WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.219 Hello, Dave here. Just a heads up, there won't 00:00:05.219 --> 00:00:09.500 be any podcast in the morning tomorrow because 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:15.560 we'll be doing a YouTube live at 3 .15 on Friday 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:23.879 the 13th, 3 .15 Eastern Standard Time, USA, East 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:30.690 Coast USA time. That'll be with me and my pastor 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:35.490 and looking at something the Lord's doing in 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:41.490 India, southern India, with a man named Pastor 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:46.929 Sataraj and how he's blessing the poor there 00:00:46.929 --> 00:00:55.229 and how we can help. It's not our church's project, 00:00:55.450 --> 00:01:00.090 you know. But anyway, we'll be diving into that, 00:01:00.149 --> 00:01:04.390 delving into that. And then there'll be time 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:09.549 for prayer. My pastor wants to pray for people 00:01:09.549 --> 00:01:12.030 who have needs, you know, the kind of thing where 00:01:12.030 --> 00:01:15.790 you can type it in on the screen and get prayer. 00:01:16.049 --> 00:01:21.439 For people... who just listened to the podcast 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.920 and aren't on YouTube, after the YouTube live 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:35.480 is over, I'll upload it into my podcast provider 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.640 because it's too difficult. to work out doing 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:44.500 it live simultaneously on YouTube and the podcast 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:47.239 provider right now. Maybe further down the road 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:52.079 we could do that. And you know what? If there 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.799 are, God bless you guys who are just listening 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:02.799 to the podcast and maybe don't have the access 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:08.039 to YouTube. At some... point later on down the 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:11.400 road i want to take the sound from a lot of the 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.419 things that are on youtube and put them into 00:02:15.419 --> 00:02:18.879 the podcast so the rest of the people can hear 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.460 them and enjoy them there's a lot of really good 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:25.620 um what youtube calls shorts and i'd love to 00:02:25.620 --> 00:02:29.139 take the some of them and put them up on the 00:02:29.139 --> 00:02:35.139 podcast anyway So we got that. No podcast tomorrow. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:43.800 And 3 .15, there's a live tomorrow. No. Oh, it 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.340 will be tomorrow. I'm sorry. It's Wednesday now. 00:02:46.539 --> 00:02:51.020 Oh, boy. It will be tomorrow. And let me see. 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.819 Like always, any podcast episode you want, download 00:02:56.819 --> 00:03:01.680 it and share it freely as you want. Please don't 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.960 sell it. Like always, keep me in prayer. And, 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.120 you know, if you have any prayer requests, bring 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:13.800 them Friday. But also don't hesitate to post 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:18.039 them on YouTube so that other people can pray 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:21.740 for you and I can pray for you, too. I mean, 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.159 that's something we should be doing. We should 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.680 all be praying for each other. So go ahead and 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:32.270 post your prayer requests there. Okay, that's 00:03:32.270 --> 00:03:36.770 about all I got. Here's Catherine's talk on hope 00:03:36.770 --> 00:03:40.810 today. Oh, and while I'm here, there's a link 00:03:40.810 --> 00:03:44.030 beneath. If you want more on hope, there's a 00:03:44.030 --> 00:03:47.990 two -part series that was posted earlier in the 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:55.189 last year on hope. So now, here you go. God bless 00:03:55.189 --> 00:04:06.280 you. Bye. A man in absolute dejection and despair, 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:13.180 burdened down with problems and troubles, suddenly 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:18.100 looked up at me and said, Miss Kuhlman, I haven't 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:25.199 anything left but hope. I looked at him and said, 00:04:25.300 --> 00:04:33.689 that's wonderful. Oh, sir, that's great. Congratulations. 