I have journeyed, through the long dark night

Out on the open sea, by faith alone

Sight unknown; and yet His eyes were watching me.

The anchor holds,

Though the ship is battered.

The anchor holds,

Though the sails are torn.

I have fallen on my knees ,as I face the raging seas.

The anchor holds, in spite of the storm.

I've had visions, I've had dreams.

I've even held them in my hand.

But I never knew, they would slip right through,

Like they were only grains of sand.

The anchor holds,

Though the ship is battered.

The anchor holds,

Though the sails are torn.

I have fallen on my knees. as I face the raging seas.

The anchor holds, in spite of the storm.

I have been young, but I'm older now.

And there has been beauty, these eyes have seen.

But it was in the night, through the storms of my life,

Oh, that's where God proved His love for me.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. (Generational-isms’ Danger)

The anchor holds.

Though the ship's been battered.

The anchor holds.

Though the sails are torn.

I have fallen on my knees, as I face the raging seas,

The anchor holds, in spite of the storm.

James 4:1-4

1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.