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Glory to Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters!
Today, we have heard with you the Holy Gospel of Matthew (Matthew, XIV:22-34), where Jesus sent his apostles to swim across the lake of Galilee on the other side. He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray because He liked to be alone in order to pray, to contemplate God, to become spiritually strong, to be able to contact with people again and bring them new strength from the above. He made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them. And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, It is a ghost! and they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."
Then Peter was such inspired that said: answered him: "Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water." Jesus said: "Come". So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out: "Lord, save me". Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him: "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
Do we need to walk on the water? It is not necessary. But at that time the Lord was able to go on the water for this parable and this event of his life remained for us as lesson. Apostle Peter was always inspired sincerely, before all other apostles. He promised not to betray the Lord, but he betrayed Him: he denied Him three times, before the cock crowed (Luke, XXII:60-61). He was quick-tempered. And he saw Jesus again, his soul was inspired again, and he said: Command me to come to you. It is like with every person who is inspired by the faith in God and by the desire to follow him. And this person goes, and goes well at the beginning, we look and think "What a devotee is with us, how sincere he help the Patriarch. But then the difficulties of life happen, he is afraid and goes down. Immediately he desponds, and he stop to save.
As we get on the path of salvation, it is like to go by on the water. And when we pay attention to the problems we will sink. We should try not to pay attention to those problems, but remember with who we are. We are with God. And we should remember: when there will be a necessity, then we will go on the water, fly by air, when there is the God's will, if we are with Him. Do you understand? If we were born, then we have already undertaken the way of trials. We have no another choice except the trials that each soul has that came to this earth. The person should be ready to all these trials. And if a person does everything with Lord, I can do all things with your help. You will help me to be tolerant; do not be afraid of this world, not afraid of difficulties. God, help me to sustain this loss, I now have in my life - the loss of the relatives. God, please, heal my wounds. Help me, God- you contact Him with the request and love. And you will see how God will give you His hand. Look at God. St. Peter looked at Jesus and followed Him. Is it right?
When you read the Gospel, the proverbs of Solomon, look at the image of God. Look at God and you will not sink. But when you just look away - there will be a wave. Do you need those waves? Political or economic, some waves that will go against you? The devil will do the family waves against you. So here you can doubt, you can be afraid - and then begin to sink. You see? But if we sink, we have to shout to the Lord, like Peter. Take an example of him: Lord, save me, or I will sink. The Lord then will give you His hand in a difficult moment of your spiritual condition and say, Why did you doubt? And you will go with Him, with Jesus, in a boat where you calm down.
So the Apostle Peter walked with Jesus to the boat. A boat is salvation. You cannot sink there. And storm stopped, because there is no storm in the Kingdom of Heaven, while it is the Kingdom of Perfection. This is the Galaxy of Perfection. Earth - is the most primitive way to improve the human soul. There is good and evil. Here on the earth, we learn an alphabet and further the difficult sciences with the help of which the God created this universe, the energy, and all this harmony. Therefore we should look at God and go with him not paying attention to any difficulties that occur in your lives. You should not imagine a lot in your mind and dreams, which we want to have a house or even more, because not everything is given to us. The less we imagine, the less we are disappointed.
We have to direct every moment of our life in such a way, that it will be acceptable before God and useful for your soul. If a person will go and look always to God, he/she will always be calm and have comfort inside. But when the person breaks the laws, it will be uncomfortable, it will be bad for him/her, and the person will sink in the ocean of vanity and exams. This is an example from the life of Jesus when He walked by water, He showed us that we do not need to walk by water, but you have to take a lesson from this - all things are possible to those who believe and go after Him, the Creator of Universe. And then God is with us and we are with Him. And we do not sink in the waves of our life.
The world is now full of wars and murders. We see that the wars take place in different part of the earth. The world is filled with evil; the earth is hardly endures to the evil. Jews exploded oil storage near Libya, and this oil is melted away to the Black Sea. It already comes to Turkey, to Greece, who knows, it may come to Ukraine. Rare animals and fish are dying. We can see that God takes the fourth seal, and death comes, and it goes across the earth and the death hit the ground, and the third part of the earth disappeared, and the third part of all living things died.
And we see that it takes place constantly: air is polluted by the factories, cars. The same is with water and the Earth. We search something ecologically clean, to eat, because we know: if you eat the food with pesticides, you will get to hospital.
The world goes to the end. The world is now much shattered. But if we are with God - we are in a quiet grace. And if we enter these waves - we will be as the icebreaker, which comes to the point of destination. So we'll go quietly despite the difficulties: Thank you, God, for such difficulties. You`ve broken the finger: Thank you, God, that I have not broken two fingers, but only one. The wasp has bitten you: Thank you, God, that it was not the snake. You were bitten by a snake: Thank you, God that I was bitten by a snake. And the poison is neutralized and you are healthy again, as Apostle Peter (Acts, XXVIII: 3-6). And the Lord said that when you believe in Him, the snake will bite you but nothing happen to you. If we are acceptable before God, we will live as long as it is necessary. When our time is out, it will end, even if we do not want it. However we should take care of what we eat, drink, of our lifestyle. So, we should leave as Jesus said us. Look at Him, believe in Him and go directly after Him. And we do all these with you.
We believe in good future, we believe that the Lord will build His church and will build it for Ukraine and for the whole world. We believe in this because we have a revelation about it. We have good positive revelations. We must believe in them and advance for God to see the people for whom He has created this land, for whom He soothes all those passions, for whom He will build a great boat that will hold very well on the waves of the sea of life.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
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Apostle (1 Corinthians, 3:9-17):
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9 For we are co-workers in God's service; you are God's
field, God's building.
10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a
wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build
with care.
11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one
already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver,
costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day
will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will
test the quality of each person's work.
14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a
reward.
15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet
will be saved--even though only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and
that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?
17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that
person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
Gospel (Matthew, 14:22-34):
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22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and
go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside
by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone,
24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land,
buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the
lake.
26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were
terrified.
"It's a ghost," they said, and cried out in fear.
27 But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is
I. Don't be afraid."
28 "Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you
on the water."
29 "Come," he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat,
walked on the water and came toward Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to
sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.
"You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
32 And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.
33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying,
"Truly you are the Son of God."
34 When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret.
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