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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 5: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message. I want to challenge

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Speaker 5: us in a way to think about this word that

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Speaker 5: we hear so much of now, called hope. Are you

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Speaker 5: hoping for anything today? Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're hoping to get that job promotion. Maybe you're

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Speaker 5: hoping that you'll have a child, What are you hoping

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Speaker 5: for today? Is it a casual hope? Is it a

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Speaker 5: vague hope? And the reason I say that is because

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Speaker 5: sometimes I think that word hope has been used so

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Speaker 5: much that we forget the power of hope. I've heard

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Speaker 5: be nice hope. So hope comes from heaven. It's Heaven made.

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Speaker 5: See in Corinthians three thirteen, it says there's three things

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Speaker 5: Hope gives our faith something to attach itself to, something

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Speaker 5: The scripture says that faith is the substance of things

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Speaker 5: knows that hope picks us up. The Scripture says, hope

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Speaker 5: You because hope comes from heaven. God gave it to us,

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Speaker 5: It's the classic story that we should always learn from.

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Speaker 5: God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible,

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Speaker 5: You what I'm saying is none night he pondered those stars.

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Speaker 3: This is my inheritance, this is my offspring.

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

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Speaker 5: It says because he believed that God had the power

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Speaker 5: Against all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope

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Speaker 5: You see so much we look at our own abilities,

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Speaker 3: Create hope.

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Speaker 5: People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. Don't get your hopes up.

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Speaker 5: What if it doesn't happen. The Bible says, this, hope

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Speaker 5: That means hope that's been let go of you. See,

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Speaker 5: and you need to start getting visuals and putting that

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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 5: My brother in law, Kevin, and my sister in law Lisa,

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Speaker 3: Well, as the years went on, nothing happened.

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Speaker 5: Lisa went to the doctor, went through treatments, did everything.

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Speaker 5: Still nothing happened. Five years went by, nothing happened. The

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

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Speaker 5: Well, see, Lisa and Kevin, we're taught that hope fuels

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Speaker 5: That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've got pictures.

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Speaker 5: That's why we've created this hope. But the doctor said,

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Speaker 5: Kevin were having to redo their bathroom, and I was

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Speaker 5: But Kevin came to her and said.

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Speaker 3: Look what we got in the mail.

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Speaker 5: They kept feeding that hope against all hope. The medical

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Speaker 3: She said, I have.

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Speaker 5: This strong, strong desire that I'm supposed to call you

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Speaker 5: and ask you if you would like to adopt these girls. Well,

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Speaker 5: Lisa had never thought about adopting. But Lisa did keep

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Speaker 5: guess what. A month later they picked up their twin girls.

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Speaker 5: Take a look at these beautiful girls. Now, I don't

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Speaker 5: those twins were birthed out of her heart.

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Speaker 3: She couldn't ask for anything better.

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Speaker 5: It was more than she could ask think or imagine.

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Speaker 3: You see, God is a faithful God.

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Speaker 5: He brings the promises to pass, he brings thems to

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Speaker 5: up to you and I to develop this hope, to

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Speaker 5: gets done with us, it's more than we can ask,

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Speaker 5: think or imagine. I encourage you keep your hopes up

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Speaker 5: because hope is heaven.

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