It was the final week of our vision series Anchored, and it was memorable! We learned about the distractions we face in the deep and the story of Peter walking on water. What God says in the deep is more important than what you see in the deep! Regardless of what you see today, fix your focus on Jesus. If you need a new vision for your life and how to face the distractions in your life, this message is for you!
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good morning transformation church
i said good morning transformation
church
hey listen i am so
grateful that you are here with us
and i believe that god has something
really special for us today
um this has been a week um if you’re not
from the midwest
if you’re not from tulsa if you’re not
from um the south
um the storm of the devil
came through the south this week and um
most of us have uh been inside and
there’s a lot of people that have lost
power and there’s a lot of people
um our friends in texas that have been
going through so many different things
and
transformation church number one um i
just want to say thank you for being a
generous church
because of you we’ve been able to meet
needs and help the homeless here
in our city and send money to different
organizations like convoy of hope and
different people to actually be boots on
the ground
in all of these places so i want to
thank you the other thing that i want to
do
is i want to remind you that 2021 just
started
and we’ve already seen a bunch of storms
now that’s not encouraging for everybody
but for people who are anchored
it don’t matter because when the storm
comes
we have a anchor
and and i don’t know i feel encouraged
like the trials that keep coming
i’m just like oh okay is this it like is
this what you had for me this week
because when you’re anchored to
something that doesn’t move and his name
is jesus
our anchor has a name um it makes you go
through life and what i’m praying for
you
is as we’re about to end this series i
got a word for you today that
i i’m so ready to share with you i just
want you to open your heart and realize
how important it is how divine it
is how intentional it is
that you decide everybody say decide
nobody can make you be anchored
nobody can make you do the things that
are going to keep you
focused but somebody say decide
today i believe some people are going to
decide i need somebody to help me open
up your hearts and so i this is
something that’s cool that happened
um y’all know in transformation nation i
i see and our team
sees and watches everything y’all post
and all of the songs you make and
all the remixes of sustain that you’ve
done and
all of the stuff we see everything and
there’s so much love coming
and there are oftentimes that people’s
creativity
just inspire everything and i saw
a young lady do a poem entitled anchored
and somebody sent it to me um over
instagram and i was like who is this
get her here she needs to be able to do
this on the last week
of our series and so today to open up
your hearts
will you give it up transformation
nation for one of your own
transformation nation will you give it
up for candy as she comes
to the platform
let’s face it life can be
tough lots of pain and uncertainty
we often turn to people and things just
looking for some stability
sometimes we know a storm is coming and
other times we trip and fall and then
who do you run to
who do you call
you need an anchor
like a baby latches onto his mother’s
breast
moments after birth being placed on her
chest
familiarizes itself with the person
whose womb
carried and nurtured its life to bloom
i’m anchored with a secure attachment
orientation
stemming from the one who determined the
body’s formation
knit me together before and behind
social relationships can
pattern after this kind of security
i’m angered a false
sense of safety exists in the shallow if
deep
calls to deep this ship cannot be hollow
no
surface level of intimacy can
accomplish the purpose that god has for
me
so i’m anchored
and each act of obedience
sets my life a sail when the metal
grips the rock the waves cannot prevail
maybe
visibly shaken by the storms that see
but my soul
finds rest like my captain did
in galilee i’m anchored
they say the race is not for the swift
but requires endurance disciplines gift
the four by one of a relay race
legs one through three may run a steady
pace
but the fourth leg runner with a
stallion stride
can close the gap and anchor the prize
for the team you are an
anchor a mentor
a teacher a gap filler a preacher
a leader generational curse breaker
whatever you’re locked whatever your
role
we all need an anchor for our souls
because
christ’s love is the remedy
for the broken fragile heart
running on empty
we have an anchor
firmly planted roots run deep
vines bear fruit victory tastes sweet
abiding becomes easy if wherever we roam
his presence lingers like an eternal
home we
have an anchor
when it’s the winter or a summer trend
protective styles become a naturals best
friend
the first or last braid on a woman’s
head
slays the look or prevents the breakage
be dreadlocked in says your crown
is anchored see when you
interwoven yourself in community
like braided hair styles promote
strength and
unity like both parties connect
when the anchors link it becomes
impossible to capsize or sink so
together
we be the anchor
and then and then
as the pedal sustains the notes of a
cord
a sound resounds from heaven’s keyboard
the musical progression begins on the
one
so let your soul find its anchor
in the sun i’m anchored
from the securely latched baby
to the vine fruitfully abiding from the
strongest
relay runner to the braided protective
styling
from the musical cord to the floating
ship
and anchor supports it’s an anti-drift
get anchored
oh transformation nation
can we give it up for candy
how powerful thank you so much
y’all
oh y’all can do better than that come on
candy thank you so much
you encapsulated seven weeks of this
vision series
into a three-minute four-minute
just poem that captured us and i don’t
want you to ever forget
with this where are you from i felt that
anchor
i felt something in there
but she comes from a place where there’s
boats
a place that you’ve seen you grew up on
the sea you saw
what it takes to be anchored and i just
want to confirm and affirm the gift that
god’s placed on your life
you just helped all of us see something
in
four minutes that it took me seven weeks
to do so thank you so much for y’all
give it up one more time
for candy glory to god and now let’s
give it up to the god who makes us
anchored
come on let’s give god a shot of praise
that he is worthy of
hallelujah why are y’all ready
i said are you all ready in the chat i
need you to let me know if you’re ready
right now i need you to let me know say
i’m ready pastor mike
now this is the last week i’ve been
sitting on this word
all week long and it’s time for us to go
to a whole nother level so this is what
i’m gonna ask you to do
okay if it is your desire to actually be
anchored
what i’m going to ask you to do right
now is i want you to lift your hands i
want to pray for you okay
like like what she spoke over you was
in faith has it actually played
out in our life yet in many areas it
hasn’t but today
prophetically we’re speaking that you’re
going to be anchored all this year
it and then it’s going to anchor your
families it’s going to anchor your
children it’s going to anchor your
business
somebody say i’m anchored father we have
come to you today
not to hear from a woman or a man we’ve
come to hear from you
so holy spirit i’m asking that you would
do what only you do stand outside of
time
and invade every one of our situations
right
at the point that we need it father
there are people right now
who are about to break under pressure
there are other people father god
that are about to succeed in an area
they didn’t think they were qualified
for
father no matter if we’re on the
mountaintop or in the valley low we
still need an anchor
and so today father we ask you we invite
you
into our situation somebody say god
you’re invited here come on no no no
right there and say god you’re invited
here
and be specific you’re invited into my
marriage you’re invited into this dating
relationship
you’re invited into my loneliness you’re
invited into this depression
you’re invited into this discrimination
come on wherever it’s at invite him
right now
god oh i feel the presence of god right
now god i’m inviting you here
because if you’re there everything has
to change
when you’re there the seas and the winds
have to calm down
if you’re there i know that i’m gonna
make it
father help us to not drift we declare
this is a season of no drift
and we’ll give you the glory honor and
praise father and we’re not gonna wait
until the storm comes to praise you
we’re gonna praise you right now in the
middle of it
that was your cue you missed it in your
home on the track
in this room that’s your cue i dare you
to give god praise
right now in the midst of the storm
you’re worthy god
we worship you god hallelujah
hallelujah oh my goodness
this can’t be the last week of the
series
the crazy thing about it is even though
it’s the last week of this series
it is the word that god has given us for
the whole year so you’re going to hear
anchored in
every sermon this will not be something
that we do
for a little bit and then move on you
are
are going gonna see the results if
you’re a part of transformation nation
and transformation church
you’re gonna see the results of a group
of people
who have dropped their anchor and
decided no drift
and today i’m grateful because i believe
this word is going to impact you
for the rest of your life so if you’re
ready i need you to go with me
today we are starting week
