Peace Is Authority, Not Calm (February 22, 2026)

Ever feel like you’re smiling on the outside but sinking inside? We go straight at the tension so many of us live with: thinking peace will arrive when the weather clears, only to find that the clouds keep forming. The message we share is sharper and kinder than a life hack—peace isn’t about quieter circumstances; peace is about the presence of authority. When Jesus slept through a flooding boat in Mark 4, he wasn’t indifferent. He was certain. And when he spoke, the chaos obeyed.

Across the hour, we unpack why our fears often feel justified and why that still doesn’t make them lord. You’ll hear a candid story of white‑knuckle driving through a storm, a real look at job loss and calling, and a challenge that prayer can’t stay in begging mode. Faith speaks truth; Jesus’ authority commands reality. We explore the difference with Scripture: Psalm 107’s whispering waves, John 14:27’s gift of peace the world can’t give, and Acts 27’s shipwreck that couldn’t wreck a promise. The thread holds tight—storms change shape, but the Savior doesn’t.

What does this mean on Monday morning? If Jesus is in your boat, it won’t sink. Your heart might rock, spreadsheets might glare, and timelines might slip, but you’re carried by the One who walks on what scares you. We name the inner storm and speak to it: fear, you have no authority; anxiety, you have no control; storm, you answer to Jesus. We stop begging people to validate us and start resting in the Presence that already does. It’s a practical, Scripture‑rooted way to trade panic for peace and noise for knowing who’s with you.

