My name is Matthew Capone, and I'm the pastor here at Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian Church,
and it's my joy to bring God's Word to you today.
A special welcome if you're new or visiting with us.
We're glad that you're here, and we're glad that you're here not because we're trying to fill seats,
but because we're following Jesus together as one community.
And as we follow Jesus together, we become convinced that there's no one so good,
they don't need God's grace, and no one so bad that they can't have it.
Which is why we come back week after week to hear what God has to say to us in His Word.
We're continuing our series in the Gospel of Mark.
You'll remember that the Gospels tell the story of Jesus in His life and His death and His resurrection.
And as we come to this Gospel, there are two questions in particular that it asks us.
First of all, who is Jesus? And second, how do we respond to Him?
I've mentioned before, these are not questions that we're imposing on the text from the outside.
They're actually questions that come out of the text from the inside.
And we'll see this explicitly for the first time in our passage this week.
It's in verse 41 of Mark chapter 4 that the disciples say,
Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him?
And this question from the disciples is meant to be our question as well.
We'll see that question again as we go through the Gospel, especially in Mark chapter 8.
So this is the first time, but not the last time, that we'll understand this is the question this Gospel intends for us to ask.
We've moved on from the kingdom parables, at least for now.
And this week we're going to look at one of the most famous stories in the Bible,
where Jesus calms the storm, and there's this gap that we'll see between what we say that we believe
and what we actually show that we believe.
In fact, perhaps most likely we're tempted, like the disciples,
to wonder whether God actually cares when we find ourselves in the midst of a storm.
And so our big question this morning is this.
How does following Jesus change our response to overwhelming situations?
How does it change our response when we lose a job or miss a promotion?
How does it change our response when we find out about a life-threatening illness for ourselves or someone else?
How does it change our response when we find out that a loved one has been seriously injured?
That's with that question that we turn now to God's Word.
I invite you to turn with me.
We're in Mark chapter 4, starting at verse 35.
You can turn with me in your worship guide.
You can turn on your phone.
You can turn in your Bible.
No matter where you turn, remember that this is God's Word.
And God tells us that His Word is more precious than gold,
even the finest gold, and it's sweeter than honey,
even honey that comes straight from the honeycomb.
And so that's why we read now, starting at verse 35.
On that day, when evening had come, He said to them,
Let us go across to the other side.
And leaving the crowd, they took Him with them in the boat, just as He was.
And other boats were with Him.
And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat,
so that the boat was already filling.
But He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
And they woke Him and said to Him,
Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?
Verse 39.
And He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea,
Peace, be still.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
He said to them, Why are you so afraid?
Have you still no faith?
And they were filled with great fear and said to one another,
Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?
I invite you to pray with me as we come to this portion of God's Word.
Our Father in Heaven, You promise us in Isaiah 55 that Your Word will not return to You empty,
but it will accomplish the purpose for which You sent it.
And so we ask You this morning simply that You would honor that promise.
That as we look at Your Word, it would accomplish purposes in our lives.
That it would encourage us with Your grace.
It would challenge us for our need for it.
And most of all, You would show us Jesus in His beauty and His glory.
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 2 that unless the Holy Spirit is with us,
we won't be able to understand.
And so we ask that You'd give us the Spirit and that we would understand.
That we would see and know and believe You more and more.
We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
As we start this story at the very beginning on verse 35,
it tells us that this happened on that day,
which pulls us back to the very beginning of chapter 4
when Jesus began teaching by the sea.
If you remember from verse 1, it says,
again, He began to teach beside the sea.
And so what we're realizing here is that what we have covered
as a congregation over the last four weeks,
Jesus teaching about the kingdom of God in Mark chapter 4
is something that He actually did in one teaching session.
Even more than that, we're told in Mark chapter 4 verse 2
that He was teaching the many things.
So we've spent four weeks covering part of what Jesus taught in one day.
We're getting a sample of what He gave to this people.
So we come now then on the same day that that's all happened.
We're at the end of the day, we're told.
It says in verse 35,
when evening had come.
And this is going to help us understand
why Jesus probably falls asleep quickly in this story.
He's ended a very long day.
Anyway, verse 36,
they took Him with them in the boat just as He was.
