Ep. 13 - Having Hope
The Hourglass with Bruce and ReshemahAugust 14, 202301:07:1061.36 MB

Ep. 13 - Having Hope

Having Hope

[00:00:01] The following is a presentation of FCB Faith

[00:00:09] This is the Hourglass

[00:00:26] Hello everyone, this is Bruce Hagan

[00:00:29] Hello everyone. This is Reshemah Hagan and this is The Hourglass. We back guys. How's everybody doing?

[00:00:35] It's so good to be back with you guys. We've been gone for quite some time

[00:00:41] Just trying to get some things

[00:00:43] Taking care of you know life showed up and we are

[00:00:47] Went with it. So, you know, we're glad to be back

[00:00:51] We're glad to be a fresh and anew and

[00:00:55] We just want to let you know that we love you guys and thank you for having us back

[00:01:00] Anything to say dear

[00:01:03] No, I think you just said it

[00:01:07] Say something to the people Reshemah

[00:01:10] Hi everybody good to be back

[00:01:15] That's it, that's it. Let's go

[00:01:21] Okay, so

[00:01:25] You know, it's something that's been wearing heavy on me and we've seen a lot of things in this world a lot of

[00:01:34] current events world events and

[00:01:37] The body of Christ and not even just the body of Christ, but people are seem to be losing hope

[00:01:46] You know, we try to keep our faith

[00:01:49] And know that God is gonna work it out

[00:01:52] On our behalf

[00:01:53] But there's so much so many things that's just been happening and that we just seem to be losing our hope

[00:02:02] So we just want to talk to you guys today and really just sit down and

[00:02:07] Give you guys

[00:02:09] Some reasons to have hope

[00:02:12] We want, you know, we want you to know that God has has a purpose for your lives and that

[00:02:20] You know, he's not seeing this and not making preparations to take care of it

[00:02:25] So we just want to get what you guys today then and I'm hoping that

[00:02:31] What I'm talking you might want to get

[00:02:33] Paper and a pen or something to write with because I have some scriptures to give to you guys

[00:02:42] so you can look at the scriptures and

[00:02:46] Read the scriptures so you can have this in your spirit that know that your hope is not all lost

[00:02:53] That is that he that he hears you and that he knows what's going on and that we should stand firm on his word

[00:03:00] To know that we are all good

[00:03:07] So we're just gonna go ahead and dive in is that okay, that's okay. Okay, so the first

[00:03:15] First thing we were gonna talk about so and I just want to let everybody know I didn't

[00:03:21] If you've ever lost hope or just think that the times you're in the times we're in right now are just causing you to be

[00:03:30] Just know less than optimistic. I just wanted you to know that as long as you have God and long as you have your faith

[00:03:38] You'll always come through it'll always work out and hopefully by the time we're done with this show

[00:03:44] You'll know that and we'll give you some points to ponder some things to pray on

[00:03:49] Scriptures to read so just let you know that it'll always work out

[00:03:53] And so I just want you to be optimistic and hopeful

[00:03:56] As we talk about reasons to have hope

[00:04:00] Amen, amen

[00:04:02] so we know I

[00:04:04] just want to

[00:04:06] Go through something real quick between what is hope and what is faith?

[00:04:12] So I know faith is what it says is a complete trust or confidence in someone or something

[00:04:22] That's what faith is

[00:04:25] So when we say well, what is hope? Well hope is

[00:04:33] The strength well, it's the confidence of expectation

[00:04:37] Of what God has promised in his strength and his faithfulness

[00:04:42] so

[00:04:44] When we looking at faith we're believing but when we're looking at hope

[00:04:48] We're believing that we're gonna have faith and what God is going to do

[00:04:53] You know and it's plenty of reasons why

[00:04:58] We are on this earth, you know it says you know, I believe in revelations it speaks on

[00:05:05] You know, we are here for his good pleasure

[00:05:09] So we are here for him

[00:05:10] You know, we're here to do what he wants us to do but you know, it's hard when we

[00:05:17] See so much going around in this world

[00:05:21] That is just

[00:05:25] That it's just foolishness

[00:05:28] You see you hear that it was like a mighty rush your way. It just came through here y'all

[00:05:37] That's fire

[00:05:41] Basta by that can did he bull so

[00:05:43] Here we go, y'all. Let's go. Let's see. That's the hope I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah

[00:05:51] So listen hope

[00:05:57] Faith it's a constant reminder of what God is going to do his word does not turn back for

[00:06:04] You know, he's gonna do and he's going to perform what he say he's gonna do, you know

[00:06:12] It's a it's a lot of issues that we're dealing with

[00:06:16] That's a lot of issues that we're dealing with but

[00:06:19] You know what one of the one of the scriptures

[00:06:22] I want to first start off with and when we're talking about his word and that is

[00:06:29] insam

[00:06:31] 119

[00:06:34] 114 verse

[00:06:37] And that reads your word is my source of hope

[00:06:42] I mean within a nutshell we see

[00:06:46] The song to say, you know his his word

[00:06:49] His word, you know, his word does not turn back boy. He is not a guy that lies and he's not one to repent

[00:06:57] His word is hope

[00:07:00] Because we know he's going to perform it so that within itself if anything that is happening

[00:07:06] Let his word be your be your your guide

[00:07:19] Are you here? Yeah, I'm listening I was I was just letting you do your spiel, you know

[00:07:25] And I actually had a paper here and I can't find it. I had it

[00:07:29] I don't know where I put it like what did I do in those two minutes?

[00:07:33] That I

[00:07:36] Lost my paper so we read Psalms 119. What's the next person?

