Anchored Faith For Every Forecast
Dr. DeeDee Freeman Preached on 11/16/2025Matthew 6:33
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Summary
Dr. DeeDee Freeman challenges believers to maintain 'anchored faith' that remains steadfast through every life forecast, warning against the danger of drifting away from God's promises when the winds of life shift. Using the metaphor of an anchor, she emphasizes that while we may shake, we must not move from the Word of God, taking full responsibility for our belief systems to see manifestations of healing and provision.
Key points
- •Faith is not a stationary state but an active anchor that prevents us from drifting when life's currents change; God's Word is the immovable boat.
- •The just shall live by faith, but specifically 'his' faith (Habakkuk 2:4)-implying we must take individual responsibility for our belief system rather than waiting passively for God to move.
- •Shifts in circumstances or 'light winds' are often when believers mistakenly pull up their anchors; consistency is required through every forecast, not just in emergencies.
- •Faith does not require perfection (citing Abraham's mistakes), but it does require commitment and a refusal to 'switch voices' or seek worldly alternatives when the manifestation is delayed.
- •Miracles and blessings are often already provided in the spiritual realm; persistent praise acts as the mechanism that causes the earth to yield its increase.
Scripture
Faith
Healing
Perseverance
Authority
Spiritual Growth
Life application
Identify one area where you have been tempted to 'pull up your anchor' because of a delay or a slight change in circumstances. This week, commit to a daily practice of praising God specifically for the outcome you are believing for, as if it has already manifested.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of my life have I been waiting for God to act, when He might be waiting for me to exercise the authority He already gave me?
- When the 'forecast' of my life changes abruptly, what is the first 'voice' I tend to listen to instead of the Word of God?
- How does the realization that faith is about commitment rather than perfection change the way I approach my current trials?
- What are the 'anchors' in my life right now? Are they rooted in the unchanging nature of Christ or in my shifting emotions?
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0:00The Bible says that he will prepare
0:02table before us in the presence of our
0:04enemies
0:05and some of us want to get rid of people
0:07so fast. I'm like now just sit here and
0:09watch.
0:11Just just sit right here. You you you
0:14want a front row seat? Just just come
0:16down to the front Satan.
0:19And you know Satan is our enemy now
0:21people
0:22people act like they are enemies
0:24sometimes but it's not people it is the
0:26enemy which is Satan. It's the devil.
0:30Say the devil.
0:32And so I'm so excited about being here
0:35today really. I am so honored to be
0:37here. I feel like I'm home. Is this
0:39home?
0:40This is home. This feels so good. I mean
0:43the praise and worship the dancers
0:45everybody was just amazing. I have
0:48really thoroughly enjoyed being here.
0:50I'm telling you I don't even miss home.
0:52It's a good thing when you can go away
0:54and don't miss home.
0:55That means you all have really made me
0:57feel welcome here today. All right, I'm
1:00ready. How many of you are believing God
1:04for some things to manifest in your
1:06life? Can you raise your hand?
1:09Okay, keep your hands up.
1:11Can you look around and just see all of
1:13the hands that are up? Okay, now put
1:16your hands down. How many of you have
1:18been believing God for a long time for
1:21the same things that you just raised
1:23your hand for? Raise your hand.
1:27All right, look around.
1:31Okay, you can put your hands down. I
1:33just wanted to take a survey of the room
1:35to make sure that I had the right
1:37message cuz if not I was just going to
1:39leave. Like if none of you would raise
1:41your hand I would say oh well Bishop you
1:43missed it. I'm gone.
1:45Get on up here with your break self. He
1:47wanted to take a break.
1:50And he stuck with y'all. Look that baby
1:52over there say what you mean you stuck
1:54with me Bishop?
1:55I guess y'all stuck with me today. It's
1:58like it's okay.
2:00Hello Bishop. But I really wanted to
2:03take a survey of the room because all of
2:06us are believing God for some things to
2:08manifest in our life, right? And I don't
2:11think it is fair for us to sit back and
2:16think it is always God's fault or if it
2:19is God's fault that it has not
2:20manifested in our life. I want us to
2:24grow up to the place
2:26I was going to call you Pastor Tracy Dr.
2:28Tracy
2:29about taking responsibility and
2:32ownership for what we do not have in our
2:36life. God has some awesome things that
2:39are available for us but if we don't
2:41know that we are supposed to take
2:43authority and make
2:46Okay, make it happen. You know cuz I
2:49wanted to say make it happen but then I
2:51didn't know how you all were going to
2:52look at me like I thought God was going
2:54to make it happen. Well, you know God
2:56has already done his part. Faith without
2:59works is what? It's dead. So we got to
3:02get our works involved in this in order
3:04to see the things of God being
3:06manifested in our life the way that we
3:08want to see it. And so I love this theme
3:11that you all that you have and what
3:13you've been dealing with is this
3:15unshakable faith. I mean I don't know
3:18who else you could have in here that
3:20would be talking about unshakable faith.
3:22My husband said how he got you talking
3:24about faith? Why he ain't invite me? I
3:26said cuz I'm your girl.
3:30I'm your girl. But faith is something
3:32that's so big to me. There are things
3:35that I don't even pray for now.
3:43Don't you want to get to the place where
3:45you're not having to pray for certain
3:48common needs?
3:50Like why do we have to pray about God
3:54can you pay my mortgage? Can you give me
3:57money for this? Can you give me a new
3:59car? Those are things that are common
4:01that a good father already should have
4:04provided, right? Well those are things
4:06that have already been provided to you.
4:09But if you don't know who you are in
4:11Christ, you won't walk in that authority
4:14knowing that this belongs to me. That I
4:17don't have Do you have How many of you
4:19have children in here?
4:21Do your children have to pray about you
4:24feeding them every day?
4:26No, they already know that their food is
4:28going to be in that kitchen.