seven of a series we’re calling help me
hey say it one more time with your chest
hey
if this is your first time joining us i
want to say where you being
no i’m just playing we we are in um week
seven
and we are grateful for what god is
saying if you haven’t um
watched all of the messages that go
along with this series i would
strongly encourage you to go back and
watch those messages
it starts from mark my words and it goes
all the way to today’s message which i’m
gonna tell you the title in a minute
and let me just tell you how good god is
in the midst of this
one of the things that god always asks
us to do is just be ready and available
and obedient to what he wants to do and
so earlier this year
god gave us an opportunity to expand and
go
outside of our normal audience and take
the message to the world
and um um as of i think last week
transformation church has a weekly
daily television show on tbn and the
hillsong
channel oh y’all not shouting with me
but this gets to go to countries that
none of us can go to right now
you missed it when there’s a blockage
god says i’ll take the message where i
want it to go
and every night tell your grandma tell
your auntie tell your uncle
some of your family members some of your
mom and my mom they’d be having on tbn
in the background it’s like background
music right now
i want you to tell them every weekday at
6 00 p.m
central transformation is on and guess
what
i thought it was a setback i honestly
did
that that all of our archive sermons
weren’t able to be used because of
something technical
and when bree told me that i was like ah
this is
trash do you know how many great sermons
we have like
relationship goals and marked and graced
like a flood and
the people are gonna miss what god is
saying and i was going all of this deep
stuff
and the first series that we could
err in the quality that was needed was
anchored
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and this past week my mother-in-law was
texting me and she was like michael
you’re on tv i was like mommy you see me
every day
but she was excited and then some
friends started calling people started
doing and they said
the one that hit me is i came outside my
house
um right after slipping on the ice to
to take the trash out and my neighbor
walked outside
and he said oh pastor mike tyson mike
can i can i holler at you for one second
and he was
over there and i was over here and i
just failed and so i was kind of like
text me but because i didn’t want to
fall again but anyway
um he said at four o’clock this morning
your voice woke me up
and i said well i went at your house bro
i don’t know
i don’t know what happened but he said
he said i i fell asleep
on tbn and he said there was a couple of
things that i had in the work before the
pandemic hit
and they all dried up and i’ve been so
discouraged
but out of my sleep i heard you saying
if god gives you a vision
get god’s view mark my word i don’t talk
to my neighbor like that about it
but something we did here found him in
the wee
hours of the morning and i’m just
excited about the transformation that’s
going to happen
as we go to the world and i i don’t
think it’s an accident
that god would shut down what i thought
would have been
the content that needed it he said i’m
gonna shut all this down so that people
can hear the word i need them to hear
this year
what’s the word of the year hey and so
today
i’m gonna just invite you to another
level of understanding
in the deep we decided that we’re not
gonna drift somebody shot at me no drift
and the crazy thing about it is this
week you had an opportunity to
and tomorrow you’ll have an opportunity
to forget tomorrow after the service
up right now somebody’s texting you you
need to label them in your phone
the drift
yeah valentine’s day some of y’all
drifted
to make yourself feel better because of
what didn’t happen on valentine’s day
some of you drifted and what god is
saying is you need to label places
people and things the drift
because you know there’s certain spots
that you get into and you go into
that once you get there there is a drift
up ahead
but we have decided as a church somebody
say to me no drift
i believe the power of god is coming to
help
us sustain we’re not just singing that
song in a worshipful uses dane
it’s you sustain it doesn’t matter what
happens
i’m not gonna drift but there’s one
thing that i thought it would be
irresponsible
to not give you um warning or
um um understanding of before we go
there
and um because some of y’all are already
in the deep if you’re already in the
deep right now raise your hand if you
in your family and your situation
finance is business you’re already in
the deep
and some of us are going to go into the
deep some of us have been in the shallow
and some of us are pushing off from the
shore i don’t care where you are
i believe this year we’re going to the
deep because we need to be anchored
and i heard this story before i tell you
what i’m about to preach on
that really messed with me um i heard
the story about
a guy who wanted to go deep sea fishing
and so he put in the coordinates to
where he was supposed to be
and once he started out on this journey
in the boat he was by himself
which is problem number one going to the
deep by yourself is never a smart idea
that’s why you just heard pastor amber
lee and pastor bree talk about community
and and being in belong groups and and
us being ones to
to lead belong groups going to the deep
is never
smart alone i can’t even move off of it
jesus decided not to go to the deep by
himself now if the son of god
who could do anything decided to choose
11 i’ll say 12 but one of them fell off
but but 12 regular regular people
do you know how insulting some of the
conversations
jesus probably had to endure with the
disciples
because he is god in man form and they
talk about who the greatest often here
none of y’all is great
but like but he decided to steal no
matter his status
to do life with people and this man that
went on this journey
he decided to go to the deep by himself
he gets out there it gets late
it started when it was sunny but then
the sun started to set he’s in the
middle of
an ocean where he could see animals
coming up that were bigger than the boat
night falls storm comes
he literally stays out to see this is
true story
for four days runs out of water
runs out of food at the point where he
was about to give up
and die he sees somebody
and they come and rescue him he goes
back to the gentleman who gave him the
instructions and the coordinates
and he said i can’t i can’t figure out
what happened almost lost my life out
here
in the deep trying to go do this thing
and he said let me see
the directions he said oh
you put in the coordinates one degree
off
and he said one degree
what what does one degree have to do
with me
being in a place that i was supposed to
be at
and this is the point i want you to
write down because i thought it made
sense for where we are
and where we’re going when you are in
the deep one degree makes the difference
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it was just a little lie
but when you’re going to the deep one
degree makes the difference
it was just a little manipulation to
make sure that i didn’t use one of my
pto days
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i did have the sniffles but i wasn’t
really sick but
i didn’t want to use one of my days
because i’m planning to go on spring
break and so
it was just one degree off from the
truth
it was just one degree off of the right
number i should be paid for the hours i
worked
it was just one degree i was only on the
instagram watching them twerk for 30
seconds
it was it was a challenge everybody was
doing it was my
second cousin and i thought she was
going to do a poem and
and other than that she took it low
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and instead of going and clicking off
immediately i just wanted to see what
she was wearing and just to
to stay one degree away from purity
and and the reason i’m bringing this up
is because in this vision series we’ve
decided we’re not going to drift
and and a lot of you were like past i’m
like that doesn’t matter
that doesn’t matter that you drift one
degree and i would agree with you if
you’re going to stay in the shallow
one degree from here to there
i can step over into what i’m supposed
to be in
but write this point down the drift
doesn’t matter
if you’re not going the distance
and some of you if you don’t
realign and stop drifting the one degree
that you are off right now
from here to the end of next year it’s
not going to matter
from here to next month it’s not going
to matter
at the job you’re working at right now
it’s not going to matter but when you
become a business owner
that one degree is not doing it here if
you’re going to go the distance
this man was 15 miles
out of the spot he was supposed to be in
because he went to the deep he went the
distance but he was one degree off
and i don’t know who i’m talking to
right now but i feel a strong rebuke
coming to the church
that if you don’t get back on what i’ve
called you to do on winning people to
jesus
not caring about platforms but caring
about people
if you don’t get back see the church is
one degree off
and you think it’s about making sure
your gram is popping
and god’s trying to make sure that
people’s souls aren’t popping in hell
he wants you to be about his business
and i’m telling you right now that’s why
our church won’t drift
you don’t have to like it and you don’t
have to be here
but when i stand here before you and i
get in my prayer closet
if we are one degree off we are saying
search me o lord
if there’s anything in me that’s not
like you
take it out father god expose me start
