Hope Fuels Our Faith

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See terms and conditions at UNEs 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.080 dot co. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.440 Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.240 this podcast. I believe God has got amazing things in 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:51.800 your future. I hope you enjoy this message. Oh we're 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.480 in agreement with that. Today, man, I want to encourage 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.720 us all today. I want to challenge us in a 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.840 way to think about this word that we hear so 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:07.840 much of now, called hope. Are you hoping for anything today? 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.359 Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage, Maybe you're hoping 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.200 for a strong family unit. Maybe you're hoping to get 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:22.160 that job promotion. Maybe you're hoping that you'll have a child. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.959 What are you hoping for today? Is it a casual hope? 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.760 Is it a vague hope? And the reason I say 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.040 that is because sometimes I think that word hope has 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.240 been used so much that we forget the power of hope. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.560 I've heard people say, well, I hope that happens. Yeah, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:49.160 well that'd be nice hope. So hope comes from heaven. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:56.240 It's Heaven made. See in Corinthians three thirteen, it says 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:02.560 there's three things that are eternal, three things that will faith, hope, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.959 and love. Can I tell you today that God wants 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.440 you to get your hopes up. He wants you to 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.520 hope on in faith because God created this hope on 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.440 the inside of us, and He doesn't want us to 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:23.280 get vague with this hope. If God has spoken something 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.639 to you, if you found a promise that you believe 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.520 that God has given you, I want to encourage you 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.200 today to put hope in front of that promise. See, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:40.280 hope creates vision. Hope gives our faith something to attach 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.040 itself to, something to go after. We need a picture 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:50.280 of what we're going after. The scripture says that faith 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:55.560 is the substance of things hoped for. Do you have 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.440 a picture in your mind of what you're hoping for? 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.520 Are you feed seeing that picture? Are you fueling it 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.440 so that your faith can move towards it? See? I 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.440 believe God designed hope because he knows that hope fuels 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.120 our faith. He knows that hope picks us up. The 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:21.560 scripture says, hope anchors our soul. It anchors us in 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.720 disappointing times and challenging times, in times of failure. If 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.279 we can only keep our hopes up, faith will pick 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.480 us up and move us in the right direction. See 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.000 God does the work. Faith, hope, and love come from him. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.719 But you know what he wants us to do. He 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:46.120 wants us to develop it. He's given us the potential, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.479 the seed for it. Now he's saying, you need to 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.559 develop it. You need to develop it. It's interesting because 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.880 when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen, he said, I pray 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.520 that the God of all hope. Paul called him the 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.719 God of all hope. He said, I pray that the 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.320 God of all hope would fill you with joy and 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:12.400 peace so that your hope would overflow by the power 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.560 of the Holy Spirit. You see, God is saying, stir 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.279 up that hope and it will flow out of you. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.120 It will flow out of you because hope comes from Heaven. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.680 God gave it to us, and He's going to help 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.880 it flow out of us as we begin to develop it. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.840 Now we all know the story of Abraham and Sarah. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.880 And the reason I want to talk about Abraham and 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.880 Sarah because it's the classic story of hope and faith. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.640 It's the classic story that we should always learn from. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.839 God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.520 he couldn't get God's word, so God spoke a promise 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.599 to him, birth the promise in his heart. And God 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:06.359 told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a beautiful representation to 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:12.279 visualize hope for this promise. Now, the promise that he 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.120 spoke was this, Abraham, you and Sarah are going to 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.400 have a child, and through this child, the Covenant child, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.799 your offspring will be many. You will have a large 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.599 inheritance of children on the earth. Well, up to this point, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.040 Abraham and Sarah had no children between them. They'd been 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.279 married a long time. And you know what I think, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.240 after you've been married so long and you hadn't had 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.960 any children, and you're really old. You're thinking, you're tempted 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.000 to think. And I'm sure Abraham was tempted to think, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.160 and I'm sure he did think, God, I haven't had 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.880 one this far? Why and how am I going to 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:51.279 have one? 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:51.560 Now? 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:57.760 I'm very old, my wife is way past child bearing years. