In God's economy, nothing is wasted.

Dr. Tony Evans is God has a plan that will make use of everything you've gone through

in life.

He can take you yesterdays and use them to give you a better tomorrow.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible

Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

It's easy to look back over our faults and failures and start feeling like we're too

far gone for God to use.

But today, Dr. Evans says it's never too late for the Lord to build a positive future

from the broken pieces of your life.

Let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 29 as he begins.

A few years ago, a Russian submarine, the cursed, went down in the barren sea and divers

went down to assess the situation and whether anyone had survived.

As they were circling the ship, they heard a pinging sound and began to listen closer.

It was a sort of Morris code from some of the men in the ship who had gone back as far

as they could where there was still air and the divers interpreted the code.

The phrase was simply, is there any hope?

That's a question that so many of us raise.

When day after day, month after month, and year after year, we seem to be trapped in a

hopeless situation.

We all know to varying degrees the feeling of hopelessness.

When you look out in front of you and you don't see any change, hopelessness is where disfair

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