obeying god's word oh i'm preaching right now it's god's favor on your life before you need
it and i'm telling you stop and anchor on what god said and stop high-stepping the holy spirit
i want us to go into one of these situations because i believe god has something for me to
share with you off of this word that we've been gathering our faith around all year that's going
to this word is going to keep you all here now i don't say that often i don't say like hey this
is the word that's going to keep you all here today this is a word that is going to keep you
all year i want you to turn to acts 27. at this moment for context paul is a prisoner
he's on his way to italy he's traveling by sea he's out here in the deep deep deep they're having
difficulty on this journey and paul is still being used by god in chains where do you feel chained
some of you feel financially shackled some of you feel relationally shackled some of you feel like
nobody sees your worth it just feels like a prison where you're at i just go from this job and then
i work the second job and then i get it just feels like a a cycle but god while paul is in prison i'm
talking to somebody right now god still uses him and they're on a ship and paul notices um
this is not god for us to be here we should drop our anchor and he literally tells the captain of
the ship and the person who was running the ship hey we need to stop stop right now the same way
i believe god at the beginning of 2021 is saying stop stop everything that's going on everybody say
stop no yelling at me say stop we need to stop what we're doing right now and we need to drop
anchor he tells them we need to stop and drop anchor and it says the crew and the captain
ignored his warning look at it in acts chapter 27 verse 10. men he said um yeah it's beautiful
right now but i believe there's trouble up ahead of us if we keep going this way
ain't that how some of our situations are looking right now it looks fine
but if we keep going and don't drop anchor right now there may be trouble up ahead of us it says if
we go on um i see a shipwreck lots of cargo and danger to our lives as well but look right here
it says but the officer in charge of the prisoners listened more to the ship's captain and the owner
then to paul write this point down right now ignoring god's warning always leaves you wrecked
if god is warning you anchor get out of that relationship stop working with them
well it's sunny skies right now we're killing right now the numbers are up and god says warning
stop anchor keep coming to church stop watching that series
yeah cause season eight of that series is going to lead you on episode four
into a path of thinking that's gonna have you drifting
well everybody else is telling me and we watch it with our friends and all that stuff
but the bachelor right now is making you depressed and god said st oh you don't want
to hear about it i'm not saying that anything's wrong with it i'm saying it's not right for you
nothing's wrong with it it's just not right for you and if god says stop anchor warning
do you go past the warning of god and i'm just going to tell you like
paul was trying to tell them ignoring god's warning always leaves you wrecked
paul is sitting here at the precipice of something it hasn't happened yet the the
we haven't lost nothing yet and this is the grace of god when he sends a word when you don't need it
most people think god only sends a word at the moment of the need of the word
but god's grace sends a word before you need the word and then it takes faith to obey him
right now it doesn't look like for many people that the word of the year should be anchored but
what god is doing is sending a word of grace and saying right now why everything is good
why nothing looks bad why all your relationships are working i'm telling you stop
drop anchor we shouldn't go any further like this we shouldn't keep moving like this and
i'm telling you whether you see it or not in any situation ignoring god's warning
always leaves you wrecked i can think about it personally in my life
the times when i wrecked all kinds of crap i always stepped over what god had told me
and many people are high stepping the holy spirit you feel no peace and everybody in your circle
is telling you that's not it and somehow you'd be like but i just know it's right and you high-step
the holy spirit some of y'all in houses that you high-step the holy spirit uh-oh
some of you are gonna drive cars this week because they approved you but you didn't ask
god were you supposed to do this he told you to stop and keep driving that booty and anointing
it with oil every day but you want it to look good for other people so you high-step the holy spirit
and he said i wanted you to anchor because six months from now you were going to be out of debt
but now you added another debt onto the thing that i told you not to do and now you're out here
praying for a miracle but i was trying to give you a warning and some of you don't see the warning of
god as a miracle but it's a miracle in preform it's the miracle before you need the miracle
obeying god's word oh i'm preaching right now it's god's favor on your life before you need it
and i'm telling you stop and anchor on what god said and stop high-stepping the holy spirit
paul was trying to get these people to listen to him and the crazy thing about it is they did
listen to him and this looks like most christians especially ones that watch transformation church
what they do is they listen to pastor mike but look what it says it says verse 11 but
the officer in charge of the prison listened more to the ship's captain and the owner
than to paul it's not about if you hear the right thing it's about what you're hearing more of
your decisions are affected by what you were hearing more of he said he listened to paul so he
was literally sitting there like paul what do you think yeah we should anchor we should we should
keep doing this we should stay right here but then he started listening more to voices that were not
anchored in god and i dare say that many of the things that have happened in our lives are because
we've not just not listened to god because many of us many of us are listening to god you tune in
every week you have your devotion time the problem is if we look at the time that you listen to what
god's word says and the time that you listen to what culture says who are you listening to more
they're not going to like this one charles and i i may get a few messages on this one what i'm saying
is you're a product of what you're listening to more i don't want to call your favorite r
b singer and your favorite de pro depressed pop singer out right now but when you're in a bad mood
and you don't go to the word of god but you go to the music that feels right and connects with your
soul and makes you feel good about the situation and they just get me and they understand and then
you're asking god why can't i have joy why can't i be walking in freedom why don't i have that it's
not that you didn't listen to the bible app it's not that you didn't turn on relationship goals
it's that what did you listen to more you are a product of what you listen to more and these men
are about to start drifting because they listened more not to the voice of god but to the voice
of the people who were in culture and that's why i believe god gave us the word anchored this year
that we will not be able to look to anybody in culture and society no matter how much money
no matter how much status we have to anchor everybody shout at me anger we are anchored
this year and in my time away in july when god gave me this word he gave me the expansion of this
word and i want you to write down this 20 21 this is a prophetic word is the year of the anti-drift
2021 is the year that we are anchored but there's a reason because we cannot drift friend with the
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