Hello, Dave here. Just a heads up, there won't
be any podcast in the morning tomorrow because
we'll be doing a YouTube live at 3 .15 on Friday
the 13th, 3 .15 Eastern Standard Time, USA, East
Coast USA time. That'll be with me and my pastor
and looking at something the Lord's doing in
India, southern India, with a man named Pastor
Sataraj and how he's blessing the poor there
and how we can help. It's not our church's project,
you know. But anyway, we'll be diving into that,
delving into that. And then there'll be time
for prayer. My pastor wants to pray for people
who have needs, you know, the kind of thing where
you can type it in on the screen and get prayer.
For people... who just listened to the podcast
and aren't on YouTube, after the YouTube live
is over, I'll upload it into my podcast provider
because it's too difficult. to work out doing
it live simultaneously on YouTube and the podcast
provider right now. Maybe further down the road
we could do that. And you know what? If there
are, God bless you guys who are just listening
to the podcast and maybe don't have the access
to YouTube. At some... point later on down the
road i want to take the sound from a lot of the
things that are on youtube and put them into
the podcast so the rest of the people can hear
them and enjoy them there's a lot of really good
um what youtube calls shorts and i'd love to
take the some of them and put them up on the
podcast anyway So we got that. No podcast tomorrow.
And 3 .15, there's a live tomorrow. No. Oh, it
will be tomorrow. I'm sorry. It's Wednesday now.
Oh, boy. It will be tomorrow. And let me see.
Like always, any podcast episode you want, download
it and share it freely as you want. Please don't
sell it. Like always, keep me in prayer. And,
you know, if you have any prayer requests, bring
them Friday. But also don't hesitate to post
them on YouTube so that other people can pray
for you and I can pray for you, too. I mean,
that's something we should be doing. We should
all be praying for each other. So go ahead and
post your prayer requests there. Okay, that's
about all I got. Here's Catherine's talk on hope
today. Oh, and while I'm here, there's a link
beneath. If you want more on hope, there's a
two -part series that was posted earlier in the
last year on hope. So now, here you go. God bless
you. Bye. A man in absolute dejection and despair,
burdened down with problems and troubles, suddenly
looked up at me and said, Miss Kuhlman, I haven't
anything left but hope. I looked at him and said,
that's wonderful. Oh, sir, that's great. Congratulations.
I shall never forget the look on his face. He
just stared at me. He was speechless for a second,
and then he said, Well, what in the world are
you congratulating me about? I said, On the fact
that... You have hope that finally you're down
to hope. You've finally gotten rid of everything.
Everything else is cleared away and you're down
to this dynamic, this vital, this tremendous
force that's called hope. And as long as you
have hope left, you have everything. You've got
a mighty good foundation. You're not defeated.
You're not licked by a long shot. Man, you're
well on your way to success. Why, you're way
down the road already, if you only knew it, as
long as you steal. Have hope. I meant it. And
I mean it right now with all of my heart when
I tell you that no matter what has happened to
you, no matter what your circumstances are, I
don't care what has come into that life of yours.
If you have hope, Far from being a defeated person.
But let me add something very quickly. Do you
really know how to hope? If you know how to let
hope work for you, you can go right up from one
victory to another. And how do I know? Because
it's worked in my own life. The thing that I'm
talking to you about in this little heart -to
-heart talk today is something that literally
has been one of the secrets in my own life. Ask
those who know me best. Hope. I never, never,
under any circumstances, am ever defeated. Never.
I don't care if the waters have so overflowed
that I have to reach up and the only thing that's
sticking out is my one little finger. I still
hope. I don't care if the sky is so black. It's
so dark. I cannot see the faintest light of a
star shining through. There's no sign of a moon.
There's no light in the sky whatsoever. Hope
still puts stars in that blackened sky for me.
I mean that. I pray to God that in the next few
minutes, that somehow you will see this wonderful
thing that's called hope. I'm going to read a
portion of the Word of God. Perhaps you did not
know it was there. And remember, before I read
this portion as found in the 8th chapter of Romans,
I also want you to know that Paul clearly teaches
us that there is a difference between faith,
and hope. Faith and hope are not the same. In
the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians, and you know
it very well, Paul says, for now, and he's talking
about this earthly life, we're in the flesh,
this day -by -day living. For now, at this present
time, We see through a glass darkly. But then,
and when he uses the word then, he's talking
about the time when we no longer had need of
either faith or hope. Faith will have become
a reality. We'll no longer need to hope because
when we stand in the wonderful presence of Jesus,
when this which is mortal will have put on immortality,
we'll have no more burdens, no more troubles,
no more problems, no more sorrow, no more sickness,
no more heartbreak. You understand? When he talks
about them, he's talking about the time when...
