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Cedric Pisegna - Hope Springs Eternal

July 27, 2025 | 28:25

Cedric Pisegna - Hope Springs Eternal
Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.
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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - Hope Springs Eternal | July 27, 2025
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  • Father cedric pisegna: your hope opens the door for god to work.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Father cedric: welcome to "live with passion!"
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  • I'm father cedric pisegna.
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  • So glad that you tuned into the program.
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  • This episode is about hope.
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  • I entitled it "hope springs eternal."
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  • Speaking about eternity, letter from 1 peter, chapter 1:
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  • "blessed be god the father of our lord jesus christ.
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  • By his mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through
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  • The resurrection of jesus christ from the dead.
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  • And to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled,
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  • Unfading, kept in heaven for you."
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  • Love how the bible talks about hope.
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  • We just heard that hope is a living hope.
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  • Hope is alive.
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  • It can touch our lives.
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  • I want you to be a person of hope, and then, of course, three
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  • Things last forever: faith, hope, and love.
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  • Hope is a close relative of faith, and faith, when you have
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  • It, when you're walking by it, it opens up a door
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  • For god to work in your life.
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  • Same with hope.
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  • That's why hope is a close relative of faith, that when
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  • You're walking with expectation, believing something good is in
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  • Your future, believing that god's at work in your life, god
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  • Loves that and it opens the door for god to work in your life.
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  • Be a person of hope.
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  • Hope is being a person of expectation.
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  • Hope is being a person that knows that god is in your life
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  • And god is a good god.
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  • In fact, in the scriptures we are told in romans 15, verse 13,
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  • God is called the god of hope.
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  • That's how we define god.
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  • A lot of people don't know how god is or who god is and what is
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  • God like.
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  • God is a god of hope. what does that mean?
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  • Let me try to break that open to you.
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  • This is who god is.
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  • He offers us good things, a god of hope, a blessed future.
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  • Jeremiah 29:11, "that i have a future full of hope for you,"
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  • God says.
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  • And jesus taught if you know how to give good things to your
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  • Children, how much more will your heavenly father give good
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  • Things to those who ask?
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  • God is a good god.
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  • That's one of the episodes that i'll be proclaiming to you in
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  • This series: a god of hope.
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  • And many people think that god is a punishing god or a mean god
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  • Or an angry god.
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  • God of hope, god of love, trying to break that open to you.
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  • This is the biblical god that we learn about from the scriptures
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  • And the god that, hopefully, you have encountered too.
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  • God wants us to have blessings.
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  • It's one of the things that i do as a catholic priest.
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  • One of the realities that i confer upon people is the
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  • Blessing of god.
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  • I make the sign of the cross or in sacraments that happens.
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  • Priests bless because we are priests of god.
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  • God wants us to be blessed.
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  • The bottom line is, is that hope is an expectation, a confidence
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  • Of something good in the future.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: i like to say the best is yet to come.
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  • Think about a pregnant woman, woman who's pregnant, what do we
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  • Call her?
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  • We call her expecting.
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  • She knows that a child is on the way.
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  • They even start buying the clothes.
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  • Sometimes you find out if it's a boy or girl.
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  • You know that something good is in your future and you prepare
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  • For it.
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  • The same way, we have to be people of expectation because,
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  • Again, we serve a god of hope, and hope is alive and because of
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  • That we can expect good things.
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  • This is the way we should be as disciples, expecting.
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  • Expecting blessings, expecting growth, expecting breakthrough,
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  • Expecting healing.
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  • Remember, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • Can't always see what's out there, but if you're believing
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  • And hoping, you're walking on a great path and god is laying
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  • It on you, he's laying the blessings on you.
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  • "'i know the plans i have for you,' says the lord, 'plans for
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  • Your welfare, not your woe, a plan of hope for your future,'"
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  • And that's exactly who god is.
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  • God is a god of hope.
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  • I've discovered that hope does two things for me.
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  • Number one, it energizes me.
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  • It motivates me, and it lifts me up.
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  • God is a god of hope.
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  • He has given us life, he has told us about the future.
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  • We just simply have to believe and hope with him with the
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  • Revelation that he's given us, in the future that he offers us.
