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That's code 34 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 3: iHeart fifty when you sign up at unest dot co 35 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: for a fifty dollars bonus. See terms and conditions at 36 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: UNEs dot co. 37 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Victoria. 38 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 5: Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe 39 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 5: God has amazing things in your future. I hope you 40 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 5: enjoy this message. I want to challenge us in a 41 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 5: way to think about this word that we hear so 42 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 5: much of now, called hope. Are you hoping for anything today? 43 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 5: Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage. 44 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 4: Maybe you're hoping for a. 45 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 5: Strong family unit. Maybe you're hoping to get that job promotion. 46 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 5: Maybe you're hoping that you'll have a child. What are 47 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 5: you hoping for today? Is it a casual hope? Is 48 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 5: it a vague hope? 49 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 4: And the reason I say that is because sometimes I. 50 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 5: Think that word hope has been used so much that 51 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 5: we forget the power of hope. I've heard people say, well, 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 5: I hope that happens. Yeah, well that'd be nice hope. 53 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 5: So hope comes from heaven. It's Heaven made. See in 54 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 5: Corinthians three thirteen, it says there's three things that are eternal, 55 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 5: three things that will remain faith, hope. 56 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 4: And love. 57 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 5: Can I tell you today that God wants you to 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 5: get your hopes. 59 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 4: Up, wants you to hope on in. 60 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 5: Faith, because God created this hope on the inside of us, 61 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 5: and He doesn't want us to get vague with this hope. 62 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 5: If God has spoken something to you, if you found 63 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 5: a promise that you believe that God has given you, 64 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 5: I want to encourage you today to put hope in 65 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 5: front of that promise. 66 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 4: See, hope creates vision. 67 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 5: Hope gives our faith something to attach itself to, something 68 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 5: to go after. 69 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 4: We need a picture of what we're going after. 70 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 5: The scripture says that faith is the substance of things 71 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 5: hoped for. Do you have a picture in your mind 72 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 5: of what you're hoping for? Are you feeding that picture? 73 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 5: Are you fueling it so that your faith can move 74 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 5: towards it. See I believe God designed hope because he 75 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 5: knows that hope fuels our faith. He knows that hope 76 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 5: picks us up. The Scripture says, hope anchors our soul. 77 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 5: It anchors us in disappointing times and challenging times, in 78 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 5: times of failure. 79 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 4: If we can only. 80 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 5: Keep our hopes up, faith will pick us up and 81 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 5: move us in the right direction. See, God does the work. Faith, hope, 82 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 5: and love come from him. But you know what he 83 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 5: wants us to do. He wants us to develop it. 84 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 5: He's given us the potential, the seed for it. Now 85 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 5: he's saying, you need to develop it. You need to 86 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: develop it. It's interesting because when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen, 87 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 5: he said, I pray that the God of all hope. 88 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 5: Paul called him the God of all hope. He said, 89 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 5: I pray that the God of all hope would fill 90 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 5: you with joy and peace, so that you're hope would overflow. 91 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 4: By the power of the Holy Spirit. 92 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 5: You see, God is saying, stir up that hope, and 93 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 5: it will flow out of you. 94 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 4: It will flow out of. 95 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 5: You because hope comes from heaven. God gave it to us, 96 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 5: and He's gonna help it flow out of us as 97 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 5: we begin to develop it. Now we all know the 98 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 5: story of Abraham and Sarah. And the reason I want 99 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 5: to talk about Abraham and Sarah because it's the classic story. 100 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 4: Of hope and faith. 101 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 5: It's the classic story that we should always learn from. 102 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,679 Speaker 5: God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible, 103 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 5: he couldn't get God's word. So God spoke a promise 104 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 5: to him, birth the promise in his heart. And then 105 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 5: God told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a beautiful representation 106 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 5: to visualize hope for this promise. Now, the promise that 107 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 5: he spoke was this, Abraham, you and Sarah are going 108 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 5: to have a child. And through this child, the Covenant child, 109 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 5: your offspring will be many. You will have a large 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 5: inheritance of children on the earth. Well, up to this point, 111 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 5: Abraham and Sarah had no children between them. 112 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 4: They'd been married a long time. 113 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 5: And you know what I think, After you've been married 114 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 5: so long and you hadn't had eight children, and you're 115 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 5: really old. You're thinking, you're tempted to think. And I'm 116 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 5: sure Abraham was tempted to think. And I'm sure he 117 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 5: did think, God, I haven't had one this far? Why 118 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 5: and how am I going to have one? 119 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: Now? 120 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 5: I'm very old, my wife is way past child bearing years. 121 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 5: But God spoke that promise and he said, look, Abraham, 122 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: I want you. 123 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 4: To look up at the stars in the sky. I 124 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 4: want you to see the sand on the seashore. 125 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 5: He said, if you can even count that, I want 126 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 5: you to know that that is the number of your offspring. 