This which is corruption will have put on incorruption.
Then, face to face, now, that's our earthly life,
I know in part, but then shall I know even as
also I am known. And now, and he's still talking
about the earthly life, right now, today. Now
abideth faith, hope, love. These three. But the
greatest of these is love. Because love is something
that we will take with us and will be perfected
in the then. when we stand in the presence of
Jesus. But now, this very hour, today, abideth
faith, hope. Therefore, we see that faith is
not hope, neither is hope faith. They are separate
and apart, but there must first of all be hope.
before there can be faith. I want to make that
very clear to you. All right, here we go. I'm
going to read that person the Word of God. It's
still Paul speaking in the 8th chapter of Romans.
Watch it. For we are saved by hope. That's right.
We are literally saved by hope. You can be saved
from many a tragedy. You can be saved from absolute
disaster. You can be saved from defeat as long
as hope is alive. That's right. For we are saved
by hope. But hope that is seen That's the word
of God. Let me read that last verse again. We
see not. Then do we with patience wait for it.
Oh, this thing of hope. We should all read and
reread that passage and let it sink into our
conscious minds until it finally penetrates to
the unconscious and is wrapped around our habits,
our daily living. For we are saved by hope. Everybody
knows that old saying that while there's life,
there's hope. And it's a very good saying. But
I know a better one. Just turn it around. While
there's hope, there's life. And there'll always
be life. There will always be victory. As long
as there is hope in your life. When hope dies,
you're dead indeed. When hope dies, there's nothing
left. When hope dies, there can be no victory.
When hope dies, there can be no success. But
as long as hope is vital in your mind, then you're
alive. And as long as you are alive, there is
always the possibility of growth. Growth is always
a result of vital life. Oh, that word hope. I
just love that word hope. It's a wonderful word.
In fact, it's the second greatest word in the
English language. Love is the greatest. And then
there's faith. So faith. Hope, love, abide. These
three, but the greatest of these is love. Oh,
right here on the heels of love comes this dynamic
word, hope. Now, words are outward manifestations
of ideas. Ideas engender attitudes. Attitudes
determine the whole slant of your life. The focus
are the purposefulness of your personality. In
the very real sense, therefore, words are you.
So you take this grand and glorious dynamic word,
hope. Brighten your mind with it. Think hope.
Live hope. Literally. Live hope. Build your day
on hope. When you awaken in the morning, literally
say, I will build my day on hope. Every morning
of my life. As soon as I awaken, my first thoughts
are, I wonder what's going to happen today. That's
right. Those are my first thoughts. There's expectancy.
Oh, something wonderful is going to happen today.
And it does. It just does. I don't know why it
does, but it does. Every day is a wonderful day.
No two days are alike. Huh? When you awaken tomorrow
morning, Try it. Start using hope. Instead of
saying, oh, another day. I wonder if it's going
to be as bad as yesterday. And it probably will.
Yeah, because you and I get exactly what we looked
for. Every person gets exactly what he looks
for. It'll be a rotten day for you. I have no
bad days. I have no rotten days. I mean that.
Oath fakes happen, you know. I'm human. I'm still
a part of humanity. But I just don't see the
bad things. When they happen, I just hold on
to hope and we just ride over the bad things
and we come out on top. Sure. That expectancy.
Oh, that glorious hope. For the Word of God says
we are saved by hope. Hope is a dynamic force
when a person gets hope and has hope in him.
He begins to get expectancy. And when he begins
to get faith, then he begins to get mental control.
And then he begins to get spiritual power. And
then he grows the knowledge and strength as he
must in order to handle the problems of life.
It's like that. There's got to be a basis. There's
got to be a beginning for all things. So we ought
not to be sitting around downhearted, discouraged,
defeated. We have in us, through Jesus Christ
our Lord, the power to rise above our difficulties.
And hope releases those powers. So fill your
mind with this glorious thing that's called hope.
It's like that. A man 87 years of age. was knocked
down by a truck and killed. They had an autopsy.
And after the autopsy was performed, the doctor
said to his widow, Your husband must have been
a remarkable man. I'd examined his body, and
there are several reasons why he should have
died fully 20 years ago. And how he ever managed
to live over 80 is a mystery to me. And that
wife turned and said, Well, I'll tell you something.
My husband was a remarkable man. He never went
to bed at night that he didn't say, I'm going
to be better tomorrow. And she said, He always
was. That's hope.