How To Surive The Storm

This pastor's Sunday Morning thoughts as Hurricane Gustav moves close to the Gulf Coast. We send out our prayers for those in the storms path. I send out a special prayer to those United Pentecostal Churches, their pastors and church families that will suffer due to this storm.


Genesis 7
1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Intro…
• Gustav is bearing down on the Gulf coast
• This is a big storm
• 3 Days of water and non perishable food
• Fill your tank
• Batteries and candles
• Board up
• Cash
• Evacuate


Sometimes we are warned ahead of time a storm is coming
• Other times we are surprised

Noah had such warning and he was given instructions for survival..
• He preached and warned others
• He obeyed what he was told to do
• He survived and his family along with him
• The Word of God is an instruction manual to help each of us and our families survive
• The man of god is placed in our lives to sound warning and direction
• The family of god is there to provide support and prayers and love

Storms are inevitable
Matt 7:24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Two men with the same storm and options
• One built on sand and fell
• One built on the rock and survived

Foundational truths that cannot be ignored
• New birth
• Personal commitments of prayer and the word
• Separation from the world
• Stewardship acknowledges that all I have is the Lord’s

Paul found himself in a storm not of his choosing
• He was placed in the ship as a prisoner
• He was in the ship because of the work of God
• The ship was breaking apart because of the storm
• Angel appeared and said stay in the ship
• Stay in the ship

The Disciples were in the storm
• The Lord had sent them into the storm
• He was asleep
• They thought they were going down
• They cried out to Jesus