[00:07:44] The next verse is

[00:07:47] Jeremiah 31 and the third verse

[00:07:53] 31 and a third and it reads

[00:07:56] The Lord appeared to us in the past saying I have loved you with an everlasting love

[00:08:01] I have drawn you with unfailing kindness

[00:08:03] Yeah

[00:08:07] That's what it's a

[00:08:08] So the message of hope in that is that Jesus loves you that the Lord loves you

[00:08:17] That's all you got for me. No

[00:08:22] Is that is that where we going with this? That's what it says, okay

[00:08:27] All right, all right, let me I'm going in cuz say

[00:08:31] You know I'm saying I mean come on God loves you. He loves you to receive so

[00:08:39] But so, you know, I you know, I'll speak for myself. I know sometimes when I

[00:08:48] Don't feel love. I don't know if he is there, you know, because you know, I can go through a thing and

[00:08:57] I'm hoping and praying, you know, I'm hoping and praying that I like

[00:09:02] Like I feel out for positions for work, right and I want to

[00:09:06] Do something fresh and anew, you know

[00:09:09] And I want to move the way God wants me to move and

[00:09:12] Every time every time that I've filled out something I've been shot down or every time I do something

[00:09:18] I don't get it, you know, and I stay almost in the

[00:09:23] state of hopelessness

[00:09:26] Because I'm like why you know, why is this not happening? But

[00:09:31] And in the in that verse in Jeremiah 31 the third verse

[00:09:36] He lets you know that, you know, his love is everlasting

[00:09:40] That he loves you unconditionally that he knows, you know, what's good for you

[00:09:46] Well, what I got out of that is actually Jeremiah 31

[00:09:51] 4 the next verse

[00:09:54] Because it says I will build you up again

[00:09:57] And you virgin Israel will be rebuilt

[00:10:00] and for me that

[00:10:03] 3 and 4 are saying

[00:10:05] Even though you're a child of God and even though you you have faith and you do what you're supposed to do

[00:10:09] You know, a lot of times we think because we're a children of God that we're not gonna face

[00:10:14] Problems and we're not gonna have adversities and you know, as long as you believe in God everything's gonna be okay

[00:10:20] And that's not true. Just because you know

[00:10:23] The word tells us we will have struggles. We will have

[00:10:26] Heals and valleys, right? And that tells me, you know, even though I'm in this place now

[00:10:32] God will rebuild me

[00:10:34] He'll lift me back up as long as I stay focused and stay prayerful and what he has and and have hope

[00:10:41] That he believed that he won't do what he said and that I believe in his word and I believe in him

[00:10:48] And I think my point my first point was gonna be is we were talking about hope

[00:10:54] And we were talking about the definition I think

[00:10:59] What gets confused about hope is that people treat hope like it's a wish and it's not a wish

[00:11:06] Hope is the precursor to faith

[00:11:10] Am I saying that right? Yes. Yes, you are so

[00:11:13] You know according to my my hope my hope is my expectation. It's not wish

[00:11:19] I'm not treating God like he's a genie in a bottle. I'm saying I believe in him and I have hope

[00:11:25] And I believe because of that hope I believe that whatever he has told me is coming in my life

[00:11:32] It's gonna come I'm believing in these blessings that he's promised me and for me hope is

[00:11:39] That confidence that the blessings that God has promised me will come to pass

[00:11:44] okay, so

[00:11:45] if we're gonna go there what about when

[00:11:49] Let's talk about current events world current events that we see this happening

[00:11:54] You know and we worried about our we worry about our children that's dealing with some of these issues

[00:11:59] You know, how does that incorporate your hope in your faith then?

[00:12:04] Well, but I need to stay in that vein with hope. How does that? How do you keep that hope alive?

[00:12:09] You know, I mean like like Jesse keep hope alive

[00:12:13] How do you how do you know Sam? How do you keep that alive when you see the foolishness that is happening now?

[00:12:20] You know

[00:12:22] What with Trump and what other situations that Dylan in the with the government, you know, and then you got situations with

[00:12:31] With like even new technology that's almost

[00:12:36] Taken over like AI, you know, like, you know, I can

[00:12:40] Get a picture you and put you somewhere and 10 buck to somewhere and you right here in Cleveland

[00:12:48] You know, I

[00:12:50] Hear what you saying. I think for me, I believe that

[00:12:55] First of all if you're gonna be hopeful you have to stay hopeful

[00:12:58] Can't be up and down and you have to stay hopeful and

[00:13:04] For me hope doesn't mean I understand or that I even know what's coming

[00:13:10] That's that's really what hope is like, you don't know what's coming. You don't know

[00:13:13] You don't know how God is gonna fix it. You just know he is

[00:13:17] that's hope

[00:13:18] that's faith, right and

[00:13:22] I don't know what the answer is going to be as far as what AI is gonna mean

[00:13:28] Next year five years from now

[00:13:30] And how situations are gonna turn out, but I know his word says all things will work good work to my good

[00:13:38] Mm-hmm, and I know his word tells me that I'm gonna be victorious because I'm his child

[00:13:43] so my hope

[00:13:45] Keeps me

[00:13:47] Mindful and it keeps me studying and praying and believing that that's what's gonna happen. I don't a

[00:13:54] Lot of times you can't get caught up in how things look

[00:13:58] Because some things really are out there to distract the children of God from God

[00:14:05] You know, I can't be so focused on what's going on not saying that I need to be ignorant and that I

[00:14:11] That I'm not gonna pay attention

[00:14:14] But I can't be so focused on what's going on in the world that I lose sight of what God has told me about me

[00:14:22] And what he's told me about my family and what he's told me about my purpose in this world because we all have a

[00:14:28] Purpose is not just a select group of people

[00:14:32] Everybody if you are allowed to live you have a purpose

[00:14:36] so

[00:14:37] You I don't want to be so focused on what's going on in the world

[00:14:42] That I lose sight of that and I watch the news and all the news outlets

[00:14:48] And I like to keep up on things but there are days where I don't watch any of it

[00:14:51] Mm-hmm. I need to pray. I need to talk to God about some things

[00:14:55] There's some days. I don't get on social media

[00:14:59] You know, I just unplug because I need to stay focused on what God has told me about me and if I'm not focused

[00:15:06] I don't know how to pray. I don't know how to have I don't know my faith is

[00:15:10] Moving around. No, my faith my faith is not steady. My hope is dwindling

[00:15:15] And that's not a place I want to be that's not a place that I can afford to get to

[00:15:21] I've had moments where I've gotten that way

[00:15:25] But at this thing we have to be mindful

[00:15:28] This especially in the times we're living now, we need to be more hopeful than ever

[00:15:33] You have to believe stuff things are gonna change and things are gonna work for the good of the kingdom

[00:15:41] Here let me let me switch into the other lane and

[00:15:45] Slow it down to about to about a 55 mile because I want to touch on this because you said you made a

[00:15:52] Point where you said when it comes to you and how God is with you

[00:15:59] You know, I just want to reach out to our audience right now and and speak on this

[00:16:06] You know, we are not perfect

[00:16:09] We have all none of us are perfect none

[00:16:12] No, not one no not one and we have all done some things that we're not proud of and you know

[00:16:21] Condemnation hits us sometimes and the word says don't fall into condemnation. Don't let the enemy think that God

