i don't know who i'm talking to right now but i'm giving you practical ways
that you can hear for your family and your god how to be anchored in this year you've got to
get the puzzle piece of his presence and his pattern and it has to be practical and this is
the thing that i love about god is that when god speaks something he will be persistent
and this is how you get those puzzle pieces to come together the first thing that happens
when i go to get vision and this is how we got to anchored as i get in god's presence
you never get a word from god without him actually being there his presence it's not a gift he sends
in the mail it's a gift he gives as he's there with you it is his presence my wife loves gifts
that i get her but she would take back every purse and every piece of shoe and every gift
i would ever for my actual presence and i feel like the church has been so enamored with gifts
oh they seem good the gifts they preach good that they have settled for
gifts instead of his presence if the note is off and he's there it's all good
you see they don't want that one because at the minute we might sacrifice excellence but
we get his presence do you know some of the most amazing times i've had with god
had no led screens attached to it had no good sound the times when god checked me
and changed me and transform me i wasn't in a ritz called and i was at a best western 79-99
do you unders i'm just trying to say that if you do not put value on his presence you're missing a
piece of the puzzle and for you to be anchored this year you're going to have to get in his
presence that's why we're spending 21 days praying and fasting and i'm encouraging everybody that's
still tuned in because some of people tuned off because the appetite went up we just went from
mcdonald's into ruth crist and some of y'all have had an appetite spiritually for fast food and what
god is saying is i'm about to change your palate i'm about to bring you up to steak potatoes shrimp
and lobster and some people can't eat that all the time because they've been used to eating
things that are processed but i'm coming to give you the actual organic word of god and what god
has for you will not come without his presence and honestly you should be ignorant enough to
say i'm not good enough without his presence so if your presence is not with me i won't go
let me stop i'm encouraging somebody these last seven days of praying fasting get on this
join us 170 000 plus people have downloaded this youversion bible app but 170 000 people
haven't done it i can bet that i'll bet my own life on it because we would rather
have the appearance of god doing something in our life than actually his power moving in our
life and the only way that changes is through his everybody say presence and so when i went away and
i got in god's presence this has been a number two thing you need to the puzzle piece is a pattern
see i want to be super practical right now as a lot of people get in his presence but
they have not made it a pattern yet so it's so sporadic that god's trying to get on your
calendar like can i get okay no i blessed him too much he ain't got time for me okay um so can i oh
no they just got in a relationship okay so i was gonna say okay and if you do not make it a pattern
to make time to spend with god then you miss the nuances of the pattern that god wants to give you
the reason that my staff and my team know that we're going to have a word every year
is since 2015 it has been a pattern why is pastor mike gotta go for a month and a half two months
because he has a pattern with god that the rest of our year is different because he
keeps to the pattern some of you in your marriage need to have a pattern of a date night
your children are suffering because the love in your house is sucked out because you only are
business partners now and god says it's because you do it without my presence and you lost the
pattern and i'm just asking you practically where are the areas in your life that you have drifted
away from the pattern remember 2020 is the year of the anti-drift and i'm gonna talk about that
next week but i gotta lay this foundation that we need his presence but we need a pattern
and as i go away for that week and just ask god what he's trying to say
i do another pattern that's under my pattern of going away i always ask god for wisdom
this is one of the things that i don't care who you are and if you just joined the faith today
that god says that as you are one of his children
you can ask for wisdom james 1 5 and 6 says if any one of you lacks wisdom let him ask god not google
wrong g some of y'all are so quick to ask the wrong g about your situation
it says ask god watch this who is faster than a search engine and gives it generously to all
without reproach he doesn't factor in your past he doesn't factor in the last time you didn't
listen to him he doesn't factor in any of that he says he'll give it willingly without reproach
and it will be given it will be given him but let him ask there's a caveat with faith
with no doubting for the one who doubts is like a wave ooh sounds like they need an anchor
the one who asks that doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind
