Real Life Selkirk
**JUNE 28** What Faith Looks Like (Matthew 14:22-36)

  • Sermon

    Key Passage

    Matthew 14:22–36 NIV
    Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret. And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

    Introduction

    Today we are talking about faith.
    Our world uses this word as a definition for us meeting here today.
    Did you know that people watch you walking in the door and say that we are “People of Faith”?
    Even within our ranks there are those who will talk about how having enough faith will literally make God our personal slave and He will do whatever we claim if we have enough faith.
    In this sense, faith becomes a commodity
    The more faith I can accumulate, then the better outcomes from God I can create.
    Jesus said, “If you have faith like a mustard seed, you can move mountains!”
    I remember as a kid hearing about that verse and going out into the back yard and looking at one of the mountains and praying to God, “I want you to know that I have a lot of faith right now. I have way more than a mustard seed. Maybe like a golf ball or even a baseball sized faith. I want to watch that mountain move! Go ahead!”
    I would pick up a stick like Moses on the 10 Commandments movie, or hold my hand out like a Jedi.
    I wasn’t sure which method God would be most impressed with
    End of the day, I didn’t move any mountains.
    I have seen that an understanding of faith is something that all of us struggle with at one time or another.
    We look at the circumstances of our lives and think, “Maybe I am getting something wrong. My lack of faith has led me to a difficult place of life.”
    Faith in the church becomes a word that everyone uses, everyone assumes everyone knows what it means, but often few people know what it means.
    It becomes a part of our “Church Language” that is just thrown out, but without effect.
    On one hand:
    We need faith to get saved.
    Ephesians says that it is by grace through FAITH that we are saved. It is a gift from God.
    On the other hand:
    We somehow continue to need more and more faith to get through our lives day to day.
    This doesn’t mean we have lost our salvation.
    But on the other hand, there is something about faith that we have enough to be saved, but sometimes not enough to get through a Tuesday.
    Can I rightly be called a person of faith?
    Our passage today highlights three massive points to understanding faith.

    Question to Answer:

    “What does faith look like?”
    As I think of answers to that question, I think of the bravest Hall of Fame people in the Bible.
    I think of Moses standing in front of the Red Sea
    I think of David standing with confidence in front of Goliath
    I think of Paul preaching the Gospel to people who are holding rocks ready to kill him.
    I think of missionaries who go to third world countries and give their lives
    There is the appearance of unwavering strength all of these guys have. I equate that to their faith.
    Then when I look at my life, my truck battery dies and I wail, “Where are you, God?”
    Misunderstandings
    Before diving into our text, I want to clear up a few misunderstandings about faith.
    First, faith is not a skill, but it can be practiced
    When I was learning basketball, my coach used to push me to do things faster and faster and faster.
    I was 6’ 6” tall, clumsy and I had arms and legs flailing about like one of those air-pressure blow up guys flopping around in front of a car wash.
    His purpose in doing this was that if I practiced doing things until I messed up, then I was pushing my skill level.
    In this idea, failure showed the line of my abilities and the drill was intentionally pushing that line outward.
    I was getting better at things.
    This is similar and dissimilar to faith.
    I think that God is always pushing our faith. But faith is not a skill that we can become competent in, like dribbling a basketball.
    Second, faith isn’t about me.
    Faith isn’t like a power meter inside of me that shows how powerful of a Christian I have become.
    Faith is not power. Faith is dependence on God’s power
    God is the source of power and change. Not my faith.
    I have a part and my part is faith, but God’s part is power, change and His glory.
    This highlights a huge point about faith.
    Our faith exists for the glory of God
    The minute we think that faith is for our glory, we have misunderstood everything about God’s purpose for us as people.
    This is an important lesson that Peter learns in our passage today.
    Let’s dive into Matthew 14

