TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - September 19, 2025 - Luke 5:1-3 - Faith Friday: Boat Faith

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

In Luke 5:1–3, Jesus turns an ordinary lakeshore into a pulpit and a borrowed fishing boat into a sanctuary. As the people pressed in to hear the Word, Christ showed that no place is too common to become holy ground when His truth is proclaimed. Peter’s simple act of lending his boat opened the way for a miracle of teaching and faith that would ripple into his future calling. Today we are reminded that small obediences create space for God to work in extraordinary ways.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!www.Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!www.books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna, and it's Faith Friday. And every Friday in the year 20, 25, we are studying the topic of faith. And we've got a great lesson today on faith. I know it's going to bless you. It blessed me preparing it. And I believe your faith is going to be stronger, more energetic one hour from now than it is right now. Amen.

Also, because it's Friday, that means we will go to the Lord's table for Holy Communion. So we encourage you to have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine available at the end of today's lesson. And anybody in your household or workplace, wherever you are, who is born again and baptized, he or she is welcome to join with us. Those are the only two requirements we have that you're born again and baptized. in water. So let's begin our lesson. We're going to be studying Luke chapter 5 verses 1 through 11. This is boat faith. I'm still on the theme of boat faith. And today it's boat faith, the miraculous catch. Here we go. Father, our wonderful Father in heaven. Father, we love you. We praise we glorify you we exalt you we just love you father and father we love your son jesus christ we love your

spirit and we love your word and so father we're hungry to be taught your words so holy spirit come take your seat in this bible study and build our faith our faith in our lord jesus christ in his name jesus we pray amen Amen. And good morning. Welcome, everyone. The morning man. I'm so glad to have you here with us. We are a global Bible study that meets together live each weekday at 8 a.m. With people today, Russia, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Malaysia, Australia today. Thank you so much for checking in with us. We continue our series here on Faith Friday on Boat Faith. And we are in Luke chapter 5 today. and we're going to be reading the first 11 verses of chapter 5 and the theme today is the miraculous catch on boat faith

and so read along with me if you will i'm reading from king james and it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of god he stood by the lake of ganeserate and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets and he entered into one of the ships which was Simons, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship. And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drop. And Simon, answering, said on him, master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net.

And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net break. and they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, and that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, depart from me, for I'm a simple man, O Lord, for he was astonished, and all that were with them at the draught of the fishes which were taken. And so it was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon, And Jesus said unto Simon, fear not. That's interesting. I never thought about that phrase, fear not here in this passage.

From henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they had brought their ships to land, they forso forsook all and followed him. Praise the Lord. All right. Good, Doc. When we get there, I'll let you run with it, okay? fear not why why did jesus say to them fear not when it was a miracle so let's begin verse one luke five verse one world english bible now while the multitude pressed on him and

heard the word of god he was standing by the lake of jeneserate so faith began begins with hearing. We're here to talk about faith. Romans 10-17, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. If we're going to build our faith, strengthen our faith, enlarge our faith, we have to hear, and we have to hear the Word of God. Faith comes by hearing, not hearing, just anything there's a lot of noise out here in the world faith comes by hearing the word of god so the people pressed upon jesus to hear the word of god so the crowd's eagerness shows that there was

hunger for divine truth in this instance they were they were genuinely see speaking revelation from this man that they saw as a great teacher they didn't know he was a son of god they didn't know he was a messiah they saw him as a great teacher they knew he his reputation for doing miracles was already spreading but it was the word that he was speaking that attracted this crowd to the lake of Geneserite. This is not near a big metropolitan area. And this is far from Jerusalem. No major cities nearby. So true faith arises when your soul is gripped with a genuine hunger. to hear the word of God.

Praise God for every member of the morning manna Bible class. There is no other explanation for why you come here five days a week for one hour other than you, your soul is hungry. And obviously, Doc and I are feeding you something because you come back. you know if the class was getting smaller and smaller i'd say doc we got changed the recipe here and we're not feeding the people but you keep coming back it's like a breakfast diner it's just packed there's every seat's taken and it's a wonderful feeling because the people pressed in to hear the word of god that's just packed

that's what it says about you so the multitudes pressing reminds us that disciples it reminds us as disciples in my view god's word is the second most precious thing second most precious treasure that we can and should pursue the presence of Christ is the most precious treasure amen but in this case they pursued his presence to hear his word he was out by the lake that's where they went he didn't go to the crowd the crowd went to him Yes. It's a big, look, if you're waiting on Jesus to come to you and pursue you, you've got this backwards. He's waiting on you to pursue him.

