Yeshua Is Inside Your Boat

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Yeshua Is Inside Your Boat

by Sandra Lamb

A lot of you have and are experiencing those times when you are in some sort of trial or affliction, or both and there appears to be no way out. And no one seems to understand what you are going through, let alone try to help you. Where do you run? For trouble seems to follow you wherever you go. But yet, there is someone who goes with us, and goes ahead of us. But if we are a believer in Yeshua, we know who to run to first, right? But do we go to Him first, relying on His grace to get us through it, or do we depend on our congregation, family, or friends to get us through it when we are emotionally down? I am not saying not to fellowship and ask for prayer from other believers. But what I am saying is when you feel alone in your particular situation, you may receive outside comfort for a while, but that will not last for very long. For people may give you temporary relief of ministering to you, and being there for you, but when you are alone, they cannot get inside your soul to calm the storm that is raging from within you! Only Yeshua can do that. It Reminds me of the time when reading the scripture verse of when Yeshua was sleeping on a pillow inside the boat. The storm was raging, and ready to capsize their boat. The disciples woke up Yeshua from a sound sleep. He arose and stilled the storm by saying “Peace be still”, and all of a sudden the winds and waters became very calm (Luke 8:22-25). Then Yeshua asked them, “Where is your faith?” So was it wrong for them to awake Yeshua from a sound sleep in the middle of a storm? No, they did the right thing. But their faith was shallow in the fact that they thought He might let them drown, not realizing at the time just Who He really was, that even the wind and the sea obeyed His command. For what they did not understand was they had the Almighty Elohim inside their boat!

So we try to get through our storm the best we know how in our flesh, sometimes toiling under it just like the disciples toiled in that storm.

Only now, we tend to overlook at the fact that Yeshua is inside our boat! For our body has become His temple in whom the Holy Spirit now dwells within us. Do you not know that you are the Temple of Elohim, and that The Spirit of Elohim dwells within you? (1 Cor. 3:16). Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Or do you not yourselves realize that Yeshua Messiah is in you? If this is not true than you are rejected.? (2 Cor. 13:5). The Holy Spirit is Elohim (Acts 5:3-4) So Elohim is in fact inside our boat! We fail to realize, until the storm hits us, that someone greater is in us. Then its not until we start to cry out to Him, as if to awake Him (though He never sleeps (Psalm 121:4) that we find He was there all along inside our boat. He is closer than our very breathe! As His presence arises from within us in our dark situation, and He will speak “Peace Be Still” to our soul, and all of a sudden, all will become calm from within us. Calm to the point, its beyond our understanding, because the circumstances have not changed. But this peace that passes all understanding is guarding and shielding your very soul from the outward storm that is hitting you from all sides, taking away the anxiety and fear of it. Sometimes it takes a dark situation to realize when Yeshua said He would come inside your heart (when you first gave your life to Him) He literally meant it! Realize He is in you! The battle becomes His instead of ours, if we will learn to let go, and let Him handle it through you. If He does not deliver you out of the storm right away, He will be with you through it, not allowing the storm to touch your soul. Giving you the grace to go through it. Yet sometimes its not always easy, even as a believer in Him to give the storm to Him right away. For there is a struggle in our flesh in allowing Him to have it. For in our flesh, we still want to control what is going on. But when we finally learn to quit our struggling and let go, and surrender to Him completely (Realizing He is in control of the storm) and keeping your mind focused on Him continually, we will find His peace and rest. His comfort and peace is the best dose of medicine a person can ever receive, as He draws us to Himself, into His inner presence from within us, and satisfies our soul.

Here are some scripture references:

“The one steadfast of mind You guard in perfect peace, for he trusts in You. (Isaiah 26:3)

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives that I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not let it be afraid. (John 14:27)

But we have this treasure in Earthen vessels, that the greatness of the power would be from Elohim and not from us. For we are squeezed in all things, but we are not strangled; we are harassed, but we are not condemned. (2 Cor. 4:7-8)

He is The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it has neither seen him nor known him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and he is in you. I shall not leave you as orphans, for I shall come to you in a little while. (John 14:17-18)

Unless Yehovah had been my help, my soul would almost have dwelt in silence. If I said, My foot slides, O Yehovah Your mercy has held me up. In the multitude of my inward thoughts, Your comforts delight my soul. (Psalm 94: 17-19)

Yehovah will give strength to His people; Yehovah will bless His people with peace. (Psalm 29:11)

Great peace have they that love Your Torah; and there is no stumbling block to them. (Psalm 119:165)

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you. (Isaiah 43:2)

After we have surrendered our lives to Yeshua, we are still learning to turn everything over to Him each day, and allowing Him to have it, so we can experience His life from within us.

If you have not had any peace and comfort from His Holy Spirit tell Yeshua you want a closer walk with Him, and completely turn your life over to Him with a total surrender of your heart and will into His hands, and allow the Master potter to do His work within you. If you mean it with your whole heart, it will happen. And know matter what you go through in this life , He will always be with you. Yeshua promises He will never leave or forsake you:

Hebrews 13:5. Adonai Yehovah has said, "I shall not forsake you, neither shall I let go of your hand."

John 14:18 says,

"I shall not leave you as orphans, for I shall come to you in a little while."

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