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oh come on let’s give god a shout out
praise
is that the best you got hey we made it
through 21 days
of prayer and fasting
glory to god hey listen if you are just
joining us today
i want to say hi welcome my name is
michael
and i have the awesome privilege of
serving as the lead pastor here at
transformation church and
if you don’t know um we give the first
of our year to god
because we believe that if we give god
our first
and and he blesses it everything else
that comes after it
is something that is going to be good
and we just finished 21 days
of pray oh y’all they’re not excited
like i’m excited but we just finished
21 days and um
amber lee said it everybody’s already
said it i think this is not the end of
something this is just
the beginning somebody say this is just
the beginning
come on type it in the chat this is just
the beginning
and i really believe that our our goal
is to hear and obey for the rest of this
year if god asks you
to continue to fast like he has asked me
to continue to fast
thank you lord
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i’m going to listen and obey
if he’s saying give up social media one
day a week
or one whole week every month
or you only can be on social media for
one week in a like
it doesn’t matter listen and obey
this is that season where god wants us
to be anchored and i just believe
in in my spirit this is not the end of
things somebody say it is just
the beginning if you’re excited to be in
the house of god this morning will you
give
god uh oh is that the best you got
glory to god at home on the treadmill
where you’re at let’s give god praise
all right
if you’re already seating stay seated if
you in here sit down
i have a message today that um
i thought was going to come last week
but god wanted to let us know that he’s
still
speaking and um i don’t know i’ve just
heard so many testimonies this week of
god just speaking to people
speaking to him in several different
ways um but i believe that today i have
a very unique
intentional assignment to really give
you around this vision series where
we’re talking about being anchored
i i want to give you um just a really
clear definition so i need everybody to
buckle your seatbelt right now
seriously this message is going to
change everything
it’s been brewing in me for a couple of
weeks and then there was more clarity
given today
and i love being able to know that god
is really speaking something so clearly
that it shows up in my life
it shows up in other people’s life it’s
about to influence your life
and today we are starting week three
of a series we’re calling what anchor
say it one more time anchor i need
everybody in the chat to drop like 50
anchors in in the chat right now
because we’re going to be anchored in
2021. somebody said i will be
anchored that was the biggest faith
statement some of you have made all year
because you’re used to drifting you’re
used to going with whatever and i can’t
really get on that yet
but this is the year of anti-drift
god told us very clearly that whatever
will
take you off course this year we have to
be
intentional to stay anchored
and so as we look at that word i want to
give you a definition a working
definition
of the word anchored an anchor is a
heavy object
attached to something to keep the vessel
in place what do you have in your life
to keep you in place
oh i didn’t say it had an age
qualification because some of the older
saints think that you know everything
i’m grown but you drift
i got money but you’re always drifting
and god is saying what has have you um
decided is going to be in your life
to keep the vessel in place and the way
it keeps it in place watch this is
either by weight
or by its grip so if you’re going to be
anchored to something
you’ve got to be anchored by weight or
by grip
another the other definition says a
source of security
or stability that’s what an anchor is
it’s to hold something in place
the last definition is to securely
firmly fix what god
says to us as he’s telling us i want you
to be anchored
there must be a place that god wants us
to stay
that will allow us to be able to
withstand
to be able to withhold to be able to be
in the same place no matter what comes
or what goes
and the truth of the matter is that many
of us including the one speaking
if i don’t have my faith fixed on
something i get distracted oh are y’all
gonna leave me up here by myself does
anybody get distracted
come on hands up in the room hands up in
the chat does anybody get distracted
some of y’all right now are watching me
and something is distracting you in the
room
somebody’s breath is distracting you
because they just sat down so no i’m
just playing
but but there’s things that are
distracting you it may be a noise
it may be somebody’s social media feed
it may be you looking at where you’re
not compared to where somebody else is
uh-oh and what god is saying is
you need to let all the peripheral go
anything that would allow you to drift
and you need to have an anchor that
allows your vessel
to stay in place i’m telling you some of
y’all been moving so much
you you go on vacation to try to run to
something
or you go to some type of show to try to
escape something and god says
i’m removing everything so that you can
stay in place
with something that will last somebody
shot at me anchored
so so when i begin to think about this
this idea of anchor you know my mind
works a little bit
differently god showed me something very
clearly and i’m a reverse my
way reverse engineer my way into anchor
today
this is the first point i want you to
write down
when i think about an anchor and why
it’s needed and where it’s needed i
think about a boat in a ship and i think
about sea
and i think about an ocean and the thing
that came to my mind as soon
as i started to study this is god
spoke to me and said michael it’s not
safer in the shallow
it’s not safer in
the shallow now i started to think about
this and god says
if i told you the word is anchored
you do not need an anchor in shallow
waters
so if i’m saying the word is for you to
be anchored
that means your shallow christianity
your shallow faith your little bit
of obedience is not what i’m calling you
to because i would not supply you
with a prophetic word like anchored and
you were supposed to stay in the shallow
uh-huh see the problem is right now
is all of us are yelling a gerd in the
kiddie pool
can i show you this is what our
christianity looks like
it looks like god i want more i need you
to do a great work in me
and all you doing is living in the
kiddie pool
it may look like i’m surrounded and i’m
surrounded by you
hey oh god i feel it
and god said you don’t need an anchor
here cause you’re in control here
you don’t need an anchor here it’s not
deep enough
for you to need me to be your anchor
right here
you still get to make the decisions
right here you
still get to define the relationships
that are good for you or not
right here you get to decide what city
you get to go to
and i’m being my best self and god said
you’re not deep enough
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it is not safer in the shallow
and what we do is get in our little
christian clubs and we start getting all
of our christian toys
and we start getting all of our noodles
and we come out
and we get our bible reading plans and
our journals
and we come in here
going deep in god this year
this is what you look like i just
finished 21 days of prayer and fasting
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and god said all you prayed about was
your situation
oh no but i i want to be anchored in god
all my friend groups is in the shallow
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god do a deep work in me he said you’re
not in enough
you’re not deep enough
and may i submit to you this is what the
church looks like
we look goofy
asking god to do big things with shallow
water
we don’t need an anchor when the water
is so shallow
