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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