    Preaching

    Matthew 14:22–24 NIV
    Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
    For us to grasp this passage, I want to roll back to our passage from last two weeks.
    Jesus had heard that JTB was killed and upon hearing the news, he wanted to go to a quiet place.
    I want to pause here. I know that guys want to be the toughest character in the room.
    I want you to hear this, Jesus was the toughest guy around. He’s God. No one is tougher than God.
    When his cousin died, he didn’t hide the grief. He went sought out a quiet place.
    In John 11 when his friend died, Jesus didn’t tough it out. He went to His friends grave site and wept.
    Follow Jesus’ example, men.
    I want to explore something for us to consider:
    Jesus had wanted to get away.
    Last week, we talked about the interruptions that can happen.
    Interruptions aren’t always bad. We have to have the eyes of Jesus to have compassion.
    But after the interruption, what was Jesus’ goal? Silence and solitude.
    I want to explore this. I think we all understand that we need a quiet time with God, but we haven’t really broken down what that looks like, what that means and why it has value.
    Silence
    God loves us to be in silence before Him. I can pull up an arms length of verses to support this, but we don’t have time. Here is one:
    Psalm 46:10 NIV
    He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
    There is something about us slowing down to silence that allows us to be in the right place to exalt God for who He is.
    Silence comes in two forms: internal and external
    External silence is literally the noise around you. This is what Jesus was doing when he went away.
    Turn off your phone, turn off the lights (visual noise), turn off the music. We are literally addicted to noise in our culture.
    Internal silence is the noise going on inside of you. This is when I get everything around me quiet, that I start thinking about the projects at work, the issues going on, the struggles, the people I’m angry with, the hurt that I feel.
    I start to realize that I use noise to numb a lot of the things going on in my mind and in my heart.
    These things come to the surface, only when I find silence.
    Here is the reality, in all of that internal noise, God needs to have a place in every one of the conversations in my mind.
    I have to start shaping my thoughts, my fears, my struggles to Him. Cast my cares upon Him..
    Is there any correlation between our addiction to noise and never seeing God work in these areas of our lives?
    When we are silent, we can find the issues that are plaguing our heart and begin to turn them over to Jesus.
    Jesus had issues plaguing His heart. He had to find a place of silence and take those things and begin to cast them at the feet of the Father.
    Solitude
    Jesus sought silence, but He also sought solitude. I want to define this briefly because this is a rabbit trail and this isn’t really the purpose of this sermon, but I feel it has value.
    I used to think of solitude and isolation as the same thing. They aren’t
    Solitude is being alone with God. Isolation is just being alone.
    Solitude is engagement with God. Isolation is escape.
    Solitude is intentional food and water for our soul. Isolation will starve the soul and make us a target for Satan.
    Silence and Solitude are absolutely necessary in our journey as disciples of Jesus.
    How do we know? Jesus showed us the need for these things by showing us His need for them.
    I will tell you this plainly: If you do not find silence and solitude with God:
    you will not know the voice of the shepherd,
    you will run and run and run into exhaustion,
    you will never find God’s wisdom in your confusing life
    You will never find God’s comfort and peace in a hurting broken world
    you will not experience the light yoke of a disciple because your not linked with Him in that yoke
    Jesus wanted to get away, so they get into a boat and go to a solitary place.
    When they get there, they find that a massive crowd had seen their destination and came.
    Jesus fed the crowd with 5 loaves and two fish.
    Even in His grief, we saw last week that Jesus had compassion on the people
    Their salvation was important to Him.
    So now, we see that Jesus puts his disciples in a boat and sends them away and Jesus dismisses the crowd.
    Jesus went up on the mountainside to pray...alone.
    I love to read biographies. Not just the stories, but most biographies have practices of the people and what made them stand out from other people.
    This passage stands out to me for this regard.
    I see Jesus being God on the earth grieving.
    What did He do in His grief? He went to the Father, alone.
    I deal with struggles in life, as well.
    If Jesus needed to go to the Father and Jesus is God, how much more should I go to the Father and spend time with Him alone?
    I want you to know this. Jesus spending time with the Father brought Him strength. Not just spiritual strength, but physical strength. It brought Him communion with God.