4:31They already know mama and daddy going
4:33to take care of me. So there are certain
4:35things that we shouldn't even have to
4:37pray for. The Bible you all know Matthew
4:406:33 when you seek him first
4:43all these things shall be what? Added
4:46unto you. SO WHILE I'M SEEKING THE
4:48FATHER, while I'm giving him praise,
4:50while I'm honoring him, while I'm
4:52committed to serving him and not turning
4:56back
4:57then all those things that I have need
5:00of should be coming after me.
5:05Say they're coming after me.
5:07They're coming after me. So I looked up
5:10this word unshakable. It means
5:12impossible to move, break, or disturb. A
5:16firmness so rooted that storms may hit
5:20you but you cannot hollow out. Say I
5:24cannot hollow out. It describes a stream
5:29that doesn't come from a person but from
5:33the one you are anchored to.
5:39Listen, this is so powerful to me. I
5:42love reading the word. Like I wanted to
5:44be down here on the floor because I like
5:46seeing when lights come on. You know
5:49when people say oh I got it. Yes, I got
5:51it. I I like that kind of stuff right
5:53there. So I'm going to be looking in
5:55your eyes and waiting for some lights to
5:57come on today, okay? So God gave me this
6:00title. Say God gave her this title. God
6:03gave me this title anchored faith for
6:07every forecast.
6:11I said God you sure oh chat GPT didn't
6:15give me that.
6:17God gave me that. I was saying okay, I
6:20like unshakable faith cuz that's you
6:22know that's the theme and that's exactly
6:25what we going to stick with. I said but
6:27God I need a little fancy like catchy
6:30like title. So I started looking up
6:32unshakable and I saw the word anchored.
6:35I said oh I like that. And then I'm
6:37thinking about storms and
6:40challenges and things that come up in
6:41our lives and we need to know that there
6:44is anchored faith for every forecast.
6:49No, but the good thing about God is he
6:52doesn't give us a lot of different
6:54things about faith. Like you know we
6:57have to have multiple kinds of faith. I
7:00know you have heard things this is a
7:02whole 'nother lesson I'm not going to
7:04get in into this about oh ye of little
7:06faith. So some of y'all think there is
7:09such thing as little faith and then
7:11there is strong faith. Well, no those
7:14were just adjectives to describe what
7:16was happening at that moment but faith
7:18is faith.
7:20God was saying why is your believing so
7:22little?
7:24Oh you believe so strong and when he was
7:26talking to that he was talking to people
7:28that were the Gentiles that weren't even
7:30his people who were believing. So you
7:33can see that faith is universal if you
7:36will because it's about a belief system.
7:38Say it's a belief system.
7:40Say today
7:42I'm going to get my belief system up.
7:45And so God gave me this title and I said
7:48okay, so what does this mean to be
7:49anchored?
7:51And God told me to the scripture over
7:53there. You can write stuff down. But
7:55what I did is I brought some notes with
7:58me because sometimes I don't always get
8:01to the end of my lesson. You know how
8:03you you get so excited and then God give
8:05you something and you know you kind of
8:07switch around. So they put this they put
8:09this
8:10these notes. These are notes. You don't
8:12have to pay for them. You got to take
8:14your phone out and and scan that QR
8:16code. Just in case I don't get to the
8:19bottom of these notes, you'll be able to
8:22go home and be like that church of
8:23Berea.
8:25And you'll be able to search the
8:27scriptures to make sure what I'm saying
8:29is so. All right. And so God gave me
8:33this scripture and this is not on there.
8:34I don't believe. I don't think I put
8:36this on here. In Malachi 3 and 6 you
8:39don't have to turn there but it talks
8:40about how he changeth not. When you are
8:44anchored in something, you are steadfast
8:47in it. You are unmovable.
8:50You are unshakable.
8:53Say I'm anchored in faith.
8:56And then Hebrews 13 and 8 it talks about
8:59Jesus being the same when? Yesterday.
9:03He's the same. So now if he is the same
9:08and everything about him is the same,
9:10then why do we change and not see what
9:14we want to see in our lives?
9:16So at some point we got to get to the
9:18place where we are anchored in our faith
9:22for whatever it is that we will
9:24experience, for whatever it is that we
9:27will go through in life. And faith isn't
9:30just some emergency reaction but faith
9:35is something that we live by. Say I live
9:38by faith.
9:40Now I do want you to turn here. Turn to
9:42Romans 1 and 17.
9:45Romans 1 and 17 and it says for in the
9:49gospel the righteousness of God is
9:53revealed a right. Righteousness that is
9:57is by faith.
10:00Oh, is that where I want to go? Yeah,
10:01that's where I want to go. What
10:02translation is this? I don't like this
10:04translation that just came up with my
10:06Bible. I just really want you to get to
10:08the bottom of this. Okay.
10:10I don't I don't want NIV.
10:16Let's go to New King James or King
10:19James. If I got that off my notes, I
10:21don't know.
10:22Oh, y'all clapping.
10:24Y'all don't want NIV either.
10:27Uh-huh.
10:28Y'all be teaching against NIV.
10:31Uh-huh.
10:32Y'all think you don't Y'all know I don't
10:34get embarrassed, right? Okay, like ooh,
10:36they put the wrong They didn't do the
10:38wrong thing. I never even told them what
10:40version. So, look. The just, that's
10:43really what I want you to see. The just
10:45shall live by faith. Let's go to another
10:49one. Let's go to Galatians 3 and 11.
10:54Galatians 3 and 11. I just want you to
10:56see this because if you sit here and you
10:59think you can live by your own rules and
11:02your own guidelines and get what you
11:04want from God, you will never get it.
11:08And so, we have to live in accordance in
11:10and alignment with what he has said in
11:12his word. And I think a lot of times we
11:15know the scripture over there how in
11:18Genesis 1:27 says that he has made us in
11:22his image and in his likeness. But what
11:25we do is make God in
11:29our image of him. You know, we create
11:32the image we want God to have in our
11:34lives.
11:36We tell God how we want him to be
11:38opposed to allow him to have us being
11:41what he wants us to be. And so now he's
11:44given us this word. Now, you see that
11:46again? The just shall live by what?