And so they're probably just scooping Him right off the shore.
If you remember at the beginning of the chapter,
Jesus had gone out onto this boat,
which had served as His natural sound system
so He could speak across the water
that amplified His voice to the people
who were sitting up on the hill by the sea.
But we're told later in verse 10
that Jesus went out to answer some questions.
So either they're scooping Jesus up right off the shore
and putting Him in the boat,
or He had returned into the boat.
Either way, Jesus does not go off to do anything else.
He immediately leaves this teaching task
and He heads out with His disciples.
Now, that's all background to what we're coming up against.
Everything's fine at this point
until we hit verses 37 and 38
where we see the real problem that's at work here.
Verse 36, everything is great.
They're traveling out.
There are other boats with them.
Verse 37, things get hairy.
A great windstorm arose
and the waves were breaking into the boat
so that the boat was already filling up.
Now, storm comes.
We know storms are actually incredibly common
on the Sea of Galilee.
There's some science around this.
The sea is at a low elevation.
It's below sea level.
It has hills right around it that are higher.
And so there's this interaction that happens
between hot air and cold air
that causes wind to stir up on the sea.
In other words, this is not an uncommon occurrence.
These are fishermen.
You'll remember from earlier in the gospel.
They're familiar with this sea.
This is their home court.
This is nothing new for them.
So on the one hand, these storms are common.
On the other hand, this particular storm is not.
We see that very quickly.
This one is actually dangerous.
It's threatening.
It's frightening.
Verse 37, the waves were breaking into the boat
so that the boat was already filling.
It's going to be a short amount of time
before there's so much water in this boat
that it sinks.
Verse 38, in case we have any doubt,
the disciples say,
do you not care that we are perishing?
They know that death could be imminent.
And these are coming from fishermen,
and they're very experienced.
They're not easily scared.
They're here on their home turf.
And so what we know is this.
They have assessed the situation correctly.
If someone who grew up in the desert
tells you it's hot, you know it's hot.
If someone who grew up in the Arctic Circle
tells you it's cold, you know it's cold.
If someone who's a seasoned fisherman
tells you on their home turf sea
that you're about to die,
you're probably about to die.
Okay, so this is an uncommon storm
that is incredibly serious.
This storm is about to kill them.
Now, it's not just the threat of the storm
that has them stirred up.
It's also a frustration with Jesus in action.
There's this incredible disconnect
between their present circumstances,
their immediate circumstances,
and Jesus' response.
On the one hand, death is an option for them.
And it could be an option very quickly.
On the other hand, Jesus is asleep.
Now, I'll tell you,
it makes total sense that Jesus is sleeping.
He's had a long day.
There are few things better
after preaching and teaching
to take a good and righteous nap.
And so I feel Jesus on this one.
When I grew up as a 90s kid,
and if you were in Christian culture in the 90s,
you remember people had those bracelets
that said WWJD on them.
What would Jesus do?
I had one of those.
I think mine was orange,
if I remember correctly.
What would Jesus do after preaching?
This passage clearly tells us
he would take a nap.
And so I may even follow
the example of our Lord later today.
Makes sense, right?
Jesus is tired from a full day.
He's asleep.
We actually find out, verse 35,
this is not just a nap.
Evening had come,
and so Jesus is going to bed early.
There's a few things that we learned
from Jesus sleeping here.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
Right now, I want you to see the fear
and the frustration that the disciples
feel in this situation.
In fact, we see it in their question,
verse 38.
Do you not care that we are perishing?
We'll come back to that question in a minute,
but our first question here is,
who is Jesus?
So I want us to keep moving to verse 39.
Jesus is sleeping.
Verse 38, they wake him up.
Verse 39, he revises,
he rebukes the wind and says to the sea,
peace, be still.
Jesus gets up and he calms the storm
using the very same words
that he used earlier in the gospel
to rebuke demons.
He is not casting something out at this point,
though.
He's commanding nature,
and it obeys.
Jesus commands nature with his words.
It does what he says.
Who is Jesus?
We have a partial answer here.
He is the one who controls
and commands nature itself
with only his words.
That doesn't fully, fully answer our question,
though, because the disciples know that,
and that's why they ask the question
in verse 41.