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  • This is why i've entitled this episode, "hope springs eternal."
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  • Eternal life, imperishable, undefiled, kept for you
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  • In heaven.
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  • 1 peter: "a living hope through the resurrection of jesus from
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  • The dead."
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  • The bottom line is, is this is so good, sometimes it's hard to
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  • Believe, but you've gotta believe.
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  • We walk by faith and not by sight, so it energizes me.
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  • I remember that i sensed that god was calling me toward
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  • Television and toward media.
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  • And it was a platform that i wanted, i had a dream for it.
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  • And the bottom line is, is that it required that i work hard to
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  • Pursue that dream.
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  • And it was hope that energized me, that gave me this power, if
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  • You will, to work toward it, and lo and behold, it's happened.
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  • Same way in your life, maybe your dream isn't for television,
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  • But it could be to have a family or a career of some sort or
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  • Relationships, good relationships.
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  • Be a person of hope, and it will energize you and motivate you
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  • Toward realizing those dreams.
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  • That's exactly what hope does: it colors your life, it
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  • Energizes your life, and i love hope because it gives you power,
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  • Gives you strength.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: the other thing that hope does for me, and i've
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  • Come to realize this, it opens the door for god to work.
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  • God loves it when you are hoping.
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  • God loves it when you're believing.
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  • Remember in the gospels, jesus would meet different people that
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  • Were sick and they would come up to him.
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  • One woman ran up to him and just touched the hem of his garment
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  • And, "who touched me?"
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  • And she said, "it was me."
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  • "your faith has saved you."
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  • Your faith opens the door for the healing grace,
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  • For grace to work.
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  • Same thing with hope.
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  • It opens the door for god to work.
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  • God loves it when you're a person of hope.
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  • Many stories of hope in the bible.
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  • I could talk about a bunch of them.
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  • I'm just gonna list one.
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  • And it was abraham.
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  • Abraham is called the father of faith, but he's also the father
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  • Of hope.
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  • Abraham, of course, classic story.
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  • He was promised a child with his wife, sarah, but now here he is.
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  • He's 100 years old, his wife, sarah, is barren, and yet he's
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  • Been promised a child.
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  • Maybe if it was you or me, we'd be thinking, no way is this ever
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  • Gonna happen.
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  • Some of you think that about heaven: too good to be true.
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  • But god is the god of hope.
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  • It says in romans 4, 4:18, that "in hope he hoped beyond hope."
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  • That's the way you gotta be.
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  • That's audacious. that's daring.
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  • I love abraham.
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  • He is the father of faith and hope, and despite the
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  • Circumstances, despite the barrenness, he believed god.
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  • He hoped in god, and, as you know, sarah became pregnant with
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  • Isaac, and the promise ran through isaac and jacob and was
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  • Fulfilled through hope.
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  • Hope opens the door.
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  • You see, god is able to do more than we can ever dare to ask,
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  • Think, or imagine, or hope.
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  • That's right from the scriptures.
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  • I threw the hope in there, but that's right from the scripture,
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  • Right from the bible, that-- see, god is able.
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  • He's just looking for people that believe, people that hope,
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  • And he'll work through that virtue.
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  • Hope lasts forever.
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  • Now it's in anticipation of something good, but then it will
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  • Be realized in heaven with the imperishable, undefiled
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  • Inheritance kept in heaven for us.
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  • When david ran into problems, david the king, difficulties,
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  • And he had his trials, he said in one of the psalms, "why are
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  • You cast down, my soul?
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  • Hope in god.
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  • I will praise him still."
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  • I love that.
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  • I love that psalm.
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  • Some of you are cast down.
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  • You've been depressed, discouraged.
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  • Hope in god.
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  • We will praise him still.
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  • Hope in god.
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  • Difficulties don't have the final say.
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  • God does.
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  • You might be thinking, "well, i have hope, but nothing seems to
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  • Be happening.
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  • Is it me?
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  • Maybe god doesn't answer my prayers.
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  • I don't know, it doesn't seem to be working for me."
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  • That's why endurance is so important.
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  • Endurance is a crucial virtue.
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  • Remember, suffering brings endurance, endurance brings
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  • Character, character brings hope.
