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Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 41 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 4: come into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, 42 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 4: please stop buying. Be a part of one of our services. 43 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 4: I'll promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 44 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 45 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 4: about this new police recruit. He was taking his final exam. 46 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 4: He was in front of a large classroom. The sergeant 47 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 4: asked him, what would you do if you had to 48 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 4: arrest your own mother in law without missing a beat, 49 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 4: he said, call for backup. Say it like you mean it. 50 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 51 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 52 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 53 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 4: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 54 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 55 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 56 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about anchored to hope and 57 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 4: anchor is something that holds a boat in place. Once 58 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 4: the captain arrives at his destination, he puts the anchor down. 59 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 4: That way, he won't drift and end up in places 60 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 4: that he doesn't want to be. When the boat is anchored, 61 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 4: it may move a little bit with the waves the wind, 62 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 4: but the captain is not worried. He can relax. He 63 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 4: knows the anchor is down. The scripture tells us, hope 64 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 4: is the anchor of our soul. What's going to keep 65 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 4: your soul in the right place? What's going to cause 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 4: you to overcome obstacles, reach your dreams is when you 67 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 4: are anchored to hope. That means no matter what you face, 68 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 4: no matter how big the difficulty, no matter how long 69 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 4: it's taking, you know God is still on the throne. 70 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 4: You know his plans for you are for good, that 71 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 4: He's bigger than any challenge. When you're anchored to this hope, 72 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 4: nothing moves you. The winds, the waves, the storms may come. 73 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 4: You're not worried. You have your anchor down. You receive 74 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 4: a bad medical report, A lot of people would be 75 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 4: upset negative. Not you. You're anchored to hope. I know God 76 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 4: is restoring health back into me. You go through a loss, 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 4: a disappointment. Your emotions are pulling you toward discouragement, toward bitterness. 78 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 4: But something's holding you back. You can't explain it. But 79 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 4: down in here you hear a voice saying everything's going 80 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 4: to be all right. God has beauty for these ashes. 81 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 4: That's the anchor of hope. Or maybe your dream looks impossible. 82 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 4: Every voice tells you it's not going to work out. 83 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 4: Forget it, you're wasting your time. Most people would throw 84 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 4: in the towel, but your attitude is I may not 85 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 4: see away, but I know God has a way. I 86 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 4: know he's opening doors no man can shut. When you're 87 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 4: anchor to hope, God will make things happen that you 88 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 4: could never make happen. But I've learned there's always something 89 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 4: trying to convince us to pull up our anchor. Delays, disappointments, 90 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 4: bad breaks in the tough times, when life doesn't seem fair, 91 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: when your prayers weren't answered, when it's taken longer than 92 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 4: your thought. You have to make sure to keep your 93 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 4: anchor down. If you pull it up, you'll drift into bitterness, discouragement, 94 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 4: self pity. When you're anchored to hope, it's like you're 95 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 4: tied to it. You can't go very far. You may 96 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 4: have some negative thoughts, thoughts of doubts, and well, it's 97 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 4: never gonna work out, but your faith will kick in. No, 98 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 4: I know the answers on the way. On paper, it 99 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 4: looks like it'll take thirty years to get out of debt. 100 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 4: You could accept it, But because you're anchored to hope, 101 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 4: something in you says, no, I know God can accelerate it. 102 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 4: I know he has explosive blessings come in my way. 103 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: Or perhaps your children are off course, doesn't look like 104 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 4: they'll ever change. You should be discouraged, but you're tied 105 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: to hope. Every time those negative thoughts come trying to 106 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 4: pull you away, your anchor kicks in. As for me 107 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 4: and my house, we will serve the Lord. My question 108 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 4: today is do you have your anchor down? Do you 109 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 4: have this hope, this expectancy that you're going to accomplish 110 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 4: your dreams, that you're going to break the addiction, that 111 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 4: you're going to see your family restored. Or have you 112 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 4: pulled up your anchor and drifted into doubt, mediocrity, not 113 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 4: expecting anything good. I'm asking you to put your anchor 114 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 4: back down. The scripture says faith is the substance of 115 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 