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Speaker 1: abide in Christ.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to this Abide Meditation. I'm Jennifer Clark. Are you

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Speaker 2: worried about the outcome of the situation? Take a moment

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Speaker 2: and shift your thinking. The Apostle Paul encouraged the Roman

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Speaker 2: believers with these words. May the God of Hope fill

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Speaker 2: you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,

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Speaker 2: so that you may overflow with hope by the power

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Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. Breathe in deeply as you consider

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Speaker 2: how hopeful you are in your life. Joy and peace

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Speaker 2: come when you trust in God. On a scale of

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Speaker 2: one to ten, how well do you think you trust

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Speaker 2: God in hard circumstances. Paul's story is the perfect example

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Speaker 2: of the truth of these words. He was a persecutor

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Speaker 2: of the church until he had a personal encounter with

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Speaker 2: a risen Christ. From then on, he was a fervent follower.

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Speaker 2: He preached the Gospel with passion, even when it meant

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Speaker 2: that he experienced the same kind of persecution he had

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Speaker 2: formerly dealt out to others. And yet he was filled

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Speaker 2: with joy because he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt,

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Speaker 2: that he would be with Jesus forever in heaven. He

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Speaker 2: had joy and peace in believing. How about you, instead

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Speaker 2: of justifying your fears by wrongly believing that your worry

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Speaker 2: will somehow control what will happen, truly put your faith

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Speaker 2: in God. Replace your stress with the hopeful power of

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Let's pray, Father God. There are times

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Speaker 2: when things in my life seem hopeless. I fear that

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Speaker 2: some circumstances are never going to change.

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Speaker 1: But I don't.

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Speaker 2: Want to feel hopeless, because my hope truly is in You.

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Speaker 2: Help me to remember how vast you are, how nothing

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Speaker 2: is beyond your reach, how you are always surrounding me

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Speaker 2: with your love and your peace and hope. Whether I

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Speaker 2: am a pessimist or an optimist by nature. I trust

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Speaker 2: you in Jesus's name, I pray, Amen. Keep breathing deeply

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Speaker 2: and close your eyes if you can. With each deep breath,

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Speaker 2: picture God's hope filling you as air fills your lungs.

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Speaker 2: Close your hands tightly around your faith so that you

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Speaker 2: do not lose it. We can grow accustomed to not

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Speaker 2: trusting God if we keep looking for ways to be

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Speaker 2: in control ourselves. Confess to God your desire to control

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Speaker 2: your own life and allow him to make you clean.

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Speaker 2: Imagine a picture of the coolest, sweetest water you've ever tasted.

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Speaker 2: Keep drinking and drinking from it, and it never runs dry. Instead,

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Speaker 2: it keeps overflowing. Let that be hope in your life,

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Speaker 2: Dear Lord, Because of you, I can be full of

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Speaker 2: hope no matter what circumstances or outcomes lie ahead. I

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Speaker 2: know that you see them, that they're already handled for

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Speaker 2: my good and for your glory. Help me not to worry,

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Speaker 2: but to hope, to expect that you will act in

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Speaker 2: whatever way you deem best. I have the hope of glory,

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Speaker 2: which is better than anything I will gain in this world.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your overflowing love. In Jesus' name, I

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Speaker 2: pray Amen. Hope does not disappoint. Romans five point five says,

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Speaker 2: trust in God to do what is best for you.

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Speaker 2: Be patient, trust God. Be overflowing with hope until next time.

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Speaker 2: May you abide in Christ