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Cry out to God. The Lord invites us to come to Him when we're at the end of our road.

Coming up today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie says that's where hope is found.

Are you facing hardship right now? Cry out to God. He will hear your prayer.

We love to watch movies where the hero is stuck in an impossible situation with time running out.

Will he make it? Can he make it? And he has rescued just in the nick of time.

But when we're stuck in a tough spot, it's not nearly as enjoyable. No inspiring music,

maybe just an icy lonely silence. And it may look like our time is up.

Well today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie says, don't give up hope. Instead,

realize where your hope comes from.

So let me start with the question, have you ever been in a situation where the only way out

was God? Have you? Yeah. Maybe you're in that situation right now.

Where that doctor delivers devastating news and actually tells you there is no real hope.

There's no medical solution. Or maybe it's a financial catastrophe where you're on the brink

of collapse. Or maybe you have a marriage that is unraveling before your eyes.

Or maybe a loved one has died. And you don't know how you're going to survive

something that's devastating is that. Or maybe it's a preacher that won't finish his sermon.

He just drones on and on. Let's pray that doesn't happen today.

Well, I bring this up because we're going to look at the nation, Israel.

They're facing the Red Sea. They're facing an insurmountable obstacle and right behind them.

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