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The Peace Speaker<\/h3>\n
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Have you ever been sound asleep, resting and relaxing, and suddenly, you hear a noise that startles you?\u00a0 Your heart begins to beat fast, and that anxious feeling comes over you instantly.\u00a0 Your sleep is interrupted, and your peace has been disturbed.<\/p>\n

This is a terrible feeling.<\/p>\n

I often think of the disciples on the Sea of Galilee in the middle of the night.\u00a0 Life was good.\u00a0 Maybe a gentle breeze blew, and they were resting from a long day of ministry. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the winds began to blow, and the boat began to rock as the waves started crashing into the vessel.\u00a0 They were taking on water, and the boat was at risk of being destroyed!\u00a0 They were in danger!\u00a0 Their peaceful night had been threatened by worry and fear.\u00a0 They were anxious, unsettled, and caught unaware.\u00a0 What was going to happen to them?\u00a0 Would they make it safely to land?\u00a0 Would they get through this storm in one piece? Would they drown?\u00a0 So many questions and not one answer at that moment!\u00a0 Their peace had been disturbed.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the chaos, the disciples remembered Jesus. They needed His help!\u00a0 Didn\u2019t He care that they were in a desperate situation?\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t He concerned that they may perish?\u00a0 Why wasn\u2019t He coming to their rescue?\u00a0 Was He going to let them die?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure all these questions went through the minds of the disciples that night when they were fighting for their lives in the dark of the night, in the middle of the unknown.<\/p>\n

Where was Jesus?\u00a0 As they began to search the boat, wondering where their Savior was, they finally found Him!\u00a0 He was sleeping like a baby in the bottom of the boat.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t worried.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t frightened.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t caught unaware.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t panic.\u00a0 He woke up, spoke to the fierce winds and waves, and commanded them to be still. It was at that moment that the wind ran out of breath!\u00a0 Their peace that was disturbed was now in control and every fear vanished.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to judge the disciples and wonder how they could have been so frightened and anxious when the commander of the storm was physically with them on the boat.\u00a0 I have been guilty of that myself.\u00a0 When I find myself criticizing them, I remember that I, too, have had storms arise in my life.\u00a0 I have been caught unaware and totally off guard.\u00a0 In those moments, fear began to overtake me, and worry started creeping in.\u00a0 I have cried out to the Lord, \u201cWhere are you? Have you forgotten me?\u00a0 Do you care that I am drowning in anxiety?\u201d.\u00a0 Then, I realize He patiently waits for me to look to Him.\u00a0 Every single time, I find Him, ready to come to my rescue.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in life, storms will come. Sometimes, we are expecting them, and many times, they catch us unaware. One thing we can be sure of is that we can always find Jesus in the middle of the wind and waves, ready to save us.<\/p>\n

May we always be reminded not to put more confidence in the storm than in the one who controls it?\u00a0 When we call out to Him, He will rebuke the rain and take the breath out of the wind. He is faithful to safely lead us through every storm that we are prepared for and the ones that take us by surprise.\u00a0 He is our peace speaker!<\/p>\n

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Tammy was born in Princeton, WV, and spent her early years attending the First Pentecostal Holiness Church.\u00a0 She was saved at the age of 7 at a youth camp in Glenwood, WV. Called into youth ministry as a teenager, Tammy spent much of her early ministry years as a youth\/teen pastor. Together with her husband of 34 years, Todd, she received her minister\u2019s license from the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in 2002. Tammy and Todd began co-pastoring Life Changers Christian Center in Wytheville in 2010.<\/p>\n

Tammy has served as Women\u2019s Ministries Director for the Appalachian Conference since 2020. She also has the honor of serving on the General Women\u2019s Ministry team under Director Whitney Davis. Tammy and Todd have one daughter, Montana, a son-in-law, Chad, and three grandchildren, Lucas, Hazel, and Liam. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and close friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,37],"tags":[1533,1404,16,1031,1350,1057,1482,1539,925,69,1540,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-10540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discipleship-ministries","8":"category-general","9":"category-womens-ministries","10":"tag-1533","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-discipleship","13":"tag-discipleship-ministries","14":"tag-iphc-women","15":"tag-iphc-womens-ministries","16":"tag-q3","17":"tag-tammy-porter","18":"tag-whitney-davis","19":"tag-women","20":"tag-womens-council","21":"tag-womens-ministries-2","22":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"Tammy Porter","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/08\/Womens-Q324.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T9u2-2K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}