11:49Okay, you want to see it again? Let's go
11:51to Hebrews 10:38.
11:54I want you to see it in the word. The
11:56Bible says that let every man be a liar
11:58and God's word be true.
12:00Hebrews 10:38. Do you see that again?
12:04What does it say? The just shall
12:07Okay, have one more. Habakkuk 2 and 4.
12:09Let's go there.
12:12Because we're going to pray at the end.
12:15And I'm going to come in agreement with
12:16everything that you have been believing
12:18God for. There is no reason for you not
12:22to have everything that he has promised.
12:25Y'all know the scripture over there in 1
12:27Corinthians or 2 Corinthians 1 and 20. I
12:30think it's 1 Corinthians 1 and 20 where
12:32it says, "For the promises of God are
12:34yes and
12:36yes and amen." The only reason we don't
12:40get what we want from God is because we
12:42have asked amiss.
12:44And how many of you are asking things
12:46that are not in line with the word of
12:48God? None of y'all better raise y'all
12:50hands.
12:53We are asking in accordance to his word.
12:57Therefore, it should manifest in our
13:00life.
13:02It may not happen overnight. It may not
13:05happen in the next week. I don't know
13:07how long it's going to take, but you got
13:10to be determined that you're going to be
13:11in it for the long haul. That you're not
13:14going to throw in the towel. That you're
13:16not going to say, "You know, forget it."
13:18You're not going to turn your back on
13:19it, but you got to be in it come hell,
13:22high water, low water, or no water at
13:25all.
13:26Uh-huh. I know some of y'all ready to
13:28quit right now on some things. Your
13:30marriage all jacked up and you're ready
13:32to walk out. Well, you got to know you
13:34want it bad enough.
13:36And it can't be best based on like, "Is
13:40he going to change? Is I'm going to give
13:42him till next week."
13:46Y'all know I'm telling the truth.
13:48Oh, shoot. I'm
13:50Pastor said I should believe God for
13:53him. See, I'll give him till next week.
13:55If he don't change, I'm out of here.
13:58That's not going to work. That's not
13:59faith.
14:00You can't set those limits. So, if you
14:03don't want it, you going to have to go
14:05cuz you're not going to get what you
14:07want.
14:08Uh, say I'm anchored. I'm anchored. Say
14:11I'm anchored. Look, let's go to Hebrews
14:132 and 1. Oh, I didn't read Habakkuk, did
14:16I? I want you to see this in Habakkuk 2
14:18and 4.
14:19Cuz I really need you to see this. Can
14:21y'all see my tracks right there? Y'all
14:23can't see my tracks.
14:27I saw that little dark spot right there.
14:29I was like,
14:30[Applause]
14:39Huh. Look at this last line.
14:42But the just shall live by
14:47Wait, it doesn't say faith. Just go with
14:50faith.
14:53What does it say? Read it again.
14:58Is that a small H, lowercase, or
15:01capital?
15:03LOWERCASE. SO, THAT CAN'T be God's
15:05faith.
15:07Whose faith is that?
15:09You have to live by your faith.
15:14No, you have to live by your faith.
15:17That scripture OVER THERE IN MARK 5 WITH
15:19THE WOMAN WITH the issue of blood, Jesus
15:22looked and said, "Her faith has made her
15:25whole." He didn't say, "I made you
15:28whole." He didn't say, "I laid hands on
15:31you and I healed you." He said, "Your
15:33faith has made you whole." So, while
15:37you're SITTING BACK WAITING FOR GOD TO
15:40DO something for you, he's telling you
15:42to get up, you to press in, you to go
15:44after it bad enough like you really want
15:47it, and you will see that your faith
15:50will make you whole. Say, "My faith is
15:53making me whole. My faith is making me
15:55whole." Look, I want to go over here to
15:57Hebrews 2
15:59and 1. Now, I do want to read this out
16:02of the NLT. Y'all don't like the NLT?
16:06Uh, I'm driving. Just go with me.
16:11So, we must listen very carefully to the
16:14truth we have heard or we may drift away
16:18from it.
16:21It is so important that you stay
16:23anchored in the word of God so you will
16:26not drift away from it. I think I told
16:30you all the story about how I'm a
16:32licensed scuba diver. Do y'all remember
16:34that?
16:35You don't? How many of y'all nosy?
16:38And you want to hear it again. You want
16:40to hear You want to hear it again. Okay,
16:41so
16:42I want to tell it. I wasn't really going
16:44to tell it, but since y'all nosy, I'm
16:46going to tell you.
16:48So, my husband is a licensed scuba
16:50diver, and he would go scuba diving, you
16:54know, like everywhere we would go. And
16:58he always have to have a partner in
17:00order to scuba dive because it's not
17:02safe to go down with just your tank of
17:05air. You need to have somebody else to
17:07pair with you so in case of an
17:09emergency, you'd be able to, you know,
17:11swap out air. Well,
17:14I was, you know, not
17:17a scuba diver. So, I would have to sit
17:19on the sidelines and wait for him to
17:21come out. Well, every time he would go
17:24to these islands, he would go to a place
17:27and he would get a partner, and every
17:29time, can you say every time?
17:32Every time
17:34a partner would come,
17:36it would be somebody with this nice lure
17:43I mean, like really nice shape and hair
17:47long, not sewn in like mine, but like
17:50all the way down here, and she would go,
17:54you know, in the water in her nice
17:56little lacquer suit and dip and turn her
17:59head like that. And I would be sitting
18:01on the sidelines and I'm saying, "It do
18:03not take all of that."
18:08So, he would look at me and say, "I'll
18:09be right back." And I'm like, ooh, all
18:12in my feelings, attitude for days.
18:16And I remember sitting there and he was
18:18getting ready to go in the water, and
18:20I'm thinking, he probably down in the
18:22water saying, "Call me."
18:30How many of y'all know we can paint some
18:32pictures in our mind for?