    Jesus was not merely a spirit being. He was also human.
    As a human, He needed to depend on the Father for his strength, wisdom and activity in this world.
    If Jesus needed it, I need it 100 x 100 more.
    Jesus sends them in the boat to a specific place and the guys go.
    However, they hit a storm at night and the wind was pushing against them.
    I want to ask you a leading question right now.
    Who’s will was it that the guys were in the boat?
    It was the will of God.
    What happened when they followed God’s will?
    It was smooth sailing and they didn’t experience any trouble?
    No, they hit a storm.
    Storms of life happen.
    They happen when we are in the will of God
    They happen when we are outside of the will of God.
    They happen when other people cause trouble
    They happen when we cause trouble
    And if no one causes trouble, sometimes storms still just show up.
    Matthew 14:25 NIV
    Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.
    How long did Jesus let them struggle with the wind?
    All night!
    Was it because He didn’t love them?
    No
    Was it because He didn’t know?
    No, He knew
    God would be glorified through this storm
    Matthew is so nonchalant with this description.
    There is no exclamation point.
    Just, like Jesus is walking down the road, He was walking on the lake
    Matthew 14:26–27 NIV
    When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
    So, the 12 disciples are fighting the wind. They are fighting because they are striving to obey Jesus.
    They are doing God’s will.
    Then they see Jesus through the storm, walking on the lake.
    They came to the only reasonable conclusion: It’s a ghost.
    If this was you, I want you to think of a more reasonable conclusion.
    Is it a ghost? Or Jesus who just sent us away. The same Jesus who walks with us, eats food with us, talks with us and is fully human like one of us.
    I can’t walk on water, and I can’t imagine He would either.
    Therefore, a ghost is the most likely and reasonable and natural conclusion.
    Jesus immediately says, “Tharseo! It is I! Don’t be afraid”
    Tharseo-
    Take courage
    Be over-bold
    Audacious
    To not move
    To be deaf to threats
    To have a heart of iron
    This is the same word Jesus uses in John 16:33. He says, “In this world you will have trouble, THARSEO I have overcome the world.”
    In this context, Jesus is saying something different.
    You are in a storm that you have been fighting all night. THARSEO I am here.
    Tharseo isn’t just a word that tells us to hang on by our fingernails
    It is a word that reminds us that the storm is not our identity, the storm is not our eternity, and the storm is not bigger than the Jesus who is in you.
    The disciples are afraid, they think they have seen a ghost
    Jesus says, “Tharseo, it is I”
    This brings us to our first understanding of the question we are asking today: “What does faith look like?”
    What does faith look like?
    Faith is knowing God
    Before ever asking Peter out of the boat or teaching them, Jesus first identifies Himself.
    Have you noticed the journey that Matthew has revealed about the ministry of Jesus?
    It is designed to walk the reader through every step of faith.
    Matthew begins with an identification of Jesus identity as Messiah, King, Lord, and God.
    Matthew shows us His lineage, His birth, His early ministry and identification of His being the Messiah.
    He uses the OT scriptures to show these realities to the reader
    Romans points to the foundation of faith in a similar way:
    Faith comes by hearing and Hearing by what? The Word of God
    The Word of God reveals the nature and identity of God
    You cannot have faith if you do not know the God of the Bible.
    This is what the world misses
    So many people in the world emphasize faith. They say, “Just have faith! You gotta have faith”
    Faith in what? If you do not know the God of the Bible, all of the faith in the world isn’t going to help you in any way.
    If you are here today and you think you are good to go because you have faith, but you don’t know the God of the Bible, you have been deceived.
    Faith, sincerity and good intentions are lies. They do nothing. They do not save you. They do not sanctify you.
    This is something that I have had to learn in my own life.
    In having to learn it in my own life, I’ve had to walk this out.
    I used to think that this first step was about knowing Bible facts.
    I studied theologies, stories, original languages, and read books from really smart people. I even pretended to understand what those smart people were talking about.
    But in all of this study, I learned about God, but that was not the preparation for the soil in my heart to have faith.
    Knowing about God does not grow our faith. Knowing the God of the Bible grows our faith.
    I knew the stories about David, but until I had to face some giants in my own life and see God at work, did I start to know the God that was leading me.
    I knew stories about grief, but only knew the God that had comforted others when He comforted me in the loss of a child.
