Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
O soul are you weary and troubled
No light in the darkness you see
There’s light for a look at the Savior
And life more abundant and free

Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth
Will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace

When Peter got out of the boat he walked toward Jesus. No big deal right? Only the boat was not in the parking lot, it was in the middle of the lake. Peter and Jesus were both walking on the water! Peter had his eyes turned upon Jesus. But as soon as Peter took his eyes off of Jesus and looked at the storm around him he began to sink. You and I live in a world with many storms. For some folks it seems like it is one storm after another. I want to encourage you this morning to Turn your eyes upon Jesus and look full in His wonderful face. And then the storms of this life will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

Peter cried out, “Save me, Lord”. Jesus reached out and grabbed him. Jesus did not make the storm stop right away. The Bible says, Matthew 14:32, “When they climbed back into the boat, the wind stopped”.
We want the storm to stop right away. Jesus wants to “grab us” in the midst of our storms. Let him reach out and save you this morning no matter what you are going through. It does not mean the storm will stop it just means that Jesus has a hold of you.
Our songs for this morning, Sunday February 19, 2012 start out with a celebration of our mighty God. Then we turn our eyes to reflect on Jesus.
We will start out with Bless the Lord, Mighty is Our God, Great and Mighty is He and He is the King of Glory! Then we will sing about our belief in The Savior. I Believe in Jesus and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
The choir will tell the Gospel story with In Christ Alone and the Ensemble will reassure us that God is “Nothin’ But Good” English teachers, you will have to allow for poetic license with this song as the grammar is not quite correct but the message is true!
He ain’t never been nothin’ but good.
When life’s hard as it can be
When blessing after blessing doesn’t seem
To keep following me
I still rejoice in Him
And praise His holy name
‘Cause who He was He is
And what He did He does
I’m standing on His Word
Trusting Him because
The Lord has never been nothin’
Nothin’ but good
And everything that is
It is because He was
And all we really need
He’s given unto us
I know without a doubt
Things will work out like they should

Yesterday today forever
He’s still the same