4: things hoped for. You can't have faith if you don't 116 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 4: first have hope. One time, David had a lot coming 117 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 4: against him. He was down and discouraged. He felt overwhelmed 118 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: by life. He'd given up on his dreams. Everything kept 119 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 4: getting worse and worse. He finally said to himself, why 120 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 4: are you cast down? O my soul? Hope in the Lord? 121 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 4: He recognized he let his circumstances convince him to pull 122 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,039 Speaker 4: up his anchor. He said, in effect, I'm going to 123 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 4: put my anchor back down. I'm going to hope in 124 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 4: the Lord. You may not have any reason in the 125 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 4: natural to be hopeful. Doesn't look like you'll get well, 126 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: meet the right person, start your business. You have to 127 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 4: do like David and hope in the Lord. Don't put 128 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 4: your hope in your circumstances. They may not turn out 129 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 4: the way you thought. Don't put your hope in people. 130 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 4: They may let you down. Don't put your hope in 131 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 4: your career. Things may change. Put your hope in the Lord, 132 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 4: in the God who spoke worlds into existence, in the 133 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 4: God who flung stars into space. When you have your 134 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 4: hope in him, the scripture says, you will never be disappointed. 135 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 4: And sure you may go through some temporary setbacks. Life 136 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 4: will happen, but when it's all said and done, you'll 137 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 4: come out better than you were before. This is what 138 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 4: Joseph did. He had plenty of opportunities to pull up 139 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 4: his anchor. He was betrayed by his brothers, thrown into 140 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 4: a pit. He could have become negative, angry. That's not right. 141 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 4: My own family did me wrong. But he kept his 142 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 4: anchor down. They sold him into slavery. He was falsely 143 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 4: accused put in prison. It was unfair. He had a 144 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 4: good reason to be sour. Nobody would have faulted him. 145 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 4: But through all the trouble, through all the things that 146 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 4: didn't make sense, he didn't pull up his anchor. His 147 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 4: attitude was God, you have the final say. People don't 148 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 4: determine my destiny. A bad break can't keep me from 149 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 4: my purpose. All the forces of darkness cannot stop your 150 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 4: plan for my life. Because he was anchored to hope, 151 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 4: he didn't stay disappointed. He was vindicated, promoted, put in 152 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 4: charge of the whole nation. Zachariah puts it this way, 153 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 4: if you'll be a prisoner of hope, God will restore 154 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 4: back to you double what you lost. The prisoner of 155 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 4: hope means you can't get away from it. You're anchored 156 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 4: to it. You should be discouraged, but you can't help it. 157 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 4: Despite all that's come against you, Like Joseph, you still 158 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 4: believe you're going to accomplish your dreams. You should be overwhelmed. 159 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 4: The obstacle looks bigger, Goliath looks stronger, more powerful, But 160 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 4: like David, you have your hope in the Lord. You 161 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 4: know if God be for you, who dare be against you? 162 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 4: That sickness may seem like it's going to be the 163 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 4: end of you. You could live worried, stressed out, but 164 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 4: you know nothing can snatch you out of God's hand. 165 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 4: Your hope is not in the medicine, not in the treatment, 166 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 4: not in the professionals. Even though all those things are good, 167 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 4: we're grateful for them. Your hope is in the Lord, 168 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 4: in the God who breathed life into you, In the 169 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 4: God who makes blind eyes to see, in the God 170 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 4: who took Joseph from the pit to the palace, In 171 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 4: the God who calls David, a teenage shepherd boy to 172 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 4: defeat a huge giant, In the God who healed my 173 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 4: mother of terminal cancer. I'm asking you to keep your 174 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 4: anchor down, keep your hope in the Lord. When you 175 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 4: find yourself negative, worried, not thinking it's going to work out, 176 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 4: recognize what's happened. You pulled your anchor up. The good 177 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 4: news is you can put it back down. Instead of 178 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 4: dwelling on those negative thoughts. You'll never get well, never 179 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 4: break the addiction, never meet the right person. Turn it around. Father, 180 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 4: Thank you that the answers already on the way. Thank 181 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 4: you that healing's coming. Promotion's coming. The right people are coming. 182 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 4: Thank you, that favor is in my future. That's how 183 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 4: you stay anchored to hope. This is what Abraham did. 184 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 4: God gave him the promise that he and his wife 185 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 4: Sarah were going to have a baby. But they were 186 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 4: eighty years old. It was impossible. It had never happened before. 