praying real players in the deep
see y’all want to pray them shallow
prayers but you want to start praying
some real prayers pray this prayer
expose me god
be careful with that one because that’ll
turn the one degree into right on path
and you might lose some friends over
that one and you might get a demotion
because of that one
when god starts exposing you and you
accidentally send the email to the
person you was talking about
expose me god oh because he knows you’re
not humble enough to get it from just
instruction
and so to be able to redirect you he has
to expose you
yeah but the thing is
exposing us is still god’s grace
because he would rather expose us here
than us get to the deep
and be 15 miles off of the purpose he
called us to
it would be irresponsible of me to come
to this last
week of anchored and not tell you
to make sure your coordinates is right
make sure you’re tapping in i’m married
by 34 and i’m living in la
and you you’ve got the coordinates that
you’ve set up
make sure that wasn’t just you punching
in numbers
make sure that when you looking at other
people’s instagram and say i want to
land
there
want to tell you because it’s the
essence of what i want to talk to you
about
because i feel like just by faith
there’s so many people being deployed
this series i don’t see people have
anchored tattoos everybody’s seeing
anchors everywhere your draws got
anchors on them
some people they got cups with anchors
on them their dishes got anchors on them
and i believe god’s doing this
he picked such a sign that’s been around
us all the time
to remind us of something but the reason
that he’s doing that is because
in the deep there is distractions
and today i want to title the message
distractions in the deep
because i don’t want to deploy you and
you think that once you get in the deep
it’s just
easy i want to let you know that there
will be distractions
in the deep write that down right now
somebody say distractions
in the deep see we talk about god does
the dynamic in the deep but there also
are distractions in the deep
and i thought that it would be um um
most helpful to you because it was
helpful to me
when god showed me this is gonna be a
distraction this is gonna be a
distraction
hey there there’s some things that come
when you get successful
that could be a distraction you might
stop praying because now you have
finances
you might stop thinking start thinking
you’re better than people because now
you can hire people
here’s some distractions in the deep sea
none of y’all deal with this but you’re
just praying so much
to get to a certain place and then god
says but i need to sustain you in that
place
and so i want to talk to the people who
are actually going to the deep
and are going to go the distance
somebody by faith say i’m going to go
the distance
somebody needs to say that one more time
i’m going to go the distance
i want to take for our our topic of
study a
very familiar passage of scripture but i
don’t want you to think about it
from the normal standpoint i want you to
think about it from distraction okay
this story is in matthew chapter 14
verse 22
and it says immediately after this jesus
insisted
that the disciples get back in the boat
and cross to the other side of the lake
it says while he sent the people home
after sending them home
he went up into the hills by himself to
pray
night fell while he was there alone
meanwhile so at the same time
the disciples were in trouble far away
from land they were in the deep
for a strong wind had risen and they
were
fighting heavy waves about three o’clock
in the morning jesus came strolling
towards them
walking on water when the disciples saw
him
walking on the water they were terrified
in their fear they cried out it’s a
gauss
now we’ve all heard the story about
peter walking on water
but i want to show and highlight the
distractions
that come in this story to keep them
from getting to their intended
destination write this point down
did you see the first distraction
because it took me three times reading
it to actually see it
but right there in verse 26 it said when
the disciples saw him walking
on the water they were terrified
in their fear they cried out
ah it’s a ghost
write this down because somebody needs
to hear this emotional distractions
debilitate your discernment
these disciples were so emotionally
distracted
they were terrified so in fear
they labeled god a ghost
what has you spooked is the question
they just walked with jesus a few hours
ago
they’ve ate with them some do miracles
they’re just coming from the feeding of
five
thousand they were close enough to him
to be able to know what he smelled like
but then they got emotionally distracted
and lost
all discernment and i came to ask
somebody right now
as you’re praying to go to the deep and
as god is taking you to another level
are you so emotionally distracted that
your discernment has gone down
you’re picking wrong relationships
you’re picking wrong vacation
times you’re picking wrong conversations
because you’re emotionally distracted
well i’m hurt
i’m frustrated i’m angry
they don’t see me and god is saying to
you right now
you need to bring your emotions to me so
that you can see
right
the devil doesn’t even have to come if
your emotions have control
the devil doesn’t have to come if your
emotions have control
the devil ain’t messed with some of
y’all in a decade
you keep blaming him but it actually is
your own insecurities
it actually is your own undeal with
trauma
let me stop the number one distraction
in the deep is your own emotions
well they don’t see me they don’t value
me god already said you were called
he said he chose you he told you to go
to the deep
but you want them to say something they
didn’t even know about
you i’m calling the church
to sacrifice your emotions on the altar
this is something i have to do daily
because if i get in my emotions
all of us can make up a soap opera about
our own story
oh y’all gonna play come on don’t play
me like that you can
make up you can be at the top of the
mountain be in the season you prayed for
and still make up uh uh what do they
call it in spanish the new
novella a new what is it novella
nobody loves me marco like you literally
will make up
a whole soap opera
about your situation and god said dang
it
the devil didn’t even have to sift them
their emotions were their detriment
and the thing about it is it’s not just
a bad thing that your emotions are there
god gave us our emotions
emotions are are like indicators like if
you ever in a car and the brake light
comes on
or the things it’s indicators we’re
supposed to do something with those
emotions
and jesus tells us hey cast all your
burdens
bring all your cares they didn’t talk to
you bring it to me
you still dealing with mama trauma come
on bring it to me
but instead we would rather continue to
carry that as if it’s going to help us
and it’s honestly weighing us down
but the problem is it has a result
it takes away our discernment
your emotional distractions i’m really
trying to move
but some of y’all have been debilitated
and you have no more discernment
why are you in the house you’re in right
now because you are emotionally
distracted by what happened in your
brother
and your sister’s life so you said i
want to feel better about me and i want
this and so i’m going to go
and get in debt that i don’t need
oh i got to talk honestly to you right
now because nobody else is going to say
this because they’re scared that you’ll
walk away from them you can leave me but
the truth will be the same
i’m telling you right now your
discernment is off you could look at
your bank account and discern you didn’t
need that
but your emotions were in control ah
some of you right now are in a
relationship texting bae that is all an
emotional dysfunction that has now
come out in a real relationship and you
lost discernment you would have never
let nobody talk to you like that 10
years ago
and now you’re making excuses for his or
her dysfunction
just cause you want to be in an
instagram picture with somebody
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[Music]
all i’m saying to you is you know you’re
not a pastor
you’re supposed to be helping somebody
else do this thing
but you want to have a ministry so bad
and be doctor so and so
and first lady so and so and you’ve lost
discernment in the deep
and now you’re taking other people with
you to dummy veal
distractions in the deep and the devil
doesn’t have to come for this one
it’s your own emotions
jesus why are you saying this pastor
mike
because if you’re gonna last and you’re
gonna go to the deep
there’s one tool that god has given
through his holy spirit
and it’s called discernment write this
point down you need discernment in the
deep
you can’t go to the deep on knowledge
you can’t go to the deep on intellect
you can’t go on into the deep because
you’ve watched all five seasons
of iana fix my knife you can’t go to the
deep
without the holy spirit and that thing
that says don’t turn that way
that thing that says don’t call them
back right now you’re emotionally
unstable
[Applause]
that thing on the inside of you that
says go apologize now
two more hours there’ll be something
else the enemy has given them in their
mind
and you’re gonna be working through that
that’s discernment
[Applause]
this for me is when the bible says don’t
quench the holy spirit
this is what the holy spirit does he
lets you know of the truth
that is to come and you don’t have
knowledge or foresight or forethought
about it
but he speaks to you and you say stupid
stuff like this something told me
no that was the holy spirit
he was trying to enlarge your
discernment but you’ve become
numb
because you’ve been emotionally
