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Gnats and flies can ruin a picnic. You spend more time shooing them away than you do enjoying your lunch and enjoying your company. At least, they are just a nuisance. Our passage today mentions something far worse than a mere irritation. Vultures came down on Abram’s sacrifice, and he had to shoo them away. We can learn a lot about waiting on the Lord while we shoo away the enemies.

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Waiting frustrates us. Sitting in a waiting room at the doctor’s office. Waiting on that check to come in the mail. Even waiting at a red light. But learning to wait on God is vitally important. We are told to wait on Him over a hundred times in the Bible. Why? In part, He is using that waiting time to prepare us. So, learn how to Wait On and how to Wave Off.

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Worldly peace is temporary; God’s peace is eternal. Worldly peace is circumstantial; God’s peace is foundational. Worldly peace is based on the environment; God’s peace is based on His nature. Worldly peace is inferior; God’s peace is superior. Worldly peace is grasped; God’s peace is a gift. Worldly peace is uncertain; God’s peace is sure. Jesus offers you God’s peace in the midst of your storms.

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Storms are normal and inevitable. We have a hurricane season and a tornado season that come around as consistently as baseball season followed by football season. And then there are pop-up thunderstorms that arrive anytime. Just as sure are the figurative storms in life. You are going to go through them, that’s for sure. Jesus would have you go through them with perfect peace.

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In February of 2023, the most remarkable and unexpected thing happened in what appeared at first to be an ordinary chapel service at Asbury University. God manifested His presence, and revival broke out. Like a wildfire, God sparked the same thing through campuses and churches across America. We need to seek God’s presence manifest among us yet again.

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Throughout the years, we conservative Baptists have tended to shy away from anything that might cause others to wonder if we are really charismatics in disguise. If that’s the case then many of us have disguised our way to listless. This has been to our great detriment. It has caused us to try and live outside the protective and provisional and powerful work of the Holy Spirit. Tonight, we conservative Baptists need to know and experience the manifest presence of God.

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There are over 143 million orphans in the world today. Less than a million of them will ever be adopted. The rest are forced to live with feelings of isolation and abandonment. Jesus, however, never does that with His children. We were all spiritual orphans at one time, but we’ve been adopted, and God is our Abba Father. Through His Holy Spirit, Jesus never leaves us abandoned.

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Someone has said that “normal” is only a setting on your dryer, not a way to describe life. But in this passage in John 14, Jesus seems to be describing what a normal Christian life looks like. As Watchman Nee pointed out, there is a vast difference between what Jesus refers to as the normal Christian life and what we experience as an average Christian life. When we settle for average, we miss out on the tremendous blessings God has planned as a part of the normal.

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If Jesus is preparing His disciples in John 14 for the “new normal” of living life and ministering without His physical presence among them, then His words here are intensely appropriate and applicable for us. We live and minister beyond His physical presence. However, in reality, His presence is ever with us. And it is His presence that gives us power for living.

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Today we come to a passage that has made many a Christian raise an eyebrow and wonder if they are doing something wrong in their Christian life or if maybe they have just missed out on something. Here Jesus promises, “Greater works than these will he do.” If you assume that means you will heal the sick, the lame, the blind, the deaf, if you assume that means you will calm the storm and raise the dead, but yet you haven’t, then yes, you probably will wonder what’s wrong. But is that really what Jesus is saying to His disciples? Let’s find out as we study Jesus’ words.