18:35It don't even take the devil to tell us
18:37stuff. We sit there and we meditate on
18:40all of the wrong things thinking
18:41something is going wrong and nothing is
18:43happening. So, Holy Spirit said, "Didi,
18:46you don't like that, do you?" I said, "I
18:48sure don't." He said, "Well, then won't
18:50you fix it?" I said, "I'm going to fix
18:52it. He ain't ever going scuba diving
18:54again, I'll tell you that."
18:57He said, "No, that's not how you fix it.
18:59You go and get your license and then you
19:01could be the partner." I said, "Ooh."
19:04Oh, that was smart. So, I went and got
19:07my license to go be his partner, and I
19:10remember going out on the first time
19:12when we went, you know,
19:14scuba diving. We were on this boat and
19:17they put up this red flag, and the red
19:20the red flag was just to let us know,
19:22you know, where to come back to get on
19:24the boat cuz the boat was going to be
19:25right here, and they lowered the anchor.
19:33They lowered the anchor.
19:35I remember telling my husband, I said,
19:37"I'm not moving."
19:39I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to
19:41stay right here by this boat cuz it
19:42remind you, I was not the best swimmer.
19:45I don't know how I got my scuba diving
19:47license. They told me you got to tread
19:49water for like 5 minutes or something. I
19:51was doing all kind of stuff, like just
19:53trying to move cuz I was like, ain't no
19:56chick going to be his partner. It's
19:57going to be me. I think that's what kind
20:00of gave me that push. Okay, that's not
20:02my message though, but
20:05I remember telling him, I said, I'm not
20:07going to move. We're going to stay right
20:08here. We're just going to go straight
20:09down. Let the air out this BC. Let it
20:12take us down and we'll just look around
20:14at the fish. I ain't going to move too
20:15much. He He just kind of
20:18Okay, come on. Cuz he knew, but I didn't
20:21know what was about to take place. And
20:23so I remember when it was time for us to
20:25come up. And when I came up, the boat
20:28was way over there. And I'm way over
20:33here. And I'm saying, oh my God. I know
20:37they didn't take that ANCHOR UP. WHY DID
20:40THAT BOAT MOVE? He told us he was going
20:42to stay right there. My husband looked,
20:44he said, Didi,
20:45he did stay right there.
20:48He said, you moved. I said, no, I
20:50didn't.
20:52I said, I told you I ain't move my hands
20:54like that or nothing.
20:56He said, Didi, you didn't realize
20:59because you didn't do anything to remain
21:01in the same spot. The water, the current
21:04took you away from where you got in.
21:08[Applause]
21:10Let me tell you something, the boat
21:11never moved cuz the boat was anchored.
21:16So the word never moves.
21:19The word never changes.
21:22God remains the same always. The only
21:26thing that's moving is us.
21:29THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO
21:31STAY connected and be anchored in faith
21:35for whatever it is that we go through.
21:37Say I'm anchored in faith.
21:39Say I'mma remain in my spot.
21:42Say I'm not going to be moved from my
21:44spot.
21:45I remember
21:47um I came and I think I told you all
21:48about my story about this rheumatoid
21:50arthritis. You know, I like stories, I
21:52like testimonies. Well, they had told me
21:55like 20 years ago that I had rheumatoid
21:57arthritis and I was like, well, I don't
21:59I don't receive that. I don't believe
22:01God for that. I have so many testimonies
22:04about healing taking place in my life
22:06and in my body and in my family's life.
22:09And so I'm saying, God, I don't like
22:11that. So I started exercising and I
22:13started eating right. Well, I started
22:16eating right for a little while. Don't
22:17judge me cuz I sure went back to eating
22:19wrong. Um I'm just saying that so in
22:22case you ever take me out to dinner and
22:23I eat all this stuff, you'd be like, I
22:24thought she ate clean. I eat off a clean
22:27plate. Praise the Lord.
22:30So
22:39So I'm saying, okay, God, I I confess
22:41the word and I promise you I had not had
22:45like any signs of rheumatoid arthritis.
22:49I came in here and I told you there were
22:51no signs of rheumatoid arthritis in my
22:54body. I wasn't having any challenges or
22:57whatever, so I knew God had healed me.
22:59But what happened was they said
23:02rheumatoid arthritis is something that
23:04moves through, you know, your body. Like
23:06it may hit you right here, hit you right
23:09there one day or whatever. But I'm
23:11talking about like 15 years or so of no
23:14challenges. And then one day I woke up
23:17and then I started having little pains
23:19and I I I didn't really want to say it
23:21was because of age, you know, because
23:24it's it's like in your mind you lie to
23:26yourself and tell yourself you younger
23:28than you really are. And so, you know, I
23:31was like, no, it can't be age, but I
23:33think the enemy is trying to make me
23:34think that this rheumatoid is coming
23:37back. And I said, oh, no, God. Look, if
23:40you did it before, you would do it
23:42again. If you did it before, you would
23:44do it again. And so I said, okay, I'mma
23:48confess this word so all of the pain
23:49stop. Well, I had this insurance and the
23:52insurance wouldn't, you know, test me. I
23:55kept telling the doctors, I was like,
23:56please, can you just do the test again
23:59because I know I'm healed. And I want to
24:02be able to show people, you know, like
24:04in print that I'm healed and I got a
24:07testimony about how good God is because
24:10I'm anchored in this word and I'm not
24:12going to be moved from what he did
24:14before, right? He says, no, their
24:16insurance company won't allow that and,
24:19you know, it's no real reason of doing
24:21it because if you had it, you going to
24:23have it. I was like, I refuse to believe
24:26that. And so what I did is I changed
24:29insurance companies.
24:32And I had to go to a new doctor.
24:35So when you go to the new doctor, what
24:37do they do? They do new blood work.
24:40So I said, when they was doing the new
24:42blood work, I was like, okay, can you
24:44make sure you check for, you know,
24:47rheumatoid arthritis, RA, I think that's
24:49what they call it or whatever. I was
24:50like, of course, okay. I said, thank you
24:54because I know I have a testimony. And
24:56so I went and they got this picture. Can
24:58y'all put this picture up right here?