And to pursue him for his presence and his word. So this lesson on faith, boat faith. faith is stirred when hearts sincerely earnestly pressed toward Jesus Christ to hear his words and this reveals that they saw him as a they saw him as a great teacher we now know him as the one true teacher He stood by the lake of Janeserate. You know what I see here? Jesus meets men and women in the ordinary places of life.

Amen. Aren't you glad? He met them by a lake. There was no city market there. There was no Coliseum. No amphitheater. no busy marketplace no neighborhoods he met them by a lake but he'll meet you he'll meet you by your lake he'll meet you at your job he'll meet you at your school he'll meet you in your

house he'll meet you in your barn he'll meet you in your truck he meets people in ordinary places you don't there's yes yes you should go to church services yes you should go to church services should not forsake the assembling of the saints but don't think that you have to be in a church building to meet Jesus and don't think you have to be in a in a religious building or religious setting for Jesus to appear he appears where men and women gather in the most ordinary places don't separate the ordinary from the sacred. Christ meets you in the daily places where men and women gather for life. Right.

His presence makes the real world. Yeah, his presence makes the ordinary place sacred. Amen. I mean, when you get right into it, Rick, this was a word. site right you know that's what these guys were doing they're out there mending their nets washing their nets these guys working i mean they're hard-working guys and they're you know they've been working all night we toiled all night peter said we toil all night toiled you've got two two groups here you've got the people pressing in to hear jesus speak

and then you have these fishermen who've who've just us come in from the lake. Hey, look at the crowd. What's going on? Some kind of meeting here by the lake. That's unusual. You don't have meetings at the lake. So you've got two groups of people, the people pursuing Jesus to hear the word, and you've got these fishermen who are exhausted, weary. They fished all night and didn't catch a fish.

both of them are hungry the fishermen were hungry the fishermen were hungry for a fish they didn't even have anything to eat for breakfast they didn't have one fish to catch to fry they didn't have one fish that they caught to fry for breakfast so he stood by the lake of geneserate He comes to the ordinary places of our lives.

Expect him. Expect him to enter into where you're at today. Get this thought out of your head that you've got to go to a special revival meeting. You've got to go where Reverend so-and-so is there conducting Holy Ghost meetings in the presence of God. Okay, I hope the presence of God is there, but you don't have to be there for Jesus to appear in your life. he appears in the ordinary places he will make the ordinary sacred he chooses ordinary humble places to bring about great revelations it's his presence that sanctifies the common places right and that's not to say that you can't have revival meetings or conferences or seminars and do all that but the idea is that Jesus is real and he comes to and he dwells where the real people are where the hardworking

people are where the where the common people are where the people that can't afford a conference or a seminar I mean that's where Jesus shows up and so it's not to condemn those things so much but he's there i mean uh his presence is real and he wants to if you will be in that presence himself in those real situations real he wants to be at the diner he wants to be down at the seashore he wants to be involved in your life where the rubber meets road so to speak by teaching on the lake's edge jesus was position was position positioning himself for what would follow, which was launching the fishermen into the deep water, but he's doing more than launching them into deep water.

He's launching them into deep faith. Faith is about recognizing the authority of Christ. And that's what these men did in this story. But know this, he made the lake, he made the lake a, a, a classroom. This is another example, another example of Jesus's on-site training. He made it a place, it was a place that, to encounter him, to encounter his presence. He created a stage for discipleship. This is the lesson here.

before God calls you to launch any major project, major work of faith for you, he will first call you to listen to His Word. Amen. This is the message you get. This is the principle in these verses. Jesus is getting ready. These guys have no idea. They don't know this is about to happen.

But Jesus does. Guess who kept all the fish away from their nets during the night? The God who made the fish. Yes. The God who made the fish told the fish don't go near those nets tonight. You want to swim over here. It was Jesus who prevented them from succeeding. What are you saying?

Not because he wanted them to fail, but he desired for them to start succeeding in a new way. Right. And so as disciples, before we go launching out into any new venture, we first must listen to his word. Let's see what the commentator said. Adam Clark, Methodist, born 1762. Do you think those Methodists knew anything about faith back there in the 1700s and the 1800s?