distracted
these disciples loud
allowed terror and fear
to name god a ghost
there are some situations that are god
for you
that you’ve been saying uh that’s spooky
that’s scary that’s not god
oh because you thought only god moves in
upward movements
you thought glory to glory gross to
grace sometimes his highest calling for
you is lower
you’re going to go the distance i’m just
saying like you could have the title for
the next year
and then ruin your family for the next
20
but god is so good that he said i can’t
take them there even though their skills
have that
but their character doesn’t so let me
demote them for a season
and see if they still serve like they
served when everybody saw
and see if they steal love like they
loved when they could
instagram what they were doing during
the week and see if they still give
even though they have half their salary
and see if they still try
y’all don’t hear what i’m saying and
here i’m only talking to people who are
gonna dwell in the deep
if you’re gonna dwell in the deep
somebody give god a shout of praise
right now
that’s the only encouragement you’re
getting today because i’m gonna tell you
about yourself
and the distractions that keep you in
the same place
all i’m saying to you is these disciples
knew
jesus oh
[Music]
so that means i’m not talking to new
believers
i’m talking to all crusty religious
people
oh you thought because your bible has
wrinkles in it
and and and you have it highlighted that
you’ve arrived in the deep but god is
saying to you today
your emotion of pride
your emotion
that pharisee spirit has you labeling
yet those young people that
god brought into your life you are
supposed to mentor them
not prove to them they didn’t know
anything
so the problem with the situation is is
because of your pride and i’m grown
and i was doing this before you were
born that crap
got you in your emotions and that way
now you will
you are relevant you were relevant the
last 10 years but you’ll be mute the
next 20
because god was trying to bring you into
a situation where your emotions weren’t
in control
but your character in christ was
and now you’ve lost discernment you used
to walk into a room and could tell where
god is
now he’s sitting on you and you don’t
even know it
[Music]
the church has to have discernment
how do i walk into the business room
with sharks
and know which business opportunity to
take
i don’t have it here i don’t have it
here i don’t have it here but i got it
cause i got the holy spirit
[Applause]
do you know how many times i’ve walked
into rooms
bri can tell you with older white men
i’m going to tell the real story and i’m
dressed like this
and i’m sitting there will you know and
i’m sitting there with bankers and ceos
and movie producers and all this other
stuff
and god whispers to me you’re in charge
in this room
god um
really don’t know what i’m doing
he said but you trust that i do
and obey and they’ll start talking some
talk that i
never heard of and then the debilitating
depreciating amount of this
and that and then the foreclosure of
this and that and all the other and the
holy spirit will say to me he says say
stop stop
anything after that i just i just kind
of stopped the whole meeting
didn’t know what to do and they’ll say
say i want it for 50 off
god i don’t is that respectful do
but since i don’t have anybody else in
the room advocating for me
did you know one of the names for the
holy spirit is the advocate
the one that the one that steps in and
says no this is mine
and i’m gonna represent him and the
advocate will begin to tell me stuff
and i’ll just say it
and somebody said well when we look at
the numbers and all this other stuff and
like we’ve never done this
before do you know how many times i’ve
heard we’ve never done this before
i might get that tattooed on my back
they’ve never done this
before because when you walk
with the holy spirit you have
discernment
the reason you can be in places where
they’ve never done it before
because the holy spirit stands outside
of time and he’s looking in 2025
and he’s looking back to 1918 and he’s
saying i’ve designed this exact moment
for my kingdom to come through my son or
my daughter so i’m going to whisper the
things that are going to create legacy
for their children’s children because
i’m a good god and i leave inheritances
and so now i need you to speak what i
say
but you can’t if you’re emotionally
distracted
i am
i gotta move verse 26
when the disciples saw him walking on
the water
they were terrified in their fear they
cried out it’s a ghost
but look at our gracious god verse 27
but jesus spoke
god’s so good that he will let you
label him something and then reaffirm
that that ain’t it
it’s actually me he says
he spoke to them at once don’t be afraid
take courage i am here
say that with me don’t be afraid
take courage why i am here say it one
more time
don’t be afraid take courage
why i am just one more time don’t be
afraid this is speaking faith into
somebody
take courage why because i
write this point down what god says in
the deep is more important than what you
see in the deep
they still saw a ghost but they heard
what he said
their emotions hadn’t calmed down to the
point where they could accurately
decipher
through the winds and the waves in the
smoke that this was god but god’s so
good that he’ll still speak to you
and i’m just trying to encourage you
what he says
is more important than what you see
see the distraction of of of our lives
come to do these three things they come
to pray on our emotions our insecurity
and who’s in control
but look at what jesus says their
emotions what if you tell them
don’t be afraid i got your emotions then
he speaks to their insecurity like we
don’t know if we’re gonna make it
we don’t know who’s gonna take courage
let me encourage you
take courage why who has the authority
to say that
i am he
literally said i am here
now this doesn’t mean as much to you if
you don’t understand the old testament
passage
when moses was commissioned to go out
into the deep and tell pharaoh
hey let my people go and he said i’m
slow of speech i don’t know how to do
all of this stuff you call me to do
and god says i will be your advocate and
i’ll tell you what to say
i’ll give you everything you’re supposed
to do you just need to walk out into the
deep and not be distracted
he goes and he says who should i say
sent me
and the response of god to moses
is the same response jesus gives to
these disciples
i am i am
that i am you need peace i
am you need support i am
do you need financial provision i am
god says i’ll be whatever you need
whenever you need it
the problem is they were looking for
something natural
to be their super
but god says i step into your natural
and i make your natural super natural
and i don’t know who needed to hear this
but everything you’re looking for
i am has responded i am
it’s here
oh you’re lonely i am
it’s here i’ll be your comforter i’ll
i’ll teach you not just how to be okay
i’ll teach you how to love yourself
i’ll teach you how to make it hard for a
negro to get up in your situation
because hold on you’re not coming in
here messing up all the joy and the
peace
that god has given me you can’t
interrupt this river that i found you
got to come and add to this
but you cannot come and subtract for
this not for a little bit of oh
what god says in the deepest more
important than what you see in the deep
and some of you have been seeing the
wrong things and god says it doesn’t
look like it but i still said it
one of the beautiful things about having
a daughter and being a pastor
and having children and being a pastor
is now i understand the bible
so much more clearly when it talks about
being father god and having children and
all that other stuff
um because one of the things that is
interesting with my children is i tell
them hey
we’re going to go get you a prize today
and for some reason
all throughout the day they keep asking
me
are we going to get it are we going to
the store daddy where are you going
they have this anxiousness about how
they maneuver
because what they’re seeing doesn’t line
up with what i said
what they don’t know is i’ve already
transferred money from a different
account
into the account in preparation for us
going to the store what they don’t know
is i’ve already put gas in the car in
preparation
for us going to the store what they
don’t already know is i’ve talked to
their mother about the budget
that we’re going to give them to spend
what they don’t know is that we’re
already planning not just for the prize
we’re giving them right now
but mom sent me in to get something
that’s going to be out of stock in two
weeks
so i can get the next prize that they
need i’ve already made provisions for
them
but what i have said is stronger than
what they see
and it reminds me of us that when we get
to the deep
we keep asking god are you sure
you chose me you asked me to be at this
church you asked me to start this
business god
i don’t see you he said but i said it
and i just want you to know in the deep
you have to anchor on what god said
there’s a couple that’s in the room
right now that
every doctor told them they would not be
able to have children
but god said to them i’m gonna make you
prosperous and your womb is gonna be
blessed
and they literally have walked through a
stormy season
where the professionals oh i like this
because professionals
are not the final say the professionals
told them there’s
no way but you don’t know i am
because what god told them
they didn’t see but he said i’m staying
on this
because somebody is about to give up on
what god said just because they don’t
see it
but i’m here to shake you in the faith
today
that god is a man that he should not lie
if he said it he’s going to complete it