[00:16:28] Does not love you or think that God

[00:16:31] Doesn't see you and does not forgive you and because this goes on to my next

[00:16:38] Scripture and that's Psalm

[00:16:42] 145

[00:16:44] 8th and the 9th verse

[00:16:46] And we see he speaks on God has grace and compassion for you

[00:16:51] The word of the Lord says the Lord is gracious and compassionate

[00:16:56] Slow to anger rich in love

[00:17:00] The Lord is good to all. He has compassion on all he has made

[00:17:06] So I just want to just reach out to you right now to let you know that

[00:17:11] God is so slow to I mean

[00:17:14] It's I mean

[00:17:16] You can't even say long suffering. I mean because that's how slow his anger is

[00:17:23] Towards us because he know

[00:17:26] everything about us

[00:17:28] So I just want to encourage you to keep hope and and like my wife say, you know

[00:17:36] Go go before the throne of grace and give it to God

[00:17:39] He says lay your burdens before him that he can he can burn it up in the quenchable fire

[00:17:46] I mean the unquenchable fire. He can burn it up for you and

[00:17:49] Know that your hope can be restored through God. He is just waiting for you

[00:17:56] to come with open arms to him so he can

[00:18:03] Disappear that whatever it is that

[00:18:05] There's that you're falling in the condemnation for because it says, you know

[00:18:10] He will give you peace to surpasses all

[00:18:14] Understanding, you know, you wouldn't even understand where the peace comes from but that's what he does because that's how powerful

[00:18:20] That's how loving that our Lord is towards us

[00:18:26] That that's just that's just really a powerful thing that's the speaker pot

[00:18:31] You got anything there

[00:18:33] So when my next point was gonna be how just that we have to keep hope

[00:18:39] You know always be hopeful and stay in that place and it's really hard and

[00:18:45] If we can go back to the story of Abraham, you know

[00:18:49] Romans 4 18 says against all hope Abraham in hope

[00:18:54] Believe and so became the father of many nations

[00:18:57] Just as it had been said to him so shall be your offspring

[00:19:03] You know, there was nothing about Abraham's life that made sense

[00:19:08] That he would be a father that he would you know be as prosperous as God had told him all he had

[00:19:15] was his hope and

[00:19:17] There are times when you are gonna be in situations

[00:19:22] Probably more than any of us care to be where you know have anything else

[00:19:27] You know you don't have anything else but your hope your hope is your precursor to your faith's precursor to

[00:19:32] No, the love of God. There's there's hope and

[00:19:36] I just really want to encourage everybody today

[00:19:40] that

[00:19:42] There is a hope there's a spiritual hope that nobody can take away from you

[00:19:47] Nobody can change because it's in you and if you have it all you have to do is tap back into it

[00:19:56] And just have the hope of Abraham, you know

[00:19:59] It didn't look like anything God said would happen, but he kept hope he kept hoping and

[00:20:07] It happened

[00:20:12] Man

[00:20:14] Yeah, that's good. That's good and

[00:20:18] With that being said that that hope that you keep

[00:20:23] Goes a long way because the Lord knows since you have that hope in him

[00:20:29] He will not

[00:20:32] This may against you or he will not leave you in the situation because

[00:20:37] He knows you are an expectation

[00:20:40] For him to do what he said he was gonna do right and that was my next point

[00:20:44] It hope is always at work because when you're operating in expectation, which also is another way of saying operating in hope

[00:20:52] When you're moving in hope that expectation

[00:20:55] Is what cause your angels to to respond?

[00:20:59] You know a lot of people like to say, you know, I manifested it. No, you didn't

[00:21:04] God allowed it to happen

[00:21:07] Excuse me

[00:21:09] Hope is what allows things to happen

[00:21:12] Your faith is what allows things to happen because you're being open

[00:21:16] To that to that release of those blessings you're being open to things working out

[00:21:21] You know some not everything can be not all blessings are gonna be seen immediately

[00:21:27] Some things take time and

[00:21:29] That's where that hope comes in as long as you have hope then those things work out, you know

[00:21:35] The businesses that you want to build, you know

[00:21:37] The the funds to come and the the services that you need and connections you need to make

[00:21:42] Why you're in that hope net why you're in that place of hope those things are being

[00:21:48] Connected those things are being revisited revitalized, you know

[00:21:52] As things are coming to work out, you know for your good

[00:21:59] You need that hope so things can keep moving, you know, just just real talk

[00:22:04] You know, you need that hope so stuff can come together and work out for you

[00:22:08] You might not see it right away, but you have to be patient and let God be God because he's gonna do it

[00:22:14] But you need that hope in that faith to let it come to pass. Yeah

[00:22:19] Yeah, and you know and it's good that you say that because you know

[00:22:24] God is always with you

[00:22:27] He's always with you the audience. He's always with you guys, you know, just like when Moses

[00:22:36] Had passed away, you know a guy said hey, you know my servant Moses is gone

[00:22:40] You know now is up. Yes up to Joshua, you know and

[00:22:44] The thing about that is you know

[00:22:47] In his word in Isaiah 41 and the 10th verse

[00:22:52] This is what God says he says this he says do not fear for I am with you

[00:22:58] Do not be dismay for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you

[00:23:04] I will uphold you with my righteous right hand

[00:23:09] This is what God is saying to me and you guys this is what he's gonna do

[00:23:15] He said he said I'm gonna help you with my righteous right hand

[00:23:19] I'm all out. You know I'm saying you can't know why you pluck

[00:23:23] You out of God's hand

[00:23:26] He is always with you and no matter what situation

[00:23:31] And no matter where you are

[00:23:33] God is with you. He's everywhere

[00:23:37] All of the same he's with he's with us right now

[00:23:41] You know, he would us right now, you know with the heavenly host, you know what the Holies of Holies

[00:23:49] You know what the link angels I'm talking about we talked about the 24 elders

[00:23:53] I

[00:24:07] The other verse you had was Jeremiah 29 11

[00:24:13] Do you remember that I do

[00:24:16] It says it reads for I know the plans

[00:24:18] I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not harm you

[00:24:22] Plans to give you hope and a future. All right, go ahead and speak on that then so

[00:24:28] excuse me

[00:24:31] That verse is it's very common, you know, everybody knows that verse everybody talks about that verse

[00:24:37] But they don't what we don't do is we don't focus on that last sentence plans to give you hope

[00:24:43] And a future. Yes

[00:24:46] God gives you hope he wants you to continue in that hope because that is

[00:24:53] What begins your future, right?