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  • When you endure, when you hope beyond hope, when you keep
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  • Hoping even when it doesn't look like it, that's when
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  • Things happen.
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  • You don't just hope, and then all of a sudden
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  • You get breakthrough.
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  • You gotta endure, even when it doesn't seem like
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  • Anything's happening.
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  • Trust god over your circumstances.
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  • Keep hoping, keep believing.
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  • Remember, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  • It's the same for all believers.
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  • You're not anything different, you're not anybody different
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  • Than anyone else.
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  • We all have to be a person of faith.
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  • We all have to keep hoping.
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  • Otherwise, it's gonna be a malaise and lukewarmness and--
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  • But when you believe and when you hope and when you love,
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  • Three things that last forever, abundance, blessings,
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  • Grace, manifestations.
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  • Back in 1622, a spanish ship called the nuestra señora de
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  • Atocha, loaded with treasure, sank in a hurricane off the
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  • Florida coast.
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  • This is back in 1622.
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  • Now, mel fisher, he's a treasure hunter, searched for 16 years
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  • For that treasure, nothing.
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  • Imagine how discouraged his crew must have been, 16 years.
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  • After one month they must have been discouraged, but mel had a
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  • Saying that he used to say every day.
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  • As they would get up, they'd go up on board the ship, they're
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  • Gonna be looking for that treasure, he said, "today's
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  • The day."
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  • Imagine every day, "today is the day," "today is the day."
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  • After about a month they said, "that's it.
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  • Today's not the day," but for him, he was a person of hope.
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  • Finally, 16 years later, today was the day.
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  • And he found some $450 million worth of treasure from the
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  • Nuestra señora de atocha.
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  • It's the same in our life.
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  • Today is the day.
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  • I believe that something good's gonna happen to me, and you keep
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  • At it, you keep enduring, and watch god work.
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  • On that vessel that mel fisher had, they had an anchor.
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  • And an anchor is one of the symbols of hope from
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  • The scriptures.
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  • Hebrews chapter 6, verse 19: "we have this hope as an anchor for
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  • Our soul."
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  • You know what an anchor does?
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  • In the midst of a storm when the wind is blowing, the anchor
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  • Holds the ship firm so it won't be destroyed.
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  • In the same way, we can drift.
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  • The storms come, things don't look like they're happening.
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  • My dreams won't come to pass.
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  • It's easy to think, "i won't get promoted.
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  • My children will never come back to the faith.
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  • God doesn't hear my prayer," but the anchor of hope keeps
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  • Us firm.
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  • It won't let us drift.
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  • God will make it happen in his plan, his timing, his will.
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  • Let the anchor of hope hold you fast in the midst of all the
  • 00:14:01.790 --> 00:14:06.295
  • Trials and difficulties.
  • 00:14:06.295 --> 00:14:08.631
  • Notice that a lot of people subscribe to something called
  • 00:14:08.631 --> 00:14:11.267
  • Murphy's law.
  • 00:14:11.267 --> 00:14:13.402
  • You've heard it, you know what it is.
  • 00:14:13.402 --> 00:14:15.404
  • Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
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  • The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
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  • When it rains, it pours.
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  • I'll never get the promotion, my dreams will never come to pass.
  • 00:14:25.614 --> 00:14:29.285
  • That's murphy's law, but there's another law, a stronger law:
  • 00:14:29.285 --> 00:14:33.255
  • God's law of hope.
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  • Anything that can go right will go right.
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  • The light at the end of the tunnel is god.
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  • When it rains, it pours blessings.
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  • And my big break is coming.
  • 00:14:47.169 --> 00:14:49.338
  • I produced a whole series called, "the big break,"
  • 00:14:49.338 --> 00:14:52.808
  • "my big break."
  • 00:14:52.808 --> 00:14:55.210
  • So true.
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  • Give god room to move.
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  • Prove to god what's in you,
  • 00:14:59.782 --> 00:15:02.985
  • That you have a heart of faith and hope and love.
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  • That's what god wants.
  • 00:15:10.392 --> 00:15:12.828
  • He wants humility, virtue, character, endurance.
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  • It's what i'm trying to instill in you in all these episodes,
  • 00:15:19.401 --> 00:15:21.870
  • All these programs that i preach over the years and
  • 00:15:21.870 --> 00:15:24.974
  • Especially this series.
