The storm is over....

How to overcome problems in th midst of a storm....

Lock into something! Decide, "I am not going to have less than God wants me to have, I am not going to lose my walk with God for anything."
I am not going to lose my walk with God for friendships with people who won't be there when I need them to be anyway. Whatever you loose...friends, churches, family, jobs etc... God will restore. There will be time in between when we invest and the investment pays dividends.
He'll give you more than what you give up double actually.

Isaiah 61:7Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs.
Zechariah 9:12Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you.

YOU are built for challenge. God is preparing you for a new level by this storm. Your eyesight is sharp, you've learned how to fly! He'll give you new friends and new opportunities that are best for you. "Apart from me you can do nothing" Our lives our way are/were nothing. This is the only life worth having.
Exodus 19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.
2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In their lives and in their deaths they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.


A wide door of opportunity opened for Paul in the new testament, but with it many adversaries. Like Joyce Meyer says,
"New level new devil."

1 Corinthians 16:9 For a wide door of opportunity for effectual [service] has opened to me [there, a great and promising one], and [there are] many adversaries.

Attacks will happen that will make you yell at yourself, "What IS my problem!"
But hold tight to God in your storm. Do all you can and all you know to do right and hold on!!!!
You are not your own. You weren't created for yourself. You are meant for others.

You think God won't test you to see if you want what you say you want?
You think He won't test your faith to see if you've got what it takes to go the distance with God?
WE should mount up with wings as eagles.
Do you still really want to be used by God?
God's looking for a new level of commitment from you. You are built for adversity!
That is when the best comes out of you!
We're all after a haul!
A haul of blessings just like when Jesus told them to let their nets back down (which is the end of the story that I have been telling) Remember this is when Simon Peter said, "I go a fishing," and the other deciples said, "we'll go too!" Nobody knew what to do except to go back to their old ways, Especially, Simon Peter, he probably thought that since he had denied the Lord three times that it was all over for him, that he couldn't be used by God anymore, he had failed.
Simon Peter went back to his old life wide open too, he was fishing so hard that he was naked!

John 21:7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord! Simon Peter, hearing him say that it was the Lord, put (girded) on his upper garment (his fisherman's coat, his outer tunic)--for he was stripped [for work]--and sprang into the sea.
(this is a little different from my bible, I'm reading the New King James Evangelical Study Bible but I also use the Amplified)


...with only a fisherman's jacket on! but when he saw the Lord on the shore after the crucifiction, He jumped in the water naked and swam back after Jesus had told them to throw their nets in one more time and they caught a haul, isn't that the kind of blessing that we all want?
We're all looking for a haul!!!
What was Jesus doingat that time? Cooking them breakfast.
WE are at a new level! Maybe Peter's jumping in the water was metaphoric for diving in after the Lord and just getting away from that boat.His excitement at the realization that the Lord hadn't left him after he had denied him three times and that the plan was still on!
We don't need the boat anymore. Let go!!! That life is over....."Feed my sheep."

On the ground of your word Jesus, I will do what you have called me to do. I know that the plan has not changed.
Make the commitment for something that is harder than you thought and takes longer than you thought it would and costs more than you thought it would cost.
Set your mind for a quality decision about what youre going to do! We will press through with God. This is so worth it. The investment is so great, your life...but the payoff....immeasureable!
You will do all that He wants you to do and you will have all that He wants you to have. He will never leave.

He is risen!!!!!
Wendy