How To Survive Low Moments | Steven Furtick

where your faith is high, you have missed the message of John chapter 21, which says that before Jesus could move forward, before Jesus could be taken, before Jesus could sit at the right hand of God, before Jesus could sit down and To finish his work on earth, he had to find Peter. This is not the first time, nor the second, nor the last, but there is something significant about the third time. Pedro had three denials. Jesus was dead for three days. Three times. This is the third time. It represents the point at which his expectations had been exhausted.

Jesus enters at this moment, the moment when they still had no fish. Jesus enters at the moment when the fog and mist are so cold over the sea that he blows against their faces and they cannot even recognize his presence. He chooses the lowest moment of your life sometimes to reveal the greatest love. So while we can praise God for all the great things He has done, and while we can praise Him because He stood up, because we read that part, because it's in the Bible... It wasn't in your Bible, because this book is still there.

It hadn't been written down, so they had to sit there on the boat and wonder in the storm. Just because they got up doesn't mean they knew what to do next. We preach it like this, like: "Accept Jesus and life will be wonderful." That?! I have discovered that my Christian experience does not help me avoid any of life's disappointments. It is not evasion. You keep thinking that more and more, if you pray, God will help you avoid certain storms. No no no. Faith doesn't make me avoid it; helps me transform it.