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A prayer for the deep waters of life by Maggie Meadows Cooper, read by Liam Martin.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into deep water and let down the

nets for a catch. Luke 5.4

Recently I spent time with several women who are striving to truly experience the Lord's

presence and live through the spirit's power and strength in their daily lives. They've

been diving into his word like never before and seeking to move past surface-level Christianity,

but it's not easy, y'all, so I've been thinking about what that really looks like and how we

live that out. This past Sunday at church, we studied the story of the miracle catch in Luke

chapter 5 1 through 11. Jesus had been teaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and he noticed

two empty boats. He chose to step into Simon Peter's boat and had him push it out into the water

where he sat and taught a while. When he was done, he turned to Simon, in verse 4 and said,

now go out where it's deeper and let down your nets to catch some fish.

After some back and forth, Simon decided to listen to Jesus and he went. His nets were so full

from the amount of fish he caught they began to tear and he had to call for help.

Simon was so overcome that he fell at Jesus's feet and Jesus said to him,

from now on, you'll be fishing for people. There's so much more we could talk about in this story,

but for now this one thing is what the Lord laid on my heart. Jesus didn't allow Simon to

stay by the shore or even to simply go out a little way. Jesus told him to go out where it was deeper.

This isn't the only place where we see Jesus as disciples in deep water. When Jesus

calmed the storm in Matthew 8, 23 through 27, he and his disciples were going across the lake.

And when he walked on water in Matthew 14, 22 through 36, the disciples were far away from the land.

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