00:04:34.689 --> 00:04:41.029 I shall never forget the look on his face. He 00:04:41.029 --> 00:04:46.110 just stared at me. He was speechless for a second, 00:04:46.149 --> 00:04:51.329 and then he said, Well, what in the world are 00:04:51.329 --> 00:04:56.550 you congratulating me about? I said, On the fact 00:04:56.550 --> 00:05:00.220 that... You have hope that finally you're down 00:05:00.220 --> 00:05:06.439 to hope. You've finally gotten rid of everything. 00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:11.779 Everything else is cleared away and you're down 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:18.360 to this dynamic, this vital, this tremendous 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:25.500 force that's called hope. And as long as you 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:31.879 have hope left, you have everything. You've got 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.139 a mighty good foundation. You're not defeated. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.459 You're not licked by a long shot. Man, you're 00:05:41.459 --> 00:05:46.660 well on your way to success. Why, you're way 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:50.019 down the road already, if you only knew it, as 00:05:50.019 --> 00:05:59.339 long as you steal. Have hope. I meant it. And 00:05:59.339 --> 00:06:00.899 I mean it right now with all of my heart when 00:06:00.899 --> 00:06:04.800 I tell you that no matter what has happened to 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:10.660 you, no matter what your circumstances are, I 00:06:10.660 --> 00:06:15.800 don't care what has come into that life of yours. 00:06:16.980 --> 00:06:24.839 If you have hope, Far from being a defeated person. 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.959 But let me add something very quickly. Do you 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:35.879 really know how to hope? If you know how to let 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:41.579 hope work for you, you can go right up from one 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:47.279 victory to another. And how do I know? Because 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.370 it's worked in my own life. The thing that I'm 00:06:51.370 --> 00:06:53.750 talking to you about in this little heart -to 00:06:53.750 --> 00:06:57.170 -heart talk today is something that literally 00:06:57.170 --> 00:07:02.230 has been one of the secrets in my own life. Ask 00:07:02.230 --> 00:07:11.769 those who know me best. Hope. I never, never, 00:07:11.769 --> 00:07:18.990 under any circumstances, am ever defeated. Never. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:27.160 I don't care if the waters have so overflowed 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:33.139 that I have to reach up and the only thing that's 00:07:33.139 --> 00:07:38.879 sticking out is my one little finger. I still 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:48.180 hope. I don't care if the sky is so black. It's 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:56.259 so dark. I cannot see the faintest light of a 00:07:56.259 --> 00:08:01.720 star shining through. There's no sign of a moon. 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:08.220 There's no light in the sky whatsoever. Hope 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:12.839 still puts stars in that blackened sky for me. 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.639 I mean that. I pray to God that in the next few 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:24.139 minutes, that somehow you will see this wonderful 00:08:24.139 --> 00:08:28.300 thing that's called hope. I'm going to read a 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:30.920 portion of the Word of God. Perhaps you did not 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:36.460 know it was there. And remember, before I read 00:08:36.460 --> 00:08:39.320 this portion as found in the 8th chapter of Romans, 00:08:39.539 --> 00:08:45.360 I also want you to know that Paul clearly teaches 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:49.039 us that there is a difference between faith, 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:56.379 and hope. Faith and hope are not the same. In 00:08:56.379 --> 00:08:58.759 the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians, and you know 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:07.220 it very well, Paul says, for now, and he's talking 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:11.679 about this earthly life, we're in the flesh, 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:18.200 this day -by -day living. For now, at this present 