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Transcript

Weather Talk And Deeper Revelation

The Weakest Link And Your Boat

Jesus Calms The Storm In Mark 4

Justifiable Fear And A Highway Story

Silence Isn’t Absence

Faith Speaks, Authority Commands

Praying With Authority Not Begging

Storms Reveal What We Don’t Believe

Job Loss, Calling, And Provision

God Rules The Waters From Old To New

Peace As A Person Not A Feeling

John 14:27 And True Peace

Paul’s Shipwreck And Unbroken Promise

Under The Feet Of Jesus

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I want to lead us into this message this morning gently because honestly, it was written. It was written out of that place of unrest that I felt in my life. And I just know that I'm going to speak to a lot of you this morning. And I pray that as we start this, that your hearts are prepared and that your ears are clear and you're not sitting there mulling on what's going on around you or what you've got to do after this. Because I really want to encourage you this morning to hear what the Lord is saying. Because I'm like this so many Sunday mornings, and this statement is so bold. And I wrote it this way: I said, some of you walked in here this morning smiling. But internally, you're lost in a storm. But I want to tell you something today. Peace is not the absence of storms. Peace is the presence of authority. Amen. It is not about it being quiet around you today. It is not about nothing bad happening in your life. It's about being able to say, you have no authority. The only authority in my life is Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. You can bring up the lights. You know, every day that I go to work, I get up now and I look at the weather. Does that tell you that I'm getting old? Like, because young people, we we I never used to care about the weather. I would find out what the temperature was when I went outside. Right? And I never wore shorts in the wintertime. A lot of people do that, but I would I would just wear jeans and a t-shirt and I was fine. But I realized that as I got older, I'm cold sitting at my desk. Like, am I gonna have to turn the heater on today? Or are we gonna be okay? And I realize all of those things, and so I start checking the weather before I leave. And sometimes, like this morning, I was not expecting snow. I'll be honest with you. I got it, I went out to get in the car and I noticed it was spitting snow, and I was like, that's not good. I don't like that. But then I got here and it was really starting to, I was like, man, Lord, what are you doing to me? I I'm ready for spring, right? But that's my desire, not God's desire. All right, so I just need to. But the problem is, is oftentimes I think that I need calmer weather. Right? I need 80 and sunny. I don't want 80 and overcast, right? I want to go outside and sizzle like a piece of bacon. Amen. Hallelujah. Like, how many of you like to go to Florida in July? That is hot, hot. That's a hot, like you, you literally, your your own sweat will help you cook in Florida in July. But I'll tell you what, that's what I feel like I need. But the problem is, I don't need calmer weather, I need deeper revelation. Amen. I don't need to be worried about what's going on around me. I need to be worried about what's going on within me. Yes? Yes? I don't need to be worried about what's going on around me. I need to be worried about what's going on in the Word of God. The problem is, is oftentimes we are wrapped up in the flesh and in the feeling rather than in the spirit. Because oftentimes we forget. Pastor Holly said this to me the other day. It was a hard, it hurt a little bit. And when she said it to me, I was like, eh, it's trouble. She said, You're only as strong as your weakest link. I don't like that stuff. Now, it's not a phrase I'd never heard before. For those of you, if I need to draw you a picture, let me draw you a picture real quick. Imagine you have a chain. Any everybody know what a chain is? Yep, good. We're starting out, we're starting out great. If we've got a chain and it's got these great big metal links in it, and all of a sudden you get to the middle and you have one made out of plastic, right? And we hook it to the bumper of Pastor Roger's truck and we try to pull a tree out of the ground. Do you think that chain is gonna pull that tree out of the ground? Where is it gonna break? At that plastic link, right? Because that plastic link has no strength in comparison to the links around it. So if we are only as strong as our weakest link, we have to understand that we're only as good as the people in our boat. I'm glad some of us are working together this morning. When we realize who is in our boat, the storm that surrounds us loses its power. Mark 4, 37 to 39. You guys know where I'm going, and you know, in this moment of rest, this is probably one of my favorite passages of scripture. It says, but soon a fierce storm came up, high waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. Isn't that a great place to be? Does anybody take a nap after church on Sunday? There is nothing better than a Sunday nap. Nothing hits the way a Sunday. Listen, especially if you go out to eat after church on Sunday, right? You go get your belly full, you go home, you lay down, and I just sleep like a baby. There is nothing better. Here's Jesus