Those Wesley brothers alone riding 18,000 miles on horseback to share the Word of God. Not only were their mouths tired, but their hind ends were tired, too, from all of that. That's right. And how many horseshoes did they go through? oh my good how many horses think about that horses well adam clark methodus it was very close to the wesley brothers said faith must have a foundation and that foundation is the word christ gave them the word first before the miracle that their faith might rest not on sight but on truth well we'll check out the anglicans do you think anglingans knew anything about faith in those days charles bridges born 1794 the word of god is the root of faith where the word is loved

impressed upon their faith springs and fruit abounds well let's check out the baptist alexander maclaren born 1826 the pressure of the crowd is the hunger of souls before faith can cast the net it must first hear the voice of christ and then william are not free church of scotland they press to hear the word this is faith in its bud thirsting for the truth the miracle that follows will be its blossom Verse two And saw two ships standing by the lake But the fishermen were gone out of them

And were washing their nets Christ His eyes Had purpose His view Had purpose He's looking beyond the he saw two ships he saw two platforms yes these are platforms today the word platform is very

popular in the media we use platforms if you're on faith and values dot com right now you're you're on a platform YouTube is a platform Facebook is a platform right it's just a way to deliver a message yes you need a platform to speak to people but eyes of Jesus Christ

scan the scene and he saw two boats saw two boats but chose one And he chose one. So faith often begins when Jesus takes what is common and turns it into something

to be used for his divine purpose. The message I want to get across to you today is the presence of Christ makes the common sacred. Amen. His presence is flowing through all of these lessons about boat faith.

So now he takes just a regular old fishing ship and he turns us into a platform to speak the word of Almighty God to the people who are gathered. So the boats, the boats can also represent us as disciples that we have to be prepared for his call. That when Christ looks at you and says, I need to use you. I need to stand inside you and speak.

Amen. You need to be available. See, nothing is too ordinary for Jesus Christ. amen he sanctifies fishing boats so faith begins when we offer whatever we have right to be used by the Lord but so he saw the two boats

but the fishermen were gone out of them that's because they had labored all night they were exhausted We're seeing here the futility of human strength, human effort that's apart from the presence of Christ. Faith grows when our self-effort, human effort, cease us, and Christ enters the scene. The boats were empty. The image I get here is the scene of discouragement, fatigue, failure. Why is that?

Because the boats were empty. The men were not unloading fish. Right. It wasn't that the boats were empty of just a fisherman. they were they were also empty of fish that's where the scene of discouragement failure fatigue comes in

by way I was thinking about this today Doc I think Peter the kind of business he ran he was a wholesaler Peter didn't he didn't go out there and work all night catching fish

and then work all day at the fish market right he was a wholesaler so the the fish market retailers would come out to the lake and buy the fish at wholesale right but that day there was nobody there was nothing to buy okay and so they were washing their nets the fishermen so this is a This is routine work. It's what fishermen do at the end of every day. They wash their nets. It's a scene of resignation.

They're ready to put away their tools, but with no gain. It was a bust. Peter and the men were saying, let's just forget about this day. Let's just write it off. Let's not think. about it anymore we worked all night we came back empty-handed let's just wash the net

and get ready for tomorrow and maybe tomorrow we'll catch some fish we've got to catch some fish got families to feed so often our faith begins where disappointment meets diligence it's just slight okay what do i mean by this they completely failed and yet they washed their nets with a little bit of hope that tomorrow would succeed they didn't quit the fishing business they washed their nets a routine job it's like scrubbing the floors it's like washing your car it's you know it's washing your tools at the end of the day you know in construction you know you're washing all the dirt everything you're cleaning the tractors you're you didn't produce anything but you've got enough hope left that maybe tomorrow right you prepare

for the next day so disappointment met with diligence They were weary, yet they were faithful in small matters. So learn this principle. Jesus Christ meets his disciples in ordinary faithfulness, not laziness. Peter and the fishermen were, they didn't go sit under some trees and smoke some weed. I'm done with fishing I'm not going to do it anymore I quit

no that's not what happened they did they were diligent they washed their nets even though they failed so when you fail at something do you wash your nets or do you throw your nets

amen the faithful the diligent wash their nets even though they failed it's a really important principle to understand so even when results are absent disciples must continue preparing and maintaining their faith nets. Right. Ready for the Lord's next instruction. That's right. And so you keep showing out.

You keep doing what you're expected to do. You're faithful. And if you're faithful, if you're faithful in the small things, the everyday things, the things you're supposed to do every day, God will take what seems to be a failure what seems to be a failure and bring about a miracle

and see the name of the Lord glorified in the midst of it because think about this, if they had caught a whole bunch of fish the night before, there'd be no lesson here today, would there? No. And if they had not washed their nets, there wouldn't be a miracle. Right.