he’s going to do just what he said if
you’ve ever seen god come through
i dare you to take three seconds and
give god a shout of pray
[Applause]
oh i feel this thing coming right now he
said it
that means i’m gonna see it he said it
that means i’m gonna see it
it doesn’t matter that i didn’t get no
sleep last night because my son has
insomnia
i think that’s why i’m a little on edge
today
i slept two hours last night
because a side effect of autism is
insomnia while pastor nat’s not here
right now it’s cause she pregnant we
were up
every hour on the hour with mj last
night
and i don’t see it yet
but he said it he told me when nobody
was around
there’s a date i have marked down that
the holy spirit gave me i feel this
thing
that every time it gets worse and every
time there’s a regression
and every time it doesn’t look like
something and every time he’s not eating
and every time he’s doing i said i don’t
see it but he said it
and i dare you somewhere in your mind to
get anchored right now
i don’t see it but he said it they gonna
ask you why do you keep driving down
this neighborhood
i don’t see it but he said it they’re
gonna ask you why do you keep believing
that your whole family is gonna be saved
i don’t see it buddy they gonna keep
asking you why do you plant the church
in the middle of a pandemic i don’t see
it
but he said
get distracted in the deep by what you
see
some of y’all gonna go to a job tomorrow
that looks worse than it did
a week ago there’s so many people that
my heart goes out to in houston
in dallas in texas and louisiana
who you’re you’re literally going back
to homes
that have been ruined by by mildew and
water
and busted pipes but god told you you
were going to be blessed to be a
blessing
and he told you that you were going to
be the lender and not the borrower
and he spoke specifically that this was
going to be the year of breakthrough for
your family
and right now as you look in the rubble
and you look in everything
i’m encouraging you to get anchored on
what god has said
you may not see it but he said
but y’all know these disciples
discernment was off because they were
emotionally entangled
so they called god a ghost and jesus
said it’s me
we was just together you just came off
of 21 days of prayer and fasting
you just had a worship experience with
me in the car
you just asked me to meet your needs to
meet last week’s
bills and i did it you forgot who i was
you said that if i get you out of this
situation you would never do that again
and i did that and you don’t remember
you don’t
and so they couldn’t see it verse 28
then peter called to him
lord
i know you said it and take courage and
all that other stuff
but if it’s really you ain’t that how we
be in our walk
god is so good but
if it’s um i know you brought me the
the job of my dreams um but this if this
is really you
tell me to come to you and walk on the
water
this is always very interesting to me in
this thing because
he says lord that means that
somewhere in him either what he saw or
what was said
made him identify that this can’t just
be jerome walking on the water
like that’s not my cousin rome like this
has to be
jesus but he wasn’t sure enough to put
his weight on it
he wasn’t sure enough to drop his anchor
on it
so so so sometimes this tells me
and this is encouragement for me because
i’m human and sometimes my doubt gets in
the way
of the destiny and sometimes i don’t
know exactly
i know it’s god but i’m not sure it’s
god his language declared what his heart
doubted
lord if it’s you
we worship you but this is a different
situation
god i trust you but are you really going
to make a way
this is why we need god this is why we
go back to the word
because sometimes our language declares
what our heart actually doubts
and jesus is so gracious he says yes
come now i got to stop here for one
second
and i’m not going to preach this preach
this but i got to let you know
that there were 12 disciples in the boat
peter literally says if it’s really you
tell me to come walking on the water
jesus doesn’t say peter come
or you come he just literally says
yes come that was an
invitation to everybody else that was in
the boat
that you have an opportunity to do
something nobody has ever done
but they did not have the faith to trust
what jesus
just said the saddest part of this story
is that we could be talking about this
story of 12 men
a community of people a small group
walking on water together i don’t know
about you but i need friends who can
walk on water with me
i need people that you own that block i
own this block
they on that block i need people that
can say where are we going on vacation
by the whole island and we’re going to
bless people i need people who can do
the unthinkable
with me that i’m not out here just
trailblazing and representing
i need a squad with me that we can walk
into a depressed area
of town and fix that house that house
that house that house
and next year we’re gonna do that house
that housed it
part of the problem with this scripture
is there were scared
saints on the boat
you already in the deep you
already out here i need some saints to
get that 2000. i ain’t never scared
like i ain’t never scared i ain’t
nervous
i i ain’t i need people in my community
that’s like the spirit big event center
let’s go
i ain’t never scared buying a whole
complex outside of here
for 21 million dollars i ain’t never
scared let’s go
[Applause]
i can’t even tell you what we’re gonna
do next but i bet you i got a bunch of
riders in the room with me
and a bunch of writers online right now
who say i ain’t never scared
[Applause]
jesus said come
and only one got up
why is it important that you start
leading a small group
because peter could have very easily
stepped out of the boat and said y’all
come on
no that he could have used their
relational equity y’all know we seen
jesus do stuff like this before
don’t miss out on this opportunity no i
know your marriage is at the brink but
i’ve seen god restore marriages before
i know your children are out there but
i’ve seen god do it before
come
and because there were scared saints in
the deep
they missed the miracle what miracle
will you miss because you stay on the
boat
he says yes come so peter
went over the side of the boat and
walked
on the water towards jesus
can we stop and give peter a hand clap
no y’all if peter gets a bad rap y’all
always skip to when he starts sinking
but peter actually walked under me you
ain’t never done nothing great
at least give him us come on let’s
people be hating on people when they
fall they at least did some
you on the boat scared
but you know he sank but he walked on
the water
[Applause]
such haters
he tried he went over the side of the
boat i just
all i’m saying to you right now in this
in this society of critics
critics sit on the sideline and and they
judge something they’ve never played
it’s way easier to be a commentator than
to actually be in the nba
[Applause]
you can’t jump from here to there
but but you have something to say on the
way that they dribble and the way that
they shoot in the way they in the nba
you have something to say about their
marriage they’re married
yeah they might need counseling yeah
they went through a heart but we gotta
stop
highlighting people’s worst moments
[Applause]
as summing up who they are
they might be there because they took a
step of faith you were scared to
i deal with different problems today
because i stepped over the boat
see you dealing with shallow
situations cause you never stepped out
into the deep
but some of the issues i face right now
i would never face it if i didn’t walk
by faith
church all i’m saying is our criticisms
have to go down
especially if we’ve never been in that
level of water
[Music]
[Applause]
you in the kiddie pool talking about
people who carry more weight
and they swim trunks than you do all
year guys
we gotta make sure
that our words are edifying are
encouraging
let no corrupt communication proceed out
of the mouth
only that which is edifying to the hero
could we be a church some of the people
we think are supposed to be cheering for
us
are actually the distractions in the
deep because you’ve never stepped out of
the boat
so today i just i want to give out a
peter
award i’ve never heard a pastor give a
peter award
the bible says so peter went over the
side
of the boat and he walked on
the find me one other person in history
who defied the laws of gravity and
buoyancy and actually walked on the
water
all i’m saying is maybe
his failure was not the point
that we should highlight
some of you need to go back to your
friends your family members i know it’s
hard because it takes humility to do
this
and they might be in a season right now
that looks really bad and you could blow
up
and and blow them out and expose them
but what god is saying to you is maybe
you should remind them
that they actually walked on water
what would have happened if the
disciples like no bro you did it though
you can do it again keep looking at
jesus there’s more for you
you i saw you take three steps i know
you’re seeking now
but you can make it what if the
disciples
see this is the thing that i i found out
of this and this is revelation do y’all
want me to stop
can can i have a few more okay i just i
gotta this the last week let me get it
out
okay peter walked on water towards jesus
and this made me really start
contemplating
the steps of faith that i’ve had to make
over the boat
and literally all i can say is we out
here
we oh my gosh
what’s gonna happen next sunday i don’t
know we out here
how you gonna follow up going on the
water
i have no clue we’re out here
like like i’m like ain’t no backup plans
and ain’t no
no like we are out here that’s why we
