Breaking Your Fears And Gaining Courage To Do The Impossible.

" And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus."



I will want you to read along with optimum concentration and expectation as the holy spirit will be speaking to us in two diverse ways from the passage above.

The Two Major Areas We Will Be Touching Are;

1. The Area Of Our Pursuit,and

2. Our Spiritual Life.

The passage quoted above was extracted from the bible in the book of matthew chapter 14 verse 28 and 29.

From this passage, which started earlier before chapter 28, we saw jesus break the law of physics by walking on the sea. The fear that this was impossible for any man threw the disciples into a state of fear which they exhibited by shouting but one thing that struck me was the reply of jesus. He said to them " courage! ".

Most of us today, we have thrown away our courage and has bowed to the control of fear. The disciples could see what was working on the sea approaching them but instead of being courageous, calm and strategising on how to overcome it when it comes closer, they declared their fear to retreat and surrendering by shouting.

So many of us has given up our quest for greatness because of the troubles and problems we hear and has not even witnessed.

Away from this, when we look further in that passage, we saw that jesus declared himself when he got closer to them and until then did they regain theirself. Thesame applies to you, most of those problems you had ran away from and quitted your race because of were actually little things you could have fought against and conquered.

Peter said to jesus, " order me to walk on the sea " and jesus did as he asked and immediately peter stood up and entered the water and began working.

Surely it was not only peter that was sitting in the boat, there were other disciples there, but it was only peter that believed he could walk on the water.

As far as you decide to seat with those who have no thirst or courage to step into the invisible, you can never go beyond your limit.

Only peter left his comfort zone. He did not do what others were doing(sitting down) he stepped out to do something greater.

Peter did not look at the fact that it was water, he was not seeing himself trying to stand on water but he already saw himself standing in his heart and that is what triggered him to action.

I want us to see jesus as the goal peter was aiming. We can see that for sometime, peter maintained his balance and walking step on the water because he kept his focus on the goal, where he was going, who he wanted to go and meet and to this effect he had no issue.

The problem began when he lifed his eyes away from his goal and started placing more attention on the odds around him. He started to sink when he allowed fear into him. Are you reading this article, this is a challenge that you should never concentrate on your problems because it will only make you sink.

It is incumbent on you to keep your eyes focused on the price ahead, that is what will inspire you to move on but when you begin to give attention to haters, discouragement, fear and all sort of thing, you will begin to sink.

Peter began to sink but he did not sink completely. This is where my problem and you problem lies. When we see that we are sinking, instead of seeking to rise again, we loose hope. Peter called unto jesus and said "save me".

Have you fallen ? Then you should seek help to stand again. It is not over untill its over. Never give up, desire to rise again and fire on instead of surrendering.

TO THE SPIRITUAL PART OF IT

The disciples where the closest to jesus and they have been together for a long time under his teachings. They saw him do miracles but yet had no courage and couldn't even recognise him from afar.

God has done so many things in your that were even beyond your comprehension but now that you are facing a problem, you forget the mighty ability of the God you serve and submit to the decit of the devil.

Some of us are like the other disciples who has no atom of courage to even do what jesus did. Have you forgotten that it was written that we can do all things(without exception) through christ who strengthen us.

Are you not just following jesus because of what you will eat or get from him, do you really desire to tap that power that you need to pocess as a son or daughter.

Have you taken a bold step to go to jesus as peter did ? A close study at that passage of the bible shows us that peter went on the sea with nothing heavy that could weigh him down. He dropped all he had in the both but forgot his to drop his fear.

Why have you not forsaken all for the sake of christ,why do you hold on to those little sins, or don't you know they are the things drawing you to make you sink. You should keep your eyes glued to him because he is the author and the finisher of our faith.

Peter sank when he took away his eyes from jesus but he called out for salvation. There is still a chance for you this day, don't wait to sink completely, call unto jesus now and he will save you.

Jesus ordered peter to come out from among them, so is jesus calling you out to come an enjoy his eternal glory.