 there is a reason to be afraid but you have greater reasons not to be afraid there are reasons to be scared to be worried there are reasons right now to honestly to fall into depression and despair there are reasons to feel rejected and to feel isolated there are reasons and if you will look for them right now there are plenty of them but there are reasons not to be and you have a decision which reason are you going to take into consideration today the angel of the Lord comes to Paul and reminds him Paul you belong to me Paul you're serving alongside with me and as the angel of God I was sent to serve you and I want to tell you something Paul don't be afraid you must be brought to Caesar meaning where you are headed to you're gonna get there the vision that you have it will come true yes this ship is not gonna make it to Rome but Paul you are gonna make it to Rome you must you will see the things you believe for Paul you will see your family serving God you will see healing you will see breakthrough you will you must be in front of Caesar in Rome therefore this ship is gonna die this ship is gonna crash but Paul you're gonna still get to your destination Paul you must be in Rome book of Romans must be written Paul that her books need to be written to other places you must be in Rome this is not gonna end here Paul I'm an angel of the Lord and you belong to me and I'm reminding you if I brought you to this I'll get you through it you will be there the only thing is that where you headed to you're not gonna get how you intended to you plan that this ship this little comfortable thing that you had going this job this idea of how you're gonna get the Paul unfortunately that is gonna fall away but I'm gonna remind you you are still going to be in Rome sometimes we're so attached to a ship sometimes we're so attached to our ideas of how things need to be turned out and how things will be that honestly when things are shaken from under us we feel like our dream our vision and the promises of God are gone but remember God's promise is never connected to your ship it's connected to God and therefore even if your ship disappears God says listen I you belong to me and if I gave you a promise I am with you and the angel of God does not need the ship to get me to Rome my God even if your idea your dream begins to fall apart please understand God's promise for your life will still happen you must be brought to Caesar indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you you have a reason to be afraid you have a reason to feel down but you have a greater reason not to be you belong to an angel of the Lord you belong there is an angel of God who encamps around those who fear God this angel is assigned to you right now not only the spirit of God lives in you not only God is your father not only you were called by God to be his son and his daughter but right now the Bible says is that the angel of the Lord who does not need a ship to move from point A to point B and he came to Paul and I believe he's coming to you and he says fear not I belong to you you belong to me and you will get to Rome but differently the ship will make the wrong that business might might not make the wrong that that idea of how your family and how your finances and how your marriage is going to be that idea might not make it but please understand can God offend you on your methods and still get you to your destiny and you're not gonna get offended can we give God the right to get us to Rome through a different means and not get attached to the things that got us to this place I have a reason to be afraid but I have a greater reason not to be afraid and I choose the greater reasons father I just thank you right now for your presence holy spirit I thank you that your angels are encamping around those who fear you Lord I thank you that you are saying that to me today and you're saying that to every person when your idea falls apart of how things were supposed to happen this year you will still stand before Caesar you will still reach your destination it might be longer it might be true detours it might be through different paths but you will still get to that place says the Lord and I want to see what happens next when Paul is encouraged not to be afraid the Bible says in chapter 28 of verse 10 they honored us in many ways and when we departed they provided such things as were necessary after three months we sailed in Alexandrian ship whose figurehead was the twin brothers which had wintered at the island if you take your notes I want to highlight a second truth from this if you lose your ship you will not drown if you lose your ship you will not drown in here it says and I skip that part where the ship actually fell apart that whole ship that they were on was broken into pieces but they did not die in fact God granted every person to Paul and nobody died everybody survived everybody made it on the island few months later after they were provided by the people on the island they no longer had the provisions of the ship they no longer had the provisions that they had on this boat but instead these natives provided for them they treated them kindly and the scripture says is after a few months there was a ship parked on the island it was Alexandrian ship with some kind of a head with the twin brother head and the Bible says is this ship was given to Paul and was given to the captain and to the rest of the people to get back to where they were supposed to go this ship represents your finances this ship represents our jobs this ship represents a safety of our job now for some of us today this ship is being tossed but it's safe but there is a majority of American people that are watching me right now that your ship is being broken in fact in the next week or something it will be completely broken and it's gonna get worse before it's gonna get better and when your job fails you must you must have this revelation right now your God doesn't God is Jehovah and him being Jehovah he doesn't need the job to be Jehovah he is Jehovah when you have a job or when you got unemployed and here it says that Paul no longer was provided from the ship but the islanders provide maybe the unemployment check will become your island maybe somebody else will become your island for the next few weeks or even next few months maybe something else but God promises to Paul and God promises to you that not only that we will survive without a ship but there is a new ship that is already parked at the island that God is gonna give us access to as some of you you will go to a new season in your business you will go to a new season in your finances and that you will go through a very difficult time maybe in