Who is this that even the wind
and the sea obey him?
And so we have to keep digging deeper
to figure out who is Jesus in this situation.
If you've already looked at your worship guide
and you've read our explanation
for the Old Testament reading,
you know there's only one biblical character
who's able to regularly control creation
with his words.
It is God himself.
In fact, God not only controls creation
with his words, he also creates it.
Go back all the way to the very beginning
of the Bible in Genesis chapter one.
We know that it's God who made the world
out of nothing just by speaking.
We saw in our Old Testament reading
from Psalm 107 that God is the one
who calms the seas and the storms.
In fact, we saw that in verse 29.
It says this,
he made the storm be still
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
There are other places in the Old Testament
that tell us this as well,
especially the book of Job,
that it is God who has power
and authority and control over nature.
It is God and only God
who creates things with a word.
It is God and only God
who controls things with a word.
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is not simply a good teacher.
Jesus is not merely a good example.
Jesus is the man who has the power
that belongs to God and God alone.
Jesus is God.
That's why John chapter one,
as it begins telling us the story of Jesus,
tells us that in the beginning was the word
and the word was with God
and the world was made through him.
Jesus was with God at the very beginning
in Genesis chapter one.
He was part of creating the world
with just a word.
In fact, even more than that,
Jesus was the word.
This is why we're told in Hebrews chapter one,
verse three,
that the world is upheld
by the word of Jesus power.
In other words,
the reason that you're sitting here today
and the world is holding together
and not falling apart
is because Jesus right now
is sustaining it with his word.
I had a conversation with someone earlier this week
who is not a Christian
and she told me,
I actually have more of a,
I have a science background
and I have a science perspective on the world.
And so that's part of why I'm not religious.
And so I've been thinking about that all week.
And I'll say this,
it's because Jesus upholds the world
with his word
that we can believe in science.
That is the reason that the world is predictable.
That is the reason we can have faith
in the scientific method.
That is why we can expect things
to operate in the same way over and over.
We live, in other words,
in this orderly predictable world
because it was created and held together
by an orderly predictable God.
If we served a God who is chaotic and unstable,
the world in which we live
would be chaotic and unstable as well.
It was David Hume in the 18th century
who raised this problem,
which is that we cannot believe
that the sun will rise tomorrow
simply because it rose yesterday.
The fact that something happened in the past
is not reason to know and believe
it will happen in the future.
That is in fact a leap of faith.
In other words,
the scientific method relies
on something that cannot be proven,
which is that this world
is something that's predictable.
This world is something that's stable.
This world is something that operates
by laws that we can understand and see.
This is a way of saying
that because Jesus is in control of the world,
because he created it by his word,
that is the reason we can explore
and understand it with science.
In fact, it's miracles,
counterintuitively,
that should give us greater trust in science.
And this is why.
Miracles confirm that God is in control of the world.
If God is in control of the world,
then we can have confidence
that the world is predictable,
that the world is organized,
that the world operates by laws that don't change.
It is Jesus' power.
It's what we see in Hebrews 1, verse 3,
that he upholds the world with the word of his power
that allows us,
that provides the foundation for us
to understand and explore this world with science.
Jesus is the one who controls and creates the world.
Jesus is the one who holds this universe together.
That's only part of our answer, though.
Yes, Jesus is God.
Jesus is the one who creates and controls the world
even more than that.
That is not enough.
Jesus is also benevolent.
Jesus is not just powerful.
He uses his power to save.
Yes, Jesus commands nature,
and he commands it for our protection,
our salvation.
Verse 38,
Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?
Yes.
Yes, he does.
In fact, there's incredible irony in their question
because they are saying much more than they realize.
Jesus cares so much that they are perishing
that he's come to die for them.
More than they can understand in that moment.
They have a bigger problem than a storm on a sea,
and God still meets them in that smaller problem.
God came to earth as a man because they were perishing.
God came to earth as a man because we are perishing.
And so God uses his power.
Jesus uses his power to save.
He has come to deliver them from far much more than a storm.
It's like we're told in Luke chapter 19,
for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the one who controls nature with a word.
Jesus is, in fact, God.
And he's not only God,
he's a God who cares for the perishing.