we don’t need an anchor if we can decide
how wet
we get
well pastor mike you up here looking a
mess this is how you look every day
going to work
this is how you do relationship and you
think can’t nobody see it
you toting around your bible and and
talking about how
great god has been in your life and all
that and god said you’ve been too
shallow though
if god told us as a church the word for
the year is what
hank it’s what that means it’s not safer
in the shallow
wherever you’ve been shallow wherever
you’ve not like let god take you deeper
wherever you’ve decided see this is the
crazy thing the shallow is all about
control
have you ever met somebody who can’t
swim but will still go to the pool or
the beach
where do they hang out in the shallow
end
why because in the shallow i can be
around what is making everybody wet
but not have to give up control
i’m talking to somebody right now who
thinks that just coming to church
and logging on is enough but you still
in the shadow you won’t give god
your tithe you still want to be in
control
you won’t commit to a small group you
still want to be in control i don’t want
nobody to know all that about me i don’t
want nobody and god says it’s not
safer in the shallow well they don’t
know what i did they don’t know who i’ve
been god said but i do
and i know everything about you and i
know if you would just come out a little
deeper
i know if you would just come out a
little deeper i could get you into a
place
that you get to see things and be
things that were never possible
but what you doing cannonballing
into the shallow
i’m sick of the kiddie pool christianity
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and what we want to do is invite our
friends to this
what we want to do is have relationships
in this
what we want to do is reach our purpose
in calling
in the kiddie pool this does not have
the capacity
to hold what god has made me to be
this does not have the capacity the
shallow does not have the capacity
i can’t backstroke in the kiddie pool
i can’t reach my purpose in the kiddie
pool
i cannot be able to do certain things in
the kiddie pool
and you think it’s better because you
can’t drown in the kiddie pool
so the spirit of fear has gripped you so
much
that you would rather stay in a place
that you feel like you can control
instead of letting god take you deeper
he told me so clearly he said michael
it’s not safer in the shallow
and i’m prophetically telling somebody
right now
that you are about to move from the
shallow
just doing your bible reading plans not
going to be enough in 2021
uh going to the club on the weekends and
dressing like a thot
and then coming and doing all of this
stuff you’re too shallow baby
walking around letting everybody think
you’re a player and you want to not
really be married but what god desired
for you
is to be a man of valor and a man of
victory and a man that sets a
generational
pattern he’s saying it’s too shallow
where you’re at
and every pastor who’s preaching so that
people can come back
it’s too shallow where you’re at if
everybody leaves this stream and i do
what god called me to do
it’s okay we’ll be all right in the deep
but 2021 we’re leaving
the kiddie pool somebody needs to type
that right now we’re
leaving the kiddie pool somebody say i’m
leaving
the kiddie pool it’s uncomfortable
actually
to have this
all of this water on me right now and
still i’m functioning
as if i’ve actually been submerged or
subdued
i’m actually just damp right now
there’s like there’s like squashy stuff
in my
in my shoes and it’s crazy because this
is what the world sees
the world sees footprints like we’ve
been with him
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it looks it looks like i’ve been with
him
it look i mean the footprints of what’s
happening looks like i got a real
relationship with him
i posted every 21 day in prayer graphic
and so it looks like
i’ve been with him
but the proof that i’ve fully
given my life to be submerged
my head has to go under
see see the difference between
the kiddie pool and the deep waters
is that your mind your head see
everything that you’re dealing right now
is gone here
this acts because of this
can i be real this head down here acts
because of this head
the these hands act because of this head
all of my actions line up
with my head and if god has your whole
body and not your head
if you’ve been in shallow enough water
to steal tipito your way
into your own opinion and into your own
idea
ain’t got no scriptural basis for
nothing but this
is how i feel and god said this is the
year of submission
what a swimmer has to do to water is
submit to it
what a boat does to water is submit to
it
what i’m encouraging you right now the
shallow is overrated
it reminds me of luke 5 4 when jesus
was preaching and it says he stepped
into one of the boats
and then jesus asked simon like he’s
going to ask you
he asked the owner see see god’s not
going to do anything the greatest thing
that god gave you was choice everybody
say choice
that he’s not going to violate your
choice in this situation
that’s why some of you have been 13
years in the kiddie pool some of y’all
are great and got kids
and you’ve led them to think that a
chris a kiddie pool christianity
is the way to do it what i’m telling you
is yeah your eternity
is secure but your history now has been
stifled because you just worried about
going to heaven
in your christianity of the kiddie pool
and god’s saying but i want to use you
right now
in this day and age and he’s saying to
all of us like he said to simon peter
he said push it out into the water
like come off the shore and i just
believe
that is my mandate today
to ask you in the first month of 2021
will you please push this thing out from
the seashore
will you come out of the shallow verse
four it says when he had finished
speaking this one always messes me up so
he pushed out
simon like many of you even that did
this 21 days of prayer in fasting
or people who have decided to give a
tenth to god
of every part of your increase or those
who decided to be generous and serve
with your time or those who are deciding
i’m not going to miss the sunday or when
when we do small groups i’m going to get
involved like those who are
you pushed out from the shore but then
it challenges us i always thought it was
a push off
and then they were in the deep no no no
he said push it out
into the water so we sat in the boat and
he taught the crowds from there
when he was finished speaking he said to
simon
again now go out
where it is deeper
i thought i did enough i pushed out
and you spoke and then he said i’ll
speak again
and when i speak again the only word i’m
gonna say
is deeper somebody say deeper
and i know that scares some people right
now because you’re thinking like
what does that mean it’s the point
when you go deeper only god
can control the circumstances
today god is telling us
to go everybody say deeper if you’re
taking notes the title of this message
is it’s not safer in the shallow
because i started looking at all this
kiddie pool christianity that’s going on
and it took me back to psalms 42
when david made this statement he said
deep calls to deep
in the roars of your waterfall all your
waves and
breakers have swept over me this is the
thing
david was in a place where he was
lamenting and he was thinking about all
the crazy things that were going on in
his life and david said the deep
hole in me is calling out for the
deep fullness of you some of y’all have
gone to counselor after counselor
you’ve gone to drug after drug you’ve
gone to escape after escape
and the deep cavern that’s in your soul
i’m about to preach this thing
is calling and crying out for the deep
fullness of god
but you will not get overwhelmed in the
shallow
what are you saying pastor mike an
anchor is only needed in the deep
don’t yell anchor no more don’t tattoo
it
don’t post it if you’re going to stay in
the shallow
if god gave us the word anchored at the
top of 2021
that means we got to go deeper hebrews 6
1.
