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God can still your storm!

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Israel, Sea of Galilee (Lake of Tiberias) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them." ( Psalm 89:9 ) There are few things in nature more fearsome or more uncontrollable by man than a mighty storm at sea. Only the One who created the waters of the sea can really control them. But He can! "For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof . . . . He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still" ( Psalm 107:25 , 29 ). One of the most striking demonstrations of the deity of Christ was in a storm on the Sea of Galilee when "he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm" ( Luke 8:24 ). Note also the experience of the mariners sailing to Tarshish when they realized that the storm that was about to destroy them had been sent by the God of heaven because of Jonah . "So they took up