26/04/2020
SERMON; RESTORING OUR HOPE.Luke 5:1_6.
Good morning church.COVID 19 Has led many to live a pessimistic lives,The governments and W.H.O hopes have been challenged.People are getting lots of nonsense from the government sense.The church has been streaming sermons and social distancing is killing our social fabric.Many people are desperate and vulnerable,many people are not seeing the sense of living.Blame game is all over and Things are getting thicker and solutions are far reached.Dreams have been shattered ,pain is grippling patients who where to go out of the country for medication,Our way of burial has changed,The movement restrictions anger is evident in our social media...church We are at the elastic stretch END...What next,what next..what next.
Hope is the big thing from GOD
In this chapter peter and Simon take a centre in this story
V1.Jesus was in his normal business of preaching and he encountered abnormal situation of empty boats in a time every one was expectant of a bulky catch of fish.Remember Jesus had a crowd and so a miracle was key for everyone to show how God was more powerful and his Providence and hope was beyond timings.
V2.fishermen had left the boats....When you are about to finish your business is when God shows up.Your finishing point is God's starting point.They had given up,in panic of what to tell their families and friends but Jesus saw their worries...read Exodus 3;7ff
V3.STEPPING INTO one of the boats...When God steps into our situation everything changes,God is about to step into your business,into your family into your work place.When he STEPS IN....ALL our STRESS,PESSIMISM, UNCERTAINTIES, HOPELESS, PESTILENCE.....STEPS OUT.Someone says amen.Allow God to step in and waiting for great catch.
V4.He DROPS OUR RESPONSIBILITY....Jesus gave Simon a responsibility.God will never bless us without us fulfilling our responsibility....any miracle He did was accompanied by beneficiaries responsibility.What is that which God has instructed you t