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The
Audacity to
Hope
by Jeremiah
Wright
Text: 1 Samuel 1:1–18
Topic: Why we should continue to
hope.
Big Idea: No matter how bad things
seem we can
hope in God.
Keywords: Adversity; Circumstances
and Faith; Despair; Desperation; God, trustworthiness of; Help from
God;
Hope; Perseverance; Prayer; Prayer, answers to; Prayer,
persistence in; Seen and Unseen; Spiritual Perception
Introduction:
- Illustration: A painting
titled “Hope”
pictures a tattered woman sitting on top of a troubled world.
- Many give the illusion of power, but live in a reality of pain.
We need
hope because we live in a reality of pain
- Illustration: As a pastor,
Wright knows of those whose existence is a quiet hell.
- Hannah seemed to be on top of the world, but she despaired over
childlessness.
- Illustration: The
hope in the painting could only be seen in the vertical
dimension, in the notes of music the woman sent toward heaven.
The vertical dimension gives us the
audacity to
hope
- Romans 5:3–5
- The vertical dimension balances out the horizontal dimension.
- Despite her physical circumstances, Hannah poured out her heart
to God.
- Romans 8:24
- Isaiah 40:31
- Illustration: The slave song,
"Over my head I hear music in the air."
When there is no evidence of God's
love, we must have the
audacity to
hope
- Make music and praise God, even though you can't see what he's
going to do.
- Illustration: Wright's parents
sang, "Thank you Jesus," at the strangest times.
Conclusion:
- Keep on hoping and praying, because God does answer prayer.
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