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Are you hoping for anything today? 44 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 4: Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage, Maybe you're hoping 45 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 4: for a strong family unit. Maybe you're hoping to get 46 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 4: that job promotion. Maybe you're hoping that you'll have a child. 47 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 4: What are you hoping for today? Is it a casual hope? 48 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 4: Is it a vague hope? And the reason I say 49 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 4: that is because sometimes I think that word hope has 50 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 4: been used so much that we forget the power of hope. 51 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 4: I've heard people say, well, I hope that happens. Yeah, 52 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 4: well that'd be nice hope. So hope comes from heaven. 53 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 4: It's Heaven made. See in Corinthians three thirteen, it says 54 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 4: there's three things that are eternal, three things that will faith, hope, 55 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 4: and love. Can I tell you today that God wants 56 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 4: you to get your hopes up. He wants you to 57 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 4: hope on in faith because God created this hope on 58 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 4: the inside of us, and He doesn't want us to 59 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: get vague with this hope. If God has spoken something 60 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 4: to you, if you found a promise that you believe 61 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 4: that God has given you, I want to encourage you 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 4: today to put hope in front of that promise. See, 63 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 4: hope creates vision. Hope gives our faith something to attach 64 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 4: itself to, something to go after. We need a picture 65 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 4: of what we're going after. The scripture says that faith 66 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 4: is the substance of things hoped for. Do you have 67 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 4: a picture in your mind of what you're hoping for? 68 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 4: Are you feed seeing that picture? Are you fueling it 69 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 4: so that your faith can move towards it? See? I 70 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 4: believe God designed hope because he knows that hope fuels 71 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 4: our faith. He knows that hope picks us up. The 72 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 4: scripture says, hope anchors our soul. It anchors us in 73 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 4: disappointing times and challenging times, in times of failure. If 74 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 4: we can only keep our hopes up, faith will pick 75 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 4: us up and move us in the right direction. See 76 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 4: God does the work. Faith, hope, and love come from him. 77 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 4: But you know what he wants us to do. He 78 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 4: wants us to develop it. He's given us the potential, 79 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 4: the seed for it. Now he's saying, you need to 80 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,559 Speaker 4: develop it. You need to develop it. It's interesting because 81 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 4: when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen, he said, I pray 82 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 4: that the God of all hope. Paul called him the 83 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 4: God of all hope. He said, I pray that the 84 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 4: God of all hope would fill you with joy and 85 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 4: peace so that your hope would overflow by the power 86 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 4: of the Holy Spirit. You see, God is saying, stir 87 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 4: up that hope and it will flow out of you. 88 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 4: It will flow out of you because hope comes from Heaven. 89 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 4: God gave it to us, and He's going to help 90 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 4: it flow out of us as we begin to develop it. 91 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 4: Now we all know the story of Abraham and Sarah. 92 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 4: And the reason I want to talk about Abraham and 93 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 4: Sarah because it's the classic story of hope and faith. 94 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 4: It's the classic story that we should always learn from. 95 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 4: God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible, 96 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: he couldn't get God's word, so God spoke a promise 97 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 4: to him, birth the promise in his heart. And God 98 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 4: told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a beautiful representation to 99 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 4: visualize hope for this promise. Now, the promise that he 100 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 4: spoke was this, Abraham, you and Sarah are going to 101 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 4: have a child, and through this child, the Covenant child, 102 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 4: your offspring will be many. You will have a large 103 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 4: inheritance of children on the earth. Well, up to this point, 104 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 4: Abraham and Sarah had no children between them. They'd been 105 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 4: married a long time. And you know what I think, 106 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 4: after you've been married so long and you hadn't had 107 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 4: any children, and you're really old. You're thinking, you're tempted 108 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 4: to think. And I'm sure Abraham was tempted to think, 109 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 4: and I'm sure he did think, God, I haven't had 110 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 4: one this far? Why and how am I going to 111 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 4: have one? 112 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 5: Now? 113 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 4: I'm very old, my wife is way past child bearing years. 114 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 4: But God spoke that promise and he said, look, Abraham, 115 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 4: I want you to look up at the stars in 116 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 4: the sky. I want you to see the sand on 117 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 4: the seashore. He said, if you can even count that, 118 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 4: I want you to know that that is the number 119 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 4: of your offspring. Can you even count that? See, he 120 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 4: gave him a visual to build his hope around. I 121 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 4: can only imagine him sitting out at night. He pulls 122 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 4: up his lawn chair. He didn't have Netflix, didn't have 123 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 4: you know, the movie channel. So he pulls up his 124 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 4: chair and he's sitting under the stars, and he's remembering 125 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 4: that promise, and you know, he knows, he knows, he knows, 126 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 4: he's old, he knows he hasn't done it. So he's 127 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 4: got a beautiful visual. There's the stars God was talking 128 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 4: to me about. He said, if I could even count him. Man, 129 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 4: I want to try to count him tonight. One two three? 