What do you do when Jesus leads you exactly where you least expected to go?

Apostle Ken Bennett brings a word he did not plan from a pulpit but received in the middle of an actual storm. While traveling on business in St. Martin, the entire island was shut down under hurricane watch. And in that hotel room, with luggage packed for sunshine and a forecast full of chaos, the Lord whispered the foundation for this message: a storm is coming. Not as a threat. As a warning.

Drawing from Matthew 8:18-24, we revisit the moment Jesus led his disciples directly into a seismos, a violent, earthquake-like storm at sea. Their seamanship was not the problem. Their theology was. Because you can follow Jesus into a boat and still not fully trust the one steering it.

🔥 "The storm may have had permission to form, but it did not have the authority to finish."

This is not a message about avoiding storms. It is about surviving them with your worship and your sanity intact. God sometimes allows a storm not to show us what is wrong with the weather, but to reveal what is missing in our worship. If your faith is built on circumstances instead of God's character, the storm will steal your sanity, threaten your faith, and shipwreck your soul. But when you have survived enough storms, you stop panicking over the forecast. And what He said on the shore still stands in the storm.

Three things to do while the rain comes: expect delays, pack light, and hold on to your faith.

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