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:25.690 time, We see through a glass darkly. But then, 00:09:25.929 --> 00:09:29.309 and when he uses the word then, he's talking 00:09:29.309 --> 00:09:34.190 about the time when we no longer had need of 00:09:34.190 --> 00:09:39.789 either faith or hope. Faith will have become 00:09:39.789 --> 00:09:44.570 a reality. We'll no longer need to hope because 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:47.970 when we stand in the wonderful presence of Jesus, 00:09:48.289 --> 00:09:51.610 when this which is mortal will have put on immortality, 00:09:51.870 --> 00:09:55.649 we'll have no more burdens, no more troubles, 00:09:55.909 --> 00:09:59.830 no more problems, no more sorrow, no more sickness, 00:10:00.169 --> 00:10:04.090 no more heartbreak. You understand? When he talks 00:10:04.090 --> 00:10:08.750 about them, he's talking about the time when... 00:10:09.289 --> 00:10:13.470 This which is corruption will have put on incorruption. 00:10:14.629 --> 00:10:22.049 Then, face to face, now, that's our earthly life, 00:10:22.250 --> 00:10:29.149 I know in part, but then shall I know even as 00:10:29.149 --> 00:10:37.129 also I am known. And now, and he's still talking 00:10:37.129 --> 00:10:42.350 about the earthly life, right now, today. Now 00:10:42.350 --> 00:10:53.330 abideth faith, hope, love. These three. But the 00:10:53.330 --> 00:10:59.029 greatest of these is love. Because love is something 00:10:59.029 --> 00:11:03.029 that we will take with us and will be perfected 00:11:03.029 --> 00:11:10.529 in the then. when we stand in the presence of 00:11:10.529 --> 00:11:18.450 Jesus. But now, this very hour, today, abideth 00:11:18.450 --> 00:11:24.830 faith, hope. Therefore, we see that faith is 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:30.970 not hope, neither is hope faith. They are separate 00:11:30.970 --> 00:11:35.269 and apart, but there must first of all be hope. 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:39.070 before there can be faith. I want to make that 00:11:39.070 --> 00:11:42.450 very clear to you. All right, here we go. I'm 00:11:42.450 --> 00:11:44.789 going to read that person the Word of God. It's 00:11:44.789 --> 00:11:48.129 still Paul speaking in the 8th chapter of Romans. 00:11:49.009 --> 00:11:56.330 Watch it. For we are saved by hope. That's right. 00:11:57.850 --> 00:12:05.350 We are literally saved by hope. You can be saved 00:12:05.350 --> 00:12:09.570 from many a tragedy. You can be saved from absolute 00:12:09.570 --> 00:12:16.970 disaster. You can be saved from defeat as long 00:12:16.970 --> 00:12:26.049 as hope is alive. That's right. For we are saved 00:12:26.049 --> 00:12:51.340 by hope. But hope that is seen That's the word 00:12:51.340 --> 00:13:01.240 of God. Let me read that last verse again. We 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:08.220 see not. Then do we with patience wait for it. 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:14.840 Oh, this thing of hope. We should all read and 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.220 reread that passage and let it sink into our 00:13:18.220 --> 00:13:22.419 conscious minds until it finally penetrates to 00:13:22.419 --> 00:13:27.100 the unconscious and is wrapped around our habits, 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:35.000 our daily living. For we are saved by hope. Everybody 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.100 knows that old saying that while there's life, 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:42.659 there's hope. And it's a very good saying. But 00:13:42.659 --> 00:13:46.600 I know a better one. Just turn it around. While 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:52.320 there's hope, there's life. And there'll always 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:58.960 be life. There will always be victory. As long 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:04.620 as there is hope in your life. When hope dies, 00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:08.059 you're dead indeed. When hope dies, there's nothing 00:14:08.059 --> 00:14:10.840 left. When hope dies, there can be no victory. 00:14:10.980 --> 00:14:14.639 When hope dies, there can be no success. But 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:19.019 as long as hope is vital in your mind, then you're 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:23.960 alive. And as long as you are alive, there is 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:29.460 always the possibility of growth. Growth is always 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:35.419 a result of vital life. Oh, that word hope. I 00:14:35.419 --> 00:14:41.179 just love that word hope. It's a wonderful word. 