May 3rd 2020 Sermon Notes:

Speaker: Apostle Dr. Lucille Baird
Theme: Led and fed through a storm
Text:

Hold onto Jesus and ride out the storm, God will lead you and feed you under an open heaven even in the storm. God keeps His promise. He is ahead of what is going to happen. He will prepare His church and his people.

The storm is inevitable, we cannot avoid the storm, when you give your life to the Lord, expect a storm. But God will not leave you or forsake you. You will go through the storm but Jesus the Storm Whisper is the answer to every situation.

When Jesus told the disciples to go over to the other side of the lake He never told them there was going to be a storm, because He, the Storm whisperer was in the boat.

You are not alone, there were great men in the Bible that went through great storms
Moses
Joseph
David
Paul

Last week the sermon was about building with a storm in mind
1. Know the storm whisperer – Jesus speaks peace be still
2. Make sure your foundations and structures are strong and secure
3. Never let go of the one who stills the storms
4. You will be victorious over the storm

Your building material when you are building for a storm:
• Prayer
• The Word of God, even Jesus used the word of God against satan.
• Worship, if you don’t know how to worship, the devil will frustrate
• Intimacy with God.
• Obedience to God
• Faithfulness to God
• Show compassion for our brothers and sisters
• Love your brothers and sisters
• A pure heart and clean hands
• A spirit of forgiveness

Isaiah 25: 4-5
You have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

2 Corinthians 4: 8-10
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Hold onto Jesus and ride out the storm, God will lead you and feed you under an open heaven even in the storm. Let’s see how the men of hold got through their storm.

MOSES
Exodus 3: 9-14
9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[b] will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.[c] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Because God is with us we must go through the storm to show that God is powerful. When Moses arrived in Egypt he hit some storms, Phaoah and the red sea, after one storm there will be another storm, God is testing you and strengthens you for your next storm. Moses went though because God will lead you and feed you under an open heaven even in the storm. Moses left the Red sea and entered the wilderness had to face a drought. Great promises of God but no water, food shortages. God was faithful in those situation He came though and brought the water from a rock and manna from heaven.
Your circumstances, the worse it gets God is right there, he is the fourth man in the fire, He will lead you into the dry places but He will feed you. He is our provider prove God now in this wilderness situation.
The end result God took Moses to a higher reward. He made it, he was elevated and was on mount of Transfiguration.

JOSEPH
Genesis 37

Joseph was led, even though he ended up in the pit. He was sold as a slave but God was with him. He was lied on and ended up in prison, He was sustained in prison. He was promised the legacy of Jacob but here he was in a dungeon. God had not forgotten him and the prophetic words spoken over your life will become a reality. He is leading you thought the storm. Pharaoh had a dream and it opened a door for Joseph. He had been processed in the storm, Joseph was processed for greatness. He had to endure, no pain no gain. You have to go through the storm, you have to suffer but the end result was that Joseph went from the pit to the prison and now onto the palace.

God remembers you, He has not forgotten you, he is leading you and feeding you through your storm.

God is about to blow someone’s mind, he will give revelation and elevate you in the eyes of your enemy. He will prepare a table in the presence of your enemies, they will stand and watch as you eat at the table God has prepared for you.

Joseph’s brothers hated him because of his dream but they had to bow, God will make your enemies you footstool.

DAVID
1 Samuel 16

That might chosen king that God had prepared in the backside of the desert was anointed as king. The spirit of the Lord came upon David and the next step was to face a giant. He went through one storm after another. Saul became his enemy and tried to kill him. He became a cave man, and there he trained his men for battle. Don’t fret, make a good thing out of your storm. He is building you up preparing you for the next storm, which will build you up for greatness. God is moulding you like a potter, he is moulding you and putting you though the fire.

1 Chronicles 12


David was hunted, at Ziklag he became a broken man. He wept until he had no strength left. His wives and children were taken and then his men that he had raised up wanted to stone him. He had to depend on God to lead, guide and direct yet David said I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord:

PAUL
Acts 15

Paul was a chosen instrument, what happened to him shipwrecked, beaten, stoned.

2 Corinthians 6: 3 – 10
3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. 4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8 through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; 9 known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Paul made it
2 Timothy 4: 7-8
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Trust Him to lead you though the storm, He will feed you though the storm, He has called us but there will be storms and the end result will be the same because He is the same God yesterday, today and forever.