god's saying if you're gonna ask me drop your anchor in faith
and know that if you ask me for wisdom i'll give you wisdom for your marriage i'll give
you wisdom for the business i'll give you wisdom for what house and neighborhood to live in yeah it
looks depreciated right now but you don't know the city's talking about redoing this area and
the reason i told you to buy the house now and it seems cheaper than what you want because it'll be
three times that two years from now if you would just listen i'm telling you i'll give you wisdom
but wisdom comes from his presence and a pattern so as i went to that hotel this year
and i asked god for wisdom then i want to give you the third puzzle piece to really
getting a word from god a vision from god getting anchored in your own life is it will be practical
god does not live up in this ethereal realm he says that i work in the details
of my children's life so his presence creates a pattern that will come out practically
and i know this is not the teacher because every pastor wants you to
feel like they smarter than you let me tell you very clearly i'm not smarter than y'all
many of you have more actual knowledge more things in your head than i ever will
the one thing most people can't mess with me on is that i am practically looking for god
everywhere you might know about him i know him i can see him at ihop i can see him
i can see him as i'm walking down the street i can see him and a homeless person i can see him in a
beat i can see him in a movie i can see him in a camera i can see him the whole earth is the lord's
and most of y'all look for him on sunday
and i see him in everything so when god gave me his presence and i had a pattern god spoke to
me and he said michael open your eyes and look i'm going to speak something in your conscience
and i i want to show y'all i thought it would be better today to show you how we're here and
what god wants to do than just to talk to you about it it was in august august 7th i woke up
and i pulled out my phone and i just typed this down i'd never seen this before but god spoke
to me because i had made room in his presence i had a pattern and then he made it real practical
this is all he said the word for 2021 is anchored august 8th 2020 at 1 52. this is my real phone i
literally practical i need everybody to understand this is not mystical or spooky or oh yeah he no no
practical i hit the word anchored and there's a thing on the iphone that says look up word
and i looked up the definition of anchor and this would have said a person or thing
that provides stability and confidence in an otherwise unpredictable situation
and god said he whispered this one sentence to me and i marked his word what you are tied to
is more important than where and then i this is how i left it up here just like this because i
was supposed to say where you are but it was unfinished because i got distracted
what you are tied to is more important than where my go
that's pastor natalie what you are tied to is more important than where daddy
and i left this up here to let you know that even the people that are supposed to be the closest to
god have the opportunity to be to be distracted but what god had me do is go back to his presence
and i had a pattern and he finished this word in me and that's why i can finish it for you what
you are tied to is more important than where you currently are and that was a practical thing and
i said okay god so so so so what are you telling me he said michael any time you do anything get
in my presence get the pattern i'll make it practical proverbs 3 5 and 6 says trust in the
lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding i did not understand why he
wanted it to be anchored i did not understand what 2021 whole because i didn't have god's view on it
but he did so he said anchored and he said in all your ways acknowledge this is me that's why i had
the audacity to put it in my phone because i acknowledged this wasn't me this was god
and he said if you will do that i will direct your path and i don't know who i'm talking to right
now but i'm giving you practical ways that you can hear for your family and your god how to be
anchored in this year you got to get the puzzle piece of his presence and his pattern
and it has to be practical and this is the thing that i love about god is that when god
speaks something he will be persistent do y'all know how many times i tried to change the word
tried to maybe like when maybe this was what god was saying and god's saying is i'm the same
i gave it to you and if you don't like it it don't matter the truth is not affected by the opinion
your opinion of what god is doing has nothing to do with the truth of what he's doing
and he said whether you tell the church or not 2021 you need to be anchored and he said and
i'll give you confirmation and this is the beautiful thing with walking and talking and
knowing that god speaks is that you will begin to get confident that god will give confirmation
i expect confirmation my life is too in the balance to not hear god say this is definitely
it and let me give somebody freedom right now god is not offended by you asking for confirmation
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