[00:24:56] God knows what he has planned for you. You don't have to know you're not gonna always know trust me

[00:25:01] You're not gonna know all we you may know in part the word says we know in part

[00:25:06] So, you'll know bits and pieces and that hope is

[00:25:10] It's almost like it's like it's confidence and it's just trust, you know, I trust God

[00:25:16] To do what he says he's gonna do

[00:25:19] That's hope

[00:25:24] To give you hope and a future

[00:25:27] He has a purpose for you everybody that can hear this message God has a purpose for you

[00:25:32] It's not about what title you are in your church

[00:25:36] Or whether not even in a church God has a purpose and that purpose starts with hope

[00:25:45] Hey, you know, it is funny that you mentioned about if you're in the church if you're not in the church

[00:25:52] If we go back

[00:25:54] A couple of years when COVID hit nobody was in church

[00:26:01] Nobody, right?

[00:26:02] So you had to pretty much fend for yourself to get the word and

[00:26:09] Do what needed to be done while we were in this season of COVID?

[00:26:14] So that was a time right there where we all had to stay hopeful

[00:26:20] No one no one knew what was gonna be the outcome of this

[00:26:24] No one knew what had what was gonna happen

[00:26:27] You know, and I just want to speak to the audience right now

[00:26:32] If you can just remember if it was a time if it was one time

[00:26:37] Where you was hopeful that something that was gonna come out of the situation where we was dealing with this COVID situation

[00:26:43] And it happened for you

[00:26:47] your hopefulness claimed true that God saw

[00:26:52] What it was and worked on your behalf for that time for that season, you know

[00:26:59] And I mean, you know, you hear people say well, you know

[00:27:01] I ain't gotta go to church because churches in me and this and I understand that

[00:27:06] But it says do not this is some of yourself from the Saints

[00:27:09] but it's still and and another part of that though is that

[00:27:15] You can be hopeful and what God has for you because he has to

[00:27:20] He knows the plans that he has for you

[00:27:23] You know and some 139 and the 13th of the 14th verse it says

[00:27:28] For you created my most and most being

[00:27:32] You knit me together in my mother's womb

[00:27:35] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful. I know that fool

[00:27:42] You know when we was when we was in our mother's womb

[00:27:47] He knew COVID was gonna happen

[00:27:52] That's crazy, right and he knew how everything was gonna work out

[00:27:59] Even back then we wasn't even thought of we had no idea what a cold it was gonna come

[00:28:03] We ain't know about it. He knew and he had everything in place. That's why I'm just trying

[00:28:08] I want you guys out there to stay hopeful

[00:28:11] That whatever you are going through

[00:28:14] You can take it to God and

[00:28:18] Let in and strengthen your faith in him and stay hopeful

[00:28:22] That he is going to perform what he said he is going to do for you if you just bring it to him

[00:28:33] And just from a reminder what we were talking about earlier too as long as you have God you have hope

[00:28:41] If you know God you have hope

[00:28:44] It sounds really simple

[00:28:48] But sometimes I think we forget just how simple

[00:28:53] Being a Christian can be sometimes you make it so overly complicated and you know if you're not a theologian or you haven't been through a

[00:29:01] rigorous training program

[00:29:03] No, all you all you need is hope

[00:29:07] Hope faith in love those are the three those are the three things that God tells us to have hope faith in love, right?

[00:29:13] Yes, so that's all we need and hope is a precursor of all of that and I keep saying that because it really is it's

[00:29:22] It's where it all begins you hope and you believe and you hope and

[00:29:27] And you believe that God is gonna do what he says he's gonna do and you know that he's going to protect you

[00:29:34] And whatever you're going through I just want to encourage anybody just listening if you are in a place and you feel

[00:29:41] Hopeless or less hopeful than you have been in the past

[00:29:44] I just want to encourage you to tap into the word of God and read the scriptures that we're

[00:29:49] Sharing today and you know find some more of your own

[00:29:54] That you know will lift you back up to that place and you know when you pray to God just ask him

[00:30:02] Another thing I think we know we make too complicated as prayer

[00:30:05] You know prayers a conversation talk to God about why you're feeling hopeless and ask him to

[00:30:12] Get you to that place or show you how to get to that place where you're now hopeful

[00:30:18] Talk to him about whatever is going going on and and ask him to help you ask him to send the people

[00:30:25] That can help you

[00:30:26] You don't have to don't have to do it alone or you don't have to sit in suffering silence

[00:30:31] So I just want to encourage you ever is listening to this if you're in a place of hopelessness I

[00:30:37] Just want to be that voice that that lets you know there's always hope

[00:30:41] Because God has kept you here. So anytime he's he's here with you always

[00:30:48] Man and see it and on top of that you are a child of God

[00:30:52] You are the error of him, you know, he is your Abba father

[00:30:57] You know, you are you know, you are inherited into the kingdom with your father

[00:31:04] It says in 1st John 3 the first verse it says see what great love the father has

[00:31:10] Leveraged on us that we should be called children of God and that is what we are

[00:31:17] period

[00:31:18] You know, you can go to your father and

[00:31:22] And share with him what it is you need

[00:31:27] What it is you want and

[00:31:30] and and bring this bring this to pass for

[00:31:35] He loved you because you are his child

[00:31:39] You know, I know it's a lot of wicked and evil and diverse things are happening in this world right now

[00:31:47] And I'm even myself even myself. I'm like Lord, you know, can't can you you know

[00:31:54] Can you hit one down for me? I mean, can you know, I mean what's going on? Can you strike one down for me?

