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that day. Maybe He was just having fellowship with His Holy
Father God. We do know that Jesus was praying and that at three
o’clock in the morning He looked out and He saw them. The Bible
says that He saw them struggling at the oars.

I’m suggesting that Jesus on the mountain praying is pure faith
because you can’t see Him. “We walk by faith and not by sight.”
Jesus was on the mountain praying, very much like today as He’s in
heaven praying and we’re on a stormy sea.

Jesus gave a clear word, Mark 6:45, “And immediately He made His
disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to
Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the multitude away.”
They had a word that Jesus would meet them on the other side.
Hebrew 11 talks about “faith is the evidence of things not seen”. In
this first scene Jesus is invisible but He knows everything that is
going on. He sees them and He’s praying and when He sees them
struggle, He walks upon the water.

It’s not easy to trust a God that you can’t see. So, they failed that
part. If they had called upon the Lord, they would have learned the
lesson of the loaves. Let me remind you about the lesson of the
loaves. Though it doesn’t feel like much and it doesn’t look like
much, if I keep coming back to Jesus, at the end of the day I will see
that I had more than enough for me and thousands like me. That’s
the lesson.

They didn’t call on the Lord when they were rowing. They didn’t
talk to one another and say, “We better not fail this test.” I don’t
even think they were thinking about the miracle of the loaves. They
were self-conscious. They are storm conscious. They are thinking
about their circumstance. They aren’t thinking, “Oh, we’ve got to
remember what He taught us when He fed five thousand people.”

I think when the Bible says, “They are struggling at the oars,” I think
that is more than sore muscles. It’s more than sore arms. Spiritually
speaking, it’s frustrating that you can’t obey God. They are weary