How could God ask us to have staying power in a place that feels hopeless? When what we really want to do is jump ship, it takes faith to stay.
From a Bible story in Acts 27 verses 13-44, Pastor Steven Furtick preaches this sermon to our global online family of Elevation Church about the importance of having staying power in the storm. God promised us He would never leave us or forsake us, so rather than jumping to other things to try to alleviate our pain, we need to stay faithful to Him in seasons of struggle.
God will get us through. In this Bible story, Paul tells a group of scared sailors that if they jump ship and turn their backs on God they will have to face the consequences of the storm and likely lose their lives, but if they keep their faith and stay with the ship, they will all be saved.
Pastor Steven talked about the power of praising God in the midst of the storm by saying, “Of course the Church is an essential service! We need to stay praising. I wish my message title could have been, ‘The Storm Is Over.’ Wouldn’t we all want to listen to that message right now?” But we can’t preach that message right now while the storm still rages. “We’re not celebrating that we avoided the storm but that we stayed in it.” Let’s strengthen our faith to have staying power in the storms of life.
With a hopeful turn at the end of the message that Pastor Steven called an, “appointment with an angel,” he alludes to the words of Jesus who on the day of pentecost told His disciples to, “stay in Jerusalem.” Pastor Steven explained as he brought the message to a powerful close that we need to stay in peace while we navigate our storms, “We need to stay sweet even when the world goes sour.”
It’s not what I go through that determines where I end up, it's who I listen to. We pray that as you listen to the voice of God through this sermon you will find staying power in the storm.
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