This week on Better Together, Priscilla Shirer discusses the hope of resurrection. Join the conversation as Laurie Crouch, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Victoria Osteen, and Elaine Fisher join Priscilla Shirer, to discuss the eternal hope found in Christ’s Resurrection.
like you nor anybody around you can
figure out why you’re still that
peaceful given what they know about
what’s going on in your circumstances
and yet somehow they’re still able to
have a sense of security and stability
and
sanity in the midst of circumstances
that should be driving them and saying
that’s proof of the hopefulness that
comes to us when we believe that god is
who he says he is and he’s going to
accomplish the victory for us he already
has and is going to give going to give
us the experience of that in our
existence no matter what happens
i never
think if i go to a marvel movie you know
i got a house full of boys right now
they’re dragging me all these movies i
don’t want to see it’s like can we do a
comedic romance or something you know
biography something yeah um so i’m
watching all these movies and and
no one ever goes in
expecting anything other right than
the movie for the hero to come out on
top yeah
so you go in with expectancy
you know you enjoy your soda your
popcorn you know you get your snacks
drags you through all these other
emotions and you’re there for the ride
you know
and um
you know as you’re talking about that i
just think the expectancy factor you
know what are we looking for god to do
and if he would not spare his own son
you know he’s a father that gives good
gifts to his children if he wouldn’t
spare his own son then not only can i
expect the victory in my life but i can
expect the victory at no expense yeah i
mean like that’s just like he’s going to
ensure
we can know that he can do exceedingly
abundantly above and beyond
anything that we can even ask or think
so normally when we’re approaching our
lives and we can’t figure out how god’s
gonna
show us the victory in a certain area it
the natural my natural tendency
is to have like trepidation of like i
hope this is gonna turn out i don’t know
how this is gonna you know i mean that’s
my first
way to approach it but if i approached
his exceedingly above and beyond his at
no expense victory
the same way i approached a good movie
which is let me see how he’s going to
work this out right i mean not only does
it change
my approach and how i live but it also i
think changes my witness what does it
look like for people who believe on
jesus christ not only for their
salvation but believing that he’s going
to come again
how does that impact what we look like
you know just the expectancy stuff with
no fear with no fear exactly
you know you know and even if we feel it
because you in the movie you’re like ooh
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it doesn’t change the fact that you’re
there with expectancy that you don’t
operate based on the fear you know and
so i think and you don’t walk out with
that fear and you don’t walk out with it
because you know yeah you take care of
it
and that’s that’s what i want to see in
my life i want to see that in
my life more
is just
not the knowledge of victory
but the walk because of the expectancy
of victory you know because it does
change how you move through your life
hopefulness
changes your life hopefulness
hopelessness is what is destroying
people yes it’s destroying i mean
literally to the point of suicidal right
yeah hopefulness can destroy someone’s
entire existence in life and in the same
way hopefulness
is so powerful to keep your chin up when
it should be down to have you anchored
by a piece that as a scripture say
passes understanding like you nor
anybody around you can figure out why
you’re still that peaceful given what
they know about what’s going on in your
circumstances and yet somehow they’re
still able to have a sense of security
and stability and
sanity in the midst of circumstances
that should be driving them insane
that’s proof of the hopefulness that
comes to us when we believe that
god is who he says he is and he’s going
to accomplish the victory for us he
already has
and is going to give going to give us
the experience of that in our existence
no matter what happens
hope is the confident expected
expectancy of what god is going to do
yeah
so
he’s going to do something good
and sometimes we can’t figure it out i
think sometimes we think well did i make
the right decision did i make this thing
go wrong did i
interfere am i making the right choices
you know did this happen because i
didn’t do this right you know like i
made the wrong choice here and i wish
god would have helped me but you know we
have to understand that god’s
all-powerful he’s in control
it doesn’t matter if we do make a bad
choice he can turn those bad choices
around all things work together even the
mistakes even the mistakes they work
together for the goods
yeah and so i think sometimes i know i
have that i’m like well am i doing the
right am i am i am i saying the right
things am i doing the right things am i
going to make this thing turn out right
when it’s
you know i can only do what i can do i
can only seek god
try to make the right choices you know
and then believe that god can turn even
my mistake into a masterpiece somehow
some way you know and so i know there’s
people out there thinking well you but
you don’t know what i’ve done you don’t
know what happened to me you don’t know
how with the childhood i had you know i
could never get out of this i could
never quit thinking like this i could
but god is a god miracles and he wants
to transform our life and he wants to
turn things around for us and that’s
where the hope comes in if he can raise
jesus from the dead like he said he was
then he can resurrect your dreams he can
resurrect those promises he can
resurrect your life
well the gospel of john
chronicles this moment when a woman
comes to the tomb and finds it empty
and she is bawling tears as she kneels
there in the garden realizing that her
savior is not where she supposed he
would be
and she feels someone come up behind her
and she supposes he is the gardener
because who else would it be and through
the blur of her tears she has no way of
being able to really clearly see that
that
guy standing behind her is not the
gardener
it’s the risen lord
and it’s not until he says her name
when he says her name the way her name
rolls off of off of his lips there’s
something about that her name being
spoken by this guy that lets her know
this is the one who freed me who
delivered me who changed my life and so
my prayer is that through the course of
us just talking about hope and the
resurrection and the empty tomb
that the holy spirit has whispered
somebody’s name
and their tears their despair their
disappointment that maybe has blurred
them to jesus
and a relationship with him up until
this point
that today they’ll hear their name and
they’ll be restored in their hope and
that they’ll come into relationship with
him so let’s pray about that
lord i thank you that you call our names
i thank you father that you know our
stories i thank you that you’ve given us
opportunity to have a personal
relationship with you
i thank you for the hope that you have
given us because of the resurrection
father i thank you that your story
did not stop with your son dying on
friday and continuing lord to be buried
and to remain
in death but father he is resurrected to
life and because he was so are we so i
thank you father for the hope that you
have given to each and every one of us
and to
anyone who does not feel that sense of
hope who is wallowing father because of
their circumstances in a sense of
hopelessness and despair we pray right
now in jesus name that you would by the
power of your holy spirit call their
name so loudly and so clearly that they
would have no choice but to run to you
and that you would restore the hope of
their salvation in jesus name we pray
amen
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