this confirms what i’m saying it says
therefore
could we just move beyond the shallow
could we move beyond the elementary
teachings about
christ and being taken forward into
maturity
not laying again the foundations of
repentance from
acts that lead to death and the faith in
god
can i break down what this is saying
that the first step to you learning
how to go deeper is to get in the kiddie
pool
and god says now this is going to offend
some people’s whole theology
god says that literally salvation
and faith are kiddie pool
christianity
he’s saying at some point
we have to acknowledge our eternity is
secure i’ve put my faith in jesus
and i have faith in him and this is
where most christians stay
their entire life i messed up this
weekend uh oh but i’m saved again
uh oh i messed this up and god says you
are playing in the kiddie pool
could we move past the elementary
teachings the foundation it’s a
foundational thing
it is necessary it is a thing but every
sunday in pulpit after pulpit after
pulpit
all we do is pacify people who want to
decide this week to get out of the
kiddie pool
and decide this week that i want to get
in this week i’m going to post
my buns and do a blessed challenge like
this
but this week i want to be holy and this
week i want to tell my friends and
family
to live a certain way and this week i
want to be all about the money
god is saying could we move past
this elementary stuff and go deeper
can we push out and today i want to talk
to you
i want to talk to you about going deeper
and this is what i want to say if you’re
going to go deep
your anchor you have to drop it low
some of y’all been dropping it low all
week i’ve seen the busted challenge i’ve
seen y’all
that’s not what i’m talking about i’m
talking about dropping the anchor of
your life low
i’m talking about like right now if i
had an anchor
where’s that where’s that little just
anchor that i just wanna i just wanna
show you something real quick
this is a small depiction of what some
of us
look like in our life and look like
around in everything that we’re doing
when we have an anchor in the shallow
end of our life
we cannot drop it low we can’t bring it
to
a pla listen this right here
is the anchor
there’s nowhere for it to go in the
shallow
what god has called you to
is not supposed to stop at salvation
what god has called you to it’s not
supposed to stop
at having faith what god has called you
to
is not supposed to stop with you just
being safe
what god has called us to is not
supposed to just stop
at tulsa oklahoma what god ah
what god has called us to is not
supposed to just stop in my prayer
closet
i gotta drop it low i’m just trying to
build the case that
the shallow’s not sexier
the shallow’s not safer everybody say
into the deep say it again into the deep
why are you saying that pastor mike
because the depths of your life
need the depths of his love
every place in me that is still broken
as the pastor of the church
the depths of my life the places that i
don’t want to talk about
the places i don’t even want my
counselor to know about
come on can we be real the insecurities
that have been there sludging around for
decades
that depth of my life needs the depths
of his
love and the only way
you can drop an anchor low is in
the deep so i’m going to give you just
four points that you need to know when
it comes to having
and needing an anchor the first point i
want you to write it down you
need an anchor somebody say i need
an anchor ephesians 4 11. it says so
christ himself gave the apostles the
prophets
the evangelists the pastors the teachers
everybody on transformation church staff
to equip his people
so we’re not here to do the work for you
we’re here to give you the tools to do
the work
i did a series last year called who’s
the minister here and so many people if
i said who’s the minister here
y’all would point at me if we were all
in an arena but i would dare say
according to this scripture
if we ask who’s the minister here
everybody say i’m the minister
come on raise your hand say i’m the
minister oh my goodness that means god
factored in you’re crazy
he factored in your experience or lacked
thereof
he factored in your flaws and he still
said yeah i’m gonna put them in a church
situation
and i’m gonna give them pastor mike and
i’m gonna give them past debri and
pastor barbara and pastor charles and
the team
and what we’re gonna do through the
bible reading plan and through small
groups and through
and through all these different
mechanisms we’re gonna give them the
ability to be equipped
to equip for the works of service so
that the body of christ may be built up
until we all reach unity in the faith
and in the knowledge of the son
and become oh here’s that word again
mature
like again the shallow end and that
other scripture
is for us to know that we have to be
maturing that means we have to come out
of the kiddie pool attaining the whole
measure
of the fullness of christ remember i
just said the depths of our
life need the fullness the depths of his
love
until we experience that look at verse
14 bring special attention
then we will no longer be
infants toss back and forth by the waves
and blown here and there
by every wind of teaching and by the
cunning and craftiness of people
in their deceitful scheming can i tell
you something
that that really really really kind of
bothers me today
because right now everybody’s a prophet
of god everybody has a platform
everybody as long as you got a camera
and you got a youtube connection
somebody’s watching somebody’s hearing
you you have to have no validity
we don’t know what you’re anchored to we
don’t know anything but what ends up
happening and that creates a difficulty
for people who are not anchored to
something sure
because then you can get tossed to and
fro you can listen to me
and then scroll up and see somebody that
does hinduism or buddhism and
think that it’s the same thing and
you’re tossed to and fro
from a motivational speaker to a mogul
and you think it’s the same thing as
god’s word
and you’re being tossed to and fro god
gives you a word to be anchored
and your favorite celebrity says grind
hustle do i
and you’re tossed
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to and fro and what god told me he said
write this point down
the anti-anchor is immaturity
he’s literally telling us we got to come
out of the kiddie pool
we got to go into the deep we have to
mature
and we cannot rely on our immature
thinking
our immature responses our immature
feelings
you’re gonna know that you’re not being
anchored when you act like a kid this
year
when god tells you to do something
when somebody talks about you and you go
right back to talking about them back
