Storm: Finding Joy Unspeakable

By King O'Bryan

An unexpected death, a job loss, a bad doctor's report, a wayward child...Now what? What do you do in situations like these? Who do you turn to? Can anyone fix the issue? Can anyone turn back the hands of time? Do you just accept defeat and mope around for the rest of your life? Do struggles ever really end? If there's such a "loving" God, why does He even allow people to suffer?

Several, if not all, of these questions have maybe once or twice popped inside of your head. But-unfortunately, there's many who replay these same questions over and over in their minds every single day. Where do the hurting and suffering turn to? It's not medicine. It's not drugs. It's not even family.

"Be still and know I'm God" (Psalms 46:10). That's what He said to me. In this degenerative world we live in, we continuously face trials and disappointments. It's hard to even understand why a loving God would even allow us to have such devastating experiences.

In Storm, King O'Bryan reveals how he found the most loving, understanding, ever-present, compassionate God, Friend, Savior and Lord of the Storm. In his book, he reveals 39 inspirations he received during a storm that changed his life forever. These inspirations are designed to encourage and uplift you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: King O'Bryan
• Release date: Sep 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311329004

King O'Bryan

Occasionally, I feel a surge of energy to write, and I write. Masterpieces that will take the mind on an adventure through worlds of speculative and futuristic thought or spiritual and soulish inventory.I love to read and write. The Bible says, we were created in the image of God. Therefore, our words we speak and write carry power within them as our God merely SPOKE words and they created an entire world. That same creative genius was given to us and, by faith, we can move mountains or create whole other planets or universes with only using our words.We create fantasies and fulfill dreams with words. We create war and peace with words. We love and hate with words. We create and destroy with words. Truthfully, we all carry the most powerful possession/weapon this world could ever know-words. Be mindful how you use them! Words carry hidden power within them.

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Just as the Lord promises blessings, prosperity, and long life, He also promises persecution, dry seasons, and storms. The question is not a matter of if you go through a storm, but it’s when you go through a storm. Psalm 104:8 states, The mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You [God] appointed for them. So God has appointed every high place and every low place in your life. But, I want to encourage you that the Lord is not sending storms your way because He wants to punish you or to get back at you for your sin. He sends storms your way to make you better! As you go through this book, full of inspirations, I want you to be inspired that no matter what happens in your life the Lord works ALL THINGS for the good of those who love Him.

A few months back, the Lord taught me something that I like to call The Faith Cycle. I want you to realize that the more faith you have, the more problems you have. The enemy will recognize your potential and try his hardest to knock you off of your feet. My old youth pastor used to always say: New level, new devil. As the Lord takes you from glory to glory, the enemy is also working just as hard to take you from struggle to struggle. The devil knows that he can’t get you to just quit, so he tries to get you to negotiate. He’ll say Don’t do THIS, just do this. Not only the devil, but also the people that you thought were your friends will soon begin to turn on you. Your Yes to the radical call that God has placed on your life will convict them of their No to that same call.

So, essentially, you see this phenomenon at work: the more faith you have the more problems you have. 2 Corinthians 4:17 says Our light, momentary afflictions are ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of GLORY… (AMP). So, although the more faith you have the more problems you have, this tells us that the more problems you have the more glory that is being produced for you! So the more faith in your life, the more problems in your life, but the more problems in your life the more glory that will be in your life, this is the Faith Cycle.

The storms have a purpose in your life. Don’t neglect the intimacy of the storms. We all love to be taught by God when everything is just right. When it’s early in the morning with our cup of coffee and our worship music blasting. But friend, you will learn 100 times more inside of a storm than you would if everything was going smooth. Psalm 104:10 states, You [God] make water gush from springs into valleys. It flows between the mountains. Friends the water is inside the storms. The lessons, the experiences, and blessings are sometimes in between the mountaintops of your life.

King O'Bryan is my great friend, and I assure you that if anyone has gone through storms in their life it is him. So as you venture through this book, I encourage you to remember that no matter how much you go through in life, the Lord is always looking at you with a smile; and everything He does in your life is molding you, shaping you, and reconciling you back to Him.

Kelby Wardlow

Summer 2014

Introduction

On October 24, 2012, a situation happened in my life that was both life-changing and earth-shattering. The world and my personal, little bubble burst in my face leaving me to despair and to sink down to the depths in desperation. On the spiritual side of this and with God’s permission, I entered the Valley of the Shadows of Death, a realm of hell that manifests here on earth. For nearly two years of my life, I endured this experience. And an experience it was. For nearly the entire first month, on this Valley of Death journey, I was completely angry with God not understanding why and how He would orchestrate such a thing to happen to me. Although it took me some time to realize this: I was actually the main cause of my own fiasco that God was simply allowing to get my attention, which He was and will always be so jealous for.

Pride ate away at my core—my very being. But then, something awakened in me—I began to hear His voice as I encountered His presence in the Word. I ate the Word. I slept the Word. I dreamt the Word. I talked about the Word. I prayed the Word. I spoke the Word to others. The Word became my life. That is, Jesus became my life.

Storm: Finding Joy Unspeakable unveils 39 inspirations that I was granted by the Holy Spirit to receive during this experience. These inspirations are designed to encourage and uplift you. I do not believe the Father has allowed me to encounter Him in such a real way on this journey only for me to horde these revelations to myself. Jesus said,

No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a washtub or shoves it under the bed. No, you set it up on a lamp stand so those who enter the room can see their way. We’re not keeping secrets; we’re telling them. We’re not hiding things; we’re bringing everything out into the open. So be careful that you don’t become misers of what you hear.

(Luke 8:16-18 MSG, emphasis mine)

I have an obligation to you, my dear reader! I understand your struggle and storm that you’re facing; and I want you to know, you do not have to