Hey, grab your seats, grab your bibles, grab your notes, your worship guides,

or if you have your 35 days of hope journey journal, we are, thank you,

worship team, continuing on as we have just put on the calendar.

And, you know, we put on the calendar months ago that these were going to be

days of hope and you could really throw a dart at any day on the calendar

and say, we're going to talk about hope and it would be appropriate.

But I just can't help but see in God's providence that we like never before

are living in a day where that is what is needed more than anything.

An anchor for the soul is what the Bible says hope is.

And when you're in a storm, when you're in suffering, when you're grieving,

when you're rocked by tragedy and hardship, that's what you need.

You need hope like an anchor so that you don't capsize, so that you don't lose heart,

so you don't lose faith. And we can go through the worst imaginable.

And if you have hope, you can come out of it better than you went in.

And so that's what these days are all about.

We're glad that you've linked in.

If you're just now joining us watching online, seeing this on YouTube or Facebook.

And we've been talking about people on the Bible who looked up when life was hard.

People who went through stuff, they went through pits.

And we've said through the series that when you follow God, pit happens.

We're telling you that in advance, if you're new to faith and you're walking with Jesus

and you're not expecting it, a pit that you've fallen,

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