25:01What does this say?
25:02Your rheumatoid I You see I blocked out
25:06everything so you cuz I don't want y'all
25:07reading the rest of my stuff. Y'all
25:08nosy. It says, your rheumatoid factor,
25:12rheumatoid arthritis marker was what?
25:16Come on, I think somebody should shout.
25:19Listen.
25:21That negative, like I already knew what
25:24I was working with. But I show that to
25:28provoke you to believe.
25:31That's not to prove what I'm saying is
25:33so. That's so you would know that the
25:35word of God is so. I don't care what you
25:39have had, what you have dealt with, what
25:42the doctors have said that you will
25:44always have, you got to believe the word
25:47OF GOD. WHAT DID GOD say to you?
25:51ARE YOU HEALED OR YOU'RE NOT?
25:54Either his yes or it's not.
25:58And I choose to believe the word of God.
26:01So say I'm anchored. Say I'm anchored.
26:04So I went through the scriptures and I
26:06wanted to find somebody who was, you
26:08know, have gone through some challenges
26:10and had some things and talking about
26:12anchor and I came up against Paul. And
26:15so I want to read about Paul. Let's read
26:17in Acts 27 and 13.
26:22Say I'm anchored. I'm anchored.
26:24I love the word. I see y'all. I see
26:26y'all. Y'all like, yes. Come on.
26:29Ooh, y'all greedy.
26:32Say I'm greedy for the word.
26:35Acts 27 and 13. This is in NLT, too. It
26:39says, when a light wind began blowing
26:43from the south, the sailors thought they
26:46could make it. So they pulled up the
26:49anchor
26:50and sailed close to the shore of Crete.
26:53Now, this is a story about Paul. They
26:55were taking Paul to Rome because of, you
26:59know, just persecution of him, you know,
27:01doing what God had called him to do and
27:05he, you know, had to get on a boat to go
27:08over with the the uh
27:11the jailers, I guess, or I guess they
27:13were What do you call them? Like people
27:15that police the
27:19the
27:21Like they Not the wardens cuz he wasn't
27:22in jail yet. So the escorts, the police
27:25escorts. I guess soldier escorts at that
27:28time, right? So they was escorting him
27:31over to Rome. So he wasn't in shackles,
27:34he wasn't handcuffed, he wasn't in any
27:36of that because they really did Julius
27:39and them, they respected who he happened
27:41to be, but he still had to go to trial.
27:44And I'mma show you in the scripture
27:46later about why he had to go, but I need
27:49you to really lean in. Bishop told you
27:52about leaning in to what I have to say
27:54because I really want you
27:58[Music]
28:01has already done everything that he said
28:04he would do in your life. So when you
28:06leave out of here, you will walk in a
28:08different posture and a position of your
28:11mindset to know that I can go after what
28:14God has for me, all right? And so now I
28:17want to read it again. It says, when a
28:18light wind began blowing from the south,
28:22the sailors thought I guess I could have
28:24just said sailors. The sailors thought
28:26they could make it. So they pulled up
28:28the Say they pulled up the anchor.
28:31And they sailed close to the shore of
28:33Crete.
28:34Now, when you read a scripture, you have
28:38to read the pretext and the post text in
28:42order really to establish the text. So
28:45you can understand what this is talking
28:48about. So I gave you a little bit of the
28:50story, you know, about what was
28:52happening, but I want you to see
28:54something because this scripture right
28:57here was in the middle of a storm.
29:01And they pulled up the anchor.
29:05But they didn't realize they were in the
29:08middle of a storm.
29:12That's why No, this preaching right
29:14there.
29:15That's why you have to stay anchored all
29:19the time. When we're talking about
29:21unshakeable faith, faith doesn't shake.
29:26Faith is steady. Faith is firm. You know
29:30who shakes and what shakes?
29:33You.
29:37Faith is unshakeable.
29:39And so you have to stay anchored in
29:42unshakeable faith and I said for every
29:46forecast.
29:47not just in the bad storms,
29:51not in just, you know, when things are
29:54going wrong, but this right here said it
29:57was a light wind.
29:59And they pulled up the anchor.
30:02So, listen. Here they are in the middle
30:04of a storm.
30:06Verse 9, I want to go back up because I
30:08told you we got to see what's going on
30:10in between, above and beneath. Verse 9
30:13says, "We had lost a lot of time.
30:17The weather was becoming dangerous for
30:20sea travel because it was so late in the
30:23fall. And Paul spoke to the ship's
30:26officer about it." Verse 10 says, "Men,"
30:31he said, "I believe there is trouble
30:34ahead if we go on. Shipwreck, loss of
30:38cargo, and danger to our lives as well."
30:45This is verse 9.
30:48I read to you what? Verse 13.
30:51It says, "The weather was already
30:54becoming dangerous."
30:58Now, listen to me.
31:01Don't put down your guards.
31:06You know how people say, "I had to put
31:08on my armor today." When did you take it
31:10off?
31:13IT NEVER SAID put on, take off, put on,
31:17take off. Like I like that boot that
31:20that song, "Put on your boots." Is that
31:23it? No, lace up your boots.
31:25See, them old, don't pay me no mind.
31:27Lace up your boots.
31:30Put on your backpack.
31:34You like that. You like that, don't you?
31:35Like that song.
31:37Yeah, it's like don't unlace your boots.
31:41YOU'RE IN A FIGHT.
31:44YOU'RE IN A WAR.
31:46THE BIBLE says that we FIGHT THE GOOD
31:49FIGHT OF FAITH.
31:53WE'RE IN A FIGHT.
31:55YOU DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR ARMOR. WHEN YOU
31:57TAKE off your armor, YOU LIKE OPEN GAME.
32:01IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY CAN TAKE you out.
32:05SO, YOU HAVE TO STAY ANCHORED. SAY, "I
32:06must stay anchored."
