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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: Oh We're in agreement with that today.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 3: I want to encourage us all today.

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Speaker 2: I want to challenge us in a way to think

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Speaker 2: about this word.

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Speaker 3: That we hear so.

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Speaker 2: Much of now, called hope. Are you hoping for anything today?

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage, Maybe you're hoping

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Speaker 2: for a strong family unit. Maybe you're hoping to get

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Speaker 2: that job promotion. Maybe you're hoping that you'll have a child.

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Speaker 2: What are you hoping for today? Is it a casual hope?

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Speaker 2: Is it a vague hope? And the reason I say

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Speaker 2: that is because sometimes I think that word hope has

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Speaker 2: been used so much that we forget the power of hope.

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Speaker 2: I've heard people say, well I hope that happens. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well that'd be nice hope. So hope comes from heaven.

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Speaker 2: It's heaven made. See in Corinthians three thirteen, it says

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Speaker 2: there's three things that are eternal.

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Speaker 3: Three things that will remain faith, hope, and love.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you today that God wants you to

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Speaker 2: get your hopes up. He wants you to hope on

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Speaker 2: in faith because God created this hope on the inside

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Speaker 2: of us, and He doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Want us to get vague with this hope.

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Speaker 2: If God has spoken something to you, if you found

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Speaker 2: a promise that you believe that God has given you,

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Speaker 2: I want to encourage you today to put hope in

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Speaker 2: front of that promise.

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Speaker 3: See, hope creates vision.

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Speaker 2: Hope gives our faith something to attach itself to, something

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Speaker 2: to go after. We need a picture of what we're

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Speaker 2: going after. The Scripture says that faith is the substance

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Speaker 2: of things hoped for. Do you have a picture in

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Speaker 2: your mind of what you're hoping for? Are you feeding

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Speaker 2: that picture? Are you fueling it so that your faith

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Speaker 2: can move towards it? See? I believe God designed hope

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Speaker 2: because he knows that hope fuels our faith. He knows

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Speaker 2: that hope picks us up. The scripture says, hope anchors

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Speaker 2: our soul. It anchors us in disappointing times and challenging times,

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Speaker 2: in times of failure. If we can only keep our

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Speaker 2: hopes up faith will pick us up and move us

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Speaker 2: in the right direction. See God does the work. Faith, hope,

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Speaker 2: and love come from him. But you know what he

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Speaker 2: wants us to do. He wants us to develop it.

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Speaker 2: He's given us the potential, the seed for it. Now

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Speaker 2: he's saying, you need to develop it. You need to

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Speaker 2: develop it. It's interesting because when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen,

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Speaker 2: he said, I pray that the God of all hope.

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Speaker 2: Paul called him the God of all hope. He said,

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Speaker 2: I pray that the God of all hope would fill

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Speaker 2: you with joy and peace, so that your hope would

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Speaker 2: overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit. You see,

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Speaker 2: God is saying, stir up that hope and it will

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Speaker 2: You because hope comes from Heaven. God gave it to us,

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Speaker 2: we begin to develop it. Now we all know the

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Speaker 2: story of Abraham and Sarah. And the reason I want

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Speaker 2: to talk about Abraham and Sarah because it's the classic story.

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Speaker 3: Of hope and faith.

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Speaker 2: It's the classic story that we should always learn from.

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Speaker 2: God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't get God's word. So God spoke a promise

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Speaker 2: And then God told Abraham, I'm going to give you

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Speaker 2: a beautiful representation to visualize hope for this promise. Now,

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Speaker 2: the promise that he spoke was this, Abraham, you and

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Speaker 2: the Covenant child, your offspring will be many. You will

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Speaker 2: have a large inheritance of children on the earth. Well,

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Speaker 2: But God spoke that promise, and he said, look, Abraham,

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Speaker 2: See? He gave him a visual to build his hope around.

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine him sitting out at night. He

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Speaker 2: remembering that promise. And you know, he knows, he knows,

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Speaker 2: So he's got a beautiful visual. There's the stars God

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Speaker 2: was talking to me about. He said, if I could

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Speaker 2: You what I'm saying is, night after night he pondered

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Speaker 2: I'm holding on to this hope. This is my inheritance,

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Speaker 2: gonna focus on the stars and the I'm gonna let

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Speaker 2: that fuel my faith and I'm not gonna get stuck God,

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Speaker 2: I got things to do.