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.120 But God spoke that promise and he said, look, Abraham, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.599 I want you to look up at the stars in 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.680 the sky. I want you to see the sand on 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.040 the seashore. He said, if you can even count that, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.280 I want you to know that that is the number 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:20.200 of your offspring. Can you even count that? See, he 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:26.760 gave him a visual to build his hope around. I 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.200 can only imagine him sitting out at night. He pulls 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.160 up his lawn chair. He didn't have Netflix, didn't have 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.880 you know, the movie channel. So he pulls up his 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.440 chair and he's sitting under the stars, and he's remembering 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.840 that promise, and you know, he knows, he knows, he knows, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.440 he's old, he knows he hasn't done it. So he's 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.880 got a beautiful visual. There's the stars God was talking 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.880 to me about. He said, if I could even count him. Man, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.720 I want to try to count him tonight. One two three? 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.760 Wait did I count that? One? Three, four or five? 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.400 Wait a minute, let me start over? One two three. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.840 You what I'm saying is, night after night he pondered 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.520 those stars. He thought about those stars. He walked along 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.880 the seashore, and as he kicked that sand and it 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:23.440 got between his toes, he was like, Wow, God, I'm 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:29.080 holding on to this hope. This is my inheritance, this 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:34.760 is my offspring. But God, Okay, God, I'm just gonna 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.120 focus on the stars and the sand. I'm gonna let 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 that fuel my faith. And I'm not gonna get stuck. God, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.240 I got things to do. I'm gonna keep moving forward. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.560 And the Bible says this that Abraham hoped on in faith. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.880 Now how did he do that? I love this scripture. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:00.960 It says because he believed that God had the power 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:07.079 to do what he promised, he could hope on against 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:12.000 all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope in himself. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.760 He didn't look at his body, Sarah's body. He didn't 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.000 look at the fact that he'd made some mistakes and 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.719 tried to have this child. You know, help God out 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.520 a little bit. Gosh, you know, that can really dash 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.800 your hopes when you messed up. He wasn't looking at 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:33.800 his mess ups, he was not considering his own limitations. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.160 He said, I'm a hoping and building this visual and 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.720 keeping my eyes fixed on your power. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:42.079 God. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.640 You see. It took the power and the focus off 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.280 of him and put it where it belongs on Almighty God. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.760 You see so much we look at our own abilities, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.960 We look at our own self we look at the 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.760 impossibility and many of them are impossible. Because see, if 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.240 God wants to do something in your life, it's gonna 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.640 be something that you can't do on your own. It 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:17.440 is impossible. It's big, It's real big. You see. We 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.559 have to anchor ourself to hope. We have to feed 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.720 this hope so it fuels our faith. Do you know 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.959 when God showed up and he told Abraham this time 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.400 next year, you're gonna have a child because of his hope, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.520 because of the faith that he had continued to generate, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.640 he continued to move forward. Do you know that the 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.160 Bible says this about Sarah. It says that Sarah had 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.760 the strength and the power to conceive because of her faith. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.640 You might not want to conceive a child, but because 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.640 of your hope and because of your faith, you can 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.360 conceive the things that God wants you to bring forth 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.920 in your life, and he wants you to do it 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.559 through his strength, through his power. Take your eyes off 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.400 of your own limitations and get your eyes on God. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.240 Because if it's going to come to pass, it's gonna 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.240 come to pass because of God. He's the one that's 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.440 going to bring it to pass. You see, God knew. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.480 God knew he had an appointed time. He knew that 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.440 Abraham and Sarah would get disappointed, go through difficulties, try 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.880 to do things their own way. That's why he gave 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.480 them the stars and the sand. It's interesting because those 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.920 were things they could see every single day. They lived 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.800 under the stars at night and they walked through the 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.120 sands during the day. It was an every day visual. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.000 Do you have any visuals? Do you have something that 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.080 you can set up that you see every single day, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.439 To keep that alive in your heart, to create a 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.320 vision so you can make it through the difficult times, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.800 so your faith knows where to go, knows where to 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:16.400 be directed. You see, many times our hopes can be dashed. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.440 I think about Joseph, he had a dream, Oh God 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:28.160 given dream. His brothers dashed that dream. They tried to anyway. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.760 They sold him. Potterford's wife when he got to Egypt, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.160 falsely accused him. He got thrown in prison. But I 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.320 have the stream. But I have the stream took him 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.800 seventeen years. The baker the cutbearers that I'll help you 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.800 when I get out. They forgot him. I can't think 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.520 of any more things that would really dash my dreams 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:56.800 than that seventeen years. The scripture says, when he stood 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.679 in front of his brothers, he remembered the dream. See, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.680 he had built such a vision of hope that it 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.679 got him through his faith, moved him forward. Hope is 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.640 to move you forward. Hope so you won't get stuck. