Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, October 26th.

Believers know that God is in control, so that means we can be at peace even when we're the most helpless.

Let's wrap up the series on the storms of life with a reminder of God's loving compassion.

Storms come from one of three sources. They either storms that we ourselves generate or their storms at Satan

will generate or sometimes their storms that God initiates for us not to accomplish something in our life.

But what I want to talk about in this message is this and that is God's provision for us when we face the storms of life.

Probably one of the best illustrations of that is found in a night of real storm on the sea of Galilee to be found in the 14th chapter of Matthew.

So if you'll turn to that 14th chapter and let's look at this storm in night when Jesus and His disciples met together in a very unusual situation.

Jesus has been healing and teaching and now He has fed the 5,000 and when He finishes, if you'll notice in verse 22 the Scripture says,

and immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side while He sent the multitudes away.

And after He had sent the multitudes away, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray.

And when it was evening, He was there alone. But the boat was already, many steadier or several miles away from the land,

battered by the waves for the wind was contrary. And in the 4th watch somewhere around 3 o'clock in the morning, 4th watch of the night, He came to them walking on the sea.

And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were frightened saying, it is a ghost and they cried out for fear.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them saying, take courage, it is I do not be afraid.

And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.

And He said, come and Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

But seeing the wind, He became afraid. And beginning to sink, He cried out saying, Lord, save me.

And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand and took it whole of His hymn and said to Him, all you have little faith, what did you doubt?

And when they got into the boat, the wind stopped. And those who were in the boat worshipped Him, saying, you are certainly God's Son.

And when they had crossed over, they came to the land at Ganesirat.

Now, the most important thing God could provide for you and me in the midst of a storm is, first of all, the awareness of His presence.

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