Don't Lose Hope | Ep. 195

Your life can feel like Ecclesiastes 3 on repeat: a time to build, a time to break down, a time to laugh, a time to weep. When the ups and downs start hitting your body, your emotions, and your spirit, the question becomes painfully personal: what do you do when your soul is cast down and hope feels far away?

We walk through David’s raw prayers in Psalm 42 and Psalm 43, where tears become language and the heart asks, “Where is your God?” Instead of pretending the darkness isn’t there, we follow David’s pattern: challenge the inner noise, then answer it with a decision. “Hope in God.” We also lean into David’s request for what many believers are craving right now: God’s light and truth, not just to escape the storm, but to understand it from His perspective.

From there, we connect the thread across Scripture with practical clarity: the person whose hope is the Lord becomes like a tree planted by rivers of water, steady even in drought. We talk about how hope deferred can make the heart sick, why declaring life “hopeless” is spiritually dangerous, and how God answers dry bones with resurrection life through His Spirit. Paul’s words in Romans bring it home with faith that acts, perseverance that waits, and the Holy Spirit helping us in weakness when we don’t even know what to pray. 

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Transcript

A Vision Of Circulation And Return

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The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much-needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose.

Ecclesiastes And Life’s Seasons

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I'd like to begin today's message in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 1 through 8. To everything, there is a season. There's a time for every purpose under heaven. There's a time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to gain and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear and a time to sow. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace. These particular scriptures are shared by every one of us. All of us. It's life. What these eight verses of scripture describe the experiences of everyone's life that has ever lived on the face of this earth since the dawn of creation. When man fell, it infected and affected all of creation. Since it corrupted everything that God made, that God had called good. Good, good, and very good. And since the time of the fall, we have all shared in these experiences of being born, obviously. And just as obvious, sometime we're gonna die. And we've planted and and and we've uh plucked up what is planted, so we've sowed, we've harvested, we've laughed, we've cried, we've mourned, we've danced in joy, we've gathered things, we've we've thrown away things, we've torn up things, destroyed things, only to sew them up and to build them up again. Our life is a roller coaster of ups and downs. High moments, low moments, moments going up the hill, moments going down the hill. Sometimes our lives on a crazy roller coaster are turned completely twirled upside down. And it isn't fun. Like a roller coaster might be for some people. It's disheartening. It's adversely affects our bodies, our emotions, our psyches, and yes, even our spirits. It's not easy. This life.

The Roller Coaster Of Brokenness

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But if we look to David, David, if you read the Psalms, taught us by demonstration what we need to be doing. Doing during those moments that are just god-awfully difficult for us. Moments that just break our hearts, moments that can destroy the spirit within. And David was a great example of a man who experienced all of these things that were spoken of in Ecclesiastes. And even though David was one of the most highly lauded people in scriptures, he was also the most god-awful person in the scriptures to commit adultery, to orchestrate the murder of the husband of the woman he committed adultery with, so as to not be found out, to maybe look away from things that he should have taken care of in his own home, and because he didn't, even his sons or son rose up against him to kill him, to take him out, to dethrone him, to numbering the children of Israel so that he can see how strong he was in his his his nation of Israel. I mean, he did so many awful things, but who who of us haven't? Who of us have not sinned against God and broken his heart? I dare say no, not one of us. Not a single one. But when we look to David and we look to the Psalms, he demonstrates for us how to handle these situations. He says in Psalm 42, As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Have we ever come to that moment in our lives where we just are literally dying for him just to have him, just to know him, just to rest in his presence. Well, David at a time of his life was in that situation. And he just got to the point where he just hungered and thirst for the living God. And he was so distraught that his tears, he says, have been my food day and night. And they continually say to me, Where is your God? Our tears are a manifestation, they're an expression of what's going on in our hearts when we don't even want to say it out loud. But our tears can be questioning where is our God? As David's did, as probably mine did, and sometimes in my life, when I felt alone utterly and in despair. Where are you, God? Because I can't see you, I can't, I can't, I can't touch you, I I I don't sense your presence. I feel completely alone. And David said, When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I I remember when I used to go with the multitude, I went into the house of God with a voice of joy and praise, and with a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. I remember those days where I was with my brethren, overjoyed at you, and and just glorying in you and of your goodness. And and here, here, here, right now am I, and I am cast down. And I say, Why are you cast down, O my soul? See, I I I read these words and I and I sense that David was hearing a voice. He may have thought it was his own voice. He may have thought if it was the voice of the enemy. Who I I don't I don't know, but it questioned him. Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? But the answer is the answer we need to hold on to. The answer is hope in God. For I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. David furthermore states that as deep calls unto deep, at the noise of your waterfalls, as as my spirit is crying out to your spirit, and and I hear all of these calamities that surrounding me, and this waterfall that is overwhelming me and inundating me, and all of your waves and your billows, they're going over me, and I don't, I I can't breathe in all of this. He says, The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me. A prayer to the God of my life. David said, I will say to God my rock, why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with the breaking of my bones, my enemies reproach me while they say to me all day long, Where is your God? So not only am I in within myself, in my heart, crying tears that are expressing the thoughts that are going in my heart of questioning, where is my God? I hear the enemy out there who wants the worst of me, who reproach me and say to me, Where is your God? I hear them. And then he says, Tim's, he he hears that that echo, that that voice again. Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. For I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.

