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When you face a crisis and difficulty, one of the things that gets us through is promise and hope.

The promises of God give us hope, gives us a sense of a future. It doesn't mean we ignore challenges,

and we've got so many of them right now as a nation and nations of the world. It's not just the

U.S., but nations of the world are It's not just the U.S.,

but nations of the world are facing so many huge challenges.

But it's overwhelming if I face them without the promises of God.

If I face them without the sense of hope,

that Jesus actually has a plan, he actually has a solution.

And it's maintaining my heart, feeding on that solution. It just keeps me

not only alive, it keeps me sane or at least as sane as I'm ever going to get. And so we really

celebrate the fact that Jesus has a purpose and a plan. Something I've stated many times in the last 12 months

is that every problem that exists on planet Earth,

and I mean balancing your checkbook at home

to the ozone layer, to the racial conflicts,

or whatever it might be,

every single problem that exists on the planet, God has a solution

in his mind at this very moment. And he simply looks for his people to come to him and pursue those

mysteries, those secrets. And some things are revealed quite clearly in scripture some things we really have to press into

but I remind you of the scripture Psalms excuse me Proverbs 25 verse 2 that it's the glory of God to

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