Do you not care that we are perishing?
Yes.
Yes, he does.
That's the God that we serve.
That raises our next question here,
which is, if that is Jesus, how do we respond to him?
I've told you before that when we read the Bible,
often we're presented with characters
who serve as examples for us,
sometimes positive examples,
sometimes negative examples.
In this passage, we see that same dynamic play out again.
The disciples here are negative example.
Verse 38 again, they ask this question,
do you not care that we are perishing?
In other words, they allow the difficulty
that they're facing to lead to doubt.
The disciples allow difficulty to lead to doubt.
And Jesus says this explicitly,
verse 40,
why are you still afraid?
Have you still no faith?
Jesus is telling them that fear is the opposite of faith.
The circumstances that they are in
have revealed their small and shaky faith.
When storms arise,
our temptation is to doubt God's care and concern and his love.
When storms arise,
our temptation is to doubt God's care and his concern and his love.
That's the trap the disciples fall into here.
That's what Jesus rebukes them for.
It's not a coincidence that this happens immediately
after Jesus teaching about the kingdom.
Even after hearing everything he's taught them
throughout Mark chapter four,
they are confused.
They have not internalized what it is they're supposed to learn.
They are coming off this teaching about the kingdom,
still unable to apply it to their lives.
And so one of the questions of this passage for us
is how do we respond in difficulty?
What does that reveal about us?
When we're out of control,
when we're powerless in this world,
we're like the disciples when we're at the mercy of nature.
How powerful do we believe God actually is?
How much do we think that God actually cares?
Do we really believe that God has not forgotten us?
The disciples here fail this test.
Often we do as well.
Thankfully though,
the disciples are not purely a negative example.
They actually provide a couple things
that they do correctly in this passage.
First of all,
they get the most important thing right
that we've talked about before.
The disciples are with Jesus.
One man puts it this way,
the disciples are in the right boat.
And so another question is this,
when the storm comes,
which boat are you in?
When the storm comes,
which boat are you in?
Are you in Jesus' boat?
Or are you in your own boat?
The disciples get something incredibly important right.
They have decided to get into the right boat.
They get something else right though.
It's not just their location.
They cry out to Jesus in their doubt.
They're with Jesus.
They turn towards Jesus.
As fearful as they are,
as much as Jesus rebukes them here in this situation,
they do not rely on themselves and their resources.
They rely on Jesus who is with them.
And Jesus in his grace,
he does rebuke them.
He doesn't send them away.
Jesus cares for them.
Jesus saves them.
And so the disciples here,
they're mostly a negative,
partially a positive example.
Jesus here is our 100% positive example.
Indirectly, he is demonstrating the sort of faith
that he wants to see in his disciples.
As Jesus is sleeping,
there's a sense in which he is demonstrating
his faith in God.
In fact, I'm gonna invite you to turn to page five
in your worship guide.
We have this quote here on the top left.
Deep, restful sleep embodies trust in God's sovereign hand.
By sleeping during the storm,
Jesus, the son of David,
demonstrates his perfect and unswerving trust
in his father's protection
in the midst of grave physical and spiritual danger.
The Old Testament does not just show us
that God is the one who has control over nature.
The Old Testament also shows us
that sleep is what happens for those who trust God.
Psalm chapter three,
I lay down and slept.
I awoke again for the Lord sustained me.
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
Notice that word there,
I will not be afraid.
I lay down and slept.
Psalm 116,
the righteous will never be moved.
He will be remembered forever.
He is not afraid of bad news.
His heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
His heart is steady.
He will not be afraid
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
Psalm 127,
It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Jesus has so much trust in God
that he is able to rest in the midst of the storm.
Jesus is modeling for his disciples
and for us what it looks like
to have trust and faith and confidence in God.
Unshakeable faith in God means
that no matter what happens,
we are able to rest.
Unshakeable faith in God means
that no matter what happens,
we understand that God is still in control.
No matter what happens,
unshakable trust and confidence in God
means that we know God still cares.
And so we can sleep.
And so we can rest.
And so we have calm in the midst of chaos.
I'm gonna ask you to turn also to page three
in your worship guide.
You thought that was a quote about prayer,
but it's about more than that.