187 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 4: Abraham could have dismissed it, thought I must have heard 188 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 4: God wrong. I'm sure his friend said, Abraham, you really 189 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 4: think you're gonna have a baby. You're an old man. 190 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 4: He could have talked himself out of it. But it 191 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 4: says in Romans, for all human reason for hope being gone, 192 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 4: Abraham hoped on in faith. Sometimes there's no logical reason 193 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 4: to have hope. The medical report said my mother would 194 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 4: never get well in nineteen eighty one. It was terminal cancer. 195 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 4: All the experts told us we would never get this facility. 196 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 4: Our opponents were too big, they had more resources. And 197 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 4: you may have plenty of reasons why your situation is 198 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 4: not going to work out. So you have to do 199 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 4: like Abraham against all hope, hope on in faith, keep 200 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 4: your anchor down, don't talk yourself out of it. God 201 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 4: is not limited by the natural. He is a supernatural God. 202 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 4: At nearly one hundred years of age, Sarah gave birth 203 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 4: to a baby. The promise came to pass. Didn't happen overnight. 204 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 4: They waited some twenty years. They had plenty of times 205 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 4: they were tempted to think, it's never going to happen. 206 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 4: We're too old, it's been too long. If they were 207 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 4: to believed those lies and pulled up their anchor of hope, 208 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 4: they would have drifted into doubt, discouragement. Never saw the 209 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 4: promise come to pass. Are you drifting today, worried negative 210 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 4: in self pity? Why don't you put your anchor back down? 211 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 4: Why don't you get your hopes back up? Just because 212 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 4: the promise hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's not going 213 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 4: to happen. You may have had some bad breaks like Joseph. 214 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you're not going to fulfill your purpose. 215 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 4: God wouldn't have allowed it if he wasn't going to 216 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 4: use it for your good. Shake off the discouragement, the 217 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 4: self pity. What God started in your life, He's still 218 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 4: going to bring to pass. I know a young lady 219 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 4: that I grew up with here at Lakewood, and when 220 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 4: she and her husband got married. They really wanted to 221 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 4: have a baby so badly, and they tried and went 222 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 4: through all the fertility treatments with no success. Year after 223 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 4: year went by. At that time, she was the head 224 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 4: of our children's department. When my dad went to be 225 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 4: with the Lord and I stepped up to pastor the church. 226 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 4: She had already been believing to have this baby for 227 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 4: over twenty years. One day we were in this meeting, 228 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 4: she made the statement, I have a good assistant trained, 229 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 4: because when I have my baby, I'm going to be 230 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 4: out for a little while. I thought I had missed 231 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 4: something that she was pregnant, and nobody told me. After 232 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 4: the meeting, I asked my sister Lisa, is she going 233 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 4: to have a baby? Lisa kind of laughed and said, no, 234 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 4: she's just believing to have it. She talked like the 235 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 4: baby was on the way. She didn't say if I 236 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 4: have it, she said when I have it. What was 237 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 4: that she was anchored to hope? I thought to myself 238 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 4: when Lisa told me that, being the great man of 239 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 4: faith that I am, you've been believing to have this 240 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 4: baby for over twenty years. Time to let it go, 241 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 4: move on. Maybe God wants to do it another way. 242 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 4: Don't let other people talk you out of what God 243 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 4: put in your heart. Don't let someone convince you, even 244 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 4: if it's your pastor, to pull up your anchor. God 245 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 4: didn't put the promise in them. He put the promise 246 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 4: in you. That's why you can have faith when they 247 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 4: think it's far out. That's why you can believe for 248 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 4: it when to them it seems totally impossible. This young 249 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 4: lady kept her anchor down, like Abraham, against all hopes. 250 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 4: She hoped on in faith. Twenty nine years later, she 251 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 4: went to the doctor for a checkup. He said, congratulations, 252 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 4: you're pregnant. Not with one baby, You're pregnant with twins. 