Hope Fuels Our Faith - Victoria Osteen

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Maybe you're hoping for a better marriage, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.560 Maybe you're hoping for a strong family unit. Maybe you're 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:05.080 hoping to get that job promotion. Maybe you're hoping that 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.400 you'll have a child. What are you hoping for today? 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.720 Is it a casual hope? Is it a vague hope? 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.760 And the reason I say that is because sometimes I 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.120 think that word hope has been used so much that 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.440 we forget the power of hope. I've heard people say, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:29.079 well I hope that happens. Yeah, Well that'd be nice hope. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:37.440 So hope comes from heaven. It's heaven made See in 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.200 Corinthians three thirteen, it says, there's three things that are eternal, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.800 three things that will remain faith, hope. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:47.520 And love. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.040 Can I tell you today that God wants you to 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.040 get your hopes up. He wants you to hope on 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.480 in faith because God created this. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.520 Hope on the inside of us, and He. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.480 Doesn't want us to get vague with this hope. If 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.000 God has spoken something to you, if you found a 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.960 promise that you believe that God has given you, I 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:17.520 want to encourage you today to put hope in front 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.320 of that promise. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.760 See, hope creates vision. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.680 Hope gives our faith something to attach itself to, something 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:26.519 to go after. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.120 We need a picture of what we're going after. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.120 The scripture says that faith is the substance of things 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.160 hoped for. Do you have a picture in your mind 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.800 of what you're hoping for? Are you feeding that picture? 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.480 Are you fueling it so that your faith can move 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:49.160 towards it? 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:50.160 See? 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.280 I believe God designed hope because he knows that hope 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.280 fuels our faith. He knows that hope picks us up. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:05.280 The scripture says, hope anchors our soul. It anchors us 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.720 in disappointing times and challenging times, in times of failure. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.680 If we can only. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.720 Keep our hopes up, faith will pick us up and 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:21.520 move us in the right direction. See God does the work. Faith, hope, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.080 and love come from him. But you know what he 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.760 wants us to do. He wants us to develop it. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.760 He's given us the potential, the seed for it. Now 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:36.000 he's saying, you need to develop it. You need to 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.239 develop it. It's interesting because when Paul prayed in Romans eighteen, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.080 he said, I pray that. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.719 The God of all hope. Paul called him the God 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.240 of all hope. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.280 He said, I pray that the God of all hope 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.039 would fill you with joy and peace, so that your 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.159 hope would overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:03.159 You see, God is saying, stir up that hope and 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.039 it will flow out of you. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.560 It will flow out. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.960 Of you because hope comes from Heaven. God gave it 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.400 to us, and He's gonna help it flow out of 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.279 us as we begin to develop it. Now we all 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.239 know the story of Abraham and Sarah. And the reason 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.480 I want to talk about Abraham and Sarah because it's 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.359 the classic story. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:26.760 Of hope and faith. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.320 It's the classic story that we should always learn from. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.719 God spoke a promise to Abraham. Abraham didn't have the Bible. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.400 He couldn't get God's word. So God spoke a promise 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.640 to him, birth the promise. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:42.880 In his heart. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.520 And then God told Abraham, I'm gonna give you a 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:55.440 beautiful representation to visualize hope for this promise. Now, the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.520 promise that he spoke was this, Abraham, you and Sarah 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.240 are gonna have a child, and through this child, the 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.880 Covenant child, your offspring will be many. You will have 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.599 a large inheritance of children on the earth. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.159 Well, up to this. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.760 Point, Abraham and Sarah had no children between them. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.200 They'd been married a long time. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.000 And you know what I think, after you've been married 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.920 so long and you hadn't had eight children and you're 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.520 really old, you're thinking, You're tempted to think. And I'm 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.600 sure Abraham was tempted to think, and I'm sure he 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.520 did think, God, I haven't had one this far, Why 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.159 and how am I going to have one? 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:35.400 Now? 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.599 I'm very old, my wife is way past child bearing years. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.680 But God spoke that promise, and. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.360 He said, look, Abraham, I want you to look up 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.080 at the stars in the sky I want you to 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.680 see the sand on the seashore. He said, if you 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.719 can even count that, I want you to know that 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.279 that is the number of your offspring. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.920 Can you even count that? See? 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:09.360 He gave him a visual to build his hope around. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.760 I can only imagine him sitting out at night. He 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:13.960 pulls up his lawn chair. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.360 He didn't have Netflix, didn't have you know, the movie channel. