Storms in life can be a precursor to God speaking, God doing or God revealing Himself and giving opportunity for us to step out of the boat.<\/p>\n

But the storm\u00a0didn’t\u00a0stop for Elijah until God began to whisper \u2013 it didn\u2019t stop for Job until he forgave, and it didn\u2019t stop for Peter until he\u2019d nearly drowned himself and he and Jesus got back in the boat.<\/p>\n

In each case, the storm built the faith of the individuals involved, and they knew God and themselves<\/em> better when it was over than when they\u2019d begun.<\/p>\n

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Are you in a storm? What have you learned about God recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are days and weeks where we feel like the world is dumping on us. Similar to New Orleans, we feel like storm after storm rages, and just when we pick ourselves up, another one hits. The thing that gets me is that throughout scripture, storms often accompany an encounter with God. When God spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change-transition","category-transition","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deepimprints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9904545_s.jpg?fit=400%2C334","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1qCXF-storms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepimprints.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}