253 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 4: That's what zachar Riyah said. If you'll stay anchored to hope, 254 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 4: God will restore back to you double what you lost 255 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 4: and what you've been believing for. Maybe taking a long time, 256 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 4: but what God started he's going to finish. God doesn't 257 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 4: abort dreams. Keep your anchor down. When I was a 258 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 4: young boy, our family used to go to Galveston a lot, 259 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 4: and I couldn't wait to get in the water and 260 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 4: play in the waves. We would find a place there 261 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 4: on the beach for our shoes and our towels and 262 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 4: put them up on the sand, and then we'd take 263 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 4: off and start having fun in the water. In a 264 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 4: couple of hours, when we were ready to take a break, 265 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 4: we would look up and realize we were way down 266 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 4: the beach from where we started. Our towels were a 267 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 4: couple hundred yards away. We didn't know it, but that 268 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 4: whole time we had been slowly drifting. The scripture describes 269 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 4: hope as the anchor of our saws. It wouldn't use 270 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 4: the word anchor unless there was a possibility of drifting. 271 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 4: This is what happens in life if you don't keep 272 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 4: your anchor down, if you don't stay filled with hope, 273 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 4: little by little, you'll start drifting, getting a little negative, worried, discourage. 274 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 4: I'm never gonna have the baby, Joel, It's been too long. 275 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 4: I'll never break this addiction. I'll never overcome this challenge. 276 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 4: The problem is you don't have your anchor down. When 277 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: you're anchored to hope. You may have negative circumstances, but 278 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 4: you're not worried. You know God is fighting your battles. 279 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 4: You may not see how your dream can come to pass, 280 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 4: but you don't give up. You know God is behind 281 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 4: the scenes arranging things in your favor. You may go 282 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 4: through a bad break, a loss, but you don't get bitter. 283 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 4: You know, weeping endures for a night, but joy is 284 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 4: coming in the morning. Here's what I'm saying. When you're 285 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 4: anchored to hope, does it mean you won't have difficulties. 286 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 4: It means when those difficulties come, you won't drift. Nothing 287 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 4: will move you. The storms, the waves, the tides. They 288 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 4: may change, but you're consistent. Your hope is in the Lord. 289 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 4: And what's interesting is when we were at the beach 290 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 4: in the water, it wasn't a big storm that caused 291 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 4: us to drift. It wasn't a hurricane, a flood, or tornado. 292 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 4: It was the normal movement of the ocean. If you 293 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 4: don't keep your anchor down, the normal currents of life 294 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 4: will pull you off course. Not a major sickness, a divorce, ALLLL, 295 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 4: just everyday life. Perhaps you don't realize that you've drifted 296 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 4: into doubt. You're not believing for your dreams anymore. You 297 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 4: used to be excited about it. It's been a long time. 298 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 4: How you've lost your passion? Have you drifted into self pity? 299 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 4: You had a bad break, somebody did you wrong. You 300 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: used to be loving, kind, fun. Now you're more sour, 301 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 4: hard to get along with. Maybe you've drifted into worry. 302 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 4: You used to believe that God was in control, that 303 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 4: He's taken care of you. But you pulled up your anchor. 304 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 4: You're living stressed out. You can get back to where 305 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 4: you're supposed to be. You can put your anchor of 306 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 4: hope down today. Start believing again, start expecting again. Life 307 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 4: is too short to go through it drifting negative, worried, 308 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 4: no passion. If you don't have this hope that something 309 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 4: good is coming, it will limit what God can do. 310 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 4: That's why Paul told Timothy stir up your gifts. You 311 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 4: have to stir up your hope, otherwise you'll drift toward 312 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 4: the negative. Well, Joel, if God was so good, why 313 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 4: haven't my dreams come to pass? Why did I have 314 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 4: these bad breaks? It's because there is an enemy of 315 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 4: your soul that's trying to keep you from your destiny. 316 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 4: The good news is the forces that are for you 317 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 4: are greater than the forces that are against you. Don't 318 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 4: let what happens in life, big or small, convince you 319 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 4: to pull up your anchor. If you'll keep your hope 320 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 4: in the Lord, all the forces of darkness cannot hold 321 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 4: you back. And this is not about just being positive, 322 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 4: being hopeful. This is about keeping your soul anchored to 323 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 4: the right thing. Because I've learned if you don't stay 324 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 4: anchored to hope, over time, you'll become anchored to something else. 325 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 4: You can become anchored to discouragement, where that's your default setting. 