sleeping in the boat. Now, I want to go back because Jesus is he's asleep. He is asleep with his head on a cushion. And it says, but soon a fierce storm came up, high waves were breaking into the boat and it began to fill with water. Jesus is laying in a boat that is filling with water. He is actively getting wet from the waves that are coming into the boat, and yet he is asleep. I can't sleep when the lights on. I can't sleep without the fan running. Jesus is sleeping in the midst of a storm. The disciples woke him up shouting, Teacher, don't you care that we will drown? Alright, it says, the disciples woke him up shouting, Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown? And then Jesus woke up. So I imagine a frantic group of people yelling, Master, Master, Teacher, what are we going to do? We're all going to die. Right? How many of us feel that internally right now? I don't know how I'm going to pay the bills. I would, what if my car breaks down? What am I going to do if so-and-so doesn't speak to me? We get this thing going on inside of us. This constant chaos, this constant storm, and we live in it and we're constantly screaming, Master, Master. Jesus woke up. It doesn't say that he woke up or then he woke up. It says, when he woke up. They probably had to shout his name a couple of times. Jesus is a good sleeper. He must have just preached a good message, having a good nap. Just he's in it. He's in the zone. And when he woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, Be silence, be still. And suddenly the wind stopped. And there was a great calm. Suddenly, not in ten minutes, not a half hour later, but suddenly the wind stopped. And there was a great calm. I want you to let that sink in for just a second. The disciples were not having an emotional breakdown, right? They weren't seeing something that wasn't real. The storm was there and it was consuming their boat, actively consuming their lives. They recognize what the flesh, what anybody's flesh would recognize, that we're all gonna die. We are about to be on the bottom of the ocean in this, and and I'm I'm thinking, you know, you got the disciples, and there's a broken door, and one of them's on the door, and one of them's in the water, and there's just nothing. Never mind. Never mind. Never mind. Anyhow, the storm was real and the water was was rising. The fear was justified. Amen. Have we ever felt justifiable fear? Right? Listen, uh, my my big boys aren't here today. I wish they were because I'm gonna tell a story that they love to tell everybody. When I moved to Dover, they I had them every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, something like that. And I would have to drive them from Dover to Claymont and then turn around and go back to Berlin to go to work. Right? Now, that feels like an inconvenience, but I was blessed to be able to have my kids, and so I wasn't inconvenienced by it until this day. Okay? Umbrella of grace, as I tell you this story. It's raining hard. I'm talking torrential downpour. I'm running late for work because the boys wouldn't get up. I'm not having it, I'm not happy. We are flying down the interstate. We're doing 75, shouldn't have been doing 75 because you couldn't see anything. Just as I passed the bridge, right at the mall, I hit a tree that had been laying in the road that you couldn't see until, well, you found it. So I immediately called the state highway patrol, and I was like, hey, there's a tree in the middle of the road. I'm looking at the cars behind me, and everybody's doing the exact same thing. Just hitting this tree because you can't see it until it's there. We get down the far the road a little further, and my my son says, Dad, where'd your mirror go? And I said, What mirror? And I look out to the side, the mirror is completely missing. We get about to Macaulay drive just through the light, and I hydroplane, and the car spins probably three times, and it comes to rest in the middle of the lane. That fear was justifiable. My oldest son has a mark in, no, my my second oldest son has a mark in his leg from where his brother grabbed his leg and grabbed so hard that he dug his fingernails into his leg. That fear was justifiable. Amen? Because that was real, that was scary. We came to a complete stop. And I said to both of my boys, I said, Don't you don't either one of you tell your mom until I call her. Because I knew what that story was gonna be, right? So we lived to tell that tale. But what my point is, is that fear is real. When I stopped, by the way, when I got out of that car, by the way, there were sticks shoved under the hood, all the whole grill was torn off, and I realized that was a dangerous situation. We had no idea how lucky we truly were after we came through that tree, right? Had no idea how lucky we truly were. But the fear was real, the fear was justified, but Jesus was simply asleep. Just because he's silent, though, doesn't mean he's absent. He's laying in the boat dead asleep, but he's still there. Now these are people who have watched him perform miracles. These are people who know that he is the Son of God. And yet they doubt him. Now we know that this is time and time again. Do you not care that we're gonna die? It's not that he doesn't care, it's that he knows you're not gonna die. And every time you feel that fear and you're worried, and you're