Balancing Your Life - Lesson #5

“A Storm is Coming….What Will You Do?”

1. Storms are inevitable.

2. Storms vary in duration and intensity.

3. Storms are impossible to accurately predict. (Luke 8:22-24)

“There is nothing about a storm we are in control of except how we prepare for it and then how we choose to react to it.”

“We don’t have a clue!” verses:

Romans 11:33_____________________________________
1 Corinthians 13:12 _________________________________
Isaiah 55:8-8______________________________________

*2 Questions that are real faith-killers in a storm: WHY GOD WHY?/ WHEN GOD WHEN?

*You are whistling for the enemy if you choose to repeatedly engage and entertain these questions.

WHY DO STORMS EXIST?

1. To shape us : 2 Cor. 3: 18, Romans 5:3-5

2. To strengthen us : 2 Cor. 12:9-10, Habakkuk 3:17-19

3. To test our faith : James 1:2-4, 1 Cor. 10:13

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

1. Prepare ahead of time: Psalm 119:11,105 & 1 Peter 4:12-18

2. Seek shelter immediately: Psalm 32:7 & Psalm 91

“You can fellowship with the storm or God but not both.”

3. Wait for it to end: Psalm 37:7.34, John 14:27 & Psalm 107:28-30

“How you wait depends upon how much you trust your shelter?”

Ann Allen Salter