Because they had to go back out. Think about that. If the nets weren't ready, they wouldn't be able to catch any fish if they neglected the the mundane routine duties of life they would have missed the miracle this is what i'm trying to get across don't quit the mundane routine things of life right they're important there are things i have to do every day it's like it just has to be done right but i'm being diligent of being faithful right it's and i'm i'm cleaning my nets i'm getting ready right nothing happened today but there's tomorrow folks it's important to the story that they were washing their nets it's important because it when jesus said here in a few more verses to

go out and cast out your nets if they hadn't washed their nets their nets wouldn't have been rolled up and ready to be cast out yes it's the preparation that allowed the miracle to take place so what is it right now at this part of your life what things what mundane regular normal things do you need to take care of to be ready when the lord speaks and says i'm going to do a miracle in your life what we're going to learn in this in this boat faith's lesson is that human efforts apart from jesus christ leads to futility but faith begins where our strength ends this is one of the this amazing paradoxes that Jesus's strength appears at your weakest moments right don't fear weakness he shows up when

you're weak it's just amazing don't be discourage when you're weak it's it's it's a great opportunity for jesus to reveal his strength john gill baptist 1697 the boats empty of men and fish were fit to be filled with christ so must men be emptied of themselves that he may enter and dwell i like that one doc yeah That's good. Adam Clark Methodist, the fishermen were washing their nets weary with toil. It is when man's strength is gone that God's power is made perfect.

Anglican Charles Bridges, the empty ships and weary fishermen are pictures of man's insufficiency. Faith must wait for Christ's presence to make emptiness fruitful. Albert Barnes Though their night's labor was useless, they still washed their nets. Showing diligence in small duties. Faith is prepared when it keeps ready for the master. Amen. Baptist Alexander McLaren.

The empty boats and weary men are the stage for Christ's teaching. Faith is born when he is born when he, human effort fails and divine power enters. William are not. Free Church of Scotland, they washed their nets, though they had caught nothing. Here is perseverance and duty. Christ delights to meet men faithful in small things. Right.

Do you have any other commentators there, Rick? No, no, go ahead. well I wanted to give some insight on nets there I so last night when I was preparing I was like well why wash your nets they're in the water what's the deal there why do you need to wash a net you know nets are wet anyway right well there's a reason why especially those that are in Ganeserit wash their nets because if you don't wash your nets the nets will stink and you won't catch fish because the fish will know that it's a spoiled net and they'll avoid it and so what they would do is they would bring them you know when they would get to shore they would take the nets and they would mix it uh they would wash it with a mixture of uh fresh water and salt to get rid of the stink if you will to get rid of the spoil and then during the day the net would dry and of course it would get disinfected because the sunlight and the fresh water and salt

and then they would have it wrapped up and rolled up prepared ready to go for the next night fishing and so you want to make sure that you don't stink okay that there's no stink on you when you're prepared for your daily mundane task so there's a reason why they're washing that's i i was curious because back home in Missouri, I never recalled ever washing a net. I mean, we would lay it out to dry in the sun, but I'd never recall washing it. But the lakes in Ganeseret, Galilee, they tend to be a little bit smelly. And so, and that's the reason why. I learned something a new last night. Doc, that's fascinating.

How do we apply it to our lives? That when we're seeking to catch, when we're seeking to catch the fish, which are the souls of men and women, we can't have any stink on us. Amen. Okay. It's the tools that we're using.

Whatever we're using in our ministry should not smell. Yeah. Oh, glory. See, the stink is not on the, on the fisherman it's on the tools that he's using and sometimes not sometimes all the time those tools have to be exposed to the light from the sun and in this case it's s o in yes and then it renews the tools that we're using how many ministers are using old stinky tools to win souls and they're not they're not getting great results anymore

because their nets stink doc that's a revelation to me I know it was something new to me because I've done net fishing when I was a kid and I can never recall well my dad ever saying to me you better wash that net before you take it back out I never thought of they're even even doing it

and so it puzzled me when I said well why were they washing their nets and so that's the reason why I got a bridge in front of my house there's always guys on that fishing lots of times they have nets I think now I'm going to ask them hey you wash that net maybe you should wash your net

you might catch more fish I want to see what kind of reaction I get I usually tell them I own all the fish on the east side of the bridge I'd say the first three foot All the fish pull out of me Yeah and I tell them I said You have to fish on the other side of the bridge