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.400 So he pulls up his chair and he's sitting under 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.040 the stars, and he's remembering that promise. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.080 And you know, he knows, he. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.080 Knows, he knows, he's old, he knows he hasn't done it. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.240 So he's got a beautiful visual. There's the stars God 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:35.280 was talking to me about. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.920 He said, if I could even count him. Man, I'm 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.200 gonna try to count them tonight. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.720 One two three? Wait? Did I count that? 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:44.240 One? 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.240 Three, four or five? Wait a minute, let me start over. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:48.440 One two three. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.720 You what I'm saying is, night after night, he pondered 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.400 those stars. He thought about those stars. He walked along 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.760 the seashore and as he kicked that sand and it 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:07.560 got between his toes, he was like, well, God, I'm. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.320 Holding on to this hope. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:17.640 This is my inheritance. This is my offspring. But God, Okay, God, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.960 I'm just gonna focus on the stars and the sand. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.080 I'm gonna let that fuel my faith. And I'm not 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.760 gonna get stuck. God, I got things to do. I'm 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.760 gonna keep moving forward. And the Bible says this, that 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.440 Abraham hoped on in faith. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.760 Now how did he do that? I love this scripture. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:44.840 It says because he believed that God had the power 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.720 to do what he promised. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.000 He could hope on. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.160 Against all natural hope. Because he didn't put that hope 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.760 in himself. He didn't look at his body, Sarah's body. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.000 He did a look at the fact that he'd made 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.840 some mistakes and tried to have this child. You know, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.480 help God out a little bit, Gosh. You know that 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.719 can really dash your hopes when you messed up. He 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.280 wasn't looking at his mess ups. He was not considering 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:21.120 his own limitations. He said, I'm a hoping and building 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.600 this visual and keeping my eyes fixed on your power. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:25.959 God. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.440 You see it took the power and the focus off 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:32.880 of him and put. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.160 It where it belongs on Almighty God. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.599 You see so much we look at our own abilities, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.040 we look at our own self, we look at the impossibilities, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.840 and many of them are impossible, because see, if God 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.960 wants to do something in your life, it's. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.839 Gonna be something that you can't do on your own. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:10:00.880 It is impossible. It's big, it's real big. You see. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.880 We have to anchor ourself to hope. We have to 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.200 feed this hope so it fuels our faith. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.720 Do you know when God showed up and he told 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.960 Abraham this time next year, you're gonna have a child 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.760 because of his hope, because of the faith that he 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.880 had continued to generate, he continued to move forward. Do 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.720 you know that the Bible says this about Sarah. It 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.520 says that Sarah had the strength and the power to 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:37.600 conceive because of her faith. You might not want to 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.760 conceive a child, but because of your hope and because 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:43.240 of your. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.400 Faith, you can conceive the things that God. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.720 Wants you to bring forth in your life, and he 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.560 wants you to do it through His strength, through his power. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.760 Take your eyes off of your own limitations and get 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.000 your eyes on God. Because if it's gonna come to pay, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.880 it's gonna come to pass because of God. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.240 He's the one that's gonna bring it to pass. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.560 You see, God knew God knew he had an appointed time. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.560 He knew that Abraham and Sarah would get disappointed, go 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.520 through difficulties, try to do things their own way. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.840 That's why he gave them the stars and the sand. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.800 It's interesting because those were things they could see every 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.480 single day. They lived under the stars at night, and 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.840 they walked through the sands during the day. It was 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:37.320 an every day visual. Do you have any visuals? Do 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.640 you have something that you can set up that you 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.800 see every single day to keep that promise alive in 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:49.520 your heart, To create a vision so you can make 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.240 it through the difficult times, so your faith knows where 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.240 to go, knows where to be directed. You see many 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.800 times our hopes can be dad. I think about Joseph. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:08.040 He had a dream, oh God given dream. His brothers 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:14.800 dashed that dream. They tried to anyway. They sold him. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.960 Potterfir's wife when he got to Egypt, falsely accused him. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:20.000 He got thrown in prison. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.280 But I have the stream. But I have the stream 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.360 took him seventeen years. The baker the cutbearers that I'll 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.400 help you when I get out. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:30.720 They forgot him. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.320 I can't think of any more things that would really 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:35.960 dash my dreams than that. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:38.880 Seventeen years. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.600 The scripture says, when he stood in front of his brothers, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.440 he remembered the dream. See, he had built such a 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.320 vision of hope. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.760 That it got him through his faith, moved him forward. