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Speaker 1: So great to have you with us today, and as

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Speaker 1: we enter into this spring season, just let it be

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Speaker 1: and just really believe you're going to come into a

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Speaker 1: blooming and a blossoming season in Jesus' name, but God

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Speaker 1: bless you and enjoy the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Oh we're in agreement with that today, Amen, I want

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Speaker 2: to encourage us all today. I want to challenge us

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Speaker 2: in a way to think about this word that we

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Speaker 2: hear so much of now called hope. Are you hoping

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Speaker 2: for anything today? Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage.

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Speaker 2: hoping to get that job promotion. Maybe you're hoping that

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Speaker 2: you'll have a child. What are you hoping for today?

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Speaker 2: Is it a casual hope? Is it a vague hope?

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Speaker 2: And the reason I say that is because sometimes I

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Speaker 2: think that word hope has been used so much that

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Speaker 2: we forget the power of hope. I've heard people say,

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Speaker 2: well I hope that happens. Yeah, Well that'd be nice hope.

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Speaker 2: So hope comes from heaven. It's heaven made see In

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Speaker 2: Corinthians three thirteen, it says, there's three things that are eternal,

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Speaker 2: three things that will remain faith, hope.

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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: with this hope. If God has spoken something to you,

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Speaker 2: if you found a promise that you believe that God

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Speaker 2: put hope in 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 3: We need a picture of what we're going after.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says that faith is the substance of things

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Speaker 2: of what you're hoping for? Are you feeding that picture?

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Speaker 3: I believe God designed.

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

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

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Speaker 2: anchors our soul. It anchors us in disappointing times. And

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Speaker 2: challenging times, in times of failure, if we can only

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

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

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Speaker 2: He said, if you can even count that, I want

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Speaker 2: Imagine him sitting out at night. He pulls up his

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

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Speaker 2: But God, Okay, God, I'm just gonna focus on the

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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna get stuck. God, I got things

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

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Speaker 3: He's the one that's gonna bring it to pass. You see,

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Speaker 2: I think about Joseph. He had a dream, Oh God

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Speaker 3: See, he had built such.

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

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Speaker 2: in regret. Why did I let that hope go? My

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Speaker 2: nothing happened. The doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa, Keaven, you.

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Speaker 3: When God gets done.

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Speaker 2: With us, it's more than we can ask, faint or imagine.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen.

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Speaker 4: When God created the world, he did it specifically with

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Speaker 3: He used his words.

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Speaker 1: If you want to know what you're going to be

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Speaker 1: If you'll change your words, you can change your world.

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Speaker 1: I have a new book called Speak the Blessing. You

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Speaker 1: There are declarations in it that you can make over

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