David’s Tears And Thirst For God

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But if you continue reading into the next chapter, it's almost a continuation. David says, Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation and deliver me from the deceitful and the unjust man. So here we have deep within his own heart, in the midst of all of this turmoil, he's crying out tears that are questioning, where is my God? And then also he hears within his local community the voices of his enemy reproaching him and questioning, where is your God? And and David also not only was attacked internally, he was attacked locally, externally, he was attacked by other nations. So in all levels, David was in lots of turmoil. But he says in verse 2 of verse of chapter 43, for you are the God of my strength. Why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Oh, send your light and your truth, David says. In the midst of his darkness, in the midst of his oppression, in the midst of his turmoil, in the midst of the attack of the enemy, he's crying out for what he needs. He needs to see God's light and truth. In other words, he needs to understand what is he going through, not from his perspective, because his perspective is in darkness. He's crying out to see from God's perspective. Send your light that I may be able to see in my darkness and understand according to your truth. Let light and truth, David says, let them lead me, let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. Because it is only in the midst of our of our storms of life that when we see the light, find the light and and hold on to the truth, that we can then be led from our circumstances into his holy hill, into his tabernacle. Then David says, I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy, and on the harp I will praise you, O God, my God. And he says it again, Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. For I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance.

Send Your Light And Truth

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I read these scriptures and I get the understanding, or I come to the understanding that it is so important that we do not lose our hope. And we're gonna get to the reason why I feel like it's so important that we don't lose our hope. But let's just let's just follow in David's footsteps in a few other verses and chapters from the book of Psalms. In Psalm 16, 8 and 9, it says, I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. My right hand is is signifying He's my strength, He's my protector, He's my provider, He's my shelter, He's my defender, He's at my right hand. And because of this, David says, Therefore, my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices, my flesh shall also rest in hope. My flesh, that's the part of us that is the weakest part of us. It says in the scriptures that the spirit is willing, but what? My flesh is weak. That's the part that that that that vibrates, that shakes and tremors when things get so hard in this life. But if I set the Lord before me, if I if I if he is at my right hand, I know that I will not be moved, and my heart will be glad, my my glory rejoices, and my flesh will find rest in him in hope. In Psalm 31, 24 it says, Be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart. All you who do what? Hope in the Lord. These are the words that we need to encourage ourselves in. We need to get in his presence, we need to get on our knees, we need to humble ourselves in his word when trying times come. It's there that we will find echoing words that have long been spoken if hundreds and thousands of years in the past that we will connect with, that we will identify with, and it'll be an echo in our heart that that's what's going on within me when we read these words. But be of good courage, he shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope, who hope, the condition is all you who hope in the Lord. He says in Psalm 33, Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him. It's on those who hope in his mercy. You see, the Lord is looking about to and fro throughout the earth, searching. He is searching for those who fear him, for those who hope in his mercy, because for those, it says in 19 of chapter 33, he will deliver their soul from death. When death comes knocking at the door, we don't have to worry, we don't have to fret because this body that is going to die is not us. We are a spirit that is temporarily housed in a body. So when the death comes knocking at the door, we don't need to worry, we don't need to fret. He will deliver our soul from death. It says, if we remain alive and we are suffering through famine, it says, and to keep them alive in famine. Do you remember the prophet? Elijah and Elisha when there was a famine. I believe it was Elijah who went to a woman's house who was about to die with her son herself. She had one last meal, and the prophet Elijah said to her, Hey, before you cook yourself a meal, make me a portion. And she obeyed this prophet. And in the midst of the famine, where everyone around was suffering and dying, her storehouse never ran out, and she was kept alive, even in the midst of the famine. He says in verse 20 of chapter 33, our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our shield, for our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in you.

