"His Presence Over Circumstance"| Episode #86 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Six w/ Richie Breaux

Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book. 

In this episode, “His Presence Over Circumstance,” we dig into one of the most powerful truths when facing adversity: peace isn’t found in the absence of storms — it’s found in the presence of Jesus.

🛶 Whether you’re leading a business, guiding a family, or just trying to get through the day without breaking — this conversation reminds us that if the Builder of all things is in the boat with you, you’re not going down.

💡 In this episode, we unpack:
* Why peace isn’t about circumstances shifting, but about who’s with you in them
* How Jesus modeled calm in the chaos — sleeping on a cushion while the storm raged
* What it means to steward the moment with both childlike faith and adult responsibility
* Why your panic isn’t proof of failure — but an invitation to trust deeper
* How to stay anchored in God’s presence when life demands fast, high-pressure decisions

📖 “Be still.” — With three words, Jesus calmed the storm. But what He calmed first was the hearts of the disciples. This episode is a reminder that peace is possible even when the winds are loud and the waves are high.

🤍 If you’ve ever wondered how to stay grounded when life won’t slow down — this one’s for you. You don’t need perfect conditions to walk in peace. You just need to know who’s in the boat.

👇 Drop a comment: Have you ever felt God’s presence more clearly in the storm than outside of it?

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Chapters

• 0:00 No Luxury to Panic
• 0:44 True Peace Comes from Presence
• 1:19 Jesus Asleep in the Storm
• 3:00 Consistent Source of Peace

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

We didn't have the luxury to panic, and that's regarding regarding one of the stories in in the book. I don't know if you want to touch up on that, but the main thing is that that's crazy, because sometimes people can choose to panic, but because of your alertness to the situation, we didn't have time. To panic just means you got to move quick, right, and this is one of the aspects of responding to a storm. But can you elaborate on that?

Speaker 2: 0:44

Yeah. So naturally you need to get your physical body in a place of peace. And an absence of a storm, if I were to say anything, the absence of a storm isn't what creates peace, it's Jesus' presence, which I think the builder of all things presents. So you're thinking, how's that even practical? Well, it's not the absence of a storm that creates peace, it's the presence of the builder of all things. And so the storm a good example in the Bible that's very similar is there is disciples with Jesus. Jesus set the GPS, told them I use GPS, basically like the coordinates, saying hey, we're going to go across this body of water, let's get in the boat, we got somewhere to be. And if God sets the coordinates in your life, it gives you vision for your business. You're riding with builder of all things and you have them on your boat, meaning in your business, and you're operating with. You know, understanding, he's the owner and you're steward. That's why that part comes first. You're stewarding and he's on the boat with you.

Speaker 2: 1:44

If he's setting the coordinates and you're on the stream, which we've talked about, right, and you're going down and there's a storm, the way you react it should be like the adult in stewardship, but also like the kid in fate. You see, jesus in this story was. He was asleep, I think it's Mark 4, 28. I think it's Mark 4, 28. I think he was asleep on a cushion, on a pillow, relaxed. And so the adult side of these guys on the boat was the panic, because there's a storm hitting man, there's waves hitting the boats, getting shaken, they're losing their sense of foundation. Jesus is there on the stern, that's their foundation. But they're getting shaken right now to kind of see where their faith is. And so what do they do? Is they wake him up, you know, and Jesus look and say ye, of little faith. And then he speaks, be still. He speaks to the storm and it stops. And then they recognize who he is. Oh, he's the builder of all things, like even the winds and the waves. Obey, and that's the story, right?

Speaker 2: 2:43

So when I say the absence of the storm doesn't create peace, it wasn't the idea of the storm going away that creates peace, because then there will always be another storm.

Speaker 2: 2:52

So you can't rest in just just getting through the storm alone. So it's like like if you're homeless and you, you, you can sit there and worry about am I going to eat tonight and then you feel like peace doesn't come just naturally, just from getting food, because then tomorrow you might have to go through the same struggle. The peace comes knowing where you're getting the food from and if it's consistent, like if you know, like if you're getting oh wait a minute, I have a consistent source to get this food. Or maybe I got a job and now I can have faith I'm constantly going to get you know being able to get these resources to have a place to sleep and eat. It's the same thing. Where that's where the peace comes is knowing that the builder of all things was on the boat with you. He's in the business with you, he's in the storm with you, and when you have that understanding and that kind of faith, then that produces the peace that I'm talking about.