Him, and He answered me: each time He worked a miraculous miracle. Were my prayers answered immediately? No, but His grace carried me until the day He answered. If you call upon Him, He is going to answer you.
Father, I want You, through the Holy Spirit, to speak to these people reading and listening to this message. Show them the reality of who Jesus is: the Jesus who can calm every storm; the Jesus who can take away all our fear; we need Him in our lives. Holy Spirit, give these people the faith and courage to call upon the Name of Jesus; to believe in the Power of His Name; give them the faith to believe, so that when the storms come, they know the One who can calm every sea.
‘Signs and Wonders’ used by kind permission of www.vinesong.com