next few months as people are gonna seek less to do less of business they're gonna try to buy less they're gonna try to really reserve and the businesses that they will struggle for the next few months but we must understand in these three months they were still provided by the people on the island and the scripture says they got a new ship get ready because even if this ship fails God has an Alexandrian ship he has a different one he has a different job for you why because he is Jehovah Jaira and he will still provide even if the job does not if my resource my job stops my source is faithful you know one of the ways I also receive compensation is through travels is when I travel and so now that everything is closed down you know and I said Lord I trust you for the things that I have which is some commitments that me and my wife has made to give each month that will be very difficult to keep some of these commitments but I said Lord I trust you and in fact we're gonna take a step further and give our book for free because we get royalties from the Amazon and give our book for make the book available for free why because I never want to in my life connect God's provision to my job my job whether it's books whether it's even working at the church whether the other stuff that is a resource the God is the source and these are not just preacher words I live like this I want you to live like this that if the ship gets broken God still got you in the palm of his hand he will get you through but we have to keep one thing in mind in here it says that the natives provided for necessities not luxuries that means God's provision when the ship is gone is not in luxuries but in necessities and we cannot go in and start complaining because when we get used to luxuries luxuries are a lot of things that we had before this thing and right now when we are going through this if you have necessities and what is necessities a roof over your head food to eat a shelter a clothes to wear and the family to enjoy your time with if you have necessities you should thank God for that God's provision in the storm is not in luxuries but in necessities and you have to learn to thank God for just enough men in the wilderness yes in the promised land milk and honey in the but in the wilderness God's great provision is providing necessities necessities Elijah when the rain came down there is a great harvest and everything incredible but when the famine happened when the drought came a Bible says that the ravens came twice a day imagine Elijah had to skip lunch no three meals but he was that story is seen as a great miracle of God until you are in that story then you're like where's my lunch because see before the drought three meals is God's provision in the drought God's provision is necessities and God is looking Elijah he says you got a king belly you can get that little bit shaving off so I'll cut you to two meals your necessities is my provision please understand in the drought God's provision is not in luxuries but in necessities and therefore when you take that bread when you take that sandwich when you drink that tea when you eat that breakfast those pancakes those waffles rejoice in God thank God yes you cannot go to a restaurant yes taco trucks are closed yes other things are closed but at the same time when you have your necessities to say God I thank you why because you're providing for us you might say but it's not what we used to have because in drought in the storm God provides through necessities not luxuries to readjust our gratitude to readjust our faith because somebody say a man what I learned is there is a great reason to fear but there's a greater reason not to be afraid that even if the ship fails God will still get me through to my place that provision is not always in luxuries but provision is in necessities I want to share to those people right now who are not being affected by this storm or all and honestly me saying this you're like yeah yeah yeah somebody needs to hear this somebody needs to hear this I'm just so glad it's not me I have a word for you as well in 28 verse 2 it says the natives who were not affected by the storm watch this showed us unusual kindness natives the storm didn't affect them why they didn't live on a ship they lived on the island their financial structures were different their safety was different these other people they lived on the ship and therefore the storm wrecked them these people they had the savings account these people their business did not depend on all of this happening in fact they thrived in it the storm came they were not affected and they didn't stand on the island and they said well sucks to be you today well guys that's why we don't do ships that's why we live on the island yeah we saw that storm coming you guys all lost everything yeah sucks to be you man I'm so sorry the Bible did not say they just felt sorry for people who survived the storm they didn't say well these are not our family or members these are none of our people we don't know these people by the way the most of our criminals and they're going to Rome we don't like Rome so you can just hang out on the island but kids come let's close the doors and let's hide from these crazy people who just survived the storm that's not what natives did they showed unusual compassion unusual kindness how does that look like in this season if you come in contact with somebody who's suffering right now financially but you're not this is not a moment to close your heart this is the moment to look at what you have extra and say how can I show unusual kindness not just how can I send a text message say I'm praying for you but they don't need a prayer they need food but to say hey I'm sending some food to your house hey I'm gonna help help you with this show unusual kindness if this storm did not affect you some people truly need prayer they don't need food some people truly need somebody to zoom them in or FaceTime them or go on a Google hang out and just spend 30 minutes just encourage them say hey I'm here for you I'm here with you I know you're going through a very difficult time you're alone over there some people need that kindness and we need to ask the Holy Spirit to show in which way that kindness need to be shown but I invite hungry gent family invite our staff our postoral team and our leadership team if you were not affected by this storm show unusual kindness let our city receive unusual kindness who are affected let the doctors the first responders the nurses the police officers that they care workers the people who are on the frontline let them experience from the natives unusual kindness who are coming in contact with this pandemic