stressed, and you're you're bellyaching and complaining because something isn't going your way, it's not that he doesn't care. He just knows you're not gonna die. You know that old saying, but did you die? But did you die? No. Jesus will not forsake us, he will not leave us. Listen, sometimes we leave him. Can we admit that? That sometimes we leave him and we leave him in the midst of our chaos and then we blame him for not showing up. But we've separated ourselves. He didn't separate himself, we separated ourselves. Amen. Just because he's resting doesn't mean that he doesn't care. He is waiting on you to come to him. He was sleeping, but he was sleeping because he knew he had the authority. The storm did not intimidate him, and so why was he worried about it? He knew even if that boat went to the bottom of the ocean, he was coming right back up. We're talking about a man who can walk on water. We're talking about a man who can raise people from the dead. Do you think a little storm's gonna scare him? I don't think so. I don't think so. Listen. Fear always comes out really loud, doesn't it? Can we can we agree to that? That when you're afraid, you tend to How many of you are around whenever somebody sent me that picture of the frog on my phone and I threw my phone? It was Jenny's literally her first time in the building. Numb, it's not a joke. She was standing next to me. Somebody sent me a video of a frog. The frog, like, I opened the video and the frog jumped in. And it was probably just like that, just that manly, just so we're all clear. It was probably just that manly. Anyhow, that comes out loud, right? Our fear becomes very loud. The difference, though, is that our faith can speak. Yes? So when when fear is consuming us, my faith can speak to that fear. But can I tell you what the authority of Jesus Christ does? It commands that fear. See, my faith, I can speak to that fear all day long. I know the Lord's got me. I know the Lord. I know everything is gonna work out for good. I know that that Jesus is my refuge. I know that he is my strength, I know that he is my great comfort. I can do all of those things in faith, in my faith in who Jesus Christ is, right? But if I take the authority over that fear, I can cast it out, I can send it away. It doesn't have to exist because I don't have to claim it. Thank you, Dale. I get excited and listen, sometimes I forget that I have that authority. The same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in us, right? Now I need to be clear, that's a big order, right? If the same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in you, that means essentially we can raise people from the grave. I'm not interested in doing that. Not today. Now, here's the reason because I don't understand what that means in context, right? I've never seen it. I think if one of you did that today, I would be a little bit afraid. Is that fair? Is that fair? But I'm gonna know that if that happened, that's the only person that could have done that was Jesus. Right? I'm not afraid of what's happening. I'm trying to figure out how it works. I am a logical person, I'm not an emotional person. And so what I mean by that is when I see something, I think about it and I think, well, that's that doesn't work like that. And if I see a dead person come to life, I go, that doesn't work like that. That's not how it's that's backwards, right? But I trust that God can and that he will. Amen. I believe that that authority rests in us. Now, Harry said Harry Reichman said something to me one time, and I was like, it was probably the most profound thing any person has ever said to me. He said, You can pray all you want. You can pray for exactly what you want, but here's the thing: God is gonna do what God is gonna do. Did you hear what I said? Listen, you can pray that God is gonna do something big in your life. I know God's gonna give me a new car, God's gonna do this wonderful blessing in my life, he's gonna pour out his love on me, and I'm gonna have a brand new Cadillac Escalade. And then somebody's gonna donate this old hoopty to you, and you're not gonna be happy because God didn't give you what you asked for, but God gave you what you needed. Right? Now, listen, I'll take the$70,000 escalate all day long. But, Jenny, if somebody's given me a$70,000 escalate, I'm gonna take the$70,000 escalate, okay? I still want the Tesla, that doesn't change anything. I'm just saying that I'll take the escalate. I get the escalate, but guess what happens when I get the escalade? I'm still not happy. And then I start to complain about not being happy, and God says, but if I could have just if I if that and he gets frustrated because I'm never content in just what he has done and what he is willing to do in my life. See, the the disciples shouted at Jesus when he was laying in the boat, they were shouting out of fear. Jesus spoke, and there was a difference. Silence, be still. He didn't negotiate with the wind, he didn't say, if you're willing, would you please? Right? He said, Be still, and the wind was still. Do you know why the wind was still? Because Jesus told it to be. If the same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in us, we can also call those storms to be still. The storm that is raging inside of you right now, be still in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. First, he