"THE WIND AND WAVES RECOGNIZE, AND MUST OBEY, HIS NAME
STILL (YET)!!!!!!!!!

Several years ago I read a very interesting article in National Geographic Magazine...
As I am sure you know - National Geographic is a Scientific magazine, NOT a Christian
magazine.

The specific article to which I am referring was about the Elements: (Oxygen, Iron, Nitrogen,
Carbon, etc.)  The article further states that... "Oxygen has a cycle of approximately 2,000 years.
Please, now - "Listen" to the following quote:

"Oxygen has a cycle of about 2.000 years --- So we who are alive on earth NOW --- we may be
Breathing some of the  SAME  Oxygen molecules that  JESUS CHRIST  breathed when He
walked on the earth." !!!!!!!!!

BIG TIME WOW!!!!!!!!!  Isn't GOD AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, let's get a little more personal now ---
I (Barry Coker) by the GRACE OF GOD spend a good bit of my time in prayer.  Most of the time
I am interceding (praying for others).   Also, several times per week - I pray about the WEATHER!!!

I pray in JESUS' NAME that GOD'S KINGDOM COME, HIS WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.  I speak to most of the various "elements" of the weather: the Jet streams, the High pressure systems, the Low pressure systems. the winds, the light and the darkness, the temperature, the barometric pressure, the humidity, the precipitation, the earth crust's temperature, the ocean's temperature, etc. -  In JESUS' NAME I COMMAND THE "ELEMENTS TO COME, KINGDOM OF GOD, BE DONE WILL OF GOD... And I pray that "if it can be Father's will, that there be no storm damage in this area" (N.E GA).

"Listen" to JESUS' words now --- (Mark 4:35-41) -
"On that same day (when) evening had come, He (Jesus) said to them, 'Let us go over to the other side [of the lake/the sea of Galilee].

And leaving the crowd, they took Him (Jesus) with them.  As He was...in the boat in which He was sitting).
And a furious storm of wind [of hurricane proportions] arose, and the waves kept beating on the boat,
so that it was already becoming filled.
But HE (HIMSELF) was in the stern (of the boat), asleep on the (leather cushion);  and they awoke Him and said to Him,  'Master, do You not care that we are perishing?'
And He arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ' Be STILL (muzzled)!  And the wind ceased (sank to rest as if exhausted by its beating)  and there was [immediately] a great Calm ( a perfect peacefulness).

He said to  them, 'Why are you so timid and fearful? How is it that you have no faith (no firmly relying trust)?
And they were filled with Great Awe and feared exceedingly and said to one another, 'Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey Him?' (Mark 4:35-41/Amplified Bible)

The wind and the waves recognize JESUS' NAME, STILL (yet).
Again - by GOD'S GRACE - There has been no damage to our house.

As I meditated on all of this recently - seeking the LORD about it --- these are some of the thoughts that I had ---
1) When I speak to the storms (wind and waves) ...
A. I may be speaking WITH some of the same Oxygen molecules (H20) that JESUS did...
2) While it is possible that I can speak (WITH, and TO) the same Oxygen molecules that Jesus did ---
3)  What is  CRUCIAL is that I speak by the same SPIRIT (the HOLY SPIRIT) that Jesus did ---
*** "crucial" from the Latin word (crux, cruc) (CROSS).
4) You also can, and should, speak in HIS NAME when you pray, etc.

Just think about it - Meditate on it - when we are Praising HIM - "HIS PRESENCE is enthroned IN our praises" (Psalm 22:3) --- and we are speaking HIS WORD - by HIS SPIRIT, in HIS NAME---
with some of the same Oxygen!!!!!!!!!

 SGD  Sole Deo Gloria  - For the Glory of  GOD ALONE.