From Devastation to Restoration by Jerry Savelle

Author:Jerry Savelle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-24T19:29:49+00:00

Chapter 8

In Every Great Storm There Is a Great Victory

Have you ever gotten out of bed one morning with a smile on your face, feeling great, looking forward to the day ahead and suddenly all of Satan's power comes against you? Or you're driving down the freeway, your car is running great and suddenly everything falls out from under it?

Have you ever been in a situation like that where a storm arises out of nowhere? Taxes have increased. Electric bill went up. The car unexpectedly broke down. That's the way the devil operates. He loves to catch you off guard. He is hoping that this unexpected attack will cause you to panic, and you'll be unprepared to deal with it. When people panic, they often throw all their Bible lessons out the window, and they respond in fear rather than in faith.

We see an example of this in Mark 4 of Jesus teaching His disciples a parable of how the Kingdom of God operates.

Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables?

The sower soweth the word.

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

And when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Mark 4:13-15, 34

Here Jesus has taken His disciples aside and revealed to them the principles of sowing and reaping. He explicitly said that once the Word is sown, Satan will come immediately to take it away; therefore, we must be on guard at all times to resist his attacks. If anyone should have a revelation of this principle, it should be the disciples, right? I mean, Jesus Himself has just expounded all things to them.

Notice what happens:

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

Mark 4:35,37

Now, when Jesus said, Let us pass over unto the other side, there was not a cloud in the sky. There was not even a forecast of a storm coming. And there arose a great storm. The literal Greek meaning for the word arose is "unexpected". They had no idea a storm was coming. This thing came out of nowhere.

In the Greek, the word great comes from the word MEGA meaning "enormous, huge, overwhelming". In other words, this storm was designed by the forces of hell to destroy them. It’s MEGA. The Amplified Bible says, A furious storm of wind [of hurricane proportions] arose.

This is not just a little wind blowing. It’s so great and severe that it’s beating against the ship, water is coming into the boat and these men are frightened. Peter, James and John are fishermen. They’ve been on water all their lives, but evidently this storm is so bad that it causes fear to arise on the inside of them.

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