326 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 4: You wake up in the morning discouraged. You see everything 327 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 4: through attaining perspective, everything is sour. It's because you're anchored 328 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 4: to the wrong thing. I know people who are anchored 329 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 4: to bitterness. They're so focused on the bad breaks on 330 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 4: who hurt them now that bitterness is poisoning their life. 331 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 4: And you may have a good reason to feel that way. 332 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 4: I'm simply saying staying anchored to those things will keep 333 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 4: you from your destiny. It will cause you to miss 334 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 4: your purpose. It's time to cut those anchors and come 335 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 4: over into hope. God did not breathe his life into you, 336 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 4: crown you with favor, give you a royal robe so 337 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 4: you could go around anchored to bitterness, anchored to doubt, 338 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 4: anchor to worry. He created you to be anchored to hope, 339 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 4: to go out each day expecting his goodness, knowing that 340 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 4: the days ahead are greater than the days we leave. 341 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 4: And when you face difficulties and we all do keep 342 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 4: the right perspective. If David would have looked at Goliath 343 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 4: and thought, oh man, I'll never defeat him. He's twice massage. 344 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 4: I don't have a chance. If he would have pulled 345 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 4: up his anchor of hope, we wouldn't be talking about 346 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 4: him today. Goliath wasn't sent to defeat David. He was 347 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 4: sent to promote David. What you're facing is not meant 348 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 4: to stop you. It's meant to move you towards your 349 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 4: divine destiny instead of being negative. Why is this happening 350 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 4: to me? How's it ever going to work out? No? 351 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 4: Turn it around, Lord, I don't see away, But my 352 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 4: hope is in you. I know you have it figured out. 353 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 4: You'll get me to where I'm supposed to be. Proverb says, 354 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 4: hope deferred makes the heart sick. If you don't have 355 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 4: the hope that the problem's going to turn around, the 356 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 4: hope that the baby is on the way, that the 357 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 4: new house is in your future, then your heart that 358 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 4: means your spirit will be sick. When we're not hopeful, 359 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 4: something is wrong on the inside. Even physically, when we're stressed, 360 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 4: run down, worried, that weakens our immune system doesn't fight 361 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 4: off disease like it should for your health's sake. Keep 362 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 4: your anchor of hope down. When we all go through 363 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 4: seasons in life, we's not real exciting. It's easy to 364 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 4: have the blaws, lose our enthusiasm. Those are the normal 365 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 4: currents of life. Nobody lives on cloud where it's exciting 366 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 4: all the time. Part of the good fight of faith 367 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 4: is to stay hopeful in the dry seasons when you 368 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 4: don't see anything happening, when it's taking a long time, 369 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 4: keep a smile on your face all through the day. Lord, 370 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 4: thank you that something good is coming my way. Well, Joel, 371 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 4: what if I do that nothing happens. What if you 372 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 4: do it and something does happen. I'd rather go through 373 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 4: life anchor to hope than anchor to fear, anchor to worry, 374 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 4: anchor to bitterness. That's gonna draw in more defeat. One 375 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 4: time in high school, a friend of mine invited me 376 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 4: to go fishing with him, and we drove about an 377 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 4: hour out in his boat off the coast and we 378 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 4: fished for most of the morning. When we were finished, 379 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 4: he asked me to pull up the anchor. I pulled 380 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 4: and pulled all of my strength. I couldn't get it up. 381 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 4: His father came over and we pulled together. Still wouldn't budge. 382 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 4: My friend cranked up the engine. It's a big, powerful motor, 383 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 4: and he started pulling away real slowly, hoping that we 384 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,959 Speaker 4: would dislodge it and make it come loose. But that 385 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 4: anchor must have been caught under a big rock or 386 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 4: a big tree, because when he pulled forward, it pulled 387 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 4: the boat backwards. We started to tip over. He stopped, 388 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 4: and he circled around, tried pulling in different directions, but 389 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 4: same thing. It wouldn't come loose. Finally, his dad got 390 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 4: a big knife out and said, well, this is all 391 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: we can do, and he cut the line. We left 392 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 4: the anchor there in the ocean. And sometimes we're anchored 393 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 4: to things that don't come off easily. If you've been 394 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 4: anchored to doubt, fear, discouragement for a long time, you're 395 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 4: going to have to do like my friend and cut 396 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 4: those lines. Let me tell you, the enemy doesn't want 397 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 4: you to be free. He doesn't want you to go 398 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 4: through life anchored to hope. He wants you to go 399 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 4: around depressed, bitter, angry. It's time to cut some lines. 400 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 4: It's time to say this is a new day. I've 401 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 4: been anchored to that junk long enough. I'm done living bitter, depressed, 402 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 4: no passion. I'm cutting those lines. I'm anchoring myself to hope. 403 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 4: Keep the right perspective, that sickness can't defeat you, that 404 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 4: addiction is temporary. The right breaks are already in your future. 