127 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 4: Can you even count that? See? 128 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 5: He gave him a visual to build his hope around. 129 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 5: I can only imagine him sitting out at night. He 130 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 5: pulls up his lawn chair. He didn't have Netflix, didn't 131 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 5: have you know, the movie channel. So he pulls up 132 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 5: his chair and he's sitting under the stars, and he's 133 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 5: remembering that promise. And you know, he knows, he knows, 134 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 5: he knows, he's old, he knows he hasn't done it. 135 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 4: So he's got a beautiful visual. There's the stars God 136 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 4: was talking to me about. 137 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 5: He said, if I could even count him, man, I'm 138 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 5: wonna try to count him tonight. 139 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 4: One, two three? Wait did I count that? One? Three, 140 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 4: four or five? Wait a minute, let me start over one, 141 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 4: two three. 142 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 5: You what I'm saying is none night he pondered those stars. 143 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 5: He thought about those stars. He walked along the seashore, 144 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 5: and as he kicked that sand and it got between. 145 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 4: His toes, he was like, Wow, God, I'm holding on 146 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 4: to this hope. This is my inheritance, this is my offspring. 147 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 5: But God, Okay, God, I'm just gonna focus on the 148 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 5: stars and the sand. I'm gonna let that fuel my faith. 149 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna get stuck. God, I got things 150 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 5: to do. I'm gonna keep moving forward. And the Bible 151 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 5: says this, that Abraham hoped on in faith. 152 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 4: Now how did he do that? I love this scripture. 153 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 5: It says because he believed that God had the power 154 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 5: to do what he promised, he could. 155 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 3: Hope on. 156 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 5: Against all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope 157 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 5: in himself. He didn't look at his body, Sarah's body. 158 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 5: He didn't look at the fact that he'd made some 159 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 5: mistakes and tried to have this child. You know, help 160 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 5: God out a little bit, Gosh. You know that can 161 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 5: really dash your hopes when you messed up. He wasn't 162 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 5: looking at his mess ups, he was not considering his 163 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 5: own limitations. He said, I'm a hoping and building this 164 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 5: visual and keeping my eyes fixed on your power God. 165 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 6: You see. 166 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 5: It took the power and the focus off of him 167 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 5: and put it where it belongs on Almighty God. You 168 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 5: see so much we look at our own abilities, We 169 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 5: look at our own self. We look at the impossibilities, 170 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 5: and many of them are impossible. Because see, if God 171 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: wants to do something in your life, it's gonna be 172 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 5: something that you can't. 173 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 4: Do on your own. 174 00:09:59,280 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 7: It is. 175 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 4: It's big, it's real big. You see. We have to 176 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 4: anchor ourself to hope. 177 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 5: We have to feed this hope so it fuels our faith. 178 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 5: Do you know when God showed up and he told 179 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 5: Abraham this time next year, you're gonna have a child 180 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 5: because of his hope, because of the faith that he 181 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 5: had continued to generate, he continued to move forward. Do 182 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 5: you know that the Bible says this about Sarah. It 183 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 5: says that Sarah had the strength and the power to 184 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 5: conceive because of her faith. You might not want to 185 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 5: conceive a child, but because of your hope and because 186 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 5: of your faith, you can conceive the things that God 187 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 5: wants you to bring forth in your life, and he 188 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 5: wants you to do it through his strength, through his power. 189 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 4: Take your eyes off. 190 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 5: Of your own limitations and get your eyes on God. 191 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 5: Because if it's gonna come to pass, it's gonna come 192 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 5: to pass because of God. He's the one that's gonna 193 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 5: bring it to pass. You see, God knew. God knew 194 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 5: he had an appointed time. He knew that Abraham and 195 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 5: Sarah would get disappointed, go through difficulties, try to do 196 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 5: things their own way. 197 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 4: That's why he gave them the stars and the sand. 198 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 5: It's interesting because those were things they could see every 199 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 5: single day. They lived under the stars at night and 200 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 5: they walked through the sands during the day. It was 201 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 5: an every day visual. Do you have any visuals? Do 202 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 5: you have something that you can set up that you 203 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 5: see every single day to keep that promise alive in 204 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 5: your heart. To create a vision so you can make 205 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 5: it through the difficult times, so your faith where to go, 206 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 5: knows where to be directed. You see, many times our 207 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 5: hopes can be dashed. I think about Joseph. He had 208 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 5: a dream, oh God given dream. His brothers dashed that 209 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 5: dream they tried to anyway. 210 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 4: They sold him. 211 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 5: Potterfird's wife when he got to Egypt, falsely accused him. 212 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 4: He got thrown in prison. But I have the stream. 213 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 5: But I have the stream took him seventeen years. The 214 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 5: baker the cutbearers that I'll help you when I get out. 215 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 4: They forgot him. 216 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 5: I can't think of any more things that would really 217 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 5: dash my dreams than that. 218 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 4: Seventeen years. 