Michigan Conference Campmeeting 2021: How Much More?

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Hungering for More of HIM

Gem Castor

01 Give Him Praise

02 Powerless

03 Our Part to Play

04 Lessons in the Storm

05 Give Him Back the Throne

06 That They All May Be One

07 Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

08 No Regrets

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2021 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Our dear God, our loving Heavenly Father, Lord, we praise you and we thank you that you desire for us to have a sweet, sweet life, to have a sweeter walk with you.

And Lord, we ask for forgiveness for the moments that we have not taken you at your word.

And help us, Lord, may our eyes be fixed upon you.

And today, dear Father, as we kneel before your presence, may our hearts be ready to receive you.

Dear Lord, 1 more request that you please hide me behind your cross.

That I may not be seen or be heard, but Jesus and Jesus alone be seen, be heard, be lifted up and exalted.

Yes, Lord, we ask and we pray that you please pour upon us a full measure of your Spirit.

We pray all this In the loving and precious name of your son Jesus, all your children say, Amen.

So question, why should we take God at His word?

Why life would be sweeter if we trust in Jesus?

These are 1 of the many reasons why we should take God at His word.

Psalms 33 verse 6, The Word of the Lord has power.

So, taking power, taking the Word seriously, surely will bring sweetness in your life.

Verse 39, Friends, there's such so many beautiful lessons that we could learn from those people who have followed God, who have listened to His words, and for those who have not taken His word seriously.

And I'll talk about, and this is 1 amazing thing when you are already preaching to the choir, you already know the story.

So I'll just have to remind you about those stories.

Remember the disciples after the feeding of the 5, 000 and remember the leaders of that group were thinking, this is the time that Jesus should be crowned as king.

And the disciples were thinking, yes, this is what we have been dreaming about.

And when Jesus stopped them, all the frustration in the disciples' heart just boiled up.

And they were not so happy that Jesus did not grant them of their desires.

And friends, does that sound familiar in our lives?

Then when things do not go our way, we get frustrated.

We get down, not realizing most of the time that this is not God's way.

And if the disciples only listened to Jesus clearly, but friends, they were not listening to every word of his voice, because they have a voice in their hearts that they want to follow.

And as a result, life was not sweet to them.

And this is the thought from Desire of Ages.

Desire of Ages, page 380, paragraph 1, it says, Thus the disciples reasoned until they brought upon themselves great spiritual darkness.

Friends, remember when they were asked to ride that little boat across the sea?

They were somehow dwelling on that frustration, on the thing that Jesus did not allow them to have.

And it says here, they questioned, could Jesus be an imposter as the Pharisees asserted?

I did not even know that this is 1 of their questions.

The disciples that have been following Jesus for more than 3 years even questioned Him.

Because they were not taking Him at His word.

And this is 1 thing that I realized, friends.

There's a lot of times that I have questioned God when He did not allow me to enjoy what I wanted.

When our plans don't go God's way, then we point a finger on Him and the sweetness of life just goes away.

The problem is we don't ask His plans for us.

We only present our plans to Him and then ask for His blessings.

Sometimes we forget that God knows better than we do.

And sometimes we forget, friends, that He is God and not us.

Sometimes we forget that He's the 1 in charge and not us.

It says, their thoughts were stormy and unreasonable and the Lord gave them something else to afflict their souls and occupy their minds.

God often does this when men create burdens and trouble for themselves.

It says, A violent tempest had been stealing upon them, and they were unprepared for it.

Why were they unprepared for it, my dear brothers and sisters?

Because they did not dwell on the words of Jesus.

They were thinking only about what they want to do, what ambitions that they have.

And when the storm hit them, they were unprepared.

My dear friends, does that sound familiar?

2020 is a good reminder for us of that, huh?

But God had been desiring to prepare His church, to prepare you, to prepare me.

But since we have not been Heeding his voice, desiring what he desires for us.

It says here, when the violent storm hit them, they forgot their dissatisfaction, their unbelief, and their impatience.

Sometimes we don't see the blessings in the storm.

The storm was allowed to somehow wash them with their dissatisfaction, their unbelief and their impatience.

Friends, I believe that a storm is needed to shake us out of our wrong course, that we may see where God desires to lead us.

So, can you say that what happened in 2020 is a blessing for us?

Friends, it says here, when the storm hit them, everyone worked to keep the boat from sinking.

Everyone, Everyone worked to keep the boat from sinking.

Remember, these disciples were very, very much undivided.

They were Somehow contesting who's the greatest.

This is the only thing here that I see in the story that made them all 1.

And until the fourth hour watch of the night, they toiled at the oars.

Then the weary men gave themselves up for loss.

They were thinking, this will be the last moment that I see my bodies here.

This will be the last time that I'll see my brother.

In the storm and darkness, the sea had taught them their own helplessness.

And 1 of those things is that we are helpless without God.

And when they realize their helplessness, they long for the presence of their master.

When they realize their helplessness, they long for the presence of their master.

Just imagine friends, how many prayers were offered during COVID.

And in Revival Reformation website, Sister Melody told me that in just that month alone, there were like 100 plus thousand materials have been downloaded.

Series

Hungering for More of HIM

04 Lessons in the Storm

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Hungering for More of HIM

01 Give Him Praise

37m

Hungering for More of HIM

06 That They All May Be One

43m

A Thoughtful Hour

A Thoughtful Hour- Part 5

1h 16m

Plenary

Shields of Brass

1h 14m

Hungering for More of HIM

05 Give Him Back the Throne

41m

Evening Plenary

05 Joyful Christianity: An Attitude of Thanksgiving

1h 10m

Prayer

04 Prayer

53m

Life With the Spirit

I Want to See Jesus

1h 4m

Plenary

Under His Wings

1h

GYC SE 2011 Plenary Meetings

Surrender

1h

Let God Do the Working

1h 22m

You Can Love Again

2 - Martha Salvages Bill

57m

Sound Doctrine