{"id":10067,"date":"2019-05-08T05:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2019-05-08T05:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:15:50","slug":"rescued-by-the-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10067","title":{"rendered":"Rescued by the AMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By now, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard about the rescue of two Florida teens in St. Augustine when the ocean\u2019s strong currents pulled them two miles away from shore. Their faith in \u201cGod saves\u201d was reassured when the captain of the yacht called \u201cAmen\u201d spotted them in the water when he was simply scanning the ocean for waves through his binoculars and heard their cries for help. High school senior, Tyler Smith, said, \u201cWe were just going to swim out to a small island we saw in the inlet. We thought, \u2018That\u2019s not far\u2019. We\u2019re athletes. No problem. We\u2019re young teenagers. We don\u2019t think about currents or anything like that. We\u2019re like, \u2018oh we can do this easy\u2019, so we just swam out.\u201d

The pair were stranded in the ocean for two hours (without life jackets) and were losing hope as the waves became rougher and the red buoy they were relying on as a point of reference and potential safety mark became out of reach. Tyler\u2019s legs were cramping from swimming and treading water. Tyler said, \u201cI started crying out to God, please send something, please send someone or some miracle to save us because I still want to see my family again.\u201d That\u2019s when it felt like a miracle occurred for the teens as a yacht, the AMEN, emerged about 200 yards from the desperate pair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAt some point, it felt like it came out of nowhere. When I looked up I saw this big boat, I just had this feeling that I knew we were getting out of there,\u201d Heather Brown said. She waved a stick she found in the water and started screaming as loud as she could. The Captain of the boat said, \u201cOver the wind, waves, and engines, we thought we heard a desperate scream,\u201d and we saw them.\u201d Tyler said, recalling the memory, \u201c”From us crying out to God, for Him to send someone for us to keep living and a boat named ‘Amen,’ there’s no way that it wasn’t Him,” Tyler said.

Fear gripped the hearts of Christ\u2019s disciples when the storms, the winds, and the waves came to them on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus saw them from afar and walked on the water to save them. (Matthew 14:22-33). Though this happened over 2,000 years ago, it is still relevant to us today, and particularly to those who need to be rescued. Maybe you are one of those who is paralyzed by fear that grips your heart about what tomorrow holds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That same fear may also be gripping those who are about to give up because matters have gotten worse and they fear for the loss of their marriage or their job or from a debilitating habit or illness or relationship breakdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jesus still saves. Jesus \u2013 the same \u2013 yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8) has the ability and wants to come walking on the water into all of our lives. His grace. His love. His mercy. He\u2019s reaching out even now to RESCUE you and me from whatever fear or situation we are facing today. We’re crying out for help, Lord Jesus. As you are reaching out to us with your arms of love, we are reaching out to you. Jesus saves. AMEN!
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By now, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard about the rescue of two Florida teens in St. Augustine when the ocean\u2019s strong currents pulled them two miles away from shore. Their faith in \u201cGod saves\u201d was reassured when the captain of the yacht called \u201cAmen\u201d spotted them in the water when he was simply scanning the ocean…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13009],"tags":[13019,13013,13015,13020,13011,4915,13022,5447,13017,13012,13021,5122,7762,12064,13014,13010,13018,13016,12087],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rescued","tag-amen","tag-athletes","tag-buoy","tag-crying-out-to-god","tag-current","tag-florida","tag-god-saves","tag-ocean","tag-point-of-reference","tag-rescued","tag-scream","tag-sea-of-galilee","tag-stranded","tag-swim","tag-teenagers","tag-teens","tag-waved-a-stick","tag-waves","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}