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Speaker 2: And the Bible says this, that Abraham hoped on in faith.

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Speaker 3: Now how did he do that? I love this scripture.

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Speaker 2: It says because he believed that God had the power

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Speaker 2: Against all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope

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Speaker 2: He didn't look at the fact that he'd made some

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Speaker 2: God out a little bit, Gosh. You know that can

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Speaker 2: really dash your hopes when you messed up. He wasn't

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: It took the power and the focus off of him

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Speaker 3: It where it belongs on Almighty God.

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Speaker 2: You see so much we look at our own abilities,

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Speaker 2: and many of them are impossible.

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Speaker 3: Because see, if God wants to do something in your life.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be something that you can't do on your own.

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Speaker 3: It is impossible. It's big, it's real big.

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Speaker 2: You see. We have to anchor ourself to hope. We

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Speaker 2: have to feed this hope so it fuels our faith.

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Speaker 2: Do you know when God showed up and he told

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Speaker 2: Abraham this time next year, you're gonna have a child

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Speaker 2: because of his hope, because of the faith that he

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Speaker 2: you know that the Bible says this about Sarah. It

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Speaker 3: You might not want to conceive.

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Speaker 2: A child, but because of your hope and because of

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Speaker 3: Can conceive the things that God.

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Speaker 2: Wants you to bring forth in your life, and he

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Speaker 2: wants you to do it through his strength, through his power.

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Speaker 2: Take your eyes off of your own limitations and get

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Speaker 2: your eyes on God. Because if it's going to come

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Speaker 3: Because of God. He's the one that's going to bring

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Speaker 3: it to pass. You see, God knew.

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Speaker 2: God knew he had an appointed time. He knew that

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Speaker 2: Abraham and Sarah would get disappointed go through difficulties, try

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Speaker 2: to do things their own way. That's why he gave

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Speaker 2: things they could see every single day.

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Speaker 3: They lived under the stars.

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Speaker 2: At night, and they walked through the sands during the day.

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Speaker 3: It was an every day visual. Do you have any visuals?

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Speaker 2: Do you have something that you can set up that

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Speaker 2: many a times our hopes can be dashed. I think

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Speaker 2: about Joseph. He had a dream, oh God given dream.

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Speaker 2: His brothers dashed that dream. They tried to anyway. They

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Speaker 2: took him seventeen years. The baker the cut bears that

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Speaker 3: They forgotting.

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Speaker 2: I can't think of any more things that would really

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Speaker 3: Seventeen years.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says, when he stood in front of his brothers.

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Speaker 3: He remembered the dream. See, he had built such a.

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Speaker 2: Vision of hope that it got him through his faith,

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Speaker 2: moved him forward. Hope is to move you forward. Hope

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Speaker 2: so you won't get stuck. Don't get stuck, create hope.

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Speaker 2: People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. Don't get your hopes up.

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Speaker 2: What if it doesn't happen. The Bible says this, hope

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Speaker 2: deferred makes the heart sick. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

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Speaker 2: That means hope that's been let go of you. See,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you something. If God's spoken something to

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Speaker 2: keeps coming up, that could definitely be a God promise.

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Speaker 2: And you need to start getting visuals and putting that

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Speaker 2: in front of your face every day wherever you go

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Speaker 2: to hold onto that promise.

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Speaker 3: Don't let that hope go. You don't want to ever

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Speaker 3: live in regret. Why did I let that hope go?

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Speaker 2: My brother in law, Kevin and my sister in law Lisa,

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Speaker 2: like any young couple would, so they were all excited

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Speaker 2: about creating a family. Well, as the years went on,

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Speaker 2: nothing happened. Lisa went to the doctor, went through treatments,

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Speaker 2: The doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa, Kevin, you.

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Speaker 3: Just need to give up hope. You know what, it's impossible.

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Speaker 2: Well, see, Lisa and Kevin were taught that hope fuels

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Speaker 2: your faith. Lisa and Kevin said, that's not what we're

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Speaker 2: That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've got pictures.

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Speaker 2: That's why we've created this hope. But the doctor said,

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