130 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 4: Wait did I count that? One? Three, four or five? 131 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 4: Wait a minute, let me start over? One two three. 132 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 4: You what I'm saying is, night after night he pondered 133 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 4: those stars. He thought about those stars. He walked along 134 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 4: the seashore, and as he kicked that sand and it 135 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 4: got between his toes, he was like, Wow, God, I'm 136 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 4: holding on to this hope. This is my inheritance, this 137 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 4: is my offspring. But God, Okay, God, I'm just gonna 138 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 4: focus on the stars and the sand. I'm gonna let 139 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 4: that fuel my faith. And I'm not gonna get stuck. God, 140 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 4: I got things to do. I'm gonna keep moving forward. 141 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 4: And the Bible says this that Abraham hoped on in faith. 142 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 4: Now how did he do that? I love this scripture. 143 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 4: It says because he believed that God had the power 144 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 4: to do what he promised, he could hope on against 145 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 4: all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope in himself. 146 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 4: He didn't look at his body, Sarah's body. He didn't 147 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 4: look at the fact that he'd made some mistakes and 148 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 4: tried to have this child. You know, help God out 149 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 4: a little bit. Gosh, you know, that can really dash 150 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 4: your hopes when you messed up. He wasn't looking at 151 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 4: his mess ups, he was not considering his own limitations. 152 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 4: He said, I'm a hoping and building this visual and 153 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 4: keeping my eyes fixed on your power. 154 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 3: God. 155 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 4: You see. It took the power and the focus off 156 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 4: of him and put it where it belongs on Almighty God. 157 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 4: You see so much we look at our own abilities, 158 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 4: We look at our own self we look at the 159 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 4: impossibility and many of them are impossible. Because see, if 160 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 4: God wants to do something in your life, it's gonna 161 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 4: be something that you can't do on your own. It 162 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 4: is impossible. It's big, It's real big. You see. We 163 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 4: have to anchor ourself to hope. We have to feed 164 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 4: this hope so it fuels our faith. Do you know 165 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 4: when God showed up and he told Abraham this time 166 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 4: next year, you're gonna have a child because of his hope, 167 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 4: because of the faith that he had continued to generate, 168 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 4: he continued to move forward. Do you know that the 169 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 4: Bible says this about Sarah. It says that Sarah had 170 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 4: the strength and the power to conceive because of her faith. 171 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 4: You might not want to conceive a child, but because 172 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 4: of your hope and because of your faith, you can 173 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 4: conceive the things that God wants you to bring forth 174 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 4: in your life, and he wants you to do it 175 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 4: through his strength, through his power. Take your eyes off 176 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 4: of your own limitations and get your eyes on God. 177 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 4: Because if it's going to come to pass, it's gonna 178 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 4: come to pass because of God. He's the one that's 179 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 4: going to bring it to pass. You see, God knew. 180 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 4: God knew he had an appointed time. He knew that 181 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 4: Abraham and Sarah would get disappointed, go through difficulties, try 182 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: to do things their own way. That's why he gave 183 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 4: them the stars and the sand. It's interesting because those 184 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 4: were things they could see every single day. They lived 185 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 4: under the stars at night and they walked through the 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 4: sands during the day. It was an every day visual. 187 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 4: Do you have any visuals? Do you have something that 188 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 4: you can set up that you see every single day, 189 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 4: To keep that alive in your heart, to create a 190 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 4: vision so you can make it through the difficult times, 191 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 4: so your faith knows where to go, knows where to 192 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 4: be directed. You see, many times our hopes can be dashed. 193 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 4: I think about Joseph, he had a dream, Oh God 194 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 4: given dream. His brothers dashed that dream. They tried to anyway. 195 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 4: They sold him. Potterford's wife when he got to Egypt, 196 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 4: falsely accused him. He got thrown in prison. But I 197 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 4: have the stream. But I have the stream took him 198 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 4: seventeen years. The baker the cutbearers that I'll help you 199 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 4: when I get out. They forgot him. I can't think 200 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 4: of any more things that would really dash my dreams 201 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 4: than that seventeen years. The scripture says, when he stood 202 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 4: in front of his brothers, he remembered the dream. See, 203 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 4: he had built such a vision of hope that it 204 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 4: got him through his faith, moved him forward. Hope is 205 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 4: to move you forward. Hope so you won't get stuck. 