what i'm asking you is yeah you went through a hard season
and yeah another one might be up ahead but what are you producing in the middle
i want to shake you out of thinking there's a right time for you to produce and god says produce
in the areas that seem like you should be retreating
today i just want to give um a caution that this is not about a sermon series
this is about a disposition this is not about a catchphrase or a word of the year
this is about a decision that all throughout the year in may we will be anchored
in july we will be and if every state and city is open and covet is gone we will be anchored
christmas 20 21 we will be anchored and i'm telling you this because god gave this prophetic
word and i want us to look deeper into this and and as we look at this i thought today we
would look at a character whose life has been anchored through all the different situations
circumstances um trials that he went through and sometimes bible stories are really ethereal but
there's a few that i just relate to like i feel like i know that person and i really would have
been friends with them if you know i was there or they were here or whatever happened in that way
and one of those characters that i just feel like is a gangster his name is paul y'all know paul
today we're going to journey with paul because paul was a gangster that lived in the deep
and i began to think about if anybody was anchored through whatever they went through it was paul
let me give you some understanding of who this man paul is because everybody thinks that paul
is is some type of um just good bible character no no no no paul was a gangster he was like a
representing mascot he was killing christians and then he had a damascus road experience where god
touched him and then people were shocked because he transformed his life the same way some people
are going to be shocked as you transform your life somebody needed that prophetic word right there
and and then a guy named ananias was praying and god told him he said yo yo go um and touch hands
on paul you're talking about paul you're talking to paul that two weeks ago tried to kill me
he said yeah i've changed his life and and he was like like paul from damascus paul that's how he
got the name in my mind p diddy because he was paul from damascus he was like you want me to go
lay hands on pd and he was like yeah i want you to do it he literally has a a a a moment where
his eyes were blind and it represents a salvation like your eyes were blind and then you could be
able to see and then paul because god touched his life he went on a tangent of representing
and telling people about the gospel and the reason i relate to paul so much is because paul didn't go
to seminary paul didn't go to school for it god touched paul's life and paul was like because
i've been transformed then i got to go transform somebody else's life and i don't know who needs to
hear this right now but some of the qualifications that people are telling you you need to do what
god has called you to do yes you need to study to show yourself approve yes you need to make
sure that you can rightly divide the word but just telling somebody i was here last week and
now i'm here this week that's your testimony we overcome him the enemy by the blood of the lamb
and the words of our test paul did not take two years to start sharing what god did in his life
and if you're gonna live in the deep that means god changes me on a tuesday
and i'm telling somebody about it on wednesday
and paul he begins to go on this journey and because he was so radical for christ and he
was representing everywhere he went he got uh oh wait for this persecuted see when you're in the
deep persecution comes when you're in the deep they want to make post about you when you're in
the deep they want to have conversations about you when you're in the deep doing what god called and
see this is why many people swim back to shore is because they don't want criticism for obeying god
but if i look back at the bible everybody's not going to agree that you moved there everybody's
not going to agree that you gave that up everybody you will not have committee decision on the
calling god has called you to and paul began to get persecution because he was walking in purpose
don't pray for purpose without knowing you're going to get persecution let me that ain't even
a part of my message can i tell you how paul i'm just trying to set you up to understand who we're
talking about today and maybe some of you can relate paul had a rap sheet paul like he had a
price on his head paul was beaten 39 lashes five times you know the scourging we watch at um easter
that everybody be closing their eyes when they watching jesus get beat paul got that five times
like i want you to understand he was beaten with rods three times he was stoned once have you ever
walked outside and gotten stoned like like i need everybody to understand like he was shipwrecked
three times like three titanic experiences like who goes through the titanic drowning
three times paul did paul got robbed he had rats people around him that portrayed him
he had ops in his crew ops in the street ops in the sea and somebody was like sally opps
he had opposition he had opposition in the country opposition in the city he even had insomnia
the baby couldn't even sleep he needed some melatonin gummies that's what we give our kids
he needed like i'm trying to tell you he had all of this on top of all the regular issues people
had but paul was so anchored to his faith in jesus that he wrote one-fourth of the new testament
he probably wrote some of your favorite scriptures in between beatings
what are you doing between your losses
i gotta scoot back for them what are you doing between your disappointments between
um um um scourging two and three what comes out of you oh i feel this thing
there are too many of us that are waiting for right situations to produce
but paul was one of those that was so anchored that in the moment that he wasn't in a trial
he was producing something for god in the moment he wasn't being shipwrecked he was
giving something that god placed on the inside of him what i'm asking you is yeah you went through
a hard season and yeah another one might be up ahead but what are you producing in the middle
i want to shake you out of thinking there's a right time for you to produce and god says produce
in the areas that seem like you should be retreating
2020 made people retreat when god was looking for you to produce and what i'm saying to you in this
moment right now that paul was so anchored that he said god whatever you want to do whatever and
however you want to use it if i only have a small amount of time uh was he in a prison cell when he
wrote it was he being beaten when he wrote it but he said i'm always going to produce i'm going to
tell you some of your favorite scriptures were written because paul was anchored can i show
you this romans 5 8 but god demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners
christ died for us guess who wrote that paul um whatever you do work with all your heart
as working for the lord not for human masters colossians 3 23. guess who wrote that paul and
my god will supply all of your needs according to my riches and glory in christ jesus philippians 4
19 guess who wrote that paul therefore if any man be in christ he is a new creation i'm feeling this
the old has passed away behold the new has come second corinthians 5 17 guess who wrote that
pop was it between beating one or beating four was it between lost two or lost six
don't be anxious for anything what paul wrote this he literally tells us don't
be anxious for anything but in every situation pray while i'm getting stoned
pray while i'm getting robbed petition god while they're talking about me staying firm and continue
to confess and talk to god he said but don't just pray pray and petition with thanksgiving
why am i thankful for this he's trying to tell us what happens when you're anchored he says
with thanksgiving present your request to god philippians 4 6 guess who wrote it paul love
is patient love is kind oh it's valentine's day guess who wrote this one it does not envy it does
not boast it is not proud corinthians 13 4. guess who wrote that paul let me give you one more let's
stay together loving you weather whether times are good or bad happy or sad guess who wrote that
al greene wrote that that wasn't that wasn't paul what i'm trying to say to you some of y'all's like
al green look him up letter it's a good song um what i'm trying to say to you
is that paul produced in the midst of persecution i came to declare and prophetically tell somebody
that no matter what happens to you this entire year no matter if your bank account doesn't go
up no matter if anybody verifies you or not no matter if you sell a hundred thousand copies
of the song or not no matter if you start the business you will produce even though
you are being persecuted you will produce even though you have not seen the promise
you will produce even though it seems like problem after problem somebody say i will produce
but you only produce when you're anchored to something who's not moving
and the truth of the matter is the only reason paul was able to produce like this
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