The Power of Crying Out - Bill Gothard

God allows times of crisis into our lives to remind us of our human weakness and His divine power. He wants us to cry out to Him for His supernatural work.

The more things look hopeless, the greater the possibility of God's intervention in answer to our cry, because He gets greater glory. Again and again in Scripture, the miracles of God occur in circumstances of human hopelessness.

On that evening when the wind and the waves so terrified the disciples in their boat, it's amazing that Jesus didn't rise up on His own and calm the storm at once, but instead waited until the disciples cried out for help. This is the Lord's pattern and program to keep us in close fellowship with Him and His power. He knows we don't do well with ease and prosperity. We try to become independent and live as if we don't need God.