206 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 4: Don't get stuck. Create hope. People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. 207 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 4: Don't get your hopes up. What if it doesn't happen. 208 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 4: The Bible says, this, hope deferred makes the heart sick. 209 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 4: Hope deferred makes the heart sick. That means hope that's 210 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 4: been let go of you. See, let me tell you something. 211 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 4: If God's spoken something to you and it keeps coming up, 212 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 4: keeps coming up and keeps coming up. That could definitely 213 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 4: be a God promise, and you need to start getting 214 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: visuals and putting that in front of your face every 215 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 4: day wherever you go to hold onto that promise. Don't 216 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,719 Speaker 4: let that hope go. You don't want to ever live 217 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 4: in regret. Why did I let that hope go? My 218 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 4: brother in law, Kevin and my sister in law Lisa, 219 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 4: when they got married, they wanted to have a child 220 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 4: like any young couple would, so they were all excited 221 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 4: about creating a family. Welyssa years went on, nothing happened. 222 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 4: Lisa went to the doctor, went through treatments, did everything 223 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 4: that she could. Still nothing happened. Five years went by, 224 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 4: nothing happened. The doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa, Kevin, 225 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 4: you just need to give up hope. You know what, 226 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 4: it's impossible. Well, see, Lisa and Kevin, we're taught that 227 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 4: hope fuels your faith. Lisa and Kevin said, that's not 228 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 4: what we're used to hearing. We're used to creating hope 229 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 4: for ourselves. That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've 230 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 4: got pictures. That's why we've created this hope. But the 231 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 4: doctor said, there's no hope. I'll never forget. One time, 232 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 4: Lisa and Kevin were having to redo their bathroom and 233 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 4: I was helping and her pick out a few of 234 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 4: the materials and she said, well, Victoria, I want to 235 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 4: get a bigger sink in my bathroom. She goes, because 236 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 4: someday I want to bathe my baby in this sink. 237 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 4: Kevin got a sample pair of diapers in the mill, 238 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 4: looked at those diapers and he opened them up and 239 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 4: there was two diapers. Now, Kevin is a twin, and 240 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 4: I don't know if at that time he had told 241 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 4: Lisa that his desire was to have twins, because I mean, 242 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 4: she was just doing her best trying to have one right. 243 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 4: But Kevin came to her and said, look what we 244 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 4: got in the mail, Lisa, let's put these things in 245 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 4: front of our eyes, because we are gonna have babies. 246 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 4: Everything that they did was incorporated with this dream and 247 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 4: this hope of having children. They didn't lose their hope, 248 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:57,239 Speaker 4: but they kept feeding that hope against all hope. The 249 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 4: medical doctors told them no hope, but they can feeding 250 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 4: that hope. One day, Lisa got a call from a friend. 251 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 4: Her name is Nancy Alcorn. She has a girl's home. 252 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: She said, Lisa, have you had your kids yet? Lisa said, no, 253 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 4: I haven't had him yet. And she said, well, Lisa, 254 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 4: I have a young girl in here who has twin 255 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 4: girls she's about to give birth to. She said, I 256 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 4: have this strong, strong desire that I'm supposed to call 257 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 4: you and ask you if you would like to adopt 258 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 4: these girls. Well, Lisa had never thought about adopting. But 259 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 4: Lisa did keep her hope alive as she fueled and 260 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 4: fed that hope, and it fuelled her faith. So when 261 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 4: the opportunity that God had for her took birth in 262 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 4: her heart, all of a sudden, she got off the phone. 263 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 4: She told Kevin what had just happened. They were in agreement, 264 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 4: and guess what. A month later they picked up their 265 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 4: twin girls. Take a look at these beatiful girls. 266 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 5: Now. 267 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 4: I don't know, Catherine and Caroline if you ever wore 268 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 4: those sample dippers, but I do know that you got 269 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 4: bathed in that sink because I was there. Can I 270 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 4: tell you you could say, well, that didn't happen the 271 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 4: way she thought it was going to happen. Well, Lisa 272 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 4: will tell you this. Those twins were birthed out of 273 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 4: her heart. She couldn't ask for anything better. It was 274 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 4: more than she could ask, think or imagine. You see, 275 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 4: God is a faithful God. He brings the promises to pass. 276 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 4: He brings them to pass in his timing and in 277 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 4: his way. But it's up to you and I to 278 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 4: develop this hope, to create this visual to fuel our faith, 279 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 4: because when God gets done with us, it's more than 280 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 4: we can ask, think or imagine. I encourage you keep 281 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 4: your hopes up because hope is from heaven. Amen. Amen. 282 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joel Osteine podcast. Help 283 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 6: us continue to share the message of hope with those 284 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 6: all over the world. 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