didn't say, Are you stupid? You realize I've already given you the authority over these things. He didn't do that. Instead, he said, Be still. Instead, he said, be still. He addressed the storm directly. One thing I won't do anymore, and this is hard. Some of us are gonna struggle with this statement. I don't beg. I don't beg you to like me. I don't beg you to care about me. I don't beg you to be in my life. I don't beg you for anything. Because I have never seen, I have never, there's nowhere in the Bible where Jesus begs anybody for anything. He has never begged. He doesn't negotiate with the wind. He didn't rebuke his disciples, he didn't beg the storm to stop. He spoke to the storm. But here's the problem: some of you are praying scared prayers. You're praying out of fear because it's all you feel like you've got. You're not going there first, you're not going there with authority. You're going there begging God to do his part. Listen, I'm gonna say it again. If the same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in us, then we don't have and listen, he is the ultimate authority, right? But if I have that authority inside of me, I can say, be still, and it will be still. I'm not telling you that you get to decide whether or not you get that new Cadillac or you have to drive that old hoopty. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is you have the ability to tell the storm inside of you to be still. To be still. This is probably one of the things that I have experienced about myself in probably the past, I don't know, year, something like that. Oftentimes, the storms in our lives will reveal to us what we don't believe God can do. Right? Is that a hard one to swallow? Do you understand what I'm saying? The storm will often reveal what you don't believe God can do. Mark 4:40. Then he asks them, What are you afraid of? Do you have no faith? Notice what Jesus questioned. He didn't question the storm, he questioned their faith. The storms will expose what you trust and what you don't trust, what you believe and what you don't believe, and what you really fear. Now, what I mean by that is when I lost my job, I didn't trust God to get me another one. I trusted myself to get me another one. Now, God said to me, even in that moment, you know, again, he prepared my heart for that moment before it happened. He prepared my mind for that moment before it happened. I walked in and it happened, and I walked out and I said, I don't know how I'm gonna survive. I didn't say I'm trusting God to survive, right? Because I put all of that on myself. I believe that I was the one capable of doing that. And the other day I realized that I have these revelations. I'm kind of like the Israelites, and laugh at me, or if you want, or don't, I don't care, because I bet all of you are the same way. I get over it for a season, right? And and I'm not that way anymore. And and I know that that God is is the reason for all of the things in my life, and then I go into that into that into that valley and I start to blame myself and I try try to fix it on my own, and I realize very quickly that it is not me, it is God. And the other day I was thinking back over some things that people had said to me, and somebody once said to me that that they didn't have confidence in my ability to lead them to the next level. And I thought, you know, that was it was such a hurtful statement. It was such a hurtful statement, and I realized something though. Once I was gone. They felt it. Right? They didn't miss Michael. They didn't miss the flesh. They missed the spirit that lived within me. Because that spirit is tenacious. That spirit doesn't quit. You can knock me down, but I promise you, I'm coming back. Right? I ain't gonna stop. And you know why I'm not gonna stop? Because God hasn't told me to stop. Right? And I might doubt myself, I might even doubt God sometimes. But here's what I know He has never once, ever in my life, ever left me without giving me all of the things that I needed to survive. That I not what I wanted, not what I wanted, but what I truly, truly needed. And in those moments when I begin to fear and forget what happens is that I'll decide that I don't trust God in that moment. I don't trust Him with my next job. I don't trust Him with my next career. I trust myself. And then I go and I do all of these things and I start to feel good about where I'm at. And then He goes, But if you would have just waited. Because see, there is better. See, when I got my job at the bank, I'm not a banker. I'm not. It's not what I do, right? I don't push papers, I don't crunch numbers, I solve problems, right? That's my gifting to solve problems. And so when I got that job at the bank, Beth had told me, she's like, God is gonna use you for great things at that bank. And I thought, well, yeah, I hope he uses me real quick and gets me the heck out of there. Right? And now, I'm not trying to sound full of myself, so again, give me an umbrella of grace, but they consider me indispensable. We have taken something that was struggling and we've made it blossom. It has nothing to do with me because I've told you, I've admitted, my flesh, I am not a banker. I am not a banker, I am a problem solver. And what's interesting is the role that I'm in allows me to solve a whole lot of stupid problems. And I am thankful every day that God