32:08And I'm so loving what is happening in
32:11the body of Christ now because so many
32:13people got off during COVID and have
32:16just drifted away,
32:19have pulled up their anchors, and out
32:22here living their
32:23thinking they are living their best
32:26life,
32:27only to experience challenges, only to
32:31experience tribulation, and now are
32:34running back to the place where they
32:36were never supposed to be unanchored
32:38from.
32:39And so, I am loving it. Can you give
32:41yourselves a hand for being in here
32:44today?
32:45Say, "I'm anchored."
32:47Say, "I'm anchored."
32:50So, look, the weather was already
32:51becoming dangerous.
32:53PAUL GAVE THEM A WORD.
32:57It says, "Men,
32:59I believe there is trouble ahead."
33:02He got a word that he gave them. He
33:05foresaw foresaw foresaw How you say it?
33:08Foresaw? He saw something ahead.
33:12[Applause]
33:19Let's look at verse 14.
33:23Let's look at verse 14.
33:26But the weather changed abruptly.
33:30And a wind of typhoon strength, called a
33:34northeaster,
33:36burst across the island and blew us out
33:40to sea.
33:43I read 13. It was in the middle of a
33:48storm. The storm had already start
33:50started. They saw it coming.
33:54But because the wind let up a little
33:56bit,
33:57because it looked like they could take a
33:59breath,
34:00because it looked like, "Oh God is
34:02finally hearing my prayers."
34:05They decided, "We can take up the anchor
34:07now and just move ahead." When Paul had
34:11already given them a word that the storm
34:14was ahead and I see danger.
34:18What did God tell you?
34:22Did he tell YOU YOU WERE GOING TO THE
34:24OTHER SIDE OR YOU'RE NOT? I told you I
34:27would read something to you like earlier
34:29that I mean a minute ago, if you were to
34:32go back over there to Acts 23, somewhere
34:35in there, it talked about how Jesus had
34:38already told Paul that he had to go to
34:41Rome.
34:43He already knew he was going to Rome.
34:47So, regardless of what happened, Paul
34:50knew he was going to be good.
34:53BUT WHY GO THAT WAY?
34:56WHEN GOD GIVE YOU A WORD,
34:59when God tells you to do something, you
35:01don't switch voices in the middle of a
35:04storm.
35:09YOU CAME UP WITH YOUR OWN DECISION.
35:12YOU DECIDED, "Oh yeah, this faith stuff
35:15ain't working. God, you told me by your
35:17stripes I'm healed, but every time I go
35:20to the doctor, they tell me that
35:22rheumatoid arthritis is still there,
35:25that I got cancer, that I my thyroids
35:28are hyperactive, and this stuff they've
35:30been praying, and I haven't seen any
35:33change yet.
35:36So, now I'm just going to do my own
35:37thing. If I just eat right, if I just
35:40exercise, I don't have to believe God
35:43anymore. MAYBE I'LL JUST GO GET SOME
35:45crystals or some sage or something
35:47because you know we switch voices.
35:51LET ME CALL SOMEBODY ELSE AND ASK THEM
35:53WHAT I SHOULD DO.
35:57WHEN GOD HAD ALREADY GIVEN YOU A WORD
36:00THAT BY HIS STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED.
36:10NOW, who are you going to listen to? You
36:12going to listen to somebody else?
36:15AND YOU GOING TO DECIDE TO MAKE GOD IN
36:17YOUR IMAGE?
36:19OR YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS
36:22AND THE ORDER OF GOD to get what you
36:24want to manifest in your life?
36:29I'VE GIVEN YOU THE STORY ABOUT MY
36:30husband when he was in the hospital in
36:322014,
36:34how they just told him he was just Well,
36:37they didn't tell him cuz he was out. He
36:39was in a coma. He didn't even know what
36:41they were saying over him.
36:43I had to stand in the gap.
36:45Say, "Thank God for a praying wife."
36:50Yeah, the men should have been clapping
36:52for their own ladies right there. I'm
36:53just saying.
36:55That was that was like just to help you
36:57out, you know, get you some brownie
36:59points at tonight or something.
37:02I mean, you could have put your hands
37:04together in faith to act like she prayed
37:06for you.
37:07Some of y'all probably saying, "I know
37:08she praying that I die. That's about
37:11it."
37:12No, she not. She really like you.
37:18Well, 2014 when they told him told me
37:22that, you know, this was it for him,
37:25that this was a last-ditch effort. They
37:27put him on this ECMO machine and
37:29um things just were not looking good.
37:32Like everything was going bad. His lungs
37:35were already bad. His heart wasn't doing
37:38good. His his liver, his kidney, his
37:40blood had become like poisoned or
37:44whatever, and they told me they only
37:45could get this one
37:47treatment. If that one treatment didn't
37:49work that one time, it was nothing else.
37:51It kept telling me all of the nothing
37:53elses that they could do. Well, I
37:56refused to pull up the anchor.
37:59I refused to throw in the towel. I
38:02refused to lift up the white flag and
38:05say I surrender all because I had a
38:08word.
38:09The only way you are going to be able to
38:13stay anchored in faith during every
38:16forecast is that you have a revelation
38:19of the word of the living God, knowing
38:22that the word of God is for you.
38:25It is not for your mama and them and
38:27your auntie and them and all of the
38:29people who live right, but it is for
38:32you.
38:35You have to know that. Say, "It belongs
38:37to me."
38:38Jesus went to the cross for you. Say,
38:41"He went to the cross for me?"
38:44No, that's a question. Ask yourself.
38:46Say, "He went to the cross for me?"
38:49I can't hear you asking yourself that
38:50question.
38:54Yes.
38:56Jesus went to the cross for you.
39:01He took it all for you.
39:04So, you wouldn't have to take it.
39:08We should be ruling and reigning right
39:11now. This world system is crazy. My
39:15husband stood up in church on last
39:17Sunday. You know, the shutdown. Aren't
39:19y'all glad y'all back to work? People
39:21back to work. People got money. People,
39:23you know, getting this stuff ready.
