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In the middle of acts 27,

Paul and all of his companions on the ship

are in this massive storm and everybody's afraid for their lives.

They don't know if they're going to make it through it.

But God comes to Paul in a vision and through an angel and says that they're all going to live

but what I love most is verse 23 the way Paul describes that he says for very night, there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship.

Oh, I love those two phrases. The God to whom I belong and the God

whom I worship and especially in the context here and here's Paul he's a prisoner on a ship in the

middle of a storm and yet God reminds him and Paul knows that Paul belongs to God.

That God owns Paul.

That God has taken ownership and responsibility for caring for Paul, for

providing for Paul. Paul belongs to God and God is the one whom Paul worships. He loves and adores God. The God who is in control of the sea,

the God who is in control of the storms. You just think about it when we walked, especially when we walked through difficult times.

Isn't it good to know in the middle of challenges that we belong to God and that he is worthy of our worship, that he is good and great and

glorious and worthy of our praise even when we walk through challenges.

So let's be reminded in those phrases of what it means

to be in Christ, to belong to God, to be worshippers of God, and let's be encouraged by those realities.

Oh God, we praise you.

That in Christ we belong to you, that you have taken ownership of us.

You have ownership of my life and the lives of people who are listening to this who have put their trust in Christ that you own us that you care for us that you

provide for us that you are committed to providing for us especially when we walk

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