    I knew stories about following His path like Abraham (Go to a place I will show you), but only learned to know God when I quit my job, and sold our house and moved to Newport to start a church.
    I don’t know what situation you are facing. Faith may not be the solution to make the situation go away.
    But faith begins with knowing the God that stands beside you in that situation.
    Jesus says, “It is I”
    They knew who He was. They had walked with Jesus. They knew He wasn’t just a human, but rather that He was the Messiah.
    Also, they had an idea about what that means, and Jesus reminds them.
    Now if I said, “Don’t be afraid, Jared is here” You should probably be very afraid
    You should be afraid because you know me. And you know that I am not worth putting an ounce of faith in.
    But Jesus says, “You know me. You know who I am. I have revealed myself and my nature to you. So, Tharseo!
    What happens next only makes sense if you know what Tharseo means. Peter asks Jesus if he can step out of the boat.
    If Tharseo only meant “calm down, you’ll be ok” Peter never would have asked this question.
    But Peter knew in part what Tharseo meant and knew who Jesus was.
    Matthew 14:28 NIV
    “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
    There is so much wrapped up in this sentence.
    Peter knew Jesus and knew that Jesus had AUTHORITY.
    What does faith look like?
    Faith is knowing God
    Faith is surrender to God’s authority
    I think that many of us have the idea that faith means, “Jesus, if it’s really you I’m coming to you, so hold me up.”
    We believe that faith is like an Indiana Jones situation that we just simply take a step and it is God’s job to hold us up and make us succeed.
    I want you to see this. For Peter, it meant that He knew who Jesus was. He had walked with Jesus, seen miracles, he had just held a basket of bread leftovers from Jesus’ miracle of feeding the 5,000.
    I think he knew that Jesus was the Messiah in his head. I think he was getting the idea that Jesus was God in his head.
    But the intellectual reality did alone not constitute faith.
    He knew Jesus and He allowed Jesus to dictate the terms of this event.
    He said, “If it’s you, tell me to walk to you on the water.”
    Peter didn’t just step out of the boat. He gave his request to Jesus then awaited the authority of Jesus.
    Do you remember what we said when we opened this topic.
    Faith is not about you. It is about Him.
    Faith is His power, His will, His glory in this world, not ours.
    He is God, we are not.
    Faith is the recognition that the God of the Bible, the almighty, all-knowing, all-loving, ever-present God knows your circumstance, your storm, your relationship better than you.
    It is the sacrifice of your own authority in these areas of our lives.
    It is trusting these things to Him and saying, “God, you are the authority not me”
    It is relinquishing your power, your authority over the situations and circumstances that impact your life.
    This is why faith will always be a struggle. If faith were a skill, we’d get good at this.
    But every human being will always struggle with relinquishing authority in their lives.
    I don’t like using the language, “letting things go”.
    They are still situations that impact our lives. We can let them go, but they are still going to be waiting outside of our doors on Monday morning.
    It is less about letting them go and more about saying, “God, this situation needs your glory. I can be Tharseo. I can stand strong and confident because I know you and I know that this is your direction.
    Show me you want to speak to that person
    Show me the steps you want me to take
    Show me where to humble myself so you can be seen.
    Faith is the separation of theory about God and discipleship of following God
    I can say that God has the power and authority
    But until I surrender my circumstances, my life, my sin, my struggles and my storms to Him and let go of my authority, I will never see God glorified in these places.
    The storm will be for nothing except pain apart from faith.
    Matthew 14:29 NIV
    “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.
    Here is where it gets fun.
    Jesus said, “Yes it is me.” and “Yes I have the authority” now “Step out of the boat and walk”
    I want you to see this.
    This is now a case of obedience
    Peter recognized Jesus. He knew Jesus
    Peter acknowledged Jesus authority, not his own.
    But that results in Jesus saying, “OK, now you need to act so my glory can be seen.”
    What does faith look like?
    Faith is knowing God
    Faith is surrender to God’s authority
    Faith is humble obedience when God speaks
    Now this was largely inadvertent, but this circles back around to the quiet time thing I was talking about. Will we ever hear God’s voice if we never spend time in silence and solitude? No
    If we never hear God’s voice, we live lives that are not surrendered, and we take steps hoping it is God’s will. Sometimes they are sustained, sometimes they are not.