a eye for an eye i’m too far too if i’m
not turning the other cheek i’m gonna
smack day on the cheek
and god said oh that’s what that’s what
immature people do
that that’s what people who aren’t
anchored in me see the reason that
people are tossed back and forth
is because they are not tied to
something that has
enough weight the crazy thing about this
is i’m going to give you our anchor
scripture we were in hebrews at the top
but i’m going to drop you down to verse
19. look at hebrews 6 verse 19.
this is our anchor scripture this is the
first scripture god take me took me to
when he gave me the word that we were
supposed to be anchored he said we have
this hope as believers
as an anchor for our soul do you know
what your soul is god says i will give
you an anchor for your mind
your will and your emotions that is firm
and secure it enters the inner sanctuary
behind the curtain where our forerunner
here’s our anchor
jesus has entered on our behalf he has
become
our high priest or our anchor forever in
the order of melchizedek what i’m trying
to tell you is
what you are anchored to is not about
the intention
but it’s all about the integrity
okay the great thing about
everybody and this word anchored
is all of you are already anchored to
something
like some of us are anchored to
television
some of us are anchored to success
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others of us are anchored to what
our idea is of the future
some of us are anchored to what we
desire and what we want
and what god is saying is if you
don’t realize and understand that it
doesn’t matter if the intention was good
if it does not have the weight to hold
you up
it does not have the intake integrity to
be your anchor
it’s hard to to really get you to
understand this without showing you
so so i’m gonna show you right now i’m
about to get anchored to something
and i’m a married man that wants to put
my faith
in the relationship that i have but the
crazy thing about any relationship we’ll
have on this earth
it does not have the integrity to hold
me up
so it doesn’t matter if i met that
person when we were all
both in the same place and we didn’t
know god and we grew together and
we were firm believers and then we got
married and we had a
it doesn’t matter the intention is
everybody wants their relationship to
hold them up
the problem is when the weight of life
comes to my life
and when i have to put tension on the
relationship
what ends up happening is
i get disappointed because that did not
have the integrity to hold me up
i’ll give you another example some of
y’all have put your
worth in your dream you have put
success as the thing that you’re gonna
be anchored to so as long as i make this
much money
by this time and have this house and
this car
and that’s why people who have millions
of dollars
will put a trigger up to their head and
put pills in their mouth
because what they tied to and told
everybody this is what i wanted
since i was seven when the weight of
life comes
it disappoints because it does not have
the integrity
to hold me up the reason you need an
anchor
is because what you’ve been tied to
doesn’t have the integrity
to hold you up i don’t know what it is
for you
i know what it was for me the
picture-perfect life
the life where everything was good i was
angered
to the idea of being
michael todd whatever that meant
and as long as i could be michael todd
i’d be able to be held up through life
you know the funny thing is i became
michael todd at the same time i found
out my son had autism
and when i was trying to hold on to
being michael todd
and hold my marriage together and come
out and preach for everybody
and when the weight of life and the
storm of life started raging
when i needed something to hold me up
and this is how many of us look today
tired frustrated
broken hurting
ready to give up and this is what we do
we let go of the anchor
and now we’re out here in the sea of
life
drifting
your marriage is on this boat
your children are on this boat
you used to hear god but now all you
hear is the waves
you’re so sick of the worship songs
you’re done with the idea of hope
and the problem is that the integrity
of what you were tying yourself to
from the very beginning did not have
enough weight
to hold you up you
need an anchor somebody say
i need an anchor i got good news for you
right down this point you have an anchor
see this is the beautiful thing about it
god is the only one that meets supply
and demand
he tells you what you need but then he
gives it to you
you need an anchor but somebody say i
have an anger
look what hebrews 12 1 says oh i love
the word of god it says therefore since
we are surrounded by such a great cloud
of witnesses
let us start off everything that
hinders and the sin that easily
entangles us y’all thought
jada came up with entanglement nope it
was the bible
and it says lay that entanglement aside
and let us run
with perseverance the race marked out
for us somebody say i have a race
it has nothing to do with the person
next to you it has nothing to do with
your team
i have a race that’s already marked out
for me it says
fixing our eyes on who jesus
when i fix my eyes on an anchor that can
hold
his name is jesus the pioneer and the
perfecter of my faith
my anchor somebody say my anchor for the
joy that was set before him
he endured the cross scorning its
shame and sat down at the right hand of
the father
of the throne of god consider him our
anchor
who endured such opposition from sinners
so that you will not grow weary
and lose heart god said if you feel like
the person
that is just laid out on the bed of life
and you’re weary god said i went to the
cross
just for you
i know you would need an anchor
2 000 years ago i saw you
in 2021 about to give up
and so when they beat me and they s
they scourged me and they used
um spit to to mock me
i could have called angels to come and
rescue me
but i saw aaron
and i saw jay and i
saw caleb and i saw
bree and i saw brad
and god saw put your name in there come
on say it what’s your name
and god saw what’s your name and god saw
what’s your name and when he saw you
he said i have to be their anchor
so that they will not grow weary and
lose heart can i make it so plain
jesus is our anchor
like oh we’re anchored not to just
anything
because if it doesn’t have the integrity
to hold me up i’m going to fall anywhere
but anyway but somebody say i’m anchored
to jesus say it with your chest i’m
angered
to jesus see the crazy thing
about when you actually find an anchor
that holds
when i anchored my life to jesus
i could live in a manner
that did not have to have a safety net
see when i was anchored to something
that i wasn’t sure was going to hold me