39:25But
39:26my husband stood up on last Sunday and
39:29he said,
39:31"I just heard in my spirit that I need
39:34to shut down the shutdown."
39:38And he said, "I shut down the shutdown.
39:43And he started decreeing it. He said,
39:45"No, I'm talking about this week." He
39:48said, "Y'ALL GOING BACK TO WORK THIS
39:51WEEK."
39:53MAN, by Wednesday, our phone was blowing
39:56up. "Pastor, PASTOR, WE GOING BACK TO
39:59WORK. WE GOING BACK TO WORK." It's like,
40:03what?
40:04Did you not believe?
40:08SOME OF YOU ARE SO SURPRISED WHEN THINGS
40:11HAPPEN AND MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE.
40:14YOU GOT TO BELIEVE IT.
40:16YOU GOT TO EXPECT IT.
40:19WHY EVEN PRAY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT
40:21YOU'RE NOT really expecting to manifest
40:23in your life? Why even ask God for
40:26something? Some of US ARE SO INTIMIDATED
40:29BY WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY,
40:31WE DON'T EVEN OPEN UP OUR MOUTHS AND SAY
40:33IT.
40:34CUZ WE AFRAID, JUST IN CASE
40:37IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, AT LEAST I didn't put
40:40it out there. Well, I don't know about
40:43you, BABY, BUT THE SCRIPTURE over there
40:44in Psalm 67, it says, "Let my people
40:48PRAISE ME. LET ALL THE PEOPLE PRAISE ME.
40:52Then the earth shall yield its increase,
40:58AND GOD WILL BLESS US." NO, LISTEN, your
41:02blessing is already in the earth.
41:06The Bible says, "WHEN YOU PRAISE HIM,
41:09the earth shall yield its increase." So,
41:12I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'M WALKING
41:14AROUND EVERY DAY. I don't even HAVE TO
41:16ASK GOD TO BLESS ME. I'M SAYING, "GOD, I
41:19PRAISE YOU. GOD, I WORSHIP YOU. GOD, I
41:23GLORIFY YOU. YOU ARE AMAZING GOD. I LOVE
41:28YOU TODAY, GOD. YOU'RE AWESOME. YOU ARE
41:31A HEALER. You are a deliverer. YOU'RE MY
41:34SOUL COMING KING. YOU ARE FAITHFUL GOD.
41:38YOU ARE A GOD THAT CHANGES NOT.
41:44THEN YOU LOOK UP, YOU LIKE, "OH MY GOD,
41:46I don't feel that pain anymore. Oh my
41:49God, somebody just knocked on my door
41:51and left some groceries. Oh my God, I
41:53needed my bill paid, AND I CALLED and
41:55they said it was gone. IT WAS CANCELED.
41:58WHAT? WHY WOULDN'T you want to stay
42:01ANCHORED TO A GOD who is FAITHFUL TO HIS
42:05WORD, WHO CANNOT LIE, WHO CHANGES NOT?"
42:16SAY, "I'm not pulling up the anchor. I'm
42:17not pulling up the anchor."
42:19[Applause]
42:25The Bible over there in Romans, cuz we
42:27getting ready to pray in a minute.
42:29The Bible over there in Romans 4 talks
42:31about Abraham.
42:33And it says that Abraham staggered not
42:36at the promises of God.
42:38And I'm thinking,
42:41what do you mean he staggered not?
42:44Because
42:45like Abraham wasn't perfect.
42:48Abraham, he lied,
42:51said his wife was his sister.
42:56And then
42:57he slept with Hagar.
43:01Like,
43:03what do you mean? Like, what's what's up
43:06with that?
43:08And then he he laughed at you, God,
43:11when you told him he was about to be the
43:14father of many nations, and he didn't
43:16have any seed, did he? He laughed, and
43:19he thinking like, "I'm too old to have a
43:22baby, and Sarah, like she way past
43:26menopause. She is dry."
43:46And then God began to tell me,
43:50"Faith isn't being perfect.
43:55Faith isn't about being perfect.
43:58Faith is just about being committed to
44:00what he has told you to do. What do you
44:02believe?
44:04It's about believing.
44:08It's about being steadfast and unmovable
44:11when the storms come.
44:13Because they are coming.
44:16And I do believe that this whole
44:19government thing was just a test run
44:22about what's about to happen.
44:25[Music]
44:27And so we as believers, we must be
44:29prepared. The Bible says that we are not
44:32ignorant of the devil's devices.
44:35Well, how is that so?
44:37We must keep our ears to the breastplate
44:41of God.
44:42Stay committed
44:44to your leader who hears from God to
44:46give you instructions and directions
44:49during this time.
44:52You must be anchored.
44:55You must be unmovable.
44:58You must remain in a place of
45:02focusedness
45:04steadiness.
45:06You may shake.
45:09Just don't move your feet.
45:13You may bend.
45:15Just don't move.
45:19I love that story over there about Paul,
45:21because they did run into that storm,
45:24and it says that it happened abruptly,
45:26and everything was destroyed.
45:30But you know what was not destroyed?
45:34Any lives.
45:37There was like no life left behind.
45:41And they could have been destroyed,
45:44because they weren't there to mean Paul
45:48any good.
45:50But Paul went on to fulfill what God
45:53wanted him to fulfill.
45:55He says, "Look, I still have work for
45:57you.
45:58You stay committed and connected to me,
46:01but the people around you just decided
46:03that they wanted to just take you on
46:05through the storm. They didn't want to
46:07take heed to your word."
46:12The ship was lost,
46:14but the purpose and the assignment
46:15wasn't.
46:19So now I just pick up the pieces. Paul
46:21gathered all of them, just grabbed
46:23little pieces, and sailed on over to the
46:26side, did ministry for a few months,
46:30then ended up going on over to Rome.
46:36So I don't know what you're believing
46:38God for right now.
46:40It may look like a shipwreck.
46:43It may look like there is no hope.
46:47It may look like all of the pieces are
46:50just too hard to put back together
46:55again.