need our discernment
but what i’ve found as i’ve stepped over
the boat i found like peter
that you are most vulnerable when you
did it
but it’s not done
okay the most vulnerable part of
distraction
is when you did it i walked on water
but i’m not done making it to jesus
so so so this is where distraction
really comes in
because many of us have done the thing
and got to the place we prayed to get at
so we
did it but it’s not done
and this is where distraction comes in
at its finest peter walks
on the water just like many of you
have done things that nobody thought you
would
be able to do this is a
progression or like what i like to call
is purpose
uh in process peter
did it like he might have been like
ah
but jesus still over there
so he did what nobody did but it’s still
not done
the same way you got the money
but you haven’t learned how to manage it
so you did it but it’s not
done
you got the marriage but now you have to
cultivate the marriage you did
it i’m married we can have sex with no
no guilt no condemnation
let me clean it up
but now i want you to see you did it
but it’s not done
for it to get done you need focus
write that word down it’s a cuss word
for many of you i know focus
you lead the team now you got the title
of director of
but now you get it but now you have to
grow them into leaders
it’s not done
now you can post on your instagram you
wrote a book
but you did it now you have to sell the
book
you’re not done and i just came to tell
somebody
who’s shouting over getting on the water
that wasn’t the goal
the goal wasn’t to stand on water
the goal was to make it to jesus
the goal is not to have the best church
in the world
we we have done everything that i’ve
ever put on paper
as we’ve stepped over the boat in six
years
and god said michael guess what six
years what a time to be alive
that wasn’t the goal
you are in the deep and now you’re gonna
need
focus to make it to me
but when peter verse 30
but when he saw the strong winds
and the waves and the haters
and the people in his family that didn’t
support
and the other instagram post and
somebody else’s life that looked more
content
he was terrified and he began to sink
save me lord he shouted
now this one messes me up because this
is the same peter that’s been with jesus
write this point down because this is
for you don’t be so distracted
you draw a blank he’s been a deliverer
he’s been a deliverer
peter steps out of the boat starts
walking towards jesus
and then sees distractions
and forgets who told him to get out of
the boat
did you forget who called you to lead
that team
you know you’re not qualified right did
you forget
who called you to be in that
relationship
do you forget he’s been
a deliverer
see this is why i love the bible we’re
in matthew chapter 1
14. do y’all remember
that in chapter eight
six chapters ago the disciples were in a
different storm
and jesus would sleep on the boat
and they woke him up and said yo why
y’all tripping
peace be still
jesus i never saw it to now
peter’s tripping but jesus had
already got them through the
same exact type of storm
and in the moment he lost focus
he forgot and drew a blank and forgot he
was standing with his deliverer
my question to you is have you had
christian amnesia and forgot all the
times
that god has brought you through before
he’s been a deliverer
the reason i put that little he’s been a
deliverer is because i feel like god
sometimes gets a little like y’all put
some respect on my name
he has a little birdman moment where he
say you better put
some respect i’ve been a deliverer
you’re how old
do you know that the enemy had his
arrows towards you at 10 years old
and i’ve kept you and sustained you and
you wouldn’t even got into that college
if i wouldn’t allow that person to come
and tell you about that scholarship
that was me put some respect on my name
you thought that it was you that saved
you from that car accident
but that was warring and ministering
angels that stood up
and moved people out the way because
there was a destiny
that i had on your life put some respect
on my name you
thought you’re in the city and in the
place you’re in right now by accident
i moved heaven and earth
to get you to where i wanted you to be
you thought it was an accident you
watching today
this was my favor and grace on your life
i’ve been a deliverer
somebody say he’s been a deliverer say
it like you mean it
second samuel 22 says and he said the
lord is my rock
and my fortress and my deliverer
the god of my rock in him will i trust
he is my shield
and the horn of my salvation my high
tower and my refuge my savior
that will always save me from violence
psalms 18
2 said the lord is my rock in my
fortress i’m just saying this
because somebody needs to know that he’s
been a deliverer and he is my deliverer
my god my strength
and whom i will trust my buckler and my
horn
if god is your buckler you know what i’m
saying you better know buckle up he’s
the seat belt
he said i’m your salvation and your
hightower psalms 27.
some trust in chariots and some trust in
horses
but i will remember and trust in the
name
of our god can i say it differently some
trust in teslas
and some trust in beamer benzer bentley
but i will trust in the name of the lord
he was saying people
trust in the transportation to get them
to a destination
do y’all see back in the day it was
horses and chariots
you trust in the vehicle
and some of y’all have been trusting in
your jobs
trusting in your relationships trusting
in the stock market
trusting in the s p 500 trusting in
bitcoin
trusting in some people like bitcoin
what is that is that a pokemon thing
just stay with me some of y’all have
been trusting in in pop culture and
you’ve been trusting
in and different things that you can do
with your hands and god says some trust
in all that
but the thing i’m asking you to trust in
is the one who’s been a deliverer
somebody just say it one more time god’s
been a deliverer
he did it for him in verse and chapter
eight and now we’re in chapter 14
and he loses his cool he saw the strong
winds
and the waves he was terrified and began
to seek save me lord he shouted
can i um i wasn’t gonna put this point
in here
but i just feel like somebody needs to
hear this and this is for you know our
church
is built to cater to the lost and found
so my lost people you’re not gonna think
nothing about this but there’s some
found people
that have been blaming this certain
person in their life and he is bad
but everything’s not his fault
distractions in the deep
aren’t always the devil
i i know i know
that was the devil that i missed
disappointment no you woke up late
that wasn’t the day of devil you’re lazy
it’s the devil i didn’t get that
promotion no your presentation was trash
[Music]
you spent more time on instagram trying
to get 32 likes than working on the
presentation
that will actually change your bank
account it wasn’t the devil
you were distracted
the devil is not mentioned anywhere in
this scripture
go back and look it didn’t say and the
devil brought wind jesus is the one who
sent them to the lake
and he sent them to the lake while he
went to pray for them
i need you to hear me say this jesus
knew the storm you were going into
so he made intercession for you they
were
out on the sea and jesus went to pray by
himself because he knew
they would need him he gets in a
supernatural state and begins to defy
the law of buoyancy
walks on water to meet them at the point
of their need
and the reason he meets them there is
because he set it up
what if the thing you’ve been saying is
the devil was a setup
some of the worst things in my life were
not the devil
they were set up by god to get something
in me
and get something out of me that could
come out no other way i’ve told y’all
several times about my
horrible story with the contractor
trying to build a home and trying to do
all of these different things
and he left me and my wife in our
brand new baby in a home in a winter
like we just had
with no heat
took our money had to pay him extra
had to lean on our house for four years
but when i look back at that situation
now
god has orchestrated me to in the five
years
after that to be the person at the table
negotiating over 40 million dollars
worth of real estate
on behalf of transfer that was a hundred
and fifty thousand dollar
fail so that i could learn a 50 million
dollar future
[Applause]
it was a setup
i had to make sure i knew how to read
through contracts and ask
questions and god knew that he was going
to be my anchor through that whole thing
and so he said he can take this one
because i set it up for him and i’ve
been praying for him
and i’m not gonna leave him out there by
himself and i’m gonna come and speak to
him
the the day before the week before i
became the lead pastor of transformation
church the week
before god resolved that situation
because my parents came into a little
money
and they were able to give me the money
to be able to settle that lane
and god didn’t allow me to walk into
pastoring with that scar but he said you
needed the experience
it wasn’t the devil it was from my
development
and the truth of the matter is when
god’s trying to develop
us many of us are distracted in the deep
i don’t know what your distraction is
today it could be other people
it could be your own self-talk it could
be not focusing on the word of god
but there’s distractions that aren’t the
devil and this is what happened to peter
write this down distractions drown you
when vision drifts
the reason why this is our vision series
and i spent seven weeks talking on it
well pastor mike talk about this
talk about that talk about this it don’t
matter what we talk about if we are off
of course
if we’re one degree by the time we get
to the end of 2022 do you know what