up
i had to make sure i had something close
to me
that would make me feel better when i
fail
that’s what alcohol is for some of y’all
that’s what being addicted to the likes
so when i fail in life
if i get enough likes if i fail in life
if i make another deal
if i fail in life but my kids do good
you gotta have something to make you
feel better about the fall
but when you’re anchored to something
that’s sure
something that’s steady when the
the life comes to me i can
lean all my weight on it i don’t feel
like preaching this sunday
i don’t feel like being a husband this
sunday i’m leaning i want to fall
but something is holding me up
i want to let go but something’s holding
on
whoa and when i fall because things
happen
i can get
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oh y’all thought that wasn’t planned the
bible says the righteous man falls seven
times
but he gets backed up again i’m about to
preach this thing
so i fail and i wanted to let go
but it didn’t let go of me can somebody
thank god that you have an anchor that
won’t let go of you
some of y’all acting too bougie right
now like you got yourself here
but i thank god that jesus is my anchor
[Applause]
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in 2020 i wanted to give up
but i had a hold of something that had a
hold of me
i don’t know why i’m talking to you
right now but somebody’s feeling like
they’re about to let go
but i’m so tangled up tied up in this
thing that even if i take my hands off
of it
even if i’m not holding it no more it’s
still holding me up
somebody said i have an anchor and his
name is jesus
can we give god a five second praise
right now
if he is the anchor that doesn’t let go
therefore first corinthians 15 58
therefore my dear brothers
stand firm oh not just that i need an
anchor
and not just that i have an anchor
and jesus is my anchor this says
that if i’m in christ i should stand
firm
and let nothing move me that sounds like
an anchor to me
and always give yourself fully to the
work of the lord because you know
that your labor in the lord is not in
vain
what i found out is because we have an
anchor we can be an anchor
see the crazy thing about it is that
many of us
are the anchor that is going to hold
people who are far from christ
until they have the ability to encounter
him
you missed it you thought this was about
you this is about your co-worker
that gets on your nerves this is about
that cousin you don’t even want to
invite to the family reunion
this is about that uncle god said the
reason i need you to be anchored to me
is because when you’re anchored to me
then you can become an anchor
for somebody else somebody say i am an
anchor
[Applause]
see the crazy thing about it is when i’m
in the storm of my life but i’m
connected to jesus
charles can come up and be in the storm
of his life
and because i’m anchored to something
that’s gonna hold
he might be dealing with something but
neither one of us are going down ah
because we’re anchored to something that
is stronger than both of us
bella come here come here real quick
baby i need you
i need you to jump on daddy’s back
because this is what god
is calling us to do just jump on my back
yeah see i have to be an anchor for my
family
and she’s not old enough to know how to
hold on to jesus for herself
but i can hold on
to my anchor and still be an anchor for
somebody else
god is saying the reason why you have to
be anchored
is because the generations
need somebody to hold on
to jesus
what would happen if i let my daughter
out in the sea of life and i didn’t show
her
how to have an anchor in jesus
charles and arlo and
and abby and natalie and my child that’s
not even here yet
are depending on me
to stay anchored to jesus
and my question is who is depending on
you
thank you baby to be anchored
so that at a time where their life is
wavering
at a time when they this is real for us
charles ain’t it
like like people peop this is not a this
is not um
uh a story
when god put me in pastor charles life
and when charles
decided to shut down eden and he
listened and obeyed and he stepped out
of the shallow
and he did something that nobody his age
was doing and he came
and put his head under or submitted to
the vision
and he went to the deep he served six
months
with no job and no title with a family
didn’t get a dollar and god told him to
anchor to this
come here and what ended up happening is
when he anchored
and because i had made a decision to be
anchored to jesus
what happened was last year the enemy
tried to come attack him
you even heard it probably in one of the
message he spoke about where he’s
thinking
about committing suicide and all of
these things that the devil tried to i
hate the devil
tried to convince him of because of how
many people are tied to him
and what god did in that moment because
i was anchored to him watch this
he was in a deep dark place a few months
ago
and i was able to hold on to jesus
and i was able to pull and at 2 am i was
by his bedside singing and praying over
him like he was my child
and now he’s doing better than ever
because i was anchored and now he is
angered
and now somebody else can be angered to
him i’m
telling you when you allow god to be
anchored then you can be an anchor
[Applause]
who’s drifting because you’re not tied
to the right thing
who’s drifting cause you’re still in the
shallow
who’s drifting because you won’t decide
to push off
and go into the deep god told me so
clearly
he said michael you need an anchor you
have an anchor
you are an anchor and write this last
step point down
together we be to anger
as a church if we could be ones
that stayed anchored to jesus and stayed
anchored to each other
we’d be the anchor for the world
see you missed it you thought it was
about the church being
okay the reason why i believe
god shut down all these churches is
because he needed us in the world
he didn’t need us in this christian club
of anchored people and we have our
official anchored badge and we’re
so i need you they the one drowning
i came to seek and to save
those who are loved they’re just
drowning
what god’s asking us to do
transformation church i don’t know what
the mandate is for everybody else’s
church
but for this church this year how we’re
going to represent
is we’re going to grab a hold of jesus
our anchor
and we’re going to try to tie as many
people as we can
to us uh-oh you thought i was going to
say to jesus
see the problem is they’re going to meet
us before they meet him
and i know i mean i wish we could bypass
people
and just get them to jesus but he does
nothing on this earth
without human i i want to say
interaction but it really is
interference
it does nothing without human