The second sentence says,
learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life.
It offers us a less busy heart.
In the midst of outer busyness,
we can develop an inner quiet.
And I'm gonna change that quote.
In the midst of chaos and threatening
and life-altering situations,
we can develop an inner quiet.
It's a way of saying,
while our circumstances may not change,
our faith and trust and hope in God
means that our response
and the posture of our heart does.
We may not escape challenging and terrifying
and life-threatening situations.
And we know that we can have a quiet heart.
We can be like Jesus,
able at times to sleep in the storm.
The million dollar question of this passage though
is what happens when Jesus doesn't calm the storm?
Being a Christian,
following Jesus does not mean
that God is going to calm every storm in your life.
In fact, it's because they're following Jesus
in this passage that they find themselves in a storm.
Jesus is the one who had the great idea
of getting in the boat and going to the other side.
So following Jesus is not necessarily
going to keep you away from storms.
In fact, sometimes it might take you straight into new storms.
It doesn't take away the storm.
It changes our response to the storm.
Faith in God following Jesus
does not always change our circumstances.
Sometimes it makes them worse.
It does change our perspective.
It does change our hope.
It does change where we set our eyes.
Faith in God does not always change our circumstances.
Sometimes, in fact, it makes it worse.
It does change our perspective.
It does change our hope.
It does change where we place our lives.
We know that God loves us
and he will not let us perish.
Faith does not mean believing
that God will make everything okay now.
Faith does mean believing
that God will make everything okay fully
and finally one day.
Faith does mean believing
that no matter what happens,
we cannot lose what is most important.
Even if we die,
when we die,
we will not die.
even if we die.
When we die,
we won't die.
We'll die physically.
We will not die spiritually.
In fact,
believe it or not,
all of the disciples
who were in this boat
died.
They just didn't die that day.
Right?
They died eventually.
Jesus did not,
in other words,
solve their ultimate problem.
Jesus postponed death for them.
He did not prevent death for them.
Jesus doesn't say,
peace be still
in every circumstance.
At risk of stating the obvious,
sometimes Christians die in storms.
Sometimes cancer kills someone.
And,
but,
Jesus does say,
peace be still,
fully and finally.
Jesus does say,
peace be still,
in such a way
that what is most important,
what is most valuable,
which is our relationship with him,
cannot be lost.
Our life with him
cannot be erased.
Jesus could have refused
to calm the storm
in this story,
and his words
would still be true.
Because he has already
calmed the most important storm,
the most threatening storm.
Jesus said,
peace be still,
where it matters most.
And so our hope
is that no matter
what storm comes,
we know God
is more powerful.
Even more than that,
verse 38,
we know he cares.
And so we can trust
even when he doesn't
calm the storm.
When I call your attention
to one more quote,
today's quote Sunday,
page five,
the bottom left,
this quote from Frederick Buechner
captures what we're talking about.
Here is the world.
Beautiful and terrible things
will happen.
Don't be afraid.
I am with you.
Nothing can ever
separate us.
Why are we not afraid?
Not because terrible things
won't happen.
They will.
We are not afraid
because of what Buechner
says here.
Nothing can separate us.
Buechner's not putting words
in God's mouth,
by the way.
He's paraphrasing
the promises of Scripture,
especially those
from Romans chapter 8.
And so remember,
our question at the very beginning
of the sermon was,
how does our faith
and trust in God,
how does following Jesus
change our response
in challenging
and life-threatening circumstances?
This is the answer.
If you find out
that you have cancer,
remember,
do not be afraid.
I am with you.
Nothing can ever
separate us.
When you finally realize
that faith looks like
admitting you may need
to take medicine
for your mental health,
but you don't want
to admit that you need help,
don't be afraid.
I am with you.
Nothing can ever
separate us.
When you find out
that your child
was in a car accident,
don't be afraid.
I am with you.
Nothing can ever
separate us.
When you lose your job,
don't be afraid.
I am with you.
Nothing can ever
separate us.
Here is the world.
Beautiful and terrible
things will happen.
If you live long enough,
you will see
not just a few of them,
but many of them.
And so we're not here
to have some sort of
denial of reality.
