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Speaker 4: I'm gonna encourage us all today.

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Speaker 5: I want to challenge us in a way to think

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Speaker 5: about this word that we hear so much of now,

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Speaker 5: called hope. Are you hoping for anything today? Maybe you're

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

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

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're hoping that you'll.

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Speaker 4: Have a child.

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Speaker 5: What are you hoping for today? Is it a casual hope?

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Speaker 5: Is it a vague hope? And the reason I say

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Speaker 5: that is because sometimes I think that word hope has

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Speaker 5: been used so much that we forget the power of hope.

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Speaker 5: I've heard people say, well I hope that happens. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: well that'd be nice hope. So hope comes from heaven.

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Speaker 5: It's heaven made. See in Corinthians three thirteen, it says

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Speaker 5: there's three things that are eternal, three things that will

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Speaker 4: And love. Can I tell you today that God wants

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Speaker 4: you to get your hopes up.

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Speaker 5: He wants you to hope on in faith because God

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Speaker 5: created this hope on the inside of us, and He

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Speaker 5: doesn't want us to get vague with this hope. If

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Speaker 5: God has spoken something to you, if you found a

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Speaker 5: promise that you believe that God has given you, I

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Speaker 5: want to encourage you today to put hope in front

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Speaker 4: See, hope creates vision.

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

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Speaker 4: We need a picture of what we're going after.

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

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Speaker 5: hoped for. Do you have a picture in your mind

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Speaker 5: of what you're hoping for? Are you feeding that picture?

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Speaker 5: Are you fueling it? So that your faith can move

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Speaker 5: I believe God designed hope because he knows that hope

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Speaker 5: fuels our faith. He knows that hope picks us up.

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Speaker 5: The Scripture says, hope anchors our soul. It anchors us

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Speaker 5: in disappointing times and challenging times, in times of failure.

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Speaker 5: If we can only keep our hopes up, faith will

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Speaker 5: See God does the work. Faith, hope, and love come

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Speaker 5: from him. But you know what he wants us to do.

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Speaker 5: He wants us to develop it. He's given us the potential,

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Speaker 5: when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen, he said, I pray

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Speaker 4: Would fill you with joy and peace, so that.

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Speaker 5: Your hope would overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 5: You see, God is saying, stir up that hope and

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Speaker 5: Because hope comes from Heaven. God gave it to us,

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Speaker 5: story of Abraham and Sarah. And the reason I want

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Speaker 5: we should always learn from. God spoke a promise to Abraham.

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Speaker 5: Abraham didn't have the Bible, he couldn't get God's word,

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Speaker 5: Now, the promise that he spoke was this, Abraham, you

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Speaker 5: You will have a large inheritance of children on the earth. Well,

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Speaker 5: But God spoke that promise and he said, look, Abraham,

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Speaker 4: So he's got a beautiful visual. There's the stars. God

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Speaker 5: He said, if I could even count him, Man, I'm

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Speaker 5: You what I'm saying is night after night he pondered

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Speaker 5: got between his toes, he was like, well, God, I'm

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Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna get stuck. God, I got things

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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, it took the power and the focus off

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

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Speaker 5: The scripture says, when he stood in front of his brothers,

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Speaker 5: His faith moved him forward. Hope is to move you forward.

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: So they were all excited about creating a family. Welyssa.

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Speaker 4: 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: Five years went by, nothing happened. The doctors had said

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Speaker 4: Kevin, you just need to give up hope. You know what,

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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: there's no hope. I'll never forget. One time, Lisa and

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Speaker 4: But Kevin came to her and said, look what we

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Speaker 5: Lisa, let's put these things in front of our eyes,

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Speaker 5: because we are gonna have babies. Everything that they did

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Speaker 5: Kept feeding that hope against all hope. The medical doctors

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Speaker 5: One day, Lisa got a call from a friend. Her

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Speaker 4: She said, I have this strong, strong.

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

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

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Speaker 4: 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 4: You see, God is a faithful god.

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Speaker 5: He brings the promises to pass. He brings them to

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Speaker 5: I encourage you keep your hopes up because hope is

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