Hope in the Dark, Part 3: Embracing God in the Valley

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When life hits hard, it plunges us into a sea of questions we hoped we’d never have to ask. But when you feel broken, abandoned, and struggling to find answers, there’s a beacon in the storm. A comfort in your pain. A Hope in the Dark.

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0:00.0	I love it when I can tell that there are some people that are excited to be in
0:29.7	church and ready to hear from God's Word. We are in the book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk has three chapters.
0:43.3	I've got good news for you today. We are not in chapter one today. We are not in chapter two
0:56.4	today. But guess what chapter we're in today? Today we're in chapter three in the book of Habakkuk.
1:05.0	If you've been with us, hopefully you're expecting to experience something good in chapter three.
1:12.7	This book is so special to me. In fact, I've written a new book that just came out on Tuesday of
1:18.8	this week. It's called Hope in the Dark. Believing God is good when life is not. We are blown away,
1:24.0	blown away, blown away, blown away, blown away. We've never had a book fly off like this. Thank you
1:28.8	for sharing on social media. My publisher told me it came out on Tuesday. It's been out of stock
1:34.4	on Amazon since Thursday. You almost can't find it in stores. It's been between the 12th and 18th
1:41.7	bestselling book of every book in the world on Amazon in the first week. And it's because
1:48.2	you're telling people, and unfortunately what that tells us is there are so many people that are
1:53.2	hurting. But we believe there's good news that God is still good in the hurting. If you're trying
1:59.0	to order it, my advice would be just order it because it's out of stock, but it's coming in. I get
2:04.0	in line now because I'm understanding it's going to be a little while before they can catch up
2:07.9	with the demands. So I pray it continues to reach a lot of people. Let's talk about a backic. If you
2:13.2	miss previous weeks, let me give you a little bit of the backstory of Habakkuk. Habakkuk is a minor
2:18.8	prophet in the Old Testament that lived in prophesied around the year 600 or so BC, 600 years before
2:26.9	the birth of Christ. Habakkuk was different in the way that he ministered. Most prophets would
2:33.2	speak to the people on behalf of God. Here is what God would say to you, people. But Habakkuk was
2:40.3	different. What he did is he spoke to God on behalf of the people. And what he said to God was raw,
2:47.1	it was real and it was full of emotion. Essentially he said, God, I don't like what you're doing. I wish
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