could happen in the world
we’re only two months into the to the
thing we got capital riots we got
gorilla glue girl
we got all kinds of stuff
yeah y’all do y’all know what could
happen
but it doesn’t matter if we are
angry
that’s how some of y’all gonna look at
the end of this year
i’m gonna need surgery
if you get to but do y’all know that
whole thing i don’t mean to preach this
at all
it’s a very sad thing but the reason
that that happened she had the right
thing there and ran out of it
and she didn’t focus on what she was
picking up to use
her vision she drowned she hurt herself
she was one who actually experienced
very bad consequences not because she
was a bad person
it’s because she thought oh this is
something that helps
she didn’t focus on what it was and what
it said
and what it actually was used for and
she drowned
because her vision drift what are you
saying pastor mike fix your focus
hebrews 12 1. that’s all i’m asking you
to do how do we stay anchored
we fix our focus therefore since we’ve
been surrounded
by such a great cloud of witnesses let
us throw
off every thing
that hinders us that’s every distraction
i want you to hear me say this we’re not
even talking about sin yet
sin comes it says literally throw off
every thing or every distraction that
hinders us
and the sin
so you can drift or drown
because of a distraction not even a sin
is this sin no it’s not sin for you to
eat 50 oreos before you
go to sleep let me stop
but you are distracted and then you will
be praying for a miracle five years from
now
and the miracle never had to be a
miracle
if you had developed fixed focus in this
season of being anchored
it says don’t be thrown off by
everything
that hinders you and the sin that easily
entangles us and let us
run with perseverance the race
marked out for us the course god has set
us and we can’t go off one degree
if you go off one degree even in the
relay race as the last runner is the
anchor
as my sister put it in her poem the last
person is the anchor and they can run
and they can run but what happens if
they’re one degree off
they get in somebody else’s lane and
what are they
disqualified
fixing our eyes
on jesus not pastor mike
i’m so glad that y’all listen to me
every morning
but if this is your substitute for the
word of god
and devotion and actually making time
for him
i am a poor substitute baby i am capri
sun
and you need v8 do you understand what
i’m saying you need something that can
sustain you
all i’m doing is pointing you to the
natural resource i’m only pointing you
to him
but i’m telling you fix your eyes
on jesus the pioneer
and perfector of our faith
you always move in the direction of your
focus
you always do
can i say it like this your favorable
future
or your ferocious failure are in the
direction of your focus
you decide your
favorable future the thing that god has
for you that thing where everything is
working out
as well as your ferocious failure that
thing that you feel like you can never
come back from
are in the direction of your focus
keep the camera right here
i’m looking uh-uh don’t follow me you go
back to where you’re supposed to go
see because the problem is i’m looking
at a camera
i’m directly focused on the wrong thing
and some of you right now you you come
here
right over here yeah yeah come on now
now plan to her
show them what i’m looking at the whole
time
i’m looking directly at a camera and now
i’m looking at this camera
and now i’m looking at this camera and
it feels like i’m in purpose because i’m
looking at cameras
they can see me but i’m
looking at the wrong
camera it doesn’t matter if you’re
focused if you’re focused on the wrong
thing
and i along with transformation church
have made a decision to drop our anchor
and fix our focus on jesus if you’re
gonna fix your focus on jesus
why don’t you give him a shout of praise
in the place
[Applause]
jesus immediately reached verse 31
out and grabbed peter peter
pete p diddy
p money you have such little faith
why do you doubt me i did it
with feeding the five thousand i did it
for you
in verse eight i’ve been a deliverer bro
put some respect on my name bro why did
you
but god in his grace
he’s so good to us that when we don’t
deserve it
he still does it
what i’m trying to tell somebody who
feels like they’re drowning right now
is peter was a disciple and drowned
you’re okay
i know i know i know you’ve never been
in this place before and you
never thought you would be begging for
this and you never thought you would
have to start over like this
and it feels like everything around you
is caving in on you and you’re drowning
but if somebody who jesus chose to walk
with him
drowned at one point in their life and
god saved them
you’re gonna be okay
i just want to be the the face of faith
for you
because some people that are on the
other side of this screen right now
your discernment has been off for a long
time
and you’ve drifted not just one degree
but maybe 10 15
20 degrees off and you feel like it’s
hopeless
and you’re literally drowning and god
sent me to tell you
you’ve just been distracted in deep
but if you would allow me i’ll reach out
and i’ll grab your hands and i’ll take
you to safety
write this last point down with god
the doubt won’t drown you
he literally says why do you have so
much little doubt
the doubt didn’t leave when god saved
them
there’s still areas of our life that we
want to have crazy faith in but
sometimes it takes us drowning and god
saving us
for us to realize oh
he still loves me even with the
questions
even with the fear even with the failure
with god the doubt won’t drown you when
they climbed back into the boat
the wind stopped then disciples
worshiped
you really are the son of god they
exclaimed
i want you to realize no matter what
you’re facing
when jesus is with you
every element in your atmosphere has to
change
in chapter eight jesus spoke to the
winds in the waves
did y’all see it right here when he
climbed back into the boat
the wind just stopped
as god walks in the authority that he
has been given in your life
your only response is to do what the
disciples did
worship i’m just going to worship god
i’m going to worship him because he
saved me i’m going to worship him
because he stopped the wind this is the
thing i think about the disciples were
still in the storm
even though they weren’t on the water
and when jesus steps on the boat the
storm stops
[Music]
what i’m saying is if you’re walking on
water or you’re just in the deep god’s
saying
i’ll i’ll take care of the storm
i’ll take care of the wind you take care
of the worship
[Music]
i’ll take care of the wind you take care
of the worship that’s a song y’all
you take care of the wind that’s my new
confession now
the storms are coming god you take care
of the wind
but i’ll take care of the worship father
you won’t have to pump and prime me
to give you glory to give you praise
because you’ve sustained me
you take care of the wind god and i’ll
take care of the worship
and today at the end of this series
how we’re going to be anchored how we’re
going to be sustained is knowing our
anchor
is still jesus
[Music]
it’s still him i feel i feel i feel a
a worship coming over everybody hands
lifted everywhere
come on if you’re somewhere you can
stand up why don’t you stand up right
now
i feel like this we’re deciding that
we’re gonna drop our anchor
god you take care of the wind i’ll take
care of the worship
right now i want you to lift your voice
and i want you to praise god
i want you to give him thanks i want you
to sing unto him
a new song i want you to begin to call
him who he is
he’s a provider he’s good i know some of
y’all this may seem weird
but when we worship god we use our lives
our words our hands
to express our love to him god thank you
for being good
thank you for sustaining us thank you
for being committed to us when we
weren’t committed to you
thank you for not letting us drown thank
you father that you would continue
to pick us up father god right now
you take care of the wind but we’re
going to take care of the worship
come on lift it up right now somebody
say you sustain
come on lift it up lift your worship up
god i trust you in the middle of the
storm
god i trust you god i got to worship
i got to worship god you’re going to
take care of the marriage
you’re gonna take care of the finances i
got to worship
you sustain me through everything father
god we will be anchored on you god
come on in your home in your house lift
your hands
teach your kids how to worship through
the storm
come on come on let’s declare it
your promises always come true say your
promise is always good you’re a good god
you save us when we
[Music]
give him worship
we’re trusting you god we’re angry
[Music]
[Music]
strong power god you take care of the
wind
and i’ll take care of the worst he said
i will
so i will
say i will trust you
that’s the statement of being anchored
somebody just say i will trust you say i
will hey
you got the win you got the marriage you
got the problems
i got to worship somebody safe
you got this church you got my son you
got my wife
come on tell god i got to worship
all the discrimination i’ve been feeling
all the social unrest
i’ma worship you through it right now
somebody say
oh i feel the presence of god somebody’s
getting their worship back
you can’t control the wind but the
anchor can
so i want you to worship
[Music]
some of y’all needed this moment all
week somebody just began to praise him
right now something’s shifting
something’s changing it’s changing in
your home
it’s changing in your mind it’s changing
in your emotions
let’s lift this thing up one time come
on somebody declaring faith
i will trust you safe
woo
somebody’s dropping their anchor on the
word of god