And if one of my fish Goes under the bridge You have to give it three minutes to change his mind And go back If we can catch it, okay? All right So that's new information to me So verse three

verse three and he entered into one of the ships which was simons and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship two ships but one choice yes both ships probably were identical but he chose one yes he chose he chose he chose ship owned by Simon Peter okay he wasn't after Peter's ship he was after Peter's soul he was after Peter yeah yes that was the reason

maybe Peter's ship was better but the Lord had his eyes on Peter I'm going to make that man a disciple but what we see here is that our faith our faith begins when Jesus Christ enters our lives personally not just generally he's got to be personal to you

there's a lot of people in churches that have a general relationship with God right they don't have an intimate personal relationship right And also, Simon was prepared, well, he may not have known it, but God had prepared Simon for Jesus to enter his ship. So when God enters into your situation, your life, he's taking what you've already learned and your experience as a past to prepare you for this moment right now. Jesus stepping on your boat. That's right. Now, this next principle, this excites me because I'm a businessman.

Peter's ship was his primary tool for business. You can't run a fishing business without a fishing ship. Jesus took something that was built for business and made it a pulpit for the kingdom. Amen. Think about that. If you own a business, Christ desires to enter into it and use it as a pulpit.

Don't say, oh, I keep business separated from church. Don't say that. I hear that all the time, too. Oh, no. Oh, no. He desires to enter into your boat. Amen. He wants to get into your business.

Yes, and he wants to make it so successful, you can't contain the blessings. So once again, we see he takes something ordinary and he makes it sacred. He dignifies this shipping boat, a fishing boat, by making it a place for divine teaching. so what we're seeing here now is simon's future it's a simon he christ has not yet changed his identity right he later simon later becomes peter but he's still under his old identity he's simon's future mission is foreshadowed here his boat built for business becomes the first church platform in the kingdom of god doc that right that excites me so much i never thought of this ever that the first preaching platform in the kingdom of god in the new covenant age was a business platform that's right his fishing boat and what was it why the boat why did he

say do the boat we'll get into that year in a minute but there was a purpose for jesus choosing the boat rather than just standing on the seashore you needed a place to be elevated so that his his voice would be amplified that's right so God will take your business and amplify his voice through it yes how many businessmen and women are afraid to give their business to Christ yeah or or selfish about it mm-hmm I mean let's be real right well church Jesus is good and all that and he's good at church and stuff but he doesn't know anything about the plumbing business right no god wants to use your profession for his

pulpit the god who made water doesn't know anything about pipes that carry water so faith means surrendering what is yours to be used by god for the glory of his son jesus christ whatever you have he desires it I said the other day, there are a lot of church members who have not submitted to Christ. Oh, I'll submit, I'll believe in your kingdom, I'll believe in you, but I'm not submitting. Surrender. Surrender everything you have and give it to him for his use. he's not going to hurt you

he's going to bless you and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land now the King James Jesus and prayed now Jesus asked Peter

his assignment would you push this boat away from the shore he asked yeah it may not seem like that big a deal but what that would mean is you have to get the boat ready you had to pull up the anchor you had to unhitch it from the dock you have to do all this you know it's not just a matter of we'll let you push it out no you've got to well you've got to get the boat ready as if you're going out

into deep water so it wasn't just some you know throwaway ask of Jesus this this was you know I want you to take your business I want you to stop what you're doing and I want you to listen to what I had to say and trust that a little bit. Yes, Doc, this very thing, thrusting out, okay? Well, first was giving him his boat and then thrusting out. These are the first two steps of obedience that Peter gave to Christ. In ordinary, mundane affairs of life, these are the first two steps of obedience. from Peter

he he surrendered his boat to be used and then he he obeyed he complied with Jesus' request he didn't roll his eyes and go oh is not good enough for you just

to stand on my boat I got to push it out he didn't do that he cooperated with the Lord yeah Doc's right look at all the things you had to do to allow that boat to be moved away from the shore. You know, Peter didn't roll his eyes and, hey, Mr. Jesus, whoever you are,

I mean, I'm letting you stand on my boat for nothing. Right. And I'm not working right now. He didn't say it like that. Simon Peter complied with the request of the Lord. these are acts of obedience Simon Peter has no idea what's going to happen that these two steps of obedience

in doing something what looks to be trivial, minor, mundane was going to change his entire life Simon was no longer the fisherman of fish after this event this was a life-changing moment for Simon so our faith grows through small steps of obedience before we take great leaps I saw it in my life in my early years God would give me small steps