  • 00:15:24.974 --> 00:15:26.909
  • Instead of expecting the worst, hope for the best.
  • 00:15:26.909 --> 00:15:31.714
  • Best opportunities, the best marriage, best news,
  • 00:15:31.714 --> 00:15:36.819
  • Best outcome.
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  • God works through expectancy, through hope, not through
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  • Doubts, not through being discouraged.
  • 00:15:42.624 --> 00:15:46.562
  • At our retreat center, we have a kitchen.
  • 00:15:46.562 --> 00:15:48.497
  • I live at a retreat center in houston, texas.
  • 00:15:48.497 --> 00:15:51.233
  • It's called holy name retreat center.
  • 00:15:51.233 --> 00:15:53.902
  • We have a kitchen there because we feed up to 100 people at
  • 00:15:53.902 --> 00:15:56.438
  • A time.
  • 00:15:56.438 --> 00:15:58.307
  • One time, i was walking right outside the kitchen, and there's
  • 00:15:58.307 --> 00:16:00.542
  • A tar pavement there, and i noticed in the tar pavement
  • 00:16:00.542 --> 00:16:03.112
  • There was a crack, and i noticed out of the crack there was a
  • 00:16:03.112 --> 00:16:06.315
  • Plant growing out of the crack, and i looked at it.
  • 00:16:06.315 --> 00:16:10.519
  • Not only was it a plant, it was a tomato plant, and it grew
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  • A tomato.
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  • And i thought to myself, that's hope,
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  • Something fruitful coming out of a crack, out of
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  • Something broken.
  • 00:16:22.965 --> 00:16:25.134
  • And maybe there's some cracks in your life right now or
  • 00:16:25.134 --> 00:16:27.669
  • Something's broken in your life or you've got some kind of
  • 00:16:27.669 --> 00:16:30.506
  • Hardship or trial or misery.
  • 00:16:30.506 --> 00:16:32.741
  • Want you to believe for growth and fruitfulness.
  • 00:16:32.741 --> 00:16:36.412
  • Be a person of hope and watch what happens.
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  • See, hope means that adversities can lead to advancement,
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  • Problems to promotion, obstacles can be opportunities.
  • 00:16:46.155 --> 00:16:51.660
  • Struggles lead to strength.
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  • You can turn your hurts into halos, your scars into stars.
  • 00:16:54.129 --> 00:16:59.735
  • And some say roses have thorns, i say thorns have roses.
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  • That's hope.
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  • You look at the thorns and the problems and the adversities of
  • 00:17:05.974 --> 00:17:10.212
  • Life and it leads to advancement, wow.
  • 00:17:10.212 --> 00:17:13.415
  • These aren't just alliterative sayings that i came up with.
  • 00:17:13.415 --> 00:17:16.885
  • This is what i've lived in my life.
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  • God is a god of hope.
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  • Be a person of hope and get in sync, in harmony, with
  • 00:17:22.958 --> 00:17:29.531
  • God's will.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: i love what it says in the scriptures, that
  • 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:41.176
  • "those who hope in the lord will renew their strength like that
  • 00:17:41.176 --> 00:17:45.280
  • Of an eagle."
  • 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:46.648
  • The interesting thing about an eagle is they encounter storms
  • 00:17:46.648 --> 00:17:49.651
  • Just like we do.
  • 00:17:49.651 --> 00:17:51.320
  • But the interesting thing about an eagle is that it actually
  • 00:17:51.320 --> 00:17:54.123
  • Uses the storm to soar higher, doesn't run away from the storm,
  • 00:17:54.123 --> 00:18:00.329
  • Doesn't avoid the storm.
  • 00:18:00.329 --> 00:18:02.197
  • Rather, he goes head fast into it and it lifts him up.
  • 00:18:02.197 --> 00:18:06.602
  • The same way, we'll have our strength renewed in the storm,
  • 00:18:06.602 --> 00:18:12.407
  • Through the storm, by god's grace.
  • 00:18:12.407 --> 00:18:15.611
  • Those who hope in the lord will renew their strength like that
  • 00:18:15.611 --> 00:18:19.181
  • Of an eagle.
