Take Heed What You Heed - Audio

In our world, it is too easy to speak what is wrong rather than focusing on what is right. We speak things into (or out of) our lives by what we say. Our mouth and the things that we say can sabotage our own desires and the plans that God has for us. Our words often betray us. We need to work to remove the negative from our conversation. More than the negative, we often express doubts, fear and uncertainty in our words. The age in which we live make it easy to forget the things that God has said about us. Our text in Mark where Jesus calms the storm is powerful. Not only did he rebuke the waves, He rebuked the disciples even more forcefully. Why was He so upset. It wasn’t so much how they had reacted to the storm, but more than they had forgotten what He said: “Let’s go to the other side.” Jesus was angry with them because He had already declared the outcome. The storm distracted them from the promise that He said that they would go to the other side. They allowed their circumstances to cause them to lose focus of the fact that the outcome had already been determined. Storms will come up in life. What we say in the midst of these storms is very important. We can either be let by the circumstances or by the promise that God has given. When they woke Him to ask “do you not care that we perish?” He had already given the word, and they let their circumstance distract them from that word. God has promised that we will live and not die. We need to learn to speak what we seek, not what we see. When we allow our circumstances to dominate our words, we will invite the wrath of God and risk losing the miracle that God had for us. We can give into our fears and doubts, or hold on to the promise. God does not always tell us what will be involved in realizing the promise. The bible is full of stories of men and women who had a promise and then had to go through storms, trials and tumult before they got to the promise. God’s word is what will transform any situation. Lord save us from the negative atmosphere in which we live and let us speak the word of God into our lives.