[00:31:59] but the thing is

[00:32:01] He says revenge

[00:32:04] Revenge is minds says the Lord

[00:32:07] So it ain't for me to even really ask him

[00:32:10] Can he even strike one down because he like, you know, that ain't that ain't what you know

[00:32:15] What you about that ain't what you supposed to be coming to me with you supposed to become to me

[00:32:19] with love and joy peace and happiness and goodwill for your fellow brothers and sisters and

[00:32:26] He will handle the mess that is going on and I stand I have to remind myself to stay hopeful in that

[00:32:33] I have to remind myself to be like, okay, Lord. I don't want to you know

[00:32:39] Get out of myself and you know, sometimes I'll be tired. I'm like, I don't want to do this

[00:32:43] I don't want to do that

[00:32:45] but

[00:32:46] If I am in this state of hopefulness

[00:32:50] Knowing that I can help my fellow brothers and sisters who are hopeful list

[00:32:55] This is what I must do

[00:33:01] So I want to take the second part of

[00:33:04] This episode and talk about how does hope work

[00:33:08] Well, right? Right. Yeah

[00:33:11] So we're gonna take our break now. Yeah, and we'll be back shortly

[00:33:16] This is Rashima Hagan and this is Bruce Hagan's the second

[00:33:22] And this is the hourglass will be right back by

[00:33:30] Welcome back guys. This is Bruce Hagan and I'm Rashima Hagan and we are the hourglass

[00:33:36] Thank you for tuning in with us and this is the second segment of our show

[00:33:43] What is this one? This is how does hope work? How does it work baby? So oh

[00:33:48] Oh

[00:33:49] So we know that hope is always at work

[00:33:53] Roman's 825 says but if we hope for what we do not yet have we wait for a patient me

[00:34:00] That's the NIV. Do you want another translation? I'm a King James guy

[00:34:08] Let me find a King James for you. If it's easier for you let it be new King James

[00:34:13] So I want to keep the bees and the dials out

[00:34:20] Oh

[00:34:21] It's okay

[00:34:29] Okay, excuse me 825 says a new King James

[00:34:34] But if we hope for what we do not see we equally wait for it with perseverance

[00:34:41] So same thing. That's good

[00:34:49] Okay, so that's good

[00:34:51] Expound

[00:34:54] So

[00:34:56] That means the force of hope is a

[00:35:00] golly expectation, right?

[00:35:03] So we keep in mind that we we are gonna stay optimistic

[00:35:06] And we're gonna expect God to do what he says because nothing God does will ever work out

[00:35:11] For our bad. No, it's always gonna work out for our good because that's God

[00:35:17] So

[00:35:19] If we're talking about, you know, if we if we hope for what we do not have we wait for it patiently

[00:35:24] So to hope requires some patience. Yes

[00:35:29] yes and

[00:35:32] The trials and tribulations I want to say that's how

[00:35:39] You know

[00:35:40] You kind of tap into that hope

[00:35:43] from this

[00:35:45] Through the through that vein of patience. Yeah

[00:35:50] Knowing that what it says let patient have this work is perfect. Yes

[00:35:55] That's what I'm talking about that page is doing so a spiritual hope a godly hope knows

[00:36:02] That God is gonna provide. Yes, and and we expected and we're taught some of us

[00:36:09] You know, sometimes we're taught to walk in expectation, right? That's a message of hope

[00:36:14] I'm expecting it. I don't know when it's coming. I don't know how it's gonna come

[00:36:17] But it was come. Yes, that's hope, right? Yes

[00:36:22] and

[00:36:25] Just to even go back to this

[00:36:28] Patience and hope we have to also know that God he understands

[00:36:35] Your pain if you're going through something that's kind of hindering, you know, you just stay hopeful

[00:36:42] Because it says an Isaiah 53 and the third verse it says he which is Jesus

[00:36:48] Was despised and rejected by mankind a man of suffering and familiar with pain

[00:36:58] We we go through pain and

[00:37:03] Sometimes the pain could just be unbearable and it hits you hits you like a ton of bricks and you lose your hopefulness

[00:37:10] You lose that but you know

[00:37:14] Nothing is new to God. Nothing is new to Jesus because he went through it

[00:37:18] So just to let you know that, you know, just keep

[00:37:24] And it may be tough and it may be hurting right now

[00:37:27] But stay hopeful because he knows your pain. He knows what you're going through

[00:37:33] He you know is not is nothing that you went through that he has not been through

[00:37:39] Okay, so I just want to encourage our audience, you know

[00:37:44] Suffering and pain, you know know that you know

[00:37:47] He has been there and he knows what it is what we go through

[00:37:52] So just that's another thing. I'm trying to just you know incorporate and you guys staying hopeful

[00:37:58] And and whatever we're going through today, you know, we walk with you, you know, it may not be the same

[00:38:06] Situation it may not be the same issue, but we all go through issues. We all go through something, you know

[00:38:12] I mean, it's funny because it's like

[00:38:16] The more and I'm gonna say I'm almost I'm gonna just keep it 100. I'm gonna keep it straight 100

[00:38:23] The more that we see the enemy the adversary Satan the devil the more that we see his aunts and

[00:38:31] Principalities rise up even more and more in the time that we are dealing with and for we are in the end times

[00:38:37] It's something always dog all happening every day

[00:38:42] I'm talking about and I'd be like man. Can I just get one day of peace? Can I just you know, can I just chill out one day?

[00:38:49] So I

[00:38:50] Share this with you guys to let you know that you know, we are battling this all together

[00:38:55] But if we you I my wife, we all stay hopeful

[00:39:01] God is gonna do what he's gonna do and we all we already triumphal

[00:39:06] He already won the battle

[00:39:08] We just need to just walk in this and continue to keep moving forward with the strength that he has given us

[00:39:14] Which is hope?

[00:39:17] The Hebrews 11 and one says say it

[00:39:21] Faith is the substance of things hoped for who the evidence of things not seen yes, so

[00:39:28] Yes

[00:39:29] I'm gonna ask everybody to read Hebrews 11 the entire chapter

[00:39:33] Because it talks about the promises of God that came by faith

[00:39:38] But it tells us in the very first verse

[00:39:42] That faith is the substance of things hope for meaning you have to have hope

[00:39:47] To have faith

[00:39:50] and I just

[00:39:52] I hate I didn't mean to cut you off and

[00:39:55] before you read it

[00:39:57] Acts got to give you understanding

[00:40:01] Before you even read it so so it can resonate with your spirit

[00:40:07] So you can feel you need to feel this

[00:40:11] You know because like I said we are we are done in times right now

[00:40:15] I'll tell you what I bet you feel I bet you can feel when the enemy is at you

[00:40:21] Or what like maybe your boss on you for some reason or you know

[00:40:25] You did it with some a man or a woman and you know the you know the argument turns

[00:40:30] You know the conversation turns left to our argument and you trying to figure out what's going on or what happened

[00:40:37] That is that enemy

[00:40:39] Attacking you I bet you can feel that so we're asking you to

[00:40:44] ask God to

[00:40:46] To touch your mind in your heart that you may receive and feel that scripture

[00:40:53] And anytime you read anytime you read the word God always ask God for the revelation and understanding

[00:41:00] Of whatever you're reading

[00:41:02] So back to Hebrews 11 and one

[00:41:05] Faith is a substance of things hope for which means to me

[00:41:11] That hope starts my faith

[00:41:15] Like we've been talking right so

[00:41:18] Hope gives us the picture

[00:41:21] And faith

[00:41:23] Takes it and runs with it. Did that make sense?

