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Did you mark down what God said or are you trying to protect God’s reputation? God never needed
you to defend Him.
The pattern of marking God’s word happens through praying, listening, receiving, and believing.
That’s why we do 21 days of prayer at the beginning of the year. To make space to hear from God.
God I need you to move in my mind because my mind is all over the place. God is not offended by
what you say. He is big enough to handle anything you say. No matter how it comes.
You have to hear God’s heart. He understand the moan, groan, utterance, and sounds. You have to
go to him first in prayer.
Then you have to hear. Hearing is just awareness. God wants us to be aware, but then actually listen.
When you listen, you intentionally focus. 21 days of prayer and fasting give you the ability not just to
hear God but to listen to Him.
What is the still small voice God is speaking in? You then go from hearing, listening, to receiving.
Every year, we have to receive vision. Without vision, people do dumb stuff.
Without vision, you are not your best self.
Nobody has ever tripped up onto championships.
Nobody has ever accidentally had a great marriage.
It’s vision.
You have to also believe it, not just receive it.
God is always speaking, but will you mark His words?
Additive: you can only mark God’s words by faith, not facts. God never gives a word to you that is
already accomplished. If your marriage is jacked up and He says your marriage will help others, mark
his words. If you don’t have money but He says you’ll be giving away money next year, mark His
words by faith.
God is trying to give you a receipt today for something that will arrive in a later season.
It’s not until we mark God’s words that we get to see everything that God is saying.
We’re about to celebrate 6 years at TC. As a young pastor, Mike hated finance meetings. We would
have finance meetings with no money.
The person over finances at the time is now under all business. In the meeting, God would tell Mike
to “say something dumb, like mark my words, one day we’re going to be able to give to other
churches, there’ll be white people at our church”, etc. He would say stuff out loud, and it was almost
like God said, “He believes me – look at them, he actually believes me. Is he actually writing it down,
sharing it with people, and putting seed for what is going to happen? We have to do it. We have to
make sure the word said in the dark comes to fruition.”
When you mark the words that God says, it may not come when you think, or how you think, but you
can mark His words when He gives you a vision.
It’s our routine to hear what God is saying. Many of you are having a false start because you never
got clearance or vision from God. Until you get it from God, it’s in vain.
Vision without God is in vain.
When you get a vision from God, then you can run with it.
We will need to come to a place where we value vision so much that we ignore “good ideas” and
wait for “God ideas”.
Vision is more important than anything in your life and more important than anything in this church.
It’s important to God.
Take this very simple scripture, remember it and tattoo it on your heart.
Proverbs 29:18
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish
Whatever area is dying in your life is a result of no vision.
You relationship keeps dying, your business keeps flailing? There is no vision from God. Another
translation says, the people cast of restraint. You can go ‘this way or that way’, ‘start this business’ –
that’s because when there is no vision, you stop caring. The result you’re living in is partly because
you have no vision – no prophetic word from God. Nothing where you can say, “I don’t know about
all this, but God told me this.”
What is the one thing that you know that God told you to do?
If you don’t know anything, it’s not because God is not speaking, but because you haven’t made time
to listen.
Anchored!!
God built the church for such a time as this. An anchor is something with weight, which drops and
connects so that whatever it is connected to does not drift. 2021 is the year we get anchored and it’s
the year of the anti-drift. Your marriage, your purity, your shift, the vision for your life – everything
that has been drifting, this year it’s getting anchored. Your health and relationships will be anchored.
Think about the areas in your life that need to be anchored.
There has been generational drifting. This year, you will become a steady force – something able to
withstand and withhold no matter what storm comes, no matter what is presented to you. You will
last, you will make it through, you will be dependable, you will be consistent, and there will be weight
when you’re involved. Mike has been given many confirmations that this is the word God wants us to
live out this year.
This is not a suggestion. This is vision. This is God’s view.
This week your assignment is to write down the areas of your life where you know you’ve been
drifting and you want God to anchor you. Then to wear what God says as a badge of what God wants
for you. We’re going to speak it in January 2021 and prove it in January 2022.
Prayer & Altar Call: God, I’m thanking you that you will allow us to be anchored. That we will not
drift. That you will anchor this church, partner, and child of God, and that the kingdom will be
stronger because it’s anchored to the only thing that never changes – you God. I speak life in the
name of Jesus over every person right now. Thank you father for chasing after us God. Thank you
God for rescuing us to anchor us back to you Father God.
God gives vision for victory. Jesus had to have a vision and it was a vision for victory. He had a vision
of the joy set before Him and He endured the cross to win victory over any shame you would have.
His vision was for your victory.
Today, God wants to give you the opportunity to receive victory that was paid for by Jesus. He is the
anchor for our soul. He is the only thing that will keep you from drifting. How you get a vision from
God for something new is by accepting Him today. There’s a war going on for people’s eternity. The
presence of God is invading your space right now and is asking you to receive Him. According to
Romans 10:9, all you have to do is believe and confess that Jesus Christ lived and He died just for
you. Today, you can stand and make a decision that will change your life forever. Just lift your hand if
you want to be added to the prayer. 1) You’re making the greatest decision of your life, 2) We’re
proud of you, but more importantly, God is proud of you, and 3) Just lift that hand up right there
God, thank you for sending Jesus, just for me. Thank you for the vision of my salvation. I believe
Jesus lived, he died, and rose again for my freedom, and today, mark my word, and I’m going to live
for him. Change me, renew me, transform me, I’m yours. Amen.