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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Joe Loustine Podcast. Help us continue to

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Speaker 5: Oh, we're in agreement with that today, Amen, I want

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Speaker 5: to encourage us all today. I want to challenge us

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

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

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

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're hoping for a strong family unit. Maybe you're

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

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Speaker 5: Is it a casual hope? Is it a vague hope?

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Speaker 5: So hope comes from heaven. It's heaven made See in

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Speaker 5: Corinthians three thirteen, it says, there's three things that are eternal,

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Speaker 5: Can I tell you today that God wants you to

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

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Speaker 6: 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 5: I believe God designed hope because he knows that hope

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

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Speaker 5: And then God told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a

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

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

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Speaker 6: You if you would like to adopt these girls.

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Speaker 5: Well, Lisa had never thought about adopting, but Lisa did

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

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Catherine and Carolina, if you ever wore

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Speaker 6: you this. Those twins were birthed out of her heart.

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Speaker 6: 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 6: You see, God is a faithful god.

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

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

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Speaker 5: because hope is from Heaven.

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Speaker 6: Amen.

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Speaker 9: Amen.

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Speaker 5: You're saying by your actions, God, I trust you, I

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