[00:41:29] No, okay, I'm gonna go get

[00:41:31] so

[00:41:33] If I have hope that means I literally have a picture just think about how it starts

[00:41:39] Hope I have a picture of what I oh what God has told me about me, right?

[00:41:47] So I have to have faith that that's gonna happen so by faith by studying by prayer

[00:41:54] That's how it's gonna move

[00:41:57] My faith is gonna move whatever God has told me about me because my hope is an agreement and

[00:42:04] That's how it's gonna move

[00:42:07] Okay, and I get that

[00:42:12] Say

[00:42:14] We are new in the walk of faith and hope and

[00:42:20] You're not really even sure are you having heard from God?

[00:42:24] What your purpose is for what does that look like well? How do we walk now?

[00:42:35] until

[00:42:37] Until that happens

[00:42:39] Then you're hopeful

[00:42:41] That you're doing what he wants you to do and you're hopeful because you're reading his word

[00:42:46] You know you read the word and the word tells you whatever you're doing

[00:42:50] If you do it in his name

[00:42:53] It'll be successful. You'll be a prosper because you're doing things in his name. So whatever you're doing I

[00:43:00] Say, you know read read the word and do it in the name of Jesus focused on what?

[00:43:06] And not even how what?

[00:43:08] Focused on how he wants you to move

[00:43:12] And praying for that understanding to know how he wants you to move

[00:43:17] Okay

[00:43:22] Because you know we would where it's a lot a

[00:43:29] lot of people that are

[00:43:32] New in the faith and they want to they want to get closer to God they want to get closer to Christ and

[00:43:39] The enemy, you know, that's just like what it says with when the word is set was has been set out forth

[00:43:46] The enemy comes and stills it immediately

[00:43:49] You know and that's what's happening right now, you know, we find people now are

[00:43:56] in anxiety and in depressed because you know the enemy is moving

[00:44:01] I mean like like he said like he said I'm a royal iron

[00:44:04] I come you know up and down to a fro like a roaring line, you know seeing who I can destroy

[00:44:11] You know, he this is what he's doing

[00:44:14] you know and he's claiming true to what he's doing and

[00:44:18] The people need to know how to stay hopeful in this and what it what this looks like or on the level of

[00:44:26] Winning this battle, you know and we know that

[00:44:30] God can redeem any situation

[00:44:35] For the word says in Psalm 103 one and

[00:44:40] Forburst it says praise the Lord my soul

[00:44:44] Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion?

[00:44:53] From the pit from the from however low that we've been down however low we are now

[00:45:00] Raises you up from the pit and crowns you my brother my sister

[00:45:09] Whatever you are going through he can redeem you he can lift you up from the pit

[00:45:15] And bring hopefulness to you in

[00:45:19] Any situation is nothing. Hey, she ain't nothing too hard for God

[00:45:26] All there is a possible through Christ who strengthened me and you guys

[00:45:30] All things are possible

[00:45:33] He is the redeemer and you can have you know, you have hope even when especially even when you know when you're in the mist of

[00:45:43] Crisis when you're just in the middle and it looks like nothing

[00:45:48] It's gonna work out

[00:45:51] That hope will bring you out that hope will keep you saying that hope will be your anchor

[00:45:58] I think you're six nineteen said this hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. Yes

[00:46:05] That's what hope does for you, you know when you're standing in your faith and you're believing God for something

[00:46:11] But what's happening around you doesn't match what you're believing it doesn't match with people

[00:46:16] You know spoken over you would you her God say that hope is your anchor that just keeps you grounded

[00:46:23] Keeps you, you know firm standing firm in your faith until

[00:46:29] Something changes. Yeah

[00:46:32] Because to be to be hopeless is a contradiction to someone that's in victory a

[00:46:39] hopeful person that's in victory, but if you're hopeless

[00:46:42] You can't see that victory because you don't have any hope to drive the faith to bring forth the blessing and the victory

[00:46:49] So, you know like like you said, I mean it's it's

[00:46:55] It's a lot going on

[00:47:00] But even with everything that's going on

[00:47:03] What's going on with God and what's going on in the kingdom of God is greater

[00:47:07] And it's always going to be victorious over whatever is going on in the natural and what we see

[00:47:13] A lot of things that we see are just smoke screens to keep us distracted from what we're supposed to be doing

[00:47:19] And I you know and I've caught myself doing it

[00:47:23] You know, I spin I've I've been on social media

[00:47:27] What no too long and I thought you know, I really could have been doing something else

[00:47:32] with my time

[00:47:35] But that's just that distraction that the enemy puts in in the way and

[00:47:40] And we don't pay attention to it sometimes but standing in a place of hope standing in a place of faith

[00:47:45] Is what is what gets us to those victorious places and it keeps us

[00:47:51] firm and and you know just able to withstand whatever is going on not everything is in our control so if we if

[00:47:59] Something do happen

[00:48:01] Our hope and our faith our prayers. That's what keeps us

[00:48:06] Anchored until something changes

[00:48:10] Man

[00:48:12] man

[00:48:14] and

[00:48:19] The forgiveness of it all, you know, we sometimes

[00:48:25] You know and I need to I need to kind of pull back

[00:48:29] because

[00:48:32] when we feel hopelessness

[00:48:36] we feel that we can't be forgiven and

[00:48:41] God extends complete forgiveness

[00:48:44] You know, so I just want to you know elaborate on on

[00:48:51] Again if you're feeling in a place of

[00:48:55] Hopelessness and that you cannot be forgiven. That is not true

[00:48:59] Do don't let condemnation fall on you. Don't let the enemy

[00:49:04] Speak into your ear that you cannot be forgiven for whatever the case may be

[00:49:10] For in Psalm 86 and the fifth verse it reads oh Lord you are so good

[00:49:16] So ready to forgive

[00:49:18] So full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help

[00:49:25] All you have to do is ask him

[00:49:28] All you have to do is ask him and

[00:49:31] And he will he will provide he will be there for you to to bring to lift up your faith

[00:49:37] To to to get you back on that road of hopefulness

[00:49:42] You know

[00:49:45] That's a funny thing and I just I want to go to the next one too because this this is important because I want to share this