Rick I desire you to do this why because I desire you to do it the reason for it was he desired me to do it it wasn't that something had to be done it was I needed to obey he was training me to hear his voice and obey so the request was simple but it tested

Simon's willingness to obey So God often begins with a little, a little request, a small push, a small task before he speaks deeper calls of faith in your life. So be faithful in those little things. None of us escape it. Even Apostle Peter had to push the boat out. I mean, later, years later, he's people are, he's walking down the sidewalk and crippled people are being healed because his shadow passed by. Yes. It all started with moving the boat from the shore.

That's what I want you to see about faith. I think, oh, I want to be like, I want my faith to be like Peter. I walk down the street, crippled people just automatically get healed. Okay, then push your boat out. Yeah. Because that's what Peter would say to you. This is a small act.

The small act created separation. Jesus needed space to teach. So two things happened here. The pushing the boat out was to give Jesus space from the crowd to teach. The same act was used by Jesus to prepare Peter for greater obedience. Little thrust come before big thrust. We have to be faithful in these little. things and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship why did he sit down because he's a teacher

right he's a rabbi he's a rabbi and he taught with calm confidence he took his seat it represented a place of authority amen he made the boat a pulpit He made the lake an auditorium. He made the shore a congregation. Our faith is fed by teaching. Faith first, miracle second. Signs and wonders, follow the teaching of the Word. Yes.

We have these so-called miracle ministries today, and it's all about the miracles, and not about the word. Not about the small acts of obedience leading up to it either. That's right. So, you know, this was a test for Peter. doctor this this this was a new revelation for me today this was a test for peter could he sit still in his boat while jesus used it to teach the word do you know how hard that was for peter peter was a man of action

this he he he was a strong man not yes physically strong but his spirit was strong he was a strong guy for him to sit still in his own boat while this rabbi rabbi jesus is using it peter had to sit there and probably bite his tongue it's like peter wanted to take charge. Okay, Jesus, that's enough. I got things to do. But he didn't. He sat there and he listened. So faith learns patience. Amen. Waiting while Christ teaches others before working a miracle for you. Amen. Oh. That's a keeper. Faith works patience. We wait. while Christ teaches other people before he works a miracle for you. What Peter had to learn was faith and discipleship begins not with action because Peter knew action.

It starts with sitting under the teaching of Christ's word. Amen. Adam Clark The little act of thrusting out the boat was the beginning of Peter's obedience Great things spring from small obedience Charles Bridges Christ sat and taught from the boat

How often he makes use of our humble means For his glory Faith must yield from readily Faith must yield them readily to his service Alexander McLaren Christ first borrows Peter's boat before he calls him

the master still ask us to thrust out a little that he may teach the multitudes that's an important revelation Jesus asked Peter for his business before he asks him for his soul

look at how this worked out peter showed up i mean christ showed up in peter's life and says i need to use your business tools and you know this wasn't jesus's first encounter with peter no according to john chapter one uh Andrew Peter's brother who'd been a disciple of John the Baptist brought Peter to Jesus and said hey this is the Messiah this is this is the one we've been looking for and that's when Jesus said you shall be called Cephas and so he had had that encounter before and Jesus had called him at that time but yes for whatever reason Peter didn't follow went back to the boat went back to fishing. And that's what Jesus makes this encounter right now. That's right. Well, Doc, it's after the hour, so I'm going to stop at verse four, and we'll pick this up next week.

And because we could go another hour with this lesson. We still need to go to the Lord's supper. And so we'll start, we'll finish boat faith on this lesson from Luke five. We'll finish it next week right one other thing in here that intrigued me last night and I just I don't know how we ended up studying the same thing last night

and the Holy Spirit I guess is what happened between verses 3 and 4 because it said Jesus taught the people out of the ship and then verse 4 says now when he had left speaking and it doesn't say what Jesus taught on

doesn't list his sermon, doesn't list his message, didn't leave any notes or anything about what Jesus taught from the ship. What God considered more important in this story was what was happening with Peter than it was what Jesus taught between verses three and four. Now think about that. We have no idea what he taught. Nothing.