    This is where the rubber hits the road.
    If I truly know God, I surrender to His authority
    If I am surrendered to His authority, I will obey because He is Lord, I am not. I am His servant, here to do His will.
    James says, “Faith without works is dead.” This is the point He is leading to in that letter.
    It isn’t just doing things.
    It is the activity of obedience to a God that you have surrendered your life to.
    It is one thing to say, “I know who Jesus is”
    It is also an easy thing to say, “God is in control”
    But when God says, “And now this is what I want you to do, a whole new level of fear comes in.”
    This isn’t something I want to do. This isn’t something I can do. God do you know the situation?
    It’s a storm!
    Storms are scary. Storms are loud. Storms are threatening.
    I’ll be honest with you, when I experience storms in life I sincerely hope that God’s instructions for me are to simply sit there and survive. Kinda like the other guys in the boat.
    I’d rather have God just solve the storm without asking me to step out and do something.
    Jesus could have just calmed the storm, but He didn’t
    He let Peter step out of the boat. Not into calm seas, but rather into a storm.
    We’ll drive this home more after we see what happens
    Matthew 14:30 NIV
    But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
    I call this the 8th step of faith problem.
    This is why I believe that faith is not a skill that we can get good at.
    Jesus calls Peter out of the boat and Peter gets out of the boat.
    I want to ask you, “what is the greatest step of faith?”
    Step 1! In my mind. And shortly after that is step 2
    Also step 3 is turning my back to the boat and being fully sustained by Jesus and the removal of any safety net.
    **MODEL GETTING OUT OF THE BOAT**
    “Man, this is great!” Look at my faith! Jesus is God. Jesus is King. Jesus is Messiah!
    Jesus told me to walk and I’m walking on the water!
    But what does this verse say?
    But when he saw the wind, he was afraid.
    Let’s walk through this. Do you remember when Jesus said, “Tharseo- Be bold and audacious because you know who I am?”
    Peter saw the wind and saw a new authority. The authority he had always known as a fisherman. The authority of nature.
    You would think after 4-5-6-or 7 steps, that his faith would be unshakeable! He should have been good at his faith by that point.
    But the 8th step of faith is where he fell.
    Every step of faith is a renewed recognition of God and surrender to His absolute authority.
    If there is no knowledge of God, and no surrender to His absolute authority, all of the obedience in the world will mean nothing.
    there was a new authority and that was the wind.
    Peter splashed.
    As he fell, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”
    This is a cry of desperation. A cry that recognized his helplessness in the situation.
    He still knew who Jesus was and knew that Jesus could save him.
    Matthew 14:31 NIV
    Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
    How close was Peter when he saw the wind and the waves? It appears he had made it to Jesus.
    I’m so glad this verse is in the Bible.
    If you are like me, you’ve seen God do amazing things in your life, followed by the stupidest actions of lacking faith.
    It is frustrating and demoralizing.
    Jesus says, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
    Who thinks this is a bit of an overstatement by Jesus?
    Peter was the only one who had stepped out of the boat and he actually had enough faith to walk on the water!
    Then Jesus knocks him and says, ‘Look how small your faith is!’
    There are two things I want us to see here.
    First, what broke down in Peter’s faith?
    Knowledge of Jesus.
    Authority of Jesus
    Obedience to Jesus
    Matthew gives us the answer in a moment, but I want you to think about it until He does.
    But, I think that Jesus may have said, “You of little faith” in another regard.
    The amount of faith to walk on the water is a small step compared to the faith Peter would need when the resurrected Jesus tells him “Feed my sheep”
    Peter would have to learn who Jesus is, surrender to Jesus’ authority and then Jesus would put the weight of the Gospel and the Kingdom of Heaven into his hands and send him out to build the church until he would be murdered.
    The faith he would need for that is so much more than the faith Peter had at this point.
    Matthew 14:32–35 NIV
    And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret. And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him
    When Peter and Jesus climbed into the boat, what did the rest of the disciples say? “Truly you are the Son of God.”
    What is this? This is a recognition of the identity of Jesus as is revealed in the Bible.
    This is the final point about faith that I want to make here:
    What does faith look like?
    Faith is knowing God
    Faith is surrender to God’s authority
    Faith is humble obedience when God speaks
    When we see God glorified through our obedience, we know Him more.

