This powerful message challenges us to discover peace not as the absence of storms, but as the presence of God within them. Drawing from the historic hymn 'It Is Well With My Soul'—written by Horatio Spafford as he sailed over the very waters where his four daughters had perished—we're confronted with a radical truth: genuine peace transcends our circumstances. The sermon weaves together stories of Paul and Silas singing in chains at midnight, Jeremiah's brutal honesty with God in his darkest moments, and the holy family fleeing to Egypt with a newborn Messiah. Each narrative reveals that refinement comes through hardship, and that God uses our 70-year 'Babylon moments' to prepare us for the incomparable eternal weight of glory ahead. The anchor imagery becomes visceral—we need something immovable when life's storms rage, and that anchor is Christ himself. The challenge issued is both simple and profound: choose one thing to pray for every single day for an entire year, trusting that whether God answers immediately or says 'not yet,' His faithfulness remains constant. This isn't about religious performance or checking boxes; it's about genuine spiritual endurance that transforms our character and deepens our hope. When we hold fast to our anchor, we discover that even in prison cells with bleeding backs, we can still sing.