Strength For Those Who Hope

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Not to tempt us, no, he doesn't tempt us to evil, but he does test us. And it's not for us to know, excuse me, it's not for him to know, it's for us to know where's our faith. Really? There's nothing that the Lord doesn't already know. If he tests us, it's not for him, it's for us to know. He says in Psalm 38, 15, for in you, O Lord, I hope you will hear, O Lord, my God. When I read through the Psalms, especially when my heart is broken, when I have a broken and contrite spirit, when I'm humbled, is the word. When I'm humbled, I think it's very easy for everyone who is humbled when they really seeking after the Lord to be able to identify and grasp the words that are in Psalms. And when I read Psalms, I always remember Psalms 1, 1 through 3. It says, Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, but his delaw, excuse me, his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. You see, Psalms, out of the hundred and fifty chapters in Psalms, the very first verse is is a is an open door. To anyone who truly seeks after the Lord, who really wants to understand his word, there it is. There is the key right there. A man is blessed if his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in that law he will meditate day and night, night and day, day and night, night and day. Because it's this man that has been described in Psalm 1 that will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper. You see, it's very difficult for a tree that is planted by the rivers of water to die. He has his sustenance, meaning the tree, at all times. He wasn't planted in the midst of a desert, he wasn't planted in the midst of a forest that may not have really uh any type of water supply. But if there's a tree planted by rivers of water, he has sustenance at all times. It reminds me of when Jesus said, I am the vine and ye are the branches. He that abides in me shall bear forth fruit. And so that second part of verse 3 says, that brings forth fruit in its season makes perfect sense. It's akin to when Jesus said, Ye are the branches, if ye abide in me, ye shall bear forth fruit. But if ye abide not in me, ye shall not bear forth fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. But that tree that's planted by the rivers of water, it's not going to have leaves that are brown and cracked. No, it says that the leaves shall not wither. And you know, before you heard that story, maybe when you were young about, oh, King Midas and the Midas touch and everything he touched turned to gold. That really, really wasn't from a man's mind. I would think that that was probably influenced by this word here in Psalm 1.3, because this man that delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law all day, all night is like a tree planted by the rivers of water that is going to bring forth fruit, and its leaf shall not wither, and everything he does shall prosper. Whatever he does shall prosper. So this word is repeated or echoed, if you will, again in the prophet Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 17, he said, Blessed is the man who trust in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord. Not just whose hope is in the Lord, no, whose hope is the Lord. Jeremiah said, For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots where? By the river, and will not fear when he comes. Its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit. If we put our trust in the Lord, if our hope is the Lord, we will be that tree planted by waters, and that tree planted by waters is gonna spread out its roots by the river, and it's always gonna find its sustenance in the river. And when the heat comes, that tree's not gonna worry. When the heat comes, that tree's leaf is not going to be brittle and withered. It's gonna be green, meaning there's gonna be life in that tree. And that tree that's planted by the rivers of water, who's really a man who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord, he will not be anxious when there's drought. He will not be anxious when there seems to be lack all around. It says he will not cease from yielding fruit. Not even the heat that comes is gonna stop him from being able to yield fruit. So I read those scriptures and I think of that song that we sang when we were young. I've got a river of life flowing out of me. It makes the lame to walk and the blind to see. It opens prison's door sets the captives free I've got a river of life flowing out of me, spring up a whale within my soul spring up o' well and make me ho spring up o' well and give to me thy abundantly the abundantly.

