In Matthew 14:28 29 (NKJV) it says...

... And Peter answered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." So He said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.”  Peter asked Jesus to command him to do something an average human has never done...walk on water. Jesus said, “Come!” and the miracle happened.

This story is so interesting to me because Jesus first tells the disciples to get in the boat and to go to the other side. When they are in the middle of the storm He commands Peter to come to Him on the water. When they get to the other side and get out of the boat revival breaks out. Maybe it is just so much of who I am, but I see this story as a mission’s story. The whole purpose of getting in the boat was to go to the other side where people needed to hear the good news of Jesus Christ and have their lives put back together. They had to get out of the boat and to minister.

Life Church, it is time for all of us to get out of the boat and do our part for missions so that revivals can break out in multiply nations. Pastor Rick, I am in the middle of a financial storm, how could I possibly do anything without going under myself?  Peter starting looking at the wind and waves and he started going under...Guess who was there to catch him...Jesus!  We all raise our hands when we ask, “How many of you believe Jesus is coming back soon?  How many agree we are a mission’s church?”  We all raise our hands and shout but God is giving us a command like the one He gave Peter.  Matthew 28:19 20 (NKJV)  “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.” Our response to this is to get out of the boat and obey what Jesus has said. You can say ‘Amen!’ but you can also give! God will not let you sink when you make that Faith Promise!