ANCHORED

1. ANCHORED #fromDreamtoDESTINY Every DREAM needs an anchor!

2. “Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.” – Mike Tyson What happens when the weight of the Dream becomes too heavy for the reality? #fromDreamtoDESTINY

3. Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray over there." And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me." He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will." Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and said to Peter, "What? Could you not watch with Me one hour? "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done." And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. (Matthew 26:36-44 NKJV) #fromDreamtoDESTINY

4. As we stay true to our purpose eventually the road takes us into a place called “I don’t think I can do it!” We have two choices: Settle down in that place & give up. Reject that location and the temptations that accompany it and push past it into destiny. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. (Psalms 23:4 NKJV) #fromDreamtoDESTINY

5. Often times, this place – mental assault of “I don’t think I can do it” – is our cue to get out of the boat. Once at that place, to stay in the boat that brought you, will now become the same thing that ruins you. Push past the mental barriers! #fromDreamtoDESTINY

6. Make sure your DREAMS are properly anchored! For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, (Hebrews 6:13-19 NKJV) #fromDreamtoDESTINY

7. “For when God made [His] promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, Saying, Blessing I certainly will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you. [Gen. 22:16, 17.] And so it was that he [Abraham], having waited long and endured patiently, realized and obtained [in the birth of Isaac as a pledge of what was to come] what God had promised him. Men indeed swear by a greater [than themselves], and with them in all disputes the oath taken for confirmation is final [ending strife]. Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us]. [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it–a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, [Lev. 16:2.]” Hebrews 6:13-19 AMPC #fromDreamtoDESTINY

8. Our anchor must be a Personal Covenant Truth not merely a Universal Biblical Principle. • Universal Biblical Principle – vague, general, religious understanding that this is probably God’s will, because I’ve seen it or heard it from the Bible. • Personal Covenant Truth – the conviction of this is what God has said to me, with clear cut Biblical evidence to support that stance. #fromDreamtoDESTINY

9. Be Fully Persuaded in the DREAM God has given You. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. (Romans 4:18-21 KJV) #fromDreamtoDESTINY

10. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!” Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. (Romans 4:18-21 MSG) #fromDreamtoDESTINY

11. Focus on what Jesus did and Get on with It! DESTINY AWAITS! “Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!” Hebrews 12:1-3 MSG #fromDreamtoDESTINY

12. Next Steps: Attend a Small Group this week and share with others some of the mental barriers you’ve faced and how you’re going to overcome them the next time they arise. Need a Group? Stop by the Small Group Table in the lobby or visit icsofl.com/groups to find one near you. DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE! Join Step Three of our Growth Track today from 11:30 a.m. – noon here in the main auditorium. Learn how you are uniquely wired by God. #fromDreamtoDESTINY