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:18.200 Don't get stuck. Create hope. People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.360 Don't get your hopes up. What if it doesn't happen. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.920 The Bible says, this, hope deferred makes the heart sick. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.560 Hope deferred makes the heart sick. That means hope that's 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.800 been let go of you. See, let me tell you something. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.360 If God's spoken something to you and it keeps coming up, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.280 keeps coming up and keeps coming up. That could definitely 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.040 be a God promise, and you need to start getting 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.600 visuals and putting that in front of your face every 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:48.000 day wherever you go to hold onto that promise. Don't 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.719 let that hope go. You don't want to ever live 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.200 in regret. Why did I let that hope go? My 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.959 brother in law, Kevin and my sister in law Lisa, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.520 when they got married, they wanted to have a child 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.360 like any young couple would, so they were all excited 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:09.079 about creating a family. Welyssa years went on, nothing happened. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.520 Lisa went to the doctor, went through treatments, did everything 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:20.480 that she could. Still nothing happened. Five years went by, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.040 nothing happened. The doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa, Kevin, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.040 you just need to give up hope. You know what, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:33.800 it's impossible. Well, see, Lisa and Kevin, we're taught that 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:38.240 hope fuels your faith. Lisa and Kevin said, that's not 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.600 what we're used to hearing. We're used to creating hope 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:47.080 for ourselves. That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.320 got pictures. That's why we've created this hope. But the 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.440 doctor said, there's no hope. I'll never forget. One time, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.440 Lisa and Kevin were having to redo their bathroom and 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:00.920 I was helping and her pick out a few of 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.800 the materials and she said, well, Victoria, I want to 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.360 get a bigger sink in my bathroom. She goes, because 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.200 someday I want to bathe my baby in this sink. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.360 Kevin got a sample pair of diapers in the mill, 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.760 looked at those diapers and he opened them up and 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.800 there was two diapers. Now, Kevin is a twin, and 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.640 I don't know if at that time he had told 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.360 Lisa that his desire was to have twins, because I mean, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.440 she was just doing her best trying to have one right. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.600 But Kevin came to her and said, look what we 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.640 got in the mail, Lisa, let's put these things in 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.720 front of our eyes, because we are gonna have babies. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:45.360 Everything that they did was incorporated with this dream and 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:51.360 this hope of having children. They didn't lose their hope, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:57.239 but they kept feeding that hope against all hope. The 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.520 medical doctors told them no hope, but they can feeding 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.680 that hope. One day, Lisa got a call from a friend. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.160 Her name is Nancy Alcorn. She has a girl's home. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.200 She said, Lisa, have you had your kids yet? Lisa said, no, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.320 I haven't had him yet. And she said, well, Lisa, 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.200 I have a young girl in here who has twin 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.280 girls she's about to give birth to. She said, I 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.480 have this strong, strong desire that I'm supposed to call 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.240 you and ask you if you would like to adopt 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:35.120 these girls. Well, Lisa had never thought about adopting. But 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.440 Lisa did keep her hope alive as she fueled and 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.480 fed that hope, and it fuelled her faith. So when 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.720 the opportunity that God had for her took birth in 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.240 her heart, all of a sudden, she got off the phone. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.080 She told Kevin what had just happened. They were in agreement, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.760 and guess what. A month later they picked up their 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:04.280 twin girls. Take a look at these beatiful girls. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:07.680 Now. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.520 I don't know, Catherine and Caroline if you ever wore 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.880 those sample dippers, but I do know that you got 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:23.199 bathed in that sink because I was there. Can I 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.000 tell you you could say, well, that didn't happen the 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.520 way she thought it was going to happen. Well, Lisa 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.439 will tell you this. Those twins were birthed out of 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.480 her heart. She couldn't ask for anything better. It was 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:44.320 more than she could ask, think or imagine. You see, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.200 God is a faithful God. He brings the promises to pass. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.800 He brings them to pass in his timing and in 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.159 his way. But it's up to you and I to 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.159 develop this hope, to create this visual to fuel our faith, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.320 because when God gets done with us, it's more than 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.680 we can ask, think or imagine. I encourage you keep 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:12.600 your hopes up because hope is from heaven. Amen. Amen. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.880 Thank you for listening to the Joel Osteine podcast. Help 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.680 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.680 all over the world. Visit joloastin dot com slash give 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.480 hope to give a gift today. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.399 Thanks for listening to the podcast. Be sure to subscribe 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.480 so you can get all of the latest messages. 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