46:57[Music]
47:01I want to add my faith to yours today.
47:05Not that I'm some
47:08super
47:10like
47:11whatever faith.
47:14I just believe.
47:17I'm anchored.
47:21When they told me my thyroids were
47:22hyperactive,
47:24I believed.
47:28When they told me that I had to have
47:30surgery and take a pill or radiation,
47:34I remembered
47:36God healed me of the rheumatoid
47:38arthritis, so why would I doubt now?
47:43[Music]
47:45I believe when they told me I needed a
47:48hysterectomy, and the doctor burnt my
47:50intestine, and it created this fistula,
47:53and things started happening. They took
47:55me back to the hospital, and they said,
47:57"We got to do emergency surgery, cuz now
47:59you need a colostomy bag." I believed.
48:03[Music]
48:07I said, "No."
48:09I remembered.
48:11How many of you are born again, you
48:13received Jesus Christ as Lord?
48:16Do you know it took faith for you to do
48:19that?
48:21How do you confess out of your mouth and
48:24believe in your heart that God raised
48:27Jesus from the dead, and you receive him
48:29as Lord? Only through faith.
48:33Well, you have had a faith episode. You
48:36have had a faith victory.
48:40So you take that same faith
48:44that you received Jesus with,
48:46to take it over into the areas that you
48:49need to see something else manifest in
48:51your life, and you use that.
48:54And you watch what I say.
48:57The next time Bishop or somebody come in
48:59here ask you, "How many of you been
49:01believing God for a long time for?" you
49:03going to see like
49:06no hands.
49:09Wow.
49:10Because you started seeking God.
49:13You were anchored. You were planted. You
49:16were steadfast. You didn't change up
49:19voices in the middle of a storm, and
49:21start creating your own thing.
49:25And it's going to manifest in your life
49:27so fast. How many of y'all ready?
49:31You ready?
49:33Are you ready?
49:35Are you ready?
49:40Let's pray.
49:42If you're here you are one of those that
49:44are believing God and you feel like
49:46you've been in a shipwreck.
49:48And I know people have to leave but if
49:50you don't have to leave please don't
49:51move.
49:53But if you feel like you have been in a
49:55shipwreck
49:57like all hell has broken loose around
49:59you
50:00and you feel like quitting you feel like
50:03throwing in the towel but you got like
50:05this glimmer of hope.
50:08Like God if you could do it for Dr.
50:10DeeDee
50:12and you're no respecter of person
50:15and I know I haven't been perfect but
50:17God I'm committed to you.
50:21And there's no turning back. If that's
50:24you I want you to stand.
50:26Stand.
50:29Stand. Stand. Stand.
50:32Stand.
50:33[Music]
50:39And it's okay.
50:42You know we come here sometimes and we
50:45put on this mask and we try to present
50:48like everything is perfect. If I'm
50:50standing here in front of you and I can
50:52tell you that everything hasn't always
50:55been perfect in my life and isn't
50:57perfect right now in my life but I'm
51:00still trusting God and believing God.
51:02Why do we put on this mask and want to
51:05act like everything is okay? Get home
51:07and the devil start kicking our butt at
51:09midnight.
51:11And then we can't sleep.
51:14We're not eating.
51:15We're not trusting God. We're pulling up
51:17the anchor putting the anchor down
51:18pulling up the anchor. You so tossed to
51:21and fro.
51:24Can you ALL MAKE SOME KIND OF connection
51:26even those that are seat seated? If you
51:28could just touch somebody around you but
51:31everybody let's make connection.
51:34Because it's about community. We don't
51:36come here just for the sake of just
51:39coming together. The Bible when it talks
51:41about over there in Hebrews 10 and 25
51:44fail not to assemble yourselves
51:46together. It's like there's purpose in
51:49that.
51:50We are supposed to assemble together for
51:53purpose.
51:54You have my supply I have YOUR SUPPLY.
51:58WE STAY connected together.
52:01So Father in the name of Jesus
52:04we thank you for our brother our sister
52:06that we are touching right now.
52:09We thank YOU FATHER THAT FAITH HAS been
52:11released and stirred up in this room
52:14like never before.
52:16Father we lift up every desire
52:19everything that they have been
52:20petitioning you for and we call it forth
52:24now in the name OF JESUS.
52:28FATHER I DECREE THAT THEY WILL NOT
52:30become weary in well doing but they will
52:33stand and they will see everything that
52:36you have promised them everything that
52:38they are believing you for.
52:41FATHER JUST LIKE JESUS PRAYED for Peter
52:45that HIS FAITH WOULD FAIL HIM NOT.
52:47FATHER I DECREE THAT THEIR FAITH will
52:50fail not that they will be unmovable God
52:55unshakable in you.
52:59Father we release healing to manifest
53:02now.
53:04We release wholeness to manifest now.
53:08I release restored marriages now Father.
53:12I thank you that the singles are being
53:14made whole now God.
53:17I release happy back in this place. I
53:21release joy BACK INTO THEIR LIVES.
53:24I THANK YOU THAT IT IS A JOY OF THE LORD
53:27THAT STAYS STRENGTH their ability to
53:29stand and continue to do what you and
53:31only you have called them to do.
53:35I thank you that purpose is being
53:37stirred up on the inside of everyone.
53:40I pray now that their ears are sensitive
53:42to your voice and if you give them a way
53:45out they will know how to take that way
53:48out
53:49that they won't just take what the
53:50doctors say or take what their bosses
53:53say take what this world system of
53:55culture say but they will hear you.
54:02I thank you Father that we will serve
54:04you in the good days and in the bad days
54:07that we will be anchored in faith for
54:09every forecast.
54:12When the good times come when the bad
54:14times come when the not so good times
54:16come
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54:19we know that you got us.
54:24And I decree it to be so.
54:27And we receive it now
54:30in the mighty name of Jesus. Can you
54:32make some noise if you believe you
54:34receive?
54:35Now make some noise if you believe
54:39you receive. We have it the same spirit
54:44of faith.
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