As I was doing that, I received a call; it was a call from heaven! I have an installed “Trucaller” App in my spirit. As I checked the App, I discovered it was God calling. He wanted my attention. And overtime I have come to realise He wouldn’t call if He had nothing to say. Immediately, I dropped my phone to enter that conversation.
Eventually, He wanted to re-emphasize what He had told me in passing in the course of the previous week knowing I was a little bit downcast. So, I began to look into the central scripture of that conversation. The more I looked into it, the more I found some understanding that would bless your soul.
Let’s travel into the Word.
“As evening fell, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake…” Mark 4:35
They just finished ministering to a host of people. It had been a long day of listening to those heavenly teaching. As evening came, he demanded they cross to the other side, and from the responses of the disciples, they felt staying back should still be good as the people most likely were still around. However, they took him at his word and started out, to the other side.
There is nothing that gives a man more confidence as when the author of life Himself beeps you to get along on a journey. Isn’t that amazing? There is this super confidence in such a scenario that nothing can stop you or come as a stumbling block. Then, the next verse after that invitation came on to say:
“But soon, a terrible storm arose. High waves began to break into the boat until it was nearly full of water and about to sink” v37
As this terrible storm began, it became surprising that no one thought about Jesus being in the boat and as such nothing could happen to them. They didn’t remember all of the miracles He had performed before then. It was natural anyway, as humans. The most hilarious part was that the man who initiated the journey was at the back somewhere sleeping. Who does that?
They rushed frantically to where Jesus was, wakened him, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you even care that we are ALL about to drown?”
Look at that statement; they were afraid that “all” of them were going to drown. This means they have classified Jesus with them as one who is incapacitated in the face of trouble. They felt Jesus could perish. They didn’t see Him as God in the face of trouble the way they did before the trouble. If they never believed He was in the class of God before then, they wouldn’t have followed him on the instruction to journey to the other side of the lake.
They knew Jesus was in the boat but He was now classified as a man with their utterance. “We are all about to drown”. Can the one who called waters out and made boundaries around the sea by His word drown?
Now, let’s come home: the boat is as your life; the storm is the tough times you face. The back of the boat is your spirit where He is resident by the Holy Spirit. The implication of that event is that the boat carrying the author of life cannot capsize. They didn’t know that because their knowledge of Him changed in the face of trouble. No matter how tough the torrent becomes, as long as He is in the boat, there is no capsizing. That was the exact word He told me as I answered His call this morning.
So, now, that your spirit is the boat that carries the Saviour and He is there at the back of your boat, it will only always be a story of about to sink, the boat can never sink. He is there and not sleeping. They were the once who needed to wake up.
Paul had come to the understanding of this when He was being transported to Jerusalem and storm arose. He knew there was Jesus in the boat with him and that means there can never be a capsizing. He classified himself with God even though he was in the midst of ‘enemies’. He wasn’t a sailor but He carried who owned the sailor so he could dictate the direction to follow. It was because of Paul, and technically, not Paul, but who Paul was carrying that the life of every other person on the boat was not lost.
Jesus is in your boat (life); you can’t make some utterance any longer. He wants you to know this so strongly. When you say to yourself you can no longer take this and would give up, you have just made same statement as the disciples, you are saying “Jesus can perish” because He is now in that life with you. When the devil comes with so great a temptation that looks to be so much and you say to yourself “I can no longer hold on” you have just said to yourself “Jesus you can’t take this any longer”. At the moment you go against the dictates of the word with the excuse of pressure, you have just said to the world “Jesus this pressure is too much for you”. You are not in that boat alone.
If truly He is the one you have received, your boat can NEVER capsize. The boat carrying the author of life cannot capsize. You are the boat you cannot capsize; it would only be nearly full!
Approach the week with this confidence, knowing you are far above trials and temptations. Glory to God!
Be Innovated
Olufemi Ibitoye
weldone sir..
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