called me to that place, didn't just call me to that place, but put me there for a purpose, right? The problem is, is I didn't trust him in that moment. And when I took the job, every day I would come home from work and I would tell my wife, I'm quitting. I don't care. I don't care if we're I don't care if we have to move into a cardboard box under a bridge. I am not doing that. I can't, I can't, I can't look at these people another day. I can't look at this. If I look at this spreadsheet one more time, Lord help me. And that was my heart, but it was because it wasn't what I wanted. It wasn't what I wanted, but it was what I needed. God has always ruled the storms. Psalm 107, 28 and 29. It says, Lord help! They cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. Here it is. He calmed the storm to calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves. Even in the old testament, we're using these references of the ocean and of water to talk about how Jesus, how God, calmed the storms. Lord help, they cried. Is that our heart's cry? Is it our heart's cry, Lord help? Or is it Lord give me? Lord, help me, or is it Lord give me? Because I'll tell you, it's really easy to get those two mixed up. You're dancing a fine line in every in every prayer where you are seeking his assistance. Before Jesus called the sea in Mark 4, God had already proven he had ruled the waters. The God in the Old Testament is the same authority in the New Testament. Amen? We need to do a Godhead. A holy trinity. Oh, we did do a Trinity message series, didn't we? Early last year? Was that early last yeah? I don't remember when that was. Forget, don't listen to me right now. So we oftentimes associate the word peace with emotion, right? With a feeling inside. But can I tell you that peace is not emotion, it's not a feeling? Ready? It's a person. Peace is Jesus Christ. He is the Prince of Peace. Right? So when I find peace, which again, as I said, it's not an absence of storms, but it's a presence of authority. If Jesus is the Prince of Peace, then Jesus is the authority, the ultimate authority that we should be focused on every time I look up when I talk to Jesus. Do you guys look up when you talk to Jesus? He's everywhere. He's omnipresent, right? I can look at the piano and talk to Jesus. I always choose up. It's just what I do. But he is everywhere. Do you understand me? And so that presence, that the presence of that peace that we are discussing today, it doesn't exist in heaven. It exists here and now. It literally should be surrounding you in this moment. If you're sitting in your seat and you are still stressed because you have to go to work today and you don't want to see those people. Is that fair? Have any of us ever realized that God has showed up in those areas, but it wasn't what we wanted? And so we pretend like it wasn't God, instead, it was somebody that was just somebody being generous. It is not somebody being generous. It is God being good. Alright, thank you, Jesus. We're gonna go to John 14, 27 for just a quick second. It says, I am leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid. Leave that up there. I am leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. Now, do you remember when Jesus was at the well with with the woman? And he asks her to draw him a drink. And she says to he says to her, if you were to understand, if you were to drink the water that I have to give, right? Listen, the world cannot quench that thirst. The only thing that can quench that thirst is Jesus Christ. He is leaving us with peace. That is the Holy Spirit who should be surrounding us daily, and it is a gift that the world cannot give. So do not be troubled or afraid. That doesn't say sometimes you can be troubled or afraid. It says don't be troubled or afraid. Listen, peace is not a better circumstance, a positive mindset, or a lucky break. Peace is Jesus Christ. And can I tell you, if he's in your boat, it ain't gonna sink. But if you got Jesus in your boat, that boat ain't going anywhere. That boat isn't going anywhere. Now listen, I need you guys to understand that we are this isn't new to us. This isn't new to this season of life. Paul had storms too, amen. Paul experienced some struggles. Acts 27, 23 and 25. It says, For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me. And he said, Don't be afraid, Paul, for you will surely stand trial before Caesar. What's more, God in his goodness has granted safety to everyone sailing with you. So take courage, for I believe God, it will be just as he said. Paul was just told that he will stand trial. But he says that there will be peace that others cannot begin to understand because of the God whom he serves, whom he belongs, and whom he serves. It is a different storm, but it is the same authority. That ship, as I will remind you, blew apart, but that promise didn't break. The storm can break the structure, right? The storm, a storm could blow through here today and tear the roof off this building, but it doesn't change who Jesus Christ is. It doesn't change the authority that he has, it's just taking the roof off the building. You know, I was I don't remember if it was last week or the week before that I talked about that storm that came through the straight line winds and knocked down all the trees in Genaton. But um, you know, Harry and Lona and Alona took a lot of