405 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 4: You may have had some disappointments. Life through you a 406 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 4: curve that cannot stop your destiny. The odds may be 407 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 4: against you, but the most high God is for you. 408 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 4: When you stay anchored to hope, he'll show out in 409 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 4: your life ways you've never imagined. There's a young man 410 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 4: that attends here with his family named Owen. He's fifteen 411 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 4: years old and one of his favorite things to do 412 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 4: was play basketball. He was always one of the best 413 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 4: players on his team. Six o'clock in the morning he 414 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 4: would be out practicing. His dream was to get a 415 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 4: scholarship to play in college. A couple of years earlier, 416 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 4: Owen and his father were watching the NBA draft on television. 417 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 4: There was it's a stand out player from Baylor named 418 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 4: Isaiah Austen. He was projected to go in the first round, 419 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 4: but a few weeks earlier learned that he had a 420 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 4: life threatening disease called Marphin syndrome. It's a genetic disorder 421 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 4: that weakens the connective tissue of the body, tissue that 422 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 4: holds the heart, the blood vessels muscles together so you 423 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 4: can grow and develop. If not treated, it can easily 424 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 4: be fatal. It's very dangerous to play any high energy sports. Isaiah, 425 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 4: since he couldn't play anymore, was given a ceremonial draft pick. 426 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 4: They told all about his disease there on television. Owen's 427 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 4: father recognized many of the same symptoms in Owen. He 428 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 4: took him to the doctor the next day and Owen 429 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 4: was diagnosed with Marphin syndrome. Told he could never play 430 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 4: basketball again, his body couldn't support it. Owen could have 431 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 4: pulled up his anchor of hope. Been angry, bitter God, 432 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,719 Speaker 4: Why did this happen to me? But he knew that 433 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 4: disappointment wasn't a surprise to God, his father said. When 434 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 4: he heard the news, he cried for about thirty seconds. 435 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 4: Then he said, Dad, I'm only thirteen. I can still 436 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 4: become a coach, a referee, or maybe even work for 437 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 4: the NBA. Owen had a desire to help other people 438 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 4: who had Martin syndrome. He started holding fundraisers. This last February, 439 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 4: he raised over one hundred and forty thousand dollars. He 440 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 4: needs to come work for us, Owen says, you can 441 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 4: make it your excuse or you can make it your purpose. Recently, 442 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 4: Owen had to have open heart surgery, a very serious procedure, 443 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 4: to correct the valves in his heart. They were much 444 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 4: too large. If they continued growing like a balloon, they 445 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 4: would burst and cause instant death. The surgeons in the 446 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 4: world from Martin Syndrome, right here in Houston, operated on him. 447 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 4: Twenty four hours after the operation, he was out of 448 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 4: the intensive care. One week later, he was out of 449 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 4: the hospital. Four weeks later he was back at Lakewood. 450 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 4: That was last week and today Owen and his family 451 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 4: all right here with us on the front row, A 452 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 4: mighty man of faith. What am I saying that a 453 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 4: bad break can't stop you, A disappointment, a divorce, a 454 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 4: sickness When life throws you a curve. Don't you dare 455 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 4: pull up your anchor. Do like Owen and keep hoping 456 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 4: on in faith. God has you in the palm of 457 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 4: his hand. It may have been meant for your harm. 458 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 4: God's going to turn it for your good. Have you 459 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 4: drifted into doubt, discouragement, worry, self pity. I'm asking you 460 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 4: to put your anchor of hope back down today. If 461 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 4: you'll do this, I believe and declare what is now 462 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 4: your test will soon become your testimony. Like Owen, you 463 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 4: will arise above every challenge, accomplish every dream, and become 464 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 4: everything you were created to be in Jesus' name, if 465 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 4: you receive it, Can you say a man today, I'd 466 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 4: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the 467 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 4: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, 468 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 4: Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 469 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 470 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 4: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 471 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 4: Get in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place. 472 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed. 473 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. I hope 474 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 4: you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest podcast to 475 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 4: keep you encouraged and inspired all through the week. 476 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 5: Help us to continue to share the message of hope 477 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 5: with those all around the world. 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