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How have you experienced the pure power of Jesus?
That evening, after leaving Nazareth, Jesus said to his students, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.” So they left the crowd, got in a boat & started off (85).
But when they were out on the lake, a strong wind blew up. Suddenly, the waves began to spill over into the boat & to fill it with water! Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep with his head on a pillow. His students woke him & pleaded, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re about to die?!”
Jesus stood up and simply commanded the wind & the waves: “Peace. Be still.”
Immediately, the wind died down, and the waters were calmed!
Then Jesus said to his students, “Why are you so afraid? Where is your faith?”
But his students were more distressed by the power that Jesus had displayed, than they had been by the power of the storm! To one another they said, “How is it that even the wind and the waves obey him?”
LORD, please help us to love & respect Your power.
How have you experienced the pure power of Jesus?
(85) Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25
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