damage during that during that storm. The thing is, it didn't shake their faith in who God was. I need you to understand something. Now, listen, they're seasoned in Jesus, right? They've seen some stuff, they've been around the block. Some of us are young and we haven't experienced it and we haven't truly experienced the goodness of God the way that other people have. But there's a difference in 50 years of serving Jesus and in 10 years of serving Jesus, right? And so when the storm comes, it's harder for us to see the good, but for somebody who is seasoned and grounded in the word and rooted in Jesus, it is much easier for them to see the word. It's not an excuse, but it is a fact of life. And how do we change that? Hang around with old people. And I'll tell you what, you want to hang around with somebody that'll teach you a thing or two. Hang around with Harry, he's got all the sayings. You can lead a horse to water, but sometimes it's too stupid to know it's thirsty. Is it true? Yeah, they say you can't make it drink. Maybe you can't, but uh, it might just be because they're too stupid to know they're thirsty. I've met some of those horses. I've met some. I won't tell my wife you said that about her. I think my wife experiences it, but I won't tell you who it is, who it's with. Matthew 14, 25 to 27. Did we do that one? No, we didn't. It says, about three o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them walking on the water. Jesus has a thing with water. He turns it into wine, he walks on it, he calms it, right? Jesus has a thing with water. He came toward them walking on the water. Here's his words don't be afraid, he said. Take courage, I am here. The thing that they fear, because the storm is raging again, the thing that they fear the most, Jesus is walking on it like it ain't no big deal. He's strolling across that storm like it's not a big deal. Now, we aren't even gonna get into my favorite part of that, but I love. I gotta move on. What time is it? Oh, we're late. I'm sorry, guys. We're not leaving though. What threatens you, what threatens, what you feel like threatens you, is under the feet of Jesus. Yes? The thing that they were afraid of was under the feet of Jesus. Now I know that there are people who used to write Jesus on their shoes, on the bottom of their shoes, right? Because then they would keep everything under the name of Jesus, right? Some people write Satan on the bottom of their shoes so they can walk on him. Listen, I don't care what you do, but if you need an activation today, that's your activation, right? Take an old pair of shoes or take your good shoes, I don't care what shoes you do, write, make sure you clean them first. Write Jesus right across the bottom of them, and then everything that you are afraid of stays under the name of Jesus, right? Listen, I'm gonna tell you something. There is authority, there is victory in the mighty name of Jesus, and we have to be willing to name it just what it is. Fear has no authority in our lives because Jesus has all of the authority in our lives. Amen. There is nothing left to fear because Jesus has already conquered hell, death, and the grave. There are only two things guaranteed in life paying taxes and dying. And I'm gonna promise you something. I ain't afraid of dying. Because if Jesus already overcame hell, death, and the grave, that means that I am gonna have a home in heaven. And there is no reason to fear the only thing that is certain in your life. Hebrews 13:8. Ready? We know this one. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If he calmed it then, he will calm it now. If he spoke peace then, he will speak peace today. I need you to tell, I need to tell you something. Some of you have to stop rebuking yourself, rebuking other people, and rebuking the past and start to speak to the storm and say it out loud. Peace be still. Fear, you will not rule me. Anxiety, there is no control in my home. Storm, you answer to Jesus. I need you to hear this. The storm was not the issue. The perception was the issue. The question today is not how big is this storm? The question today is, do you know who is with you? Because when Jesus is in your boat, you might rock, you might sway, you might feel the wind, but I promise you, you aren't gonna sink. You aren't gonna sink. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you and I praise you for an anointed word today. Lord, I thank you for preparing the hearts of this house to receive your word. Lord, I pray that as we move from this place, we are excited about how good you truly are in our life. Father, that we can proclaim the mighty name of Jesus in all things, in all things. And Father, that we can trust in you to calm the storm. Father, we can speak to the waves, we can speak to the wind, and we can call them to be still. I thank you for entrusting us with that same power. Father, I pray that you lead this body, that you guide this body. Give us strength, oh Lord, to pour into our community. Father, we love you more than we love anything else in this world. I pray that you continue to bring us back to this place as we've been called. Guide us as we go. Allow us to pour into this community. Father, I thank you and I praise you. I give you all the honor and glory in the mighty name of Jesus. And the church says, Amen. Love you guys. We'll see you on Wednesday night.