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.880 Hope is to move you forward. Hope so you won't 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.200 get stuck. Don't get stuck. Create hope. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.240 People say, oh, hope, hope disappoints. Don't get your hopes up. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.200 What if it doesn't happen. The Bible says, this, hope 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:11.000 deferred makes the heart sick. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.840 That means hope that's been let go of you. See, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.920 let me tell you something. If God's spoken something to 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.360 you and it keeps coming up, keeps coming up, and 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.079 keeps coming up, that could definitely be a God promise. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.120 And you need to start getting visuals and putting that 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.559 in front of your face every day wherever you go 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.200 to hold onto that promise. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.280 Don't let that hope go. You don't want to. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.559 Ever live in regret. Why did I let that hope go? 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.800 My brother in law, Kevin and my sister in law Lisa, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.320 when they got married, they wanted to have a child, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.200 like any young couple would, so they were all excited 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.760 about creating a family. Well, as the years went on, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:57.160 nothing happened. Lisa went to the doctor, went through treatments, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.120 did everything that she could. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:06.240 Still nothing happened. Five years went by, nothing happened. The 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.760 doctors had said to her, I'm sorry, Lisa. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.920 Kevin, you just need to give up hope. You know what, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:17.640 it's impossible. Well, see, Lisa and Kevin, we're taught that 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.080 hope fuels your faith. Lisa and Kevin said, that's not 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.440 what we're used to hearing. We're used to creating hope 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.920 for ourselves. That's why we've got scriptures. That's why we've 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.200 got pictures. That's why we've created this hope. But the 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:40.320 doctor said, there's no hope. I'll never forget. One time, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.320 Lisa and Kevin were having to redo their bathroom and 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.360 I was helping her pick out a few of the materials, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.840 and she said, well, Victoria, I want to get a 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.760 bigger sink in my bathroom. She goes, cause someday I 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.400 want to bathe my baby in this sink. Kevin got 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.320 a sample pair of diapers in the mill, looked at 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.840 those diapers and he opened them up and there was 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.120 to diapers. Now, Kevin is a twin, and I don't 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.160 know if at that time he had told Lisa that 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.160 his desire was to have twins, because I. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.080 Mean, she was just doing. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.000 Her best trying to have one right. But Kevin came 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.880 to her and said, look what we got in the mail, Lisa, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.920 let's put these things in front of our eyes, because 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:26.000 we are gonna have babies. Everything that they did was 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:31.400 incorporated with this dream and this hope of having children. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.680 They didn't lose their hope, but they. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:42.080 Kept feeding that hope against all hope. The medical doctors 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.720 told them no hope, but they kept feeding that hope. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.720 One day, Lisa got a call from a friend. Her 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.360 name is Nancy Alcorn. She has a girl's home. She said, Lisa, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.240 have you had your kids yet? Lisa said no, I 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.840 haven't had him yet. And she said, well, Lisa, I 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.840 have a young girl in here who has twin girls 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.240 she's about to give birth to. She said, I have 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.560 this strong, strong desire that I'm supposed to call you 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:11.920 and ask. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.760 You if you would like to adopt these girls. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.560 Well, Lisa had never thought about adopting, but Lisa did 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.080 keep her hope. Alive as she fueled and fed that hope, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.720 and it fuelled her faith. So when the opportunity that 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.360 God had for her took birth in her heart, all 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.080 of a sudden, she got off the phone. She told 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.920 Kevin what had just happened. They were in agreement, and 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:42.560 guess what. A month later they picked up their twin girls. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:49.800 Take a look at these beautiful girls. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:51.560 Now. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.400 I don't know, Catherine and Carolina, if you ever wore 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:59.480 those sample dippers, but I do know that you got bathed. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:07.280 In that scene because I was there. Can I tell 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.199 you could say, well, that didn't happen the way she 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.720 thought it was going to happen. Well, Lisa, I'll tell 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.760 you this. Those twins were birthed out of her heart. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.720 She couldn't ask for anything better. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.240 It was more than she could ask, think or imagine. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.359 You see, God is a faithful god. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.280 He brings the promises to pass. He brings us to 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.160 pass in his timing and in his way. But it's 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.520 up to you and I to develop this hope, to 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.280 create this visual to fuel our faith, because when God 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.879 gets done with us, it's more than we can ask, 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.320 think or imagine. I encourage you keep your hopes up 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.480 because hope is from Heaven. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:54.520 Amen. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:56.440 Amen. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.800 As a thank you for your support of our ministry 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.480 this month, Jewel and Victoria would like to send you 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.080 a copy of Joel's news series, The Power of Peace. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.000 When you're in peace, you're in a position of power. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.480 You're saying by your actions, God, I trust you, I 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.720 know you're in control. 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