  • 00:18:19.181 --> 00:18:20.716
  • Been a priest missionary now for some 35 years, been a religious
  • 00:18:20.716 --> 00:18:25.854
  • For 40 years.
  • 00:18:25.854 --> 00:18:28.157
  • And early on i had a dream to reach out in television.
  • 00:18:28.157 --> 00:18:32.194
  • I wanted to reach out beyond the walls of the church to those not
  • 00:18:32.194 --> 00:18:35.998
  • Going to church and people in prison, to young people.
  • 00:18:35.998 --> 00:18:40.335
  • Had a great dream to do that.
  • 00:18:40.335 --> 00:18:42.638
  • But it required a lot of work, required money, required
  • 00:18:42.638 --> 00:18:48.410
  • Programs, required outlets, and i didn't have any of that.
  • 00:18:48.410 --> 00:18:53.515
  • But what i did is i had a dream.
  • 00:18:53.515 --> 00:18:57.753
  • And i knew that god was a god of hope, and i believe that god put
  • 00:18:57.753 --> 00:19:00.522
  • That dream in me.
  • 00:19:00.522 --> 00:19:02.324
  • And i wanted to be energized to do the work.
  • 00:19:02.324 --> 00:19:08.163
  • So what i did is i went and visited a priest who was on
  • 00:19:08.163 --> 00:19:12.301
  • Television at the time.
  • 00:19:12.301 --> 00:19:13.669
  • He has subsequently passed away.
  • 00:19:13.669 --> 00:19:15.704
  • His name is father mike manning.
  • 00:19:15.704 --> 00:19:19.474
  • He was on a television network, and i went and visited him and i
  • 00:19:19.474 --> 00:19:23.445
  • Said, "how do you do it?"
  • 00:19:23.445 --> 00:19:25.080
  • And he told me, "you gotta have money, you gotta have
  • 00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:28.617
  • Programs, and you have to have outlets to air your programs."
  • 00:19:28.617 --> 00:19:32.854
  • And by the way, he had a program, and at the end of every
  • 00:19:32.854 --> 00:19:35.057
  • Program i say, "don't just live, live with passion."
  • 00:19:35.057 --> 00:19:38.894
  • He said, "may god's love for you make you smile."
  • 00:19:38.894 --> 00:19:41.697
  • I thought that was so beautiful, because he had this
  • 00:19:41.697 --> 00:19:43.999
  • Beautiful smile.
  • 00:19:43.999 --> 00:19:45.968
  • Well, anyway, after he told me all that, and i was trying to
  • 00:19:45.968 --> 00:19:48.770
  • Soak it in and learn about how you get media and how you can
  • 00:19:48.770 --> 00:19:51.540
  • Reach out to people through media, i was walking down one of
  • 00:19:51.540 --> 00:19:54.576
  • The hallways and there, i'll never forget this, this poster
  • 00:19:54.576 --> 00:19:58.847
  • Was attached to the secretary's window.
  • 00:19:58.847 --> 00:20:02.684
  • As i looked at it, it said, "expect a miracle."
  • 00:20:02.684 --> 00:20:09.625
  • And i came to realize, you know, there's a fourth ingredient:
  • 00:20:09.625 --> 00:20:13.629
  • Money, outlets, programs, and expectation, hope.
  • 00:20:13.629 --> 00:20:21.536
  • And i believed and i hoped and it energized me to do the work.
  • 00:20:21.536 --> 00:20:27.676
  • And i hoped, and god opened the doors.
  • 00:20:27.676 --> 00:20:30.779
  • And that's how hope works.
  • 00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:32.948
  • It energizes you to do the work for your dreams.
  • 00:20:32.948 --> 00:20:36.885
  • And it opens the door for god to work in your dreams.
  • 00:20:36.885 --> 00:20:41.723
  • God is a god of hope.
  • 00:20:41.723 --> 00:20:43.058
  • Be a person of hope, and be in sync with his will.
  • 00:20:43.058 --> 00:20:46.495
  • I saw a sign that i'll never forget.
  • 00:20:46.495 --> 00:20:49.197
  • And it was a sign on that secretary's window, "expect a
  • 00:20:49.197 --> 00:20:53.302
  • Miracle," and i share that with you.