219 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 5: The scripture says, when he stood in front of his brothers, 220 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 5: he remembered the dream. 221 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 4: See, he had built such. 222 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 5: A vision of hope that it got him through his faith, 223 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 5: moved him forward. Hope is to move you forward. Hope 224 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 5: so you won't get stuck. Don't get stuck. 225 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 4: Create hope. 226 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 5: People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. Don't get your hopes up. 227 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 5: What if it doesn't happen. The Bible says, this, hope 228 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 5: deferred makes the heart sick. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. 229 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 5: That means hope that's been let go of you. See, 230 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 5: let me tell you something. If God's spoken something to 231 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 5: you and it keeps coming up, keeps coming up, and 232 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 5: keeps coming up, that could definitely be a God promise. 233 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 5: And you need to start getting visuals and putting that 234 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 5: in front of your face every day wherever you go 235 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 5: to hold onto that promise. Don't let that hope go. 236 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 5: You don't want to ever live in regret. Why did 237 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 5: I let that hope go? My brother in law, Kevin, 238 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 5: and my sister in law Lisa, when they got married, 239 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 5: they wanted to have a child like any young couple would, 240 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 5: so they were all excited about creating a family. Well, 241 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 5: as the years went on, nothing happened. Lisa went to 242 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 5: the doctor, went through treatments, did everything that she could. 243 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 4: Still nothing happened. Five years went by, nothing happened. 244 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 5: The doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa, Kevin, you. 245 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 4: Just need to give up hope. You know what, it's impossible. 246 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 5: Well, see, Lisa and Kevin, we're taught that hope fuels 247 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 5: your faith. Lisa and Kevin said, that's not what we're 248 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 5: used to hearing. We're used to creating hope for ourselves. 249 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 5: That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've got pictures. 250 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 5: That's why we've created this hope. But the doctor said, 251 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 5: there's no hope. I'll never forget one time. Lisa and 252 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 5: Kevin were having to redo their bathroom, and I was 253 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 5: helping her pick out a few of the materials, and 254 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 5: she said, well, Victoria, I want to get a bigger 255 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 5: sink in my bathroom. She goes, cause someday I want 256 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 5: to bathe my baby in this sink. Kevin got a 257 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 5: sample pair of diapers in the mail. Looked at those 258 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 5: diapers and he opened them up and there was two diapers. Now, 259 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 5: Kevin is a twin and I don't know if at 260 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 5: that time he had told Lisa that his desire was 261 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 5: to have twins, because I mean, she was just doing 262 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 5: her best trying to have one right. 263 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: But Kevin came to her and said, look what we 264 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 4: got in the mail. 265 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 5: Lisa, let's put these things in front of our eyes, 266 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 5: because we are gonna have babies. Everything that they did 267 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 5: was incorporated with this dream and this hope of having children. 268 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 4: They didn't lose their hope, but. 269 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 5: They kept feeding that hope against all hope. The medical 270 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 5: doctors told them no hope, but they kept feeding that hope. 271 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 5: One day, Lisa got a call from a friend. Her 272 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 5: name is Nancy Alcorn. She has a girl's home. She said, 273 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 5: have you had your kids yet? Lisa said, no, I 274 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 5: haven't had him yet. And she said, well, Lisa, I 275 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 5: have a young girl in here who has twin girls 276 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 5: she's about to give birth to. She said, I have 277 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 5: this strong, strong desire that I'm supposed to call you 278 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 5: and ask you if you would like to adopt these girls. Well, 279 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 5: Lisa had never thought about adopting. But Lisa did keep 280 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 5: her hope alive as she fueled and fed that hope, 281 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 5: and it fuelled her faith. So when the opportunity that 282 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 5: God had for her took birth in her heart, all 283 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 5: of a sudden, she got off the phone. She told 284 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 5: Kevin what had just happened. They were in agreement, and 285 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 5: guess what. A month later they picked up their twin girls. 286 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 5: Take a look at these beautiful girls. Now, I don't know, 287 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 5: in Carolina if you ever wore those sample dippers, but 288 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 5: I do know that you got bathed. 289 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 4: In that sink because I was there. Can I tell 290 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 4: you could say, well, that didn't happen the way she 291 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 4: thought it was going to happen. 292 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 5: Well, Lisa, I'll tell you this, those twins were birthed 293 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 5: out of her heart. 294 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 4: She couldn't ask for anything better. 295 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 5: It was more than she could ask, think or imagine. 296 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 5: You see, God is a faithful God. He brings the 297 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 5: promises to pass. He brings them to pass in his 298 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 5: timing and in his way. But it's up to you 299 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 5: and I to develop this hope, to create this visual 300 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 5: to fuel our faith, because when God gets done with us, 301 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 5: it's more than we can ask, think or imagine. I 302 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 5: encourage you keep your hopes up because hope is heaven. 303 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 5: Amen a Amen. 304 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to the joelos Deine podcast. Help 305 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 7: us continue to share the message of hope with those 306 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 7: all over the world. 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