{"id":7129,"date":"2017-09-05T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2017-09-05T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:47:16","slug":"if-youre-going-to-walk-on-the-water-br-lester-roloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2017\/09\/05\/if-youre-going-to-walk-on-the-water-br-lester-roloff\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Going To Walk On The Water &#8211; Br. Lester Roloff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On weekday mornings, at 8:00am, KNVBC broadcasts &#8220;The Family Altar&#8221; with Br. Lester Roloff. I don&#8217;t always catch it but this morning, as the broadcast began, I grabbed a pen and journal to take notes on today&#8217;s message. The topic was one that the Lord has continually brought my way here recently through a variety of resources. I thought I would share the outline of\u00a0the message here, in hopes that it will be an encouragement to someone today!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Walking on the Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Mt 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.&#8221; Matthew 14:28,29<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to &#8220;walk on the water&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t look at your feet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Keep your eyes on Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t try to analyze your fate.<\/p>\n<p>3. Don&#8217;t try to analyze your faith.<\/p>\n<p>(You can&#8217;t reason with faith. The world does NOT understand faith.)<\/p>\n<p>4. Don&#8217;t worry about the future.<\/p>\n<p>(If Jesus bids us &#8220;come&#8221;, He will take care of us!)<\/p>\n<p>5. Don&#8217;t consider your foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>(Taking steps of faith will appear foolish to this world. )<\/p>\n<p>6. Don&#8217;t worry about the facts.<\/p>\n<p>(ex. &#8220;Peter, it&#8217;s a fact that no one ever walked on water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Jesus has! He&#8217;s doing it right now!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(That\u00a0is where the broadcast ended so I&#8217;m not sure if there are other points to the message. But, the above certainly gave me some food for thought today!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;For we walk by faith, not by sight&#8221; II Corinthians 5:7<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.&#8221; Hebrews 11:6\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On weekday mornings, at 8:00am, KNVBC broadcasts &#8220;The Family Altar&#8221; with Br. Lester Roloff. I don&#8217;t always catch it but this morning, as the broadcast began, I grabbed a pen and journal to take notes on today&#8217;s message. The topic was one that the Lord has continually brought my way here recently through a variety of resources. I thought I would share the outline of\u00a0the message here, in hopes that it will be an encouragement to someone today! Walking on the Water &#8220;And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. Mt 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.&#8221; Matthew 14:28,29 If you&#8217;re going to &#8220;walk on the water&#8221;&#8230; Don&#8217;t look at your feet. Keep your eyes on Jesus! 2. Don&#8217;t try to analyze your fate. 3. Don&#8217;t try to analyze your faith. (You can&#8217;t reason with faith. The world does NOT understand faith.) 4. Don&#8217;t worry about the future. (If Jesus bids us &#8220;come&#8221;, He will take care of us!) 5. Don&#8217;t consider your foolishness. (Taking steps of faith will appear foolish to this world. ) 6. Don&#8217;t worry about the facts. (ex. &#8220;Peter, it&#8217;s a fact that no one ever walked on water.&#8221; Peter &#8211; &#8220;Jesus has! He&#8217;s doing it right now!&#8221;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (That\u00a0is where the broadcast ended so I&#8217;m not sure if there are other points to the message. But, the above certainly gave me some food for thought today!) &#8220;For we walk by faith, not by sight&#8221; II Corinthians 5:7 &#8220;But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.&#8221; Hebrews 11:6\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,3,7,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courage","category-faith","category-growing","category-obedience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1QZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}