[00:49:51] It says God comforts you and comfort others through you in any trouble with the comfort

[00:49:58] We ourselves receive from God and this is second Corinthians 1

[00:50:03] Three to the fourth verse so I'm gonna share this

[00:50:05] I

[00:50:06] Was at work the other day and

[00:50:10] I was in a place of I was just bad. I was in a real bad

[00:50:15] Place in my mind and in my heart, you know because I you know

[00:50:18] I was just going through some stuff and I saw this young lady walk by me and I said to her

[00:50:24] I said good morning sister you alright and she said

[00:50:27] Pray for me and the Holy Spirit right there said

[00:50:32] Leave that cart there go get her and pray for him because I told her to come back and she just kept going

[00:50:37] You know why she started crying so I left my car and I went and I grabbed her and I didn't even ask her

[00:50:46] What was wrong, I just went right into prayer right then and there for her as

[00:50:52] I wouldn't a prayer for her another young brother stopped and he he you know

[00:50:57] He bowed his head so now we got where it says with two or three

[00:51:02] My man Jesus there right so we it's all now

[00:51:05] So I'm praying for her and I didn't ask what it was

[00:51:09] I prayed for her and I gave her words of comfort. I

[00:51:15] Share that with my brothers my sisters out there to let you know

[00:51:19] If there's any way that he wants to use you let him use you and he will give you that comfort of

[00:51:29] Hopfulness once you

[00:51:31] Take off once you realize what's not wrong with you and it's something's going on with somebody else

[00:51:38] Your hopefulness will strengthen up your faithful stripper

[00:51:41] Strengthen up because you have that in you each and every one of us has a measure of faith

[00:51:49] So that hopeless that hopefulness is in you

[00:51:53] So when you see somebody else that's maybe worse off than you are maybe struggling

[00:51:59] Ask him if you could pray for them and watch and see how your spirit

[00:52:05] Will will rise and it will it was get out that dormant state

[00:52:11] And I'm telling you you will see and and you'll be able to tap in to the hopefulness that is in you

[00:52:19] Man

[00:52:27] Hope is already in you. That's what I say. Hey, you know this confirmation did come on. Oh, no

[00:52:34] But keep it not nearly excuse me not nearly as with with that kind of power. They're making me joke

[00:52:43] You said second Corinthians one

[00:52:46] Uh-huh three and four

[00:52:47] Yes, okay, I'm gonna read it

[00:52:49] Let's be the God of our and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of mercies and God of all comfort

[00:52:56] Who comforts us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble

[00:53:03] With the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Amen

[00:53:09] Man

[00:53:10] Man as well and what it says that that comforted someone else that's also in trials and tribulation

[00:53:17] They they're hopelessness that they trying to figure out what's going on. We are listen

[00:53:23] Listen, my brother is my sister listen. We all in this together. We all trying to work

[00:53:27] We're all trying to figure it out, you know

[00:53:30] We're all trying to work out our salvation with fear and trembling

[00:53:33] We all trying to get together to understand what it is to stay hopeful and to know that

[00:53:39] He is gonna claim true or what he's gonna claim true to do

[00:53:44] So hope yes the other part of hope

[00:53:49] Hebrews 11 and one we've already read it but faith is a substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen

[00:53:56] Those unseen things in Hebrews 11 one a

[00:54:00] thing seen with the eyes of hope

[00:54:03] Hope always sees before the natural eye can and some of us have trouble focusing on those unseen things

[00:54:11] because we only

[00:54:13] Receive what we can see

[00:54:16] So that is our reality what we can see

[00:54:21] hope

[00:54:23] When you look at things through the eyes of hope you're hoping for things you can't see mm-hmm

[00:54:30] Is that easy to do no

[00:54:34] It's not

[00:54:36] It's not an easy thing to do

[00:54:38] That's why

[00:54:42] When we're in that state

[00:54:44] That we can't see it and we hope that's why we go into prayer

[00:54:49] okay

[00:54:51] God listens to our prayers and can help us with that

[00:54:55] It says in Hebrews 4 and the 16 for this is let us then

[00:55:00] Approach God's throne of grace with confidence

[00:55:04] So that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need

[00:55:12] No, it's not easy. That's why it says come boldly before the throne of grace

[00:55:18] Come to his throne

[00:55:21] And the thing is he waits for you. He that's he honors that

[00:55:26] he honors that if

[00:55:28] If you if you don't go

[00:55:31] You can't get what's it seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be open

[00:55:36] you have to

[00:55:39] You have to move forward to activate the faith for hopefulness

[00:55:46] We can't see it. We're hoping that we can get it

[00:55:50] That's why he says

[00:55:53] Come to the throne

[00:55:55] Come to the throne he got you and

[00:55:59] And let's all right. I ain't even talking about material things

[00:56:02] I'm talking about issues that all right. I'm talking about say you hurt

[00:56:08] I mean, I'm talking about it just the I mean it may not be

[00:56:13] Big to some people but it's big to others say a two-think

[00:56:18] You hoping that this pain go away

[00:56:22] You

[00:56:23] Hate see it, but you feel it right right

[00:56:27] same difference if someone is is at you and

[00:56:33] Is hounding you are troubling you. This is a pain. You can't see it

[00:56:40] But you know is there you're hoping that this will go away

[00:56:46] You want this to go away?

[00:56:49] You have to take it to God

[00:56:52] You have to take it to God when you hoping for this

[00:56:56] You have to take it to God and so what you're saying is when we see things and we

[00:57:02] Instead of accepting that as our reality. We have to train ourselves to say I don't accept this

[00:57:09] I'm gonna talk to God about it

[00:57:11] And God is gonna and because I'm talking to God. I'm gonna renew my mind

[00:57:16] I'm gonna read study and meditate on the word of God and I'm gonna

[00:57:21] Wait for him to answer me sometimes you can't do that on your own strength though. You have to ask him

[00:57:27] Okay, you know hey Lord, you know renew my mind and my heart

[00:57:33] Renew me, you know, I

[00:57:35] Need a rear I need a new mind. I need a new heart

[00:57:40] That I may receive what it is that you have for me so I can stay hopeful

[00:57:44] You know, you know, we we ask for stuff

[00:57:48] That God ain't honor it because it ain't even of him

[00:57:53] But you what we say what we keep ourselves in a situation of hurt

[00:57:57] Hoping for something that ain't even God's will that ain't even his plan for you