But it was enough to make Peter push the bow down. even further and throw the net out and folks i just i just realized i didn't tell you that we were studying luke five today so but the holy spirit told you the holy spirit told you so that's good praise god all right ladies gentlemen uh as rick mentioned we are uh preparing our hearts and minds for the lord's supper holy communion and it's always a privilege to enter into the words table because what it does, once again, is it allows us to come together as a body of believers. Okay. In this, especially in Western Christianity, we're kind of, we don't really believe in community too much.

We all have a philosophy that we all are kind of on our own, that we're independent. It's that American spirit, you know, you work out your own salvation, you know, things like that. that we're kind of on our own. But Scripture teaches something very, very different in that we are part of a community, and particularly a global community of believers. And there are two events in our lives that unite us all as believers. Baptism and the Lord's Table. It's something every believer participates in.

they participate in baptism if they're being obedient to scripture they participate in baptism and they participate in the lord's supper and that identifies us as family as community and that's why we put a priority on the lord's table the holy communion is because we recognize that we don't stand alone we're not by ourselves i like to say you know we're not the lone ranger because even the lone ranger had tonto okay we even the lone ranger wasn't alone and so we need to break out of that mindset at times that we're out here by ourselves no we're connected this family i'm connected to rick rick is connected to harmony harmony's connected to bob we're connected by a common death barrier on resurrection and water and a common table of fellowship with the bread and the

one. And so when we enter into the Lord's table, we're saying we're family. You know how it is whenever you have a special occasion or a holiday and all the family comes over. What do they do? They gather around the table for a common meal. This is our common meal. This is how we gather. This is what family does. They gather around the table and celebrate the memorial of what God has done in our lives. And so before we enter into the Lord's table, we'll pray a prayer blessing on the elements of communion. But generally before we do that, we ask the Lord to search our hearts, to see and to search out those things in our life where we fall short. And we all do. Every one of us does in one way or another, either through sins of commission or sins

of omission. That's not an excuse to sin, but it is an excuse to sin. But it is an excuse to to receive forgiveness for sin. Amen. And so that's what we're going to do right now. I'm going to ask Rick, if you would, to pray for us that everything is clear between us and heaven right now, that our minds are clear, that our hands are clean, our spirits are ready to receive the fellowship of His communion. And so, Rick, would you pray for us that the Lord would search our hearts to make sure that all things are all right? between us and heaven right now. Would you pray for us?

Yes, Father God. Father, we come to you with humble hearts to receive the flesh and blood of your son as we partake the bread and wine. And before we do so, Father, we ask that you search our hearts. And Father, that we would reveal to us anything that we have done wrong or not done right in the past week, things that we've said, things that we've thought that are not pleasing to you,

not acceptable to you. We repent. We humbly turn from all things, all thoughts, all deeds, all motives that are not pleasing to you, Father. Cleanse us, wash us in the blood of Jesus Christ, that we would be worthy to come to his table. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Amen. And I just felt prompting in my spirit right now. Someone out there that's watching or listening right now, either live or recorded,

Satan's whispering to you right now, you're not worthy of the Lord's table. You don't need to do this and trying to throw guilt on you. Well, I'll just say something to you. You're not worthy. You're absolutely not worthy. You are not worthy of the bread or the cup. I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy of it.

And yet Jesus said that he died for me and forgave me. If I confess my sins, he's faithful in just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So I want to say to you, my friend, you're forgiven and you're clean. You're forgiven and you're clean. I'll say it one more time. You're forgiven and you're clean. And if that's you, just receive it in the name of Jesus right now. you're forgiven and you're clean enter into the lord's table with confidence this morning we're

going to pray for the lord's blessing on the elements of the lord's table so if you'll pray with me please almighty god and your tender mercy you gave your only begotten son of jesus christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption he offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world and he instituted this remembrance of his passion and death which he commanded us to continue until he comes again and so father father we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and with your holy spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood christ our Passover lamb it's been sacrificed once for all upon the cross therefore let us keep the feast hallelujah on the night that he

was betrayed our Lord Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me thank you all the body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup, and when he'd given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me.

