Planning - How to Strengthen Your Hope, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
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Summary
Hope is great! But how do you actually get hope? What provides hope, in a marriage relationship, when you’ve made the commitment and you’re in it for the long-haul? Where do you find that sustaining, motivating optimism that helps you look forward to your future together? Chip’s got the answer in this program.
Biblical practices great marriages have in common:
- Love
- Hope
Jesus gives hope to His bride, the Church:
- John 14:1-21
- Hope is a picture of the future that says, what we are doing today is going to produce a better tomorrow.
Principles:
- Long-term planning provides HOPE and PERSPECTIVE to overcome short-term pain and challenges.
- Great plans provide a specific PATH and create HOPE for tomorrow and forever.
- Hope rises and falls with how we keep our PROMISES.
Practical implications:
- If you fail to PLAN, you plan to FAIL.
- If you don’t have a plan, you don’t have HOPE.
Tools for transformation:
1. Clarity
- You are a trophy of God’s grace – you share hope when you share your brokenness.
- Assignment: Add 10 years – see the goal, plan to get there.
2. Structure – work together on:
- Finances
- Calendars
3. If necessary, get outside help
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | For over 30 years as a pastor, I have counseled couples, and I will tell you one thing. |
| 0:20.3 | When they lose hope, when they think |
| 0:22.4 | there's no hope for their marriage, their marriage usually ends. |
| 0:26.9 | How do you keep hope alive? |
| 0:29.3 | How do you build hope into your marriage so that it will endure, so that it will last, |
| 0:34.5 | so it gets better and better? |
| 0:36.1 | That's today on Living on the Edge. |
| 0:38.0 | Stay with me. |
| 0:40.4 | Hope is the oxygen of the soul. |
| 0:43.2 | Without it, marriage is suffocate. |
| 0:45.4 | Today on Living on the Edge, |
| 0:47.1 | Chip Ingram continues our series called Choosing Love |
| 0:50.1 | by revealing the secret to keeping hope alive in your relationship. |
| 0:58.0 | Through Jesus' words to his disciples in John chapter 14, we'll discover that hope isn't just wishful thinking, it's rooted in planning. |
| 1:03.0 | When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. |
| 1:06.0 | Chip will show you practical ways to create a roadmap for your marriage |
| 