Hey folks, Dutch here.

Recently, I did an interview with friends Anthony and Melissa Medina with Hope Fires International on the subject of hope.

With all that's happening in our world, discouragement and delusionment are trying to push their way into our lives.

However, we must hang on to hope so we can move forward and not give up.

Listen to our dialogue as we discuss this important subject.

Hello and welcome to another broadcast of Hope Fires Live.

We are Anthony and Melissa Medina with Hope Fires International,

our ministry, which is focused on igniting hope and the fires of revival within hearts

and nations worldwide. And last week, we actually aired our first Hope Fires Live broadcast. And in that broadcast, Anthony

shared about a prophetic dream that he had, where he saw the sleeping giants of the church

laying across America, covered in a blanket labeled Hopenesses, which had been draped upon it

by the media and just the influence

of the media in this time. And we believe that Jesus is awakening and empowering his warrior bride

to shake off that cloak of hopelessness and to arise in wisdom and in strength. And as we were

sharing that message, and we've received so much feedback from that message,

from others that the Lord has spoken to something similar and just people asking us to

expound more on that message, we really felt, we really felt the wind of God on this and felt

to just continue on this theme of hope and just releasing hope into America in the midst of this season, which is,

you know, there's so much darkness. There's so much strife going on in the nation and violence

and, you know, division in our nation. And in the midst of this, we just felt God invite us to

continue releasing hope into America. And on our hearts, we had it on our hearts to not

just do these broadcasts between ourselves, between Anthony and myself, but also to invite some of

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