We're not here
to have some easy
believism that God
is going to remove
every storm in our lives.
Simply this,
that we have an
unshakable trust in God,
that we have quiet hearts
in the midst
of a tumultuous
and threatening world.
We have unshakable
hope and faith
and trust in God.
Our hope ultimately
is that not that
Jesus is going to face
the threat of death
in a storm,
but that Jesus is going
to face death itself.
1 Corinthians chapter 15
reminds us that
Jesus is the one
who faces death down
and puts death to death.
Jesus is the one
who takes not just
this one storm
on one day,
he is the one
who takes on
an even greater storm.
Jesus comes to calm
the storm of God's
wrath and judgment
coming onto the world
because of our sin
and our rebellion
against him,
that we have refused
to listen to God,
to obey him,
to love him,
and to worship him.
And that is the ultimate storm
that we need Jesus' help
and his rescue from.
And that is the storm
that in every situation
for those who trust
and believe
and follow in him,
Jesus truly does say,
peace, be still.
And it's because
Jesus calms that storm
that no matter
what happens
in this world
and in our lives,
we know
that there is nothing
that can separate us
from the love of God
in Christ Jesus.
That is the reason
that we can have
the unshakable faith
and confidence
that Jesus models
in this passage
that no matter
what happens,
our trust and faith
in God means
that we can rest.
Our trust and faith
and confidence in God
means that we can have
quiet hearts
in a chaotic world,
in a threatening world,
in a world
that is falling apart
because of sin.
It's a storm
Jesus always takes away
for those who trust
and follow him.
If you've been with us
for a while,
you know
I like to talk
about hailstorms.
I was, of course,
overly traumatized
by the hailstorms
in 2018.
Then we got another
hailstorm in 2020
back in August.
2018,
I was not a homeowner.
2020,
I was a homeowner.
If you remember,
I think it was sometime
between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
It was late in the afternoon.
I was working from home
and this hailstorm
started in August
and I could see it coming in
and so I went into my bathroom
where there's a skylight
and I watched the hail
hit on my skylight
wondering if it was
going to hold up.
In that moment,
as a homeowner,
I knew that my roof
was probably toast.
I knew that it was
probably going to take
thousands of dollars
to repair.
I knew that I had
a long journey
ahead of me
to get that roof
replaced.
And I had a calm
and quiet heart.
Why?
Because I knew
who I was with.
State Farm.
And what does
State Farm promise?
Like a good neighbor,
State Farm is there.
Point is this.
My circumstances
did not change
in any way.
State Farm was not
going to come
and stop that storm
from hitting me.
And I have a contract
and an agreement
with State Farm.
They have made promises
to me about how
they're going to show up
in certain situations.
I know I'm not
going to be the one
who has to pay
the debt of that roof.
And so as I think
about thousands of dollars
of repairs ahead of me,
that night I slept.
Brothers and sisters,
we have something
so much greater
and more powerful
than State Farm
on our side.
As we find ourselves
in the storms
and circumstances
of life,
we know no matter
what
that God
is with us.
We know
no matter what
that He is the one
who will protect us
and keep us
from all evil.
We know
He is the one
who guarantees
that what is most valuable
and precious
we cannot lose.
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the one
who controls
nature with a word.
Jesus is the one
who is God Himself.
He is the one
who comes
not just with power
but with care.
He loves us.
How do we respond to Him?
We have unshakable
faith
and trust
and confidence
in Him.
Romans chapter 8
says this,
For I am sure
that neither death
nor life
nor angels
nor rulers
nor things present
nor things to come
nor powers
nor height
nor depth
nor anything else
in all creation
will be able
to separate us
from the love of God
in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
There is nothing
and no one
who is outside
of His control.
Rest
and trust.
Verse 38
41
Even the wind
and the sea
obey Him.
Let's pray.
Our Father in Heaven
we praise You
and thank You
that You have given us
not simply stories
but stories
that tell us
what is true
about this world.
We thank You
that Jesus
is with us
and He's not just
powerful
but He also cares.
We ask that You
would use that truth
and You drive it
deep into our hearts
that we
would rest
more and more
in You
and Your care
and Your provision.
We ask these things
in the mighty name
of Jesus Christ.
Amen.