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Thank you for taking the time to read the very first issue of FaithAnchor Magazine! We pray you will be strengthened and encouraged by the powerful articles and resources you’ll find in the pages that follow. As we look all around, we see a generation of “fatherless” people. Multitudes of Christians are wandering through life without a spiritual “father or mother” to teach them, guide them, or correct them. How sad it is to be without a leader. What is even more sad is the fact that there are many who have actually left their fathers in the faith to live their lives as spiritual lone rangers. Here’s some good news! There has never been a greater time to be alive than today! We were chosen for such a time as this. We must decide to keep the Standard raised high. You and I are alive in what the Bible calls the “last days.” 2 Timothy 3 lists the very things we are experiencing around the world every single day. However, as the world grows darker and darker, we are to burn brighter and brighter! The FaithAnchor is here to keep the uncompromised Word of God before your eyes. We desire to keep the teachings of the fathers and mothers of the faith, from yesterday and today, before our eyes. We do this through our website, social media, resource material, and now through this magazine! Thank you for partnering with us. We hope you will be belssed by this ministry. May this year be your most glorious year yet. May you spend more time in your Bible, in prayer, and in God’s house than you ever have before. I pray for a supernatural strength and boldness to overtake you to stand up for Truth and to shine the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ brighter and hotter than ever.
—REV. JASON & JESSICA GATLIN Founders, The FaithAnchor
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eter was a fisherman, and one morning Jesus walked up where he and his buddies were washing and mending their nets.
Jesus was followed by a tremendous crowd who wanted to hear Him preach so they could see miracles. Jesus stopped to preach to them, but the crowd was so great that His voice couldn’t reach them. Seeing this bunch of fishermen nearby and seeing that Peter was one of them, He said, “Peter, lend me your boat.” Peter said, “Sure, Lord.” Jesus did a most remarkable thing. He said, “Push Me out from the shore.” Jesus knows that when you want to change a man, you don’t start by doing something for him; first, you ask him to do something for you. So He asked Peter to do two things: First, to lend Him his boat, and second, to push Him out from the shore. He got Peter working, moving in the right direction. 01 04
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So Jesus got in the boat and began to preach to the people. As Peter listened to Jesus, he forgot about his nets, he forgot about the fish, he forgot about the “water haul” (that is, nothing but water) he had made the night before, because for Peter, time stood still while Jesus talked. Jesus preached that day until the hearts of men were still and calm. He preached until little children stopped crying and sat in their mother’s laps. He preached until great men forgot their problems and sat down before Him like children. He preached until the sick lifted their hearts with faith and believed a better day was dawning. He preached that day until He moved the hearts of men…and when He was through, Peter was standing there. In my mind, their conversation might have been something like this: Jesus said, “Peter, come here.” Peter walked over. He said, “What do You want, Lord?”
night and didn’t get a bite? We have toiled.” You know, when a man catches fish, he is fishing. When he doesn’t catch any, he toils. Peter said, “We have toiled all night and haven’t caught a thing.” Jesus said, “Launch out in the deep and let down your net.” He said, “Jesus, You are a great preacher, but You don’t know much about fishing, do You?” Jesus said, “Peter, you loaned Me your boat, and you pushed Me out so I could preach to the people. You can’t do something for God without getting something bigger in its place. Come on. Get in this boat.” Peter looked in Jesus’ face and saw that He meant it. So he said, “All right, if You say so, I will do it. Come on, men.” His men came over and said, “What do you want?”
He said, “Where is your crew?”
Peter said, “Men, we are going fishing.” They said, “Again?”
“They are over there, mending my nets.”
He said, “Again.”
He said, “Go get them.”
They said, “Why?”
“What do You want with them?”
“The Man said so.”
“I want you to go get them, then get in the boat and launch out for a catch of fish.”
“Who is He?”
Peter said, “Did You know, Lord, that we fished all
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