  • 00:20:53.302 --> 00:20:55.737
  • What are you expecting in life?
  • 00:20:55.737 --> 00:20:58.173
  • Some of you, not so much.
  • 00:20:58.173 --> 00:21:01.109
  • Hope is audacious.
  • 00:21:01.109 --> 00:21:04.446
  • Hope is daring, dare to hope.
  • 00:21:04.446 --> 00:21:08.016
  • Sometimes i sign some of my books, "dare to hope!"
  • 00:21:08.016 --> 00:21:12.354
  • Hope believes boldly, decides daringly, speaks convincingly,
  • 00:21:12.354 --> 00:21:19.328
  • Works passionately.
  • 00:21:19.328 --> 00:21:21.997
  • That's why i always say, "don't just live, live with passion."
  • 00:21:21.997 --> 00:21:26.568
  • Live with enthusiasm, live with energy, live with hope.
  • 00:21:26.568 --> 00:21:30.872
  • Hope lasts forever.
  • 00:21:30.872 --> 00:21:33.575
  • Hope is for the here and now, as we know, but it's also for
  • 00:21:33.575 --> 00:21:36.011
  • The hereafter.
  • 00:21:36.011 --> 00:21:37.946
  • I've told you that hope is one of three things that lasts
  • 00:21:37.946 --> 00:21:40.949
  • Forever: faith, hope, and love.
  • 00:21:40.949 --> 00:21:43.919
  • "hope springs eternal," that's the name of this episode.
  • 00:21:43.919 --> 00:21:47.856
  • I just read to you 1 peter chapter 1, "we have been born
  • 00:21:47.856 --> 00:21:52.461
  • Anew to a living hope."
  • 00:21:52.461 --> 00:21:55.230
  • Notice, hope is alive now and will last forever.
  • 00:21:55.230 --> 00:22:00.869
  • "we have been born anew to a living hope through the
  • 00:22:00.869 --> 00:22:02.838
  • Resurrection of jesus christ from the dead.
  • 00:22:02.838 --> 00:22:06.141
  • To an inheritance imperishable and undefeating, undefiled,
  • 00:22:06.141 --> 00:22:13.348
  • Kept in heaven for you.
  • 00:22:13.348 --> 00:22:16.118
  • Wow, that's so good.
  • 00:22:16.118 --> 00:22:17.819
  • The marriage feast of the lamb,
  • 00:22:17.819 --> 00:22:20.021
  • Mansions untold, treasures untold.
  • 00:22:20.021 --> 00:22:23.258
  • Talk about treasures being found, talk about today's the
  • 00:22:23.258 --> 00:22:29.297
  • Day, we have an imperishable, undefiled, unfading, beautiful
  • 00:22:29.297 --> 00:22:38.106
  • Inheritance in heaven.
  • 00:22:38.106 --> 00:22:40.642
  • Hope will not disappoint.
  • 00:22:40.642 --> 00:22:43.578
  • And it says, "hope won't disappoint," the scriptures say,
  • 00:22:43.578 --> 00:22:47.349
  • Because the holy spirit has been given to us.
  • 00:22:47.349 --> 00:22:50.285
  • You see, the holy spirit is the foretaste of the glory to come.
  • 00:22:50.285 --> 00:22:54.756
  • Those of you who have some relationship with the holy
  • 00:22:54.756 --> 00:22:57.659
  • Spirit know that, the glory to come.
  • 00:22:57.659 --> 00:23:00.896
  • Taste the glory.
  • 00:23:00.896 --> 00:23:02.230
  • The holy spirit is the down payment of what is to come.
  • 00:23:02.230 --> 00:23:06.201
  • "taste and see that the lord is good."
  • 00:23:06.201 --> 00:23:09.104
  • The holy spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance.
  • 00:23:09.104 --> 00:23:14.142
  • See, hope will not disappoint because the love of god has been
  • 00:23:14.142 --> 00:23:16.845
  • Poured into our hearts through the holy spirit.
  • 00:23:16.845 --> 00:23:22.617
  • Be a person of hope.