[00:58:03] We need I need to when I'm in a situation and

[00:58:09] I'm starting to get hopeful hopeful list

[00:58:14] Word

[00:58:17] Hopelessness the hopelessness. All right

[00:58:21] That I need to go

[00:58:24] Because it's because this is the reason and Isaiah 40 in the 30 31st verse it says

[00:58:30] Even youths were tired and weary and young men stumble and fall

[00:58:37] but those who hope

[00:58:40] You hear me

[00:58:42] Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength

[00:58:49] They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary

[00:58:54] They will walk and not be faint

[00:58:58] those who hope in the Lord

[00:59:03] You feel that yes, it's all you who

[00:59:08] Were he and heavy laden

[00:59:12] Come to me and I will give you. He said I will give you rest

[00:59:18] Hope in the Lord

[00:59:20] Hope in the Lord

[00:59:22] Well, well increase my faith take me to a place and a victory. Yes

[00:59:28] Yes, and and not only victory peace

[00:59:32] Victory and peace. Yes because his promises for you are for you

[00:59:37] His will for you is for you no matter what?

[00:59:41] matter what's going on

[00:59:44] His promises are for you. Yes, and that's

[00:59:47] One of the reasons that we continue to have hope

[00:59:52] Amen, I want to

[00:59:56] Before we before we go I want to read something I

[01:00:01] Want I want my brothers and my sisters out there to take hold to this

[01:00:07] This is very powerful. This is very powerful and

[01:00:13] This is

[01:00:16] The 91st song

[01:00:20] And this song is a song that lets you know

[01:00:27] Trouble is gonna come things are gonna happen

[01:00:30] You know, you know, it's not like the world like it's not like life is not gonna show up

[01:00:39] But you stay hopeful and know that he has you

[01:00:45] He had dwellers

[01:00:47] He that dwellers in the sacred place of the Most High

[01:00:51] Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I

[01:00:55] Will serve the Lord. He is my refuge and my fortress

[01:00:59] My God in him will I trust

[01:01:04] Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the flower and from the nuisance pestilence

[01:01:10] He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shall thou trust

[01:01:16] his truth

[01:01:18] Shall be thy shield and bonkler

[01:01:21] Thou shall not be afraid for the terror by night

[01:01:24] Nor the arrows that flies by day

[01:01:28] Nor for the pestilence that walk in the darkness nor for the destruction that wasted that noon day a

[01:01:35] Thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it should not come night thee

[01:01:42] Only with thy eyes shall I be and see the reward of the wicked

[01:01:47] Because thou has made the Lord which is my refuge even the Most High thy habitation

[01:01:55] There shall no evil befall me neither shall any plague come out my dwelling

[01:02:00] For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways

[01:02:06] They shall bear thee up in their hands lest they dash their foot against a stone

[01:02:11] There shall tread upon the lion and the Adler the young lion and the dragon shall allow trouble under feet

[01:02:19] Because he has set his love upon me

[01:02:22] Therefore well I deliver him I will set him on high because he has known my name

[01:02:28] He shall call upon me and I will answer him and I will be with him in trouble

[01:02:33] I will deliver him and honor him and with long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation

[01:02:41] That is one of the most powerful

[01:02:44] Psalms that has been written

[01:02:47] especially if we read that Psalm and

[01:02:51] apply it to

[01:02:54] The things

[01:02:55] That we are dealing with in this world today my brothers and sisters. I just want to let you guys know

[01:03:05] That he is with you stay hopeful

[01:03:08] the word of the Lord says

[01:03:10] No weapon formed against these shall prosper and anything that comes against these shall be condemned

[01:03:18] By the Lord

[01:03:19] He will take care of it stay hopeful my brothers and sisters

[01:03:25] Stay hopeful

[01:03:28] Yes, and

[01:03:30] Psalm 91 14 to 16 in the message translation reads this way

[01:03:35] If you hold on to me for dear life says that I get you out of any trouble

[01:03:40] I give you the best of care if you only get to know and trust me

[01:03:46] Call me and I'll answer be at your side in bad times. I'll rescue you and throw you a party

[01:03:55] Give you a long drink of salvation, so I'm just

[01:04:01] Just adding on to what you've already said

[01:04:04] You know if like we've already said in this in this show, you know

[01:04:09] Hope is the beginning of all things and whatever's going on

[01:04:13] If you know God you hold on to God and if you believe him and like he said hold on to him for dear life

[01:04:20] He will rescue you and usher you into a place of victory

[01:04:24] He said throw your party and throw you apart. Yeah

[01:04:31] Yes, so before before I pray and we

[01:04:35] conclude our segment

[01:04:38] Jeremiah 33 in the third verse says

[01:04:42] This was God says he says called to me and I will show you great and mighty things

[01:04:48] Which you do not know

[01:04:51] My fellow brothers and sisters we come to you in love today

[01:04:55] Just wanted to share with you to please stay hopeful especially in these times

[01:05:00] We know that the end times are here. I mean it's the evidence is all around us

[01:05:05] You know the enemy is rare in his ugly head

[01:05:08] To and fro up and down to see who he can devour

[01:05:13] But stay hopeful stay prayerful to know that God is with you

[01:05:18] Whatever your situation is

[01:05:20] Take it to the Lord and and he well

[01:05:24] He will make it all right in the mighty name of Jesus

[01:05:29] We come before you Lord and we thank you

[01:05:31] We give you praise honor and glory father because you are alpha and omega

[01:05:35] You are the beginning and the end the first and the last

[01:05:39] Sovereign with all power Lord for you are power in

[01:05:43] The mighty name of Jesus I

[01:05:46] Launch out and I lift up every brother and sister that is under the sound of my voice

[01:05:53] That is going through anything that is holding on to with both hands to hold on to you

[01:06:00] For hopefulness so they can move forward and be triumphal in the victory because it's already won

[01:06:08] Asking you Lord that you touch their minds and their hearts that they can move forward and power

[01:06:14] Give them knowledge wisdom strength courage and power to get closer to you father that they may know

[01:06:21] That all things work for the good for those who love you according to your will and purpose

[01:06:27] Father we give you praise honor and glory for we know you father are the one

[01:06:33] We thank you father in the name of Jesus

[01:06:37] Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in that sight

[01:06:43] Our Lord our strength our redeemer. We love you father and praise you and we praise no one above you

[01:06:50] In Jesus name we pray amen