somebody declare
no matter who comes and who goes
god i’m saying i’ll trust you safe
all over the world lift your hands say
you sustain god
[Music]
just one more time just sing that we got
the worship god
we got it god here we are
[Music]
no matter what’s going on
no matter how i’m feeling in the morning
excuse
me no matter if my jaw turns around
no matter if the water is the ground
[Music]
you’ve had me since i was born
so right now god in the middle of
everything i’m trusting you
[Music]
your promises always come true
[Music]
just sing that one more time y’all it’s
ministering to me
[Music]
so
you’re a good good father
it’s who you are
[Music]
this is the thing you needed i can’t
control the winds in the waves
but i can control my focus and i’m
focusing on jesus
[Music]
[Applause]
god you gonna take care of it i got to
worship
say you’re a good good
[Music]
he’s reaching out right now
[Music]
he’s reaching out right now
[Music]
so listen um the only thing that i can
offer you now it’s not a good sermon not
a good illustration i only can offer you
the anchor his name is jesus
that’s how we gonna make it through
every storm y’all i’m not promising you
a stormless 2021
i’m promising you an anchor in jesus and
how do we sustain we fix our eyes on him
we get in good community we keep showing
up for church we serve
people we give we love we become more
like him
but you can’t do that without him
there’s so many people trying to
manifest
things that god freely gives
why are you manifesting something that
comes with salvation
all you have to do is acknowledge you’re
no longer in control
that jesus has already won the victory
for you
and today i want to give you that
opportunity it’s the greatest decision i
ever made
it’s the thing that took me from being a
liar a manipulator addicted to
pornography
somebody who had so much darkness in
their heart so many images
so emotionally distracted so not a
perfect man i’m not a perfect man
but i’m a progressing man a man that
hears from god
that allows his discernment to override
his desires
today i want to offer that to you
all you have to do is not what
religious people tell you to do stop
smoking stop drinking
stop doing this like like if you could
have done it you would have already
stopped doing it
you knew it was bad when you started it
you know
lying and all that other stuff you know
it our our nature
knows it the problem is we don’t have in
our nature the ability to do this
without god
and so today i’m offering you a free
gift
it’s the gift of grace you can’t earn it
you don’t deserve it
it’s unmerited it’s not because of how
much money you have
or who your family is and if you know
the pastor or the leader or
it’s none of that it’s because god cares
so much that 2
000 years ago he went to the cross and
he decided my children
in 2021 are gonna need me and they’re
gonna deny me and they’re gonna act like
they can do it without me but they’re
gonna come to the end of the rope and
they’re gonna feel like they’re drowning
and then i’m gonna be
their anchor and today
along with hundreds if not thousands of
other people
today i want to lead you in a prayer
that changes everything
according to romans 10 9 it says all you
have to do
is not confess everything you’ve done
yet that’s not what you do you don’t go
to the hospital
and fix yourself you come there because
you need help
and jesus says today i’ll help you if
you give your life to me
i’ll help you fix your habits
and today on the count of three we’re
about to pray but if you want to be
added into that prayer are you saying
pastor today i want to give my life to
jesus
i want to confess that he lived and he
died just for me and today
i’m giving control over tim if you want
to do that i’m telling you hundreds if
not thousands of other people are doing
it right now
and then there are going to be hundreds
every day that this message goes out on
rebroadcast that are going to do the
same thing
the holy spirit stands out outside of
time it’s as real
at this moment as it is in that moment
right there that you’re standing in
if you’re saying pastor include me in
that prayer on the count of three i just
want you to slip your hand up wherever
you are
forget about who’s with you forget about
who’s around if you’re in a public
coffee shop
it don’t matter they won’t stand with
you before god this will be a decision
between you and god and this decision
causes you not to drift one you’re
making the greatest decision of your
life
two i’m so proud of you but that don’t
even matter because your name is gonna
be written in the lamb’s book of life
three shoot your hand up all over the
world come on somebody shoot your hand
up their hands going up all over the
world right now
will you say this prayer with me and
transformation nation
because church imagination you know we
don’t pray alone we’re praying together
for the benefit of those coming to
christ
everybody say lord thank you for being
my anchor
today i know i’m here
because you sustained me so today
i’m giving you my life i believe you
lived
you died and you rose again
just for me so change me
renew me transform me
i’m yours i’m anchored
in jesus name amen
transformation nation can we give god
praise
all over the world oh come on y’all
y’all got to help me give god
praise for the people who have given
their life to christ
[Music]
your mercies are new every day
so i will that’s what just happened
his mercies his mercies are new every
day
his mercies his mercies
that’s what you just experienced his
grace his grace is
new everything so i will
okay so let me tell you something if you
just prayed that prayer number one
i’m so proud of you number two your
eternity is secure
number three you got a family
and we love you and what we want you to
do
is we want to know who you are we want
to get to know you want to give you some
resources
will you please text the number on the
screen we’re not going to harass you
we’re going to help you
and we want you to start on this journey
of progression
with us okay i don’t preach for an hour
and 40 minutes y’all i am
dead tired but i gave you everything
that i had for this message and i
believe
honestly this whole series
wasn’t for right now
this series was taught for a different
season
go ahead and save subscribe um download
this whole series because there will be
a moment you need it
and it will be like we’re speaking to
the exact situation
at that moment the one thing that i want
you to know
is that peter walked on the water alone
and you don’t have to walk through
anything alone
today i’m not talking to everybody
because everybody’s not ready for this
step but there’s some people that have
gone to the deep
and i think there’s probably 25 to 30
000 people that are part of our church
core right now
and hundreds of thousands that’ll watch
during the week i’m talking to our
church corps
i need about 5 000 of y’all who are
deciding
i’m going to be anchored and i’m going
to lead
other people to the deep i’m going to
help
other people not drown i’m going to
speak
life when people get off the boat and
start walking on water i’m gonna be
there encouraging them when they get
married and when they have
deaths and when they’re going through
hard situation i’m gonna be there as an
anchor for them
if that’s you i’m talking to leaders
right now i want you to sign
up for our b groups beta
this next season we’re going to be
taking only leaders through small groups
because honestly y’all
if we opened up b groups for everybody
right now we wouldn’t have enough people
to lead and and if you don’t have
leaders
you’re going to end up drifting
and we’re not doing that this is the
year of no drift
so we’re going to spend this first few
months building leaders and some of you
need to answer that call today you’ve
been saying god what am i supposed to do
how am i supposed to serve here you are
you need to text the number on the
screen text beta to 828282
and when you do that you’ll have
responses and it’s a process you don’t
just get to go through it like
we’re going to vet everybody because we
only want people leading groups
that are able to reproduce and help
point people to jesus help fix their
eyes on them and one day
all of us are going to be there because
we’ve been called to disciple people
but if that’s you answer the call today
today not tomorrow not tuesday
so i need confirmation this is your
confirmation right here here i am i’m
black and i’m wearing a white hoodie
that says no drift
this is your confirmation text that
number and by the fall
i believe transformation church we’re
going to be stronger and more anchored
than we’ve ever been in our life today i
pray over you a blessing
a blessing that literally surpasses you
that it moves to your children’s
children
god i declare that the things we’ve
decided to be anchored on today
we will not drift god show us the
distractions
that have been keeping us in delusion
while we’ve been in the deep
and i thank you for clear vision this is
our vision series
and you have said you’re giving us
vision for the future so today father
god
we trust you thank you that you sustain
in the middle of it all you remain the
same through the rain
you still reign you sustain i thank you
that this will be our church’s best week
ever
that father god you go before us you
stand around us and you’re behind us
father that you are our deliverer that
anything we come into father god you’ve
already been there
so we do not have to fear today we stand
anchored in your word
that we will not drift have your way in
our lives
and we give you glory we give you honor
and we give you praise
in jesus name somebody say i am
anchored can you give god a shout of
praise
wherever you are go out and live a
transformed life i love you