Today’s Scripture passage describes what happened when Jesus and His disciples came upon a storm while crossing the Sea of Galilee in a boat. As a great windstorm arose in the sea and giant waves came crashing down into the boat, it was getting swamped. Frightened, the disciples shook the Lord and woke Him up from His sleep, saying, “Lord, do you not care that we are facing a grave danger?” The Lord then smiled at them and rebuked the wind, saying to the sea, “Peace, be still!” The wind then suddenly died off and the sea became calm, as though the storm had never happened. And when the sea became still, the Lord turned to the disciples and rebuked them, saying, “How is it that you have no faith?” It is written here in today’s Scripture passage, that even the wind and the sea obeyed the Lord when He rebuked them.

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In today’s Scripture reading that we all read together, it is written that a certain man who was possessed by an unclean spirit was healed and saved from his encounter with Jesus. When Jesus crossed the sea on a boat and arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, He came across a man walking about in amongst the tombs. He was possessed by unclean spirits that is why he was dwelling amongst the tombs. Although he had been bound with shackles and chains several times, he had broken them every time, and so no one could tame him anymore. Protected by no one, this man had been crying out and cutting himself with stones because of the unclean spirits possessing him, but his soul was healed when he met Jesus. Our Lord drove the demons out of him and restored him back to sanity, and making it possible for him to live a normal life. This event does not just show the miraculous power of Jesus to drive out demons. Rather, our Lord is speaking about our fundamental nature.

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The Lord bestows His grace on those who ask for His help. When Jesus was traveling on the road, sometimes blind men or lepers would come to Him and beg Him to heal them, saying, “Jesus, Son of David! Have mercy on me!” Jesus would then heal these lepers and open the eyes of the blind men, blessing them with His miracles. These people came to Jesus because they believed that only He could heal their illnesses. Like this, if we really look for the Lord and seek after Him, He will come to us through His Word, His power, and in various other ways. And He will answer our hearts’ desires with His power and His method.

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Thankfully the gospel is being preached far and wide around the world, but it is not easy to serve the gospel of the water and the Spirit in our lives. I hope and pray that all of us will be more strengthened in both body and spirit. I also hope and pray that everyone in the world would receive the remission of sins and receive the Holy Spirit into his heart by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, so that that all may be able to receive the Lord in joy anytime He returns. For this to come about, everyone must first be able to discern the real faith from the false ones.

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As described in today’s passage of Scripture, there were many people following Jesus. Moved with compassion for all these people, Jesus preached the Word of life to them personally and taught them, but as the evening approached, there was little food to feed the multitude as they were in a completely deserted place. All that could be gathered together was just two small fish and five barley loaves. Obviously, this was not enough to feed so many people. It was really no more than a light lunch that could barely feed just one or two people at the most. Yet even with such a small amount of food that could be put in a single lunchbox, our Lord performed an amazing miracle. With these fish and barley loaves, He fed the whole multitude that was following Him like starving sheep.

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