Standing in the Storm, part II -- 23 January 2022

What is a storm? There is a metaphorical storm as well. Divorce, miscarriage, bad news on the biopsy, pink slip, the company downsizes and you’re a little old and overpaid, pandemic, another report from the school board, realizing what they’re teaching your children at school. A storm is that situation or event that makes it almost impossible for you to be at peace, almost impossible to worship. It is that situation that demands you dwell on it, make it your new reference point, and you must fix it before you do anything else...

If you are in a storm right now, you are in it for one of two reasons, and it is one of two kinds of storms:

1. You are somewhere you aren’t supposed to be doing something that you are not supposed to be doing, and you're in a storm, a storm of CORRECTION.

2. You are somewhere you were called to go doing something you are called and gifted to do, and the enemy doesn’t like it and you, my friend, are in a spiritual battle, a storm that involves spiritual warfare. This is why Ephesians 6:12-13 says we wrestle not. Wrestling is a full contact, physical sport.