  • 00:23:22.617 --> 00:23:24.486
  • Hope is all over the place in the bible.
  • 00:23:24.486 --> 00:23:27.789
  • And i'm praying that as you hope, you will sense a new
  • 00:23:27.789 --> 00:23:33.428
  • Energy to live life well.
  • 00:23:33.428 --> 00:23:36.097
  • You will see doors open for you, god working with you for your
  • 00:23:36.097 --> 00:23:40.836
  • Dreams, your relationships, your marriage, your workplace,
  • 00:23:40.836 --> 00:23:47.008
  • Because god is good.
  • 00:23:47.008 --> 00:23:50.712
  • There's a goodness to god.
  • 00:23:50.712 --> 00:23:53.715
  • We don't just serve some arbitrary god or believe in some
  • 00:23:53.715 --> 00:23:57.619
  • God that's kind of out there somewhere.
  • 00:23:57.619 --> 00:23:59.754
  • No, he's a god involved in our life, very intricate working god
  • 00:23:59.754 --> 00:24:04.960
  • Who loves it when we believe, we walk by faith and not by sight,
  • 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:10.665
  • Who loves it when we hope, because god is a god of hope.
  • 00:24:10.665 --> 00:24:15.937
  • And one of the ways that you can hope and release hope in us, in
  • 00:24:15.937 --> 00:24:21.276
  • Your life, is by speaking it out of your mouth, and i wanna give
  • 00:24:21.276 --> 00:24:25.313
  • You a few phrases, but you gotta get your own from the scriptures
  • 00:24:25.313 --> 00:24:28.650
  • And from your own life.
  • 00:24:28.650 --> 00:24:30.986
  • And i pray that as you cooperate with grace, cooperate with hope,
  • 00:24:30.986 --> 00:24:35.657
  • As you speak positively, prophesy your future, you will
  • 00:24:35.657 --> 00:24:40.295
  • See that hope springs eternal.
  • 00:24:40.295 --> 00:24:45.033
  • Say things like, "i believe that something good is gonna
  • 00:24:45.033 --> 00:24:47.736
  • Happen to me.
  • 00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:50.138
  • I know my future is growing brighter and brighter every
  • 00:24:50.138 --> 00:24:53.608
  • Day, that the best is yet to come.
  • 00:24:53.608 --> 00:24:58.280
  • If god is for me, who can be against?
  • 00:24:58.280 --> 00:25:01.082
  • I am more than a conqueror through him who loves me.
  • 00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:04.519
  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me,
  • 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.623
  • And i know the best is yet to come.
  • 00:25:08.623 --> 00:25:10.859
  • Don't just live, live with passion.
  • 00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:13.395
  • Father cedric: i received a letter from a woman.
  • 00:25:17.365 --> 00:25:19.034
  • She said, "father cedric, i read your book, 'rise,' about hope.
  • 00:25:19.034 --> 00:25:23.138
  • Gave me the strength to enter rehabilitation after falling and
  • 00:25:23.138 --> 00:25:26.741
  • Breaking my leg.
  • 00:25:26.741 --> 00:25:28.543
  • Your words inspired me to believe in jesus's power to
  • 00:25:28.543 --> 00:25:31.613
  • Heal me.
  • 00:25:31.613 --> 00:25:32.981
  • Finally, i've left my wheelchair and begun to walk on my
  • 00:25:32.981 --> 00:25:36.384
  • Own, yes."
  • 00:25:36.384 --> 00:25:38.787
  • Hope opens the door for god to work.
  • 00:25:38.787 --> 00:25:43.024
  • Hope energizes us with new strength.
  • 00:25:43.024 --> 00:25:46.361
  • And i wrote a book called "rise."
  • 00:25:46.361 --> 00:25:48.730
  • This book will infuse you with hope.
  • 00:25:48.730 --> 00:25:52.400
  • All you gotta do to get that book, dial 844-fatherc, write me
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  • In houston, texas 77024, or go to my secure website
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  • Frcedric.org and order that book.
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  • 00:26:05.914 --> 00:26:10.552
  • Support me in my endeavor to reach out to the world and to
  • 00:26:10.552 --> 00:26:14.055
  • Give the world hope.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance.
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  • Don't just live, live with passion.
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