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who takes away the sins of the world, and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. The sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on Him by faith with Thanksgiving that Christ died. for you. Praise God. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Praise God. Do you feel better just participating in the Lord's table? I mean, just the act of it itself is an encouragement. It says, I'm connected to you. I'm not alone in this fight. God's involved, and I have brothers and sisters that are on the same page as me. They're going

through the same struggles as me they're learning to depend on jesus just like me that's what the words table is all about we're in this together we're in the same boat folks it's it's his meal his invitation his table his body his blood he's his body and his blood and he serves it he serves himself the host who serves the host who serves the host yes that's why i love him so much glory to god do you know that can do these things can you name anybody else who can do it i love him so much he's he's awesome he's just awesome praise god just think about it and dwell on it all day long how awesome he is right uh nathan had a question about community is it okay to use a

pancake for community bread yes it's okay you're all right you're okay in that okay that's right praise god glory to god what we the prophet asked for a pancake didn't he that's right so and a miracle happened that's right praise the lord well it's been a great week here on morning manna we started off the week really strong and it and we just kept that pace up all this week in morning manna and today's lesson is no exception of that and we're just getting started in this particular uh story uh with peter and with jesus and the ship here in luke chapter five will continue this next friday there's a lot more uh there this is a gold mine of information about faith here in luke chapter five and we we just found a couple nuggets wait till we hit

the vein later on again this chapter Praise God. Amen. All right, Rick, any words of encouragement as we end today's Faith Friday and look forward to this coming weekend? I just, I want to tease and encourage you. I can't go into details, but I'll just, I just want you to know that we are working on incredible rebuilding, revamping of our platform. It will be available, God willing, it will be available in January.

And you are going to be amazed at what's under construction. Amen. And we're doing it for you. That's right. We're doing it for you for the glory of God to bring you more word. And I realize that this year's been a year of great change in this ministry. And for those of you who are with us on a regular basis, thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for your partnership.

Thank you for your gifts of love and prayer. and we really appreciate you're about to see the results of those prayers and that faithfulness pay off in a big way we are really working hard toward doing something new and so it's very very exciting and it's going to build on what we've done in the past but we're not going to be beholden to the past we're looking forward to what God has in store for us for the future Rick, if I could just briefly let folks know, we still, you know, we're in the first week of release of Megafire here, folks. And so what is Megafire? Well, if you don't know what it is, it's Rick's latest book talking about America's next fourth turning crisis.

And before we got started today, Rick and I were just talking about some news events that are happening around the world right now, and decisions that are being made and comments that are being made, that it, It's becoming more and more apparent that there is a stage being set for a global conflict that is going to be taking place maybe even sooner than we can even imagine. And Megafire gives some insight in how you can watch for the trends and the cycles and the patterns that are apparent in the new cycle, in the weather cycle, just in the general cycles of man. This is, I would say this is not a prophetic book, more as it is, a book that reveals patterns and cycles that God established right from the very beginning. We cannot escape these patterns and cycles. We might disrupt them slightly, but they will come to pass.

Megafire, Rick's latest book, America's next fourth turning crisis, you can get it at megafire. dot world. That's www. megafire dot world. W-O-O-R-D world dot world. And it's actually a web extension nowadays, folks. That's great. Thank you. What I told

this morning as I came in the office, I'm concerned by what I heard this morning on Sirius X-M listening as I was driving in. I heard a discussion on a news channel about Ukraine and Russia and NATO like I told Doc I said I think they're going to speed this thing up you know

the timeline that I put in the book is several years out after that conversation today I thought they're powerful people and entities right now pushing this very day to accelerate the timeline to this war

and I'm talking about There are people that would like this war to be in early 2026. Now, get the book and use it as a way to talk to your friends and relatives and co-workers and just wake them up to what's happening. Right. And I know we don't talk about it very much, but we still participate with American Reserves. That's American Reserves.com. and I would encourage you to visit there here again if you've not made any personal preparation as far as food preparation items, things like that.

American Reserves has a wide variety of products that will help you get in preparation, but I'm telling you, there's something big that's coming in the first half of 2026, maybe the first quarter, and now the way things are speeding up, may even, there may be trigger events that happen before the end of the year. That's right. So I would encourage you, not only to get megafire at megafire.world, but also, if you haven't done so in a long time, visit Americanreserves.com, just ask a question, are you ready? Are you ready?

And so not out of fear or anything like that, but out of faith in preparation, knowing that you see the patterns in the world around you, are you prepared for the change? that will take place there's no doubt that changes are going to take place no doubt and some of these changes are going to be so radical and and that will turn the world upside down and it could be happening faster than you can't imagine amen that's right and by the way nigafar is available on American reserves that's right it sure is and get in here also okay everybody enjoy your weekend spend time with the Lord

cut out some time just to be quiet with him and let him speak to you learn to just enjoy being in his presence let him in your boat okay everybody we'll see you on Monday