When Hope Is Deferred

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Here's the problem if we would ever lose our hope. It says in the book of Proverbs, chapter 13, verse 12, that when hope is deferred, when it's delayed, when it's elongated, when it's when it when it never really comes to pass, it makes a heart sick. But when that hope is fulfilled, the desire comes, it brings, it is a tree of life. That's why our hope is not just in the Lord, our hope is the Lord. Here's what is another problem. So if hope is delayed or deferred or longered, it makes the heart sick over time. But in Jeremiah, go back to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 18, verse 11 and 12, it says here, therefore, speak to the men of Judah. God is speaking through the prophet Jeremiah to speak to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, and he says, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now, everyone, from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good. God was upset. God was immensely upset. But before he was going to bring about judgment, he was gonna warn his people. He was gonna give them yet another opportunity to resolve the situation with him. So He says through the prophet Jeremiah, Tell them that I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against them, and to return now from their evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. And that means do right. But you know what they said? It says in verse 12 of Jeremiah 18, they said, Well, this is hopeless. There is no hope. So you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna walk according to our own plans. We're gonna walk according to everyone's dictates of their own evil heart. Wow. That's what happens when we let go of hope in the Lord. That's what happens when our hope is no longer the Lord. It says in Jeremiah 17 that thus says the Lord, cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. I know this was spoken of a chapter before chapter 18, but if you follow Jeremiah, you'll see how this really is all tied together and it's all meaning that same thing. When we begin to walk in our own ways, when we begin to trust in our own strength, in our own devices, in our own imaginations, and we turn away from the Lord, and he does not become or is our hope, it is signifying that our heart has departed from the Lord. Now he just said, Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. He says in verse 6 of chapter 17, He shall be like a shrub in the desert, not like a tree planted by rivers of living water, but a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. He's not gonna even see it. When good comes, he's not gonna see it, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land which is not inhabited. He's gonna find himself very alone. He's gonna find himself in dry, parched places. And even when good does come, he's not gonna notice it. When hope is lost, our heart is departed from the Lord.

Losing Hope Makes Life A Desert

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And so, yes, we do go through our trials, our tribulations, our ups and downs, this roller coaster of life. But we also have to understand that sometimes, some things in our life have to die. The prophet Ezekiel was having a conversation with the Lord in Ezekiel 37, 11 through 14. And Ezekiel said that the Lord said to him, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, meaning the bones, they indeed say, Our bones are dry, our hope is what? Lost, and we ourselves are cut off. They lost their hope. They walked in their own ways and their own imaginations, and their hearts departed from the Lord. And so these bones are speaking out and confessing their own state. We are lost, our bones are dry, and we are cut off. So the Lord says to Ezekiel, therefore, prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, I will cause you to come up from your graves and bring you into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. When I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up from your graves, I will put my spirit in you, and you shall live. I will place you in your own land, then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it, says the Lord. Sometimes, in order for the Lord to bring forth life, something has to die. A seed in order to bring forth life must be put into the ground to die, and then it's able to break out of its encasing and like a resurrection grow and over time bring forth the fruit of which the seed came out of. So the Lord sometimes spiritually has to have things die in our lives so that he can bring forth life from death and declare over you that life where your grave was to cause you to come up out of your grave. How? By his spirit. For he said, I will put my spirit in you and you shall live. The spirit of God is life. The spirit of God is how he fulfills his promises to his people that hope in him, that put their trust in him. That tree that is planted by the rivers of living water or the rivers of water, that is a metaphor that is signifying and indicating that that tree is sustained, it is brought forth with life by the waters that he is right planted next to. So our life has to be planted in the spirit that gives forth

Dry Bones And God’s Spirit

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life. Let me show it to you in Romans chapter 4, 16 through 22. Paul says, therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those that are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of him who he believed, God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did, who contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations according to what was spoken, so shall your descendants be. He's speaking of Abraham. Abraham was a type and shadow of us all. He was a sinner like us all. He represented not only the Jews who circumcised themselves, he also represented the Gentiles, because the promise was given to him before he was ever circumcised. He represented both Jews and Gentiles. And the Lord said to him by word, I promise you, I have made you a father of many nations. It says clearly, God who gives life to the dead, calls those things which do not as though they did, things which do not exist as though they did, contrary to hope, in hope believed. Talking about Abraham, because Abraham was like, contrary to hope, he believed in hope he believed anyway. He was ninety-nine years old. He looked at his body, he looked at his wife's body, who was beyond the age of having children. It says in verse 19, and not being weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body already dead, since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what he had promised he was able to perform, and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness. You see, Abraham could have looked at his own body being 99 years old. He could have looked at Sarah's body, who was, if I remember correctly, maybe 75 or 80 something, I can't remember exactly. But the point is, their bodies were in a sense dead. Dead to what? Dead to reproduction. They were too old. Nobody has children at that age, even back then. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. It says here that he was not weak in the faith. Well, how do I know that? Well, yeah, it says it, but but you know, the writer here, Paul, wasn't there at the time. How does he know that he wasn't weak in the faith? Well, consider this. Biblical faith is you hearing the voice of the Lord and following it with action that coincides with that their belief. That's the definition of faith. It's not just some mental ascent and saying, Yeah, I believe, I believe, I believe. It's never been that. Never. All throughout the scriptures. When he spoke to Noah, Noah believed God and began to spend 100 years building an ark for something he had never seen or experienced before. That's faith. When he spoke to Abraham, leave your father, leave your mother, leave your country. I promise that I'm going to give you another place, another land, and you're going to have descendants as the stars are in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. How do we know that he had faith? Because he believed God and he left. You see, he he pro he followed the belief in God, in his word, and he followed it with action. Well, again, the question is, how do we know? How does Paul know that he was not weak in the faith? Well, consider, if he knew that his body was already dead and he knew that Sarah's womb was basically dead, how were they ever going to have a baby? Well, consider the fact that in order for him to have a baby with Sarah, he had to have relations with Sarah. So even at that age, they were still having relations. And that very act was a sign of his faith, knowing that God was able to bring about exactly what he said he would through Abraham and Sarah, even though their bodies were dead. Dead to reproduction. That's faith, guys. That's faith. You hear the word of the Lord, you recognize that everything is is is naturally in opposition to that word, but you go ahead and you act on it in faith. How did Abraham act on it? Well, he continued to have relations with his wife because he was fully convinced that what he had promised he was able to perform. If he didn't believe God, he wouldn't have had relations with his wife. He would be like, that's never gonna happen. But he had relations with his wife, obviously because he loved her, but because he still believed that God was going to bring about the promise. But what did he have to do? He had to have relations with his wife. And so that was accounted to him for righteousness.