interference it would be so much easier
just to be like this is jesus
this is him and step out of the way but
they see how you live
and they see how you act and they see
how you love
and they see if you’re on time for work
and they say they see if you do what you
say
god is saying i need my church why
community
why small groups why come back every
week why tithe why
give is because together somebody say we
be the anchor
i saw this thing um you know
a lot of black people can’t swim and
stay away from water i rebuke that in
the name of jesus
i’m starting a swimming club for all the
afro-americans
out there white people you can chuckle
it’s okay we there’s some systemic
things that go back to that they didn’t
teach us how to swim
because if we could have swim we could
have got away from plantations
and so what ended up happening is we we
were made to be afraid of water
because if we could have actually
conquered water then we would have been
able to be closer to our freedom
and so generations later i didn’t it’s
almost black history month so i guess
i’ll just give you
some education but generations later
it’s now a systemic thing that people
in their mind like black people will go
to the pool with socks and sandals on
with no plan on getting in the water
we’ll take our shirt off by swimming
trunks do everything
but we stay in the shallow and i’m
scared to say that that
may be the condition that not just our
physicalism but our spiritualism
but over the the the course of my life
one thing that i’ve done is i’ve tried
to break stereotypical barriers in my
life and so
when i was younger and all my white
friends were going to the lake like
black people don’t go to the lake like
that’s not a
like that’s not like what you’re doing
this weekend going to the lake like none
of us
do that like and and so i saw my white
friends going to the lake
and i was like why y’all invite me to
the lake and they was like we didn’t
know you did that and i was like i don’t
but i will now
and so they started taking me to the
lake and and then
this past year i went with my friend
john
he wanted to go to the lake for for his
birthday and it was about four or five
of us
and and one thing i saw is i saw all
these boats
in the middle of the water
and i said what is going on they said oh
they’re having a a boat party
and i was like explain you know when you
don’t know anything like a boat party
explain
and they were like well what happens is
one boat
drops their anchor and then the other
boats
anchored to that boat and what they try
to do is see
how many boats can pull up
and people can walk from boat to boat
meeting people they’ve never met before
having drinks with people they’ve never
had before
making business deals because they were
all
anchored together this is a picture
of what it looks like to have a boat
party
when people who don’t know each other
come in contact and pass it is an
open invitation for any boat in the
water
[Applause]
not the boats who have been through this
certification
not the religious boats not the boats
who have completed seminary
not the boats who have uh y’all better
hear what i’m saying read between the
lines
not the boats who don’t have tattoos not
the boats who didn’t live
in a homosexual life to all the boats
[Applause]
any boat could come
and anchor to the next boat
and they would stay there for hours
knowing that no matter if a storm came
or whatever happened
they would all stay afloat because they
were anchored may i submit
that this is what the body of christ is
supposed to look like
and this year of 2021 when the waves are
trying to ravage
people when stuff from racial tension
all the way to political unrest to all
kinds of stuff and god’s saying i need
my church
to be somebody who drops their anchor
and say no matter what y’all try to do
we anchored to something that’s not
going to let us go
and i think the bible says it like this
whosoever
whoever you are come
get tied to me so that you can see that
this won’t fail
so that you can eventually say i don’t
want to just be tied to you
i want to be tied to jesus
this has become a life message for me
i didn’t understand it at the time
but about three years ago
i was holding my daughter
ava she had just been born and at that
moment
i was sitting in my office and um we got
a call i just heard my wife crying
and we had mj tested um
and we found out that he had autism
and at that moment everything i was
anchored to
failed the amount of money in the bank
didn’t hold me up the fact that our
church had grown
didn’t hold me up the friends that i
thought were gonna be there all that
other stuff they were great but they
didn’t hold me up
and i was crying out to god sitting at
the piano
and i said god what are you doing he
said i said
save me my wife is hurting
i’m trying to be strong to say my son
will never speak
words it could go into this and that and
do all of this other stuff
and god told me so clearly he said
michael
i’m not just the god who wants to save
you
i’m the god who will sustain you
i said what he said michael he said an
anchor isn’t just to save you from the
storm
an anchor is to sustain you through the
storm
and as i sat there in that moment
[Music]
crying broken
hurting everything around me had failed
and god said but i’m still holding you
and when i wanted to just give up
he said i’ll sustain you
i sat down at the piano
and i began to play from the
depths like david said of my emptiness
i needed the depths of his love
[Music]
how is this going to happen is he going
to ever go to school is he going to get
married will he have any friends
[Music]
i said god give me an answer he said
i’ll sustain you
[Music]
what happens when god says drop your
anchor on me
i’m not gonna tell you when the storm
ends
i’m not gonna tell you what changes are
coming
but i promise you i’ll sustain you
through the storm
[Music]
i begin to pin these words i just said
you sustain
you sustain in the middle of it all
you remain the same through the rain
you steal rain you sustain
and over and over every birthday he’s
had
[Music]
every time the ministry would grow but
his speech would deteriorate
i didn’t look at what i saw i remembered
what he said
[Applause]
and i held firmly and i’m holding firmly
right now
to my anchor and my anchor has a name
he’s the lion of judah
he’s the beginning and the end that
means he knows what’s happening in the
middle
and he is our anchor
who will sustain
we weren’t supposed to do this for a
couple weeks but i
i knew at the end of this message that
we needed to sing this song we needed to
release this song into the earth
and we needed to sing this i wrote this
song three years ago
in the depths of a pit but right now i
believe