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:46.580 In fact, it's the second greatest word in the 00:14:46.580 --> 00:14:53.379 English language. Love is the greatest. And then 00:14:53.379 --> 00:15:01.110 there's faith. So faith. Hope, love, abide. These 00:15:01.110 --> 00:15:05.970 three, but the greatest of these is love. Oh, 00:15:06.250 --> 00:15:11.470 right here on the heels of love comes this dynamic 00:15:11.470 --> 00:15:18.190 word, hope. Now, words are outward manifestations 00:15:18.190 --> 00:15:24.789 of ideas. Ideas engender attitudes. Attitudes 00:15:24.789 --> 00:15:28.710 determine the whole slant of your life. The focus 00:15:28.710 --> 00:15:34.330 are the purposefulness of your personality. In 00:15:34.330 --> 00:15:37.470 the very real sense, therefore, words are you. 00:15:38.690 --> 00:15:43.470 So you take this grand and glorious dynamic word, 00:15:43.549 --> 00:15:48.769 hope. Brighten your mind with it. Think hope. 00:15:49.590 --> 00:15:58.559 Live hope. Literally. Live hope. Build your day 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:03.799 on hope. When you awaken in the morning, literally 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:10.659 say, I will build my day on hope. Every morning 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:16.960 of my life. As soon as I awaken, my first thoughts 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:22.519 are, I wonder what's going to happen today. That's 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:27.669 right. Those are my first thoughts. There's expectancy. 00:16:29.669 --> 00:16:33.190 Oh, something wonderful is going to happen today. 00:16:33.429 --> 00:16:40.570 And it does. It just does. I don't know why it 00:16:40.570 --> 00:16:44.769 does, but it does. Every day is a wonderful day. 00:16:45.370 --> 00:16:52.250 No two days are alike. Huh? When you awaken tomorrow 00:16:52.250 --> 00:16:59.830 morning, Try it. Start using hope. Instead of 00:16:59.830 --> 00:17:08.589 saying, oh, another day. I wonder if it's going 00:17:08.589 --> 00:17:14.890 to be as bad as yesterday. And it probably will. 00:17:15.869 --> 00:17:19.269 Yeah, because you and I get exactly what we looked 00:17:19.269 --> 00:17:26.809 for. Every person gets exactly what he looks 00:17:26.809 --> 00:17:33.710 for. It'll be a rotten day for you. I have no 00:17:33.710 --> 00:17:39.549 bad days. I have no rotten days. I mean that. 00:17:39.930 --> 00:17:44.130 Oath fakes happen, you know. I'm human. I'm still 00:17:44.130 --> 00:17:49.029 a part of humanity. But I just don't see the 00:17:49.029 --> 00:17:53.319 bad things. When they happen, I just hold on 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.220 to hope and we just ride over the bad things 00:17:57.220 --> 00:18:03.279 and we come out on top. Sure. That expectancy. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:09.079 Oh, that glorious hope. For the Word of God says 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:16.519 we are saved by hope. Hope is a dynamic force 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.980 when a person gets hope and has hope in him. 00:18:20.809 --> 00:18:24.069 He begins to get expectancy. And when he begins 00:18:24.069 --> 00:18:28.170 to get faith, then he begins to get mental control. 00:18:28.289 --> 00:18:31.450 And then he begins to get spiritual power. And 00:18:31.450 --> 00:18:34.710 then he grows the knowledge and strength as he 00:18:34.710 --> 00:18:37.930 must in order to handle the problems of life. 00:18:38.690 --> 00:18:41.390 It's like that. There's got to be a basis. There's 00:18:41.390 --> 00:18:46.049 got to be a beginning for all things. So we ought 00:18:46.049 --> 00:18:48.950 not to be sitting around downhearted, discouraged, 00:18:49.329 --> 00:18:56.269 defeated. We have in us, through Jesus Christ 00:18:56.269 --> 00:19:01.869 our Lord, the power to rise above our difficulties. 00:19:02.450 --> 00:19:08.609 And hope releases those powers. So fill your 00:19:08.609 --> 00:19:12.609 mind with this glorious thing that's called hope. 00:19:13.450 --> 00:19:22.480 It's like that. A man 87 years of age. was knocked 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:28.819 down by a truck and killed. They had an autopsy. 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:33.380 And after the autopsy was performed, the doctor 00:19:33.380 --> 00:19:36.920 said to his widow, Your husband must have been 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.599 a remarkable man. I'd examined his body, and 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:43.059 there are several reasons why he should have 00:19:43.059 --> 00:19:47.700 died fully 20 years ago. And how he ever managed 00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:51.609 to live over 80 is a mystery to me. And that 00:19:51.609 --> 00:19:55.569 wife turned and said, Well, I'll tell you something. 00:19:55.890 --> 00:19:59.970 My husband was a remarkable man. He never went 00:19:59.970 --> 00:20:03.710 to bed at night that he didn't say, I'm going 00:20:03.710 --> 00:20:12.289 to be better tomorrow. And she said, He always 00:20:12.289 --> 00:20:17.109 was. That's hope.