Around 15 my interest in religion peaked when I did my GCSE Religious Studies exams. After I left school at 16 I started to pray for a miracle from God. I met some youths outside who were in their late teens and they told me that they were going as a group to walk on water. I was surprised that people did this having read about it in the Bible. They believed that they could do it, walk on water. It ignited me to start praying for a miracle from God of my own. God didn’t give me this miracle, but he gave me something else during this time of my life for free which was the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I believe that I can walk on water today only if Jesus wanted me to. I will always remember that story that group of young people told me at 16 that they believed that they could walk on water.
Peter became fearful when walking on the water when the wind encased around him and Jesus said Peter faltered because he had doubt in his mind (Matthew 14 22:32).
Even if you don’t believe in walking on water, try aiming a bit lower in faith if you need to in your life and that will suffice for you.
I like the quote from below from a church service I attended in person-
"God tells us that he's with us righteously in moments of trouble and through the storm of life. When we strongly feel doubt and fear, when we feel that we make mistakes, and when everything around us seems dark, we should not be ashamed to cry out to God."
(Matthew 14 28:29)
“ And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.”
Quote attributed to St. Teresa of Avila:
‘Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours’.