it’s going to be the thing that allows
you to tie your hope to
this hope i have as an anchor
to my soul god thank you for sustaining
us
come on hands lifted all over the world
god thank you for sustaining me whatever
it is in the middle of it
no matter how much the storm is raging
no matter what the rain coming down you
still rain
you sustain let’s worship together
to your work
is the light in the dark
the hope for my heart
seasons come people
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changed
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is
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in the middle of it all
you remain the same through the rain
still you’re right you sustained
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not sure
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lord hears my life
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you remain the same through the race
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you remain the same
[Music]
your promises always come true
[Music]
so i will trust you
[Music]
[Music]
promises
will judge you
i will trust you
will trust you
[Music]
i will trust you
because you are my source you
are my strength
trust you faithful and true
in the middle
you are
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you’re faithful
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i will go
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i will trust you
[Music]
i trust you
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
i’ll give you
[Music]
you stayed
you remain the same
no matter what it looks like i trust
your tears
[Music]
you
i need somebody to say that part your
promises
your promises always come true
[Music]
your promises always
[Music]
statement because your ankles say i will
trust you i
will try wherever you are right now i
want you to stand up lift your hands
this is not to us this is to god tell
him i will
[Music]
even when i’m holding the thing that i
can’t change
somebody declares safe or i feel the
presence of god
over your business over the situation
over the thing that’s on the inside
somebody say
[Applause]
[Music]
i feel a stirring coming somebody’s
faith is coming
somebody say i will trust you hey
somebody’s faith is being anchored in
jesus
we’re taking our ankle for everything
that won’t last
[Music]
[Music]
somebody
no matter what it looks like
come on
somebody’s got it
[Music]
yes
say you sustain everybody
just the voices everybody just
[Music]
of says all you remain
through the rain
[Music]
my anchor come on
he’s my anchor says
[Music]
i feel that
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
wow
[Music]
i’m holding on to you jesus
me
[Music]
relying on my anchor your mercy is a new
[Music]
hands lifted everywhere i declare it i
believe
that today we have decided
that it’s not safer in the shallow that
we’re going
deep and that’s why we need an anchor
and father god we need an anchor we have
an anchor
jesus is our anchor we are an anchor in
you
and that’s the church together we beat
that anchor
father i declare that whatever people
have been anchored to that has been
failing them
that today they disconnect
i even hear prophetically there are some
friend groups that you have to let go of
because you’ve been anchored to your
relationship more than your relationship
with god
there’s some ideas some plans some
vision that you’re going to have to
take your anchor off of i know you had a
plan at 26 i’m going to be married
at 29 i’m gonna have my first kid at 32
we’re gonna be millionaires like you had
take your anchor off of that and attach
it to jesus
i declare that every distraction
that has tried to make us drift
you have been served in eviction notice
that today we are anchored to jesus
somebody say i
am anchored to jesus
and i will trust you that may be the
most profound thing that you say just
lift your hands and say god i will trust
you
yeah god i’ll trust you wherever you are
in your home
watching this on rebroad class say god
i’ll trust you
i’ll trust you god
in the middle how many of you are in the
middle of something right now
your response is god i trust you
you know the beginning from the end
you’re my source you’re my strength and
i will trust you
to say i will
trust something’s happening to somebody
right now
their faith is being increased right now
right there in the middle
you’re not going to drown you’re not
going to drift because you’re anchored
hey i feel that thing right now somebody
say i will
whoa y’all better not push me
because i feel the presence of god
coming in this place i’m gonna stay firm
i’m gonna believe in you god said i will
[Music]
[Applause]
if you’re watching right now and you
have been one that’s been drifting
and you have not accepted jesus as your
personal lord and savior
right now i’m asking you to make the one
decision
that will change everything in your life
it’s the thing that took me from being a
liar
a manipulator i was addicted to
pornography i was addicted to success
and it made me put my faith in something
that actually could sustain me
and some of you have been drifting you
got money or
you’ve got notoriety or you got the
relationship or you feel like you don’t
have anything at all
and you’ve been drifting but god is
saying today take a hold of me
the anchor that will be steady the the
rock
of your salvation and today i want to
offer you
the greatest gift to be anchored to
jesus
according to romans 10 9 it says all you
have to do is believe by faith
that jesus christ went on that cross so
when you were weary
you would not drown
said you believed that he lived and he
died and he rose again with all power
said you’re saved religion will tell you
well confess everything you’ve done and
you can’t do this into this you can’t do
this listen god is saying to you right
now
he said i’ll take you with your habits
i’ll take you with your hang-ups
i’ll take you with your bad hobbies he
said i’m the only one that if you give
me your heart
i’ll help you change your habits today i
don’t know who this
is for but today is the day of salvation
if you feel like you’ve been drifting if
you’ve never accepted jesus as your
personal lord and savior
or you did a long time ago but you’ve
been living contrary today
you need to repent and all that word
means is turn
you’ve been going this way and now you
need to turn or you’ve been going this
way
and now you need to turn and grab a hold
of an anchor
that is sure and steady and i’m telling
you this is what your life is going to
look like
when you accept jesus on the count of
three if that’s you wherever you are
i want you to lift your hand well
nobody’s around it doesn’t matter it’s
just an act of faith