Abraham’s Hope That Acts

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You see, in Romans 5 5, Paul also says, Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. So remember back when we were reading in Ezekiel, what did the Lord say about those bones? That He was going to bring them to life, He was going to raise them up from the grave, from their graves. How in verse 14 of Ezekiel 37, I will put my spirit in you and you shall live. You see, when we came into this covenant through the blood, the water, and the spirit, we cannot neglect the importance of having received the Spirit of God by the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence when we spoke in tongues, when we were praying in the Spirit, in a language that we didn't know. So we now have this hope within us. It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It says in Colossians. But let's finish off and read Romans chapter 8. Paul says, For we were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. See, when we're in the midst of our trials and our situations and our circumstances and our oh, and we don't know what to do, and we don't see what's been promised to us yet, we learn to wait. It says here, we eagerly wait for the hope to be fulfilled with perseverance. We endure. How? Because I certainly can't do it in my own strength. Well, let's read the next verse of Romans 8 26. It says, likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses. You see, it's the spirit that we receive that's at work in us that is that is molding us, that that we're on that potter wheel, and he's transforming us and he's conforming us, and he's using our circumstances to teach us how to wait, to teach us how to hope, to teach us how to love in the midst of all of these circumstances and listen, all of these attacks. The Spirit is helping us do these things. He is helping us in our weakness because there are times that we don't even know what we should pray. We just don't know. So I go back to that verse that David spoke of where he said, Lead me in thy light and in thy truth. We have to have his perspective. We need light and truth to show us in the midst of the darkness his perspective in our Situation. And so when the Spirit is at work in us, he is making intercession for us. He is groaning within us, which things that cannot be uttered. Now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. The Spirit of God, who is the Spirit of Christ, is in us, helping us, strengthening us, causing us to persevere and to endure through all of these things that we in our flesh feel like we can't handle anymore. But nevertheless, our hope is the Lord. And we recognize as David that we're going to glory in him because he is going to bring it to pass. So Paul says in Romans 15, May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. We need to tap into him, brothers and sisters. The branch must learn how to abide in the vine. No matter the drought that come, no matter the heat that come, no matter the storms that come, because if our hope is in the Lord, if our trust is in him, then we are that tree that is planted by the rivers of water. And because we have that abiding access to his spirit, our leaves will never wither, they will be green, and we will always produce fruit in our season. We will not cease to produce fruit because we are abiding in his

The Holy Spirit Helps Us Endure

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spirit. So let us remember what the what the prophet Joel said in chapter 3, verse 16. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth will shake. But the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel. This is not a request of the Lord. He demands that he will be the hope of his people, he will be the strength of the children of Israel. So remember these words. Remember, in the midst of your trial, in the midst of your struggle, never lose hope in the Lord. It's when you have to really buckle down, humble yourself, get away from the circumstances that are happening about, quiet yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and rest. All of these words that have been shared with you in this message are to remind you, to encourage you to stand in faith because your hope is in the Lord. Stand in faith because your hope is in his word. Stand in faith because your hope is in God. Stand and remember that your hope is in his mercy. Hope in him. Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Final Exhortation And Ways To Support

j - Jesus M. Ruiz 47:28

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