Even the Wind and the Waves

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 26th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of Luke 8:23:

”But as they sailed He (Jesus) fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy.”

Jeopardy means danger, peril, risk or harm. How are you today, my dear friend? Are you in peril? Are you in jeopardy? Are you fearful? Do you feel like you’re drowning? Well, let’s go on to verse 25: “But He said to them…” Jesus said to them “…Where is your faith?” Today, we need to exercise our faith when the going gets tough. You know the old saying, “When the going gets tough, the tough keep going.” Listen to this: “…Where’s your faith?” Listen to this: ”And they were afraid, and marveled…” This is after Jesus had stood up in the middle of the storm. Folks, I’ve been to that lake. I want to tell you it’s not that big, it’s 13 kilometres wide, it’s 21 kilometres long. A good swimmer can swim that lake on a calm day but I want to tell you, it is perilous when it comes to storms. 

Now, we have been in the middle of that lake and we’ve had Holy Communion with a couple of other boats. It is an awesome experience but that lake is very, very deep. It’s the lifeblood of the whole of the Middle East in that area, and so they were very afraid and they marvelled when they saw that the Lord calmed the storm,

”… saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!” 

You know, when we have our men’s meetings all over the world, most of them are outdoors because there’s no building that can house thousands of men, and then we are totally reliant on the weather and if the weather is otherwise, we have to call upon the name of the Lord. I don’t know how many times, right up until the eve of the beginning of the meeting, when we have ordered a huge platform, toilets have been built, food has been organised, transport, advertising -  and it is pouring with rain! That is when we have to call upon the Lord. “Lord. It’s over to you.” We can do nothing else and many times, it makes me weep even telling this to you. I wake up in the early hours of the morning. I walk out. The rain has stopped on the big day. I look up into the sky, the stars are shining and then we say, ”Let it begin.” And what an incredible conference it is because the One who can direct the weather and the wind is Jesus Christ!

Now, He can do the same in your life. What is it today that you are in jeopardy of? Let’s put it before the Lord. 

Lord Jesus, 

I pray for my dear friend, listening to this message early this morning. 

Whatever it is, finances, health,  future. Whatever it might be, we put it in your hands and we say, Lord, please work another miracle. 

In Jesus name. Amen.

God bless you and have a wonderful day, 
Goodbye.