that god sees even if i don’t see it
even if somebody’s around you
god wants you to know that he wants you
to decide for this he’s not forcing you
to do this
love can’t be love if it’s forced
love has to be a decision what god wants
from you is a decision
today is your moment if you want to make
jesus christ your anchor
or your lord and savior i feel like
people are about to get saved from all
over this world i
feel that thing i don’t know where
you’re from and i don’t know if you’re
watching it’s at 2 a.m
or you’re watching that at 2 p.m but god
said now today is the day of your
salvation
one you’re making the greatest decision
of your life two i’m proud of you but
more than that your name is gonna be
written in the lamb book of life
three lift your hand up all over this
world oh i feel
i feel somebody is getting an anchor
somebody’s getting an anchor now a
transformation church
nobody prays alone nobody prays alone
so there are tens of thousands of people
that are about to pray with you
you may be in an apartment and somebody
in three apartments down is watching
this and they’re about to be praying
with you in your location right there
oh yeah that’s how our god works y’all
know that
i want us to all just lift our hands and
say this together god
thank you for being my anchor
today i give you control of my life
i believe you lived you died
and you rose again to save my life
so today take over
i give you the ugly parts of me
i give you the depths of me
thank you for your love change me
renew me sustain me
transform me in jesus name
amen oh can we give god praise
oh god can we give god praise
i said can we get
people’s lives have been saved
hallelujah
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i do not want to stop there’s a sweet
anointing in this place
i hope you feel it in your home and it
doesn’t have to stop
because we’re going off the broadcast
create an atmosphere god will sustain
you right now
put on worship music beginning i don’t
know we’re going to sing this again next
week
this is going to be our anthem during
being anchored that god will sustain us
no matter the storm
somebody say you sustain
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through the rain you still rain
used to stay
just say that one more time through the
rain through the rain
your rain you sustain
this week it might rain on your
situation like it’s okay cause you can
say
through the rain you still rain
just one more time before we leave
somebody say through the rain
steal you rain
[Music]
let me pray for you you do not want to
miss next week
god’s already given me the message
[Music]
i’m this angered series y’all we about
to act a fool
until god tells me to quit but it’s
going to anchor the rest of this year
and dare i say the rest of your life
invite everybody else remember you have
to be an anchor
how will they know if you don’t tell
them
this week i want you to share this
message with as many people as you can
share it with your family members
there’s going to be an anointing on this
thing for salvation
watch watch what i say mark my words
god’s about to do something that nothing
else was able to do he’s going to do it
because he wants people to know it’s
time to be anchored and he’ll sustain us
father i pray
for transformation nation i pray father
even as
people that just got saved text this
number
father as we give them resources i thank
you that you’re going to sustain them
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i thank you that your promises always
come true god today
we have decided to be anchored
father i thank you for every person
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that is divorcing the shallow of their
life
the petty of their life
immaturity of their life and i thank you
that will be anchored
in you i declare that this will be the
best week of our life
even as we have finished this 21 days of
fasting we have not finished being close
to you
so today i thank you for the beginning
of a thing father i thank you for
discipline
and discipleship father god and and
closeness and devotion raising up
in this church father bigger is not
always better but stronger is
anchored is father and so we are
thanking you that our church is getting
anchored that we eat good food from the
word that we get
nourished in our spirit mans and that we
will be everything you’ve called us to
be
father give us favor as we walk through
this week
and no matter what comes up this week i
thank you that we will be anchored in
you
in jesus name
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somebody’s pulling on me there’s three
people
that have a horrible doctor’s report
i need y’all to pray
i feel this so strong you have a they’ve
almost made it like there’s
no there’s no hope
and god says whose report are you going
to believe and we’re going to anchor our
faith on jesus christ i want to pray
it’s
something serious right now i need us to
stretch our faith this may not be for
you but i need us as a church this is
how we anchor to each other we’ve been
in 21 days of prayer fast and i don’t
know what you expected
father in the name of jesus i come
against the negative report father god
that has tried to be final for somebody
we put our hope i need y’all to help me
right now
we will trust you i feel that thing
right now father the negative report i
even call out
father i pray for oscar p in the name of
jesus father the diagnosis of cancer
father whoever else is dealing with
something i believe right now in the
name of jesus
that you stop this whole thing because
our prayers will shift things right now
the fervent effectual prayers of
righteous people they work i come
against
every negative wrong doctor’s report
father
i thank you for supernatural healing in
the name of jesus
not in just the physical but in the
mental i thank you for
mental healing emotional healing father
we declare
that we will trust you we will not let
whatever the enemy meant for evil
to come and destroy and distract what
god
is trying to do in our lives and i
declare healing
and wholeness over every person under
the sound of my voice
and we’re making a faith statement that
we will
trust you somebody say i will trust you
come on say that i will trust you safe
come on declare it
in the middle of it right when i don’t
have a good report
somebody declared
whoa somebody come on
somebody say i will
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i feel the presence of god invading this
place right now
somebody say i will
just the last time you sustained say you
say
thank you lord we trust you god
go out this week and live a transformed
life
we love you and we know god’s gonna
sustain you amen
let’s give god one shot of praise
you