    Conclusion

    Church, Matthew 14 is not a story about Peter’s greatness. It’s a story about Jesus’ greatness — a Savior who steps into storms, speaks His name over fear, calls ordinary people into impossible obedience, and catches us even when we fail.
    And that brings us back to our question:
    What does faith look like?
    Faith is knowing God — not just knowing facts, but knowing Him in the storm.
    Faith is surrender to God’s authority — laying down the illusion of control.
    Faith is humble obedience when God speaks — stepping out while the wind is still blowing.
    But here’s the truth we cannot escape:
    Faith is not proven in the boat. Faith is proven on the water.
    The disciples in the boat believed something true about Jesus. Peter on the water experienced something true about Jesus.
    And that is the invitation for every single person listening today.

    Personal Challenge: Where Is Jesus Asking You to Step Out of the Boat?

    Not in theory. Not someday. Not when life calms down. Right now.
    Seek to know how God has revealed Himself in the past (Bible). Trust that He knows and He is the authority. Even if the storm seems out of control. Remember, this storm was known by Jesus and the guys were still in it all night. It wasn’t because Jesus hated them or wanted them to suffer. It was so they would see who He was. Last, take a step of obedience in faith. Not a step of blindness, but trust His direction.
    Here are some real “water‑walking” steps of faith:

    • Forgiving someone in the storm of conflict

    When everything in you wants to stay angry, stay hurt, stay justified — Jesus says, “Come.” Forgiveness is a step of faith because you surrender your right to control the outcome.

    • Sharing your faith in the storm of fear

    That coworker, neighbor, or family member God keeps putting on your heart — you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment. Jesus says, “Come.” Obedience is the moment, not the conditions.

    • Choosing purity in the storm of temptation

    When the pull of sin feels stronger than the pull of obedience — Jesus says, “Come.” Step out of the boat and trust His power, not your willpower.

    • Reconciling a broken relationship

    Making the first phone call. Owning your part. Apologizing without demanding anything in return. Jesus says, “Come.”

    • Giving generously in the storm of financial uncertainty

    When the numbers don’t make sense and fear whispers “hold back” — Jesus says, “Come.” Generosity is a declaration that God, not money, is your provider.

    • Serving when you feel empty

    When you’re tired, stretched thin, or unsure you have anything to offer — Jesus says, “Come.” He multiplies what you surrender.

    • Trusting God with your children

    Letting go of control. Praying more than you lecture. Releasing them into God’s hands instead of gripping tighter. Jesus says, “Come.”

    • Confessing a hidden sin

    Bringing something into the light that has lived in the shadows for too long. Jesus says, “Come.” Healing begins with honesty.

    • Taking a step of obedience in your calling

    Starting the ministry. Joining the team. Applying for the job. Saying yes to the thing God has been whispering for months. Jesus says, “Come.”

    Your One Step This Week

    So here is the challenge:

    Choose one place this week where you will intentionally step out of the boat.

    Not ten things. Not everything. One step. One act of faith. One place where Jesus can be glorified.
    Because when you step out in faith — even if you sink, even if you stumble, even if you take only seven steps before fear hits — Jesus will meet you there. He will catch you. And through your obedience, you will know Him more.
    And that is the whole point.

      • Matthew 14:22–36NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:22–24NIV2011

      • Psalm 46:10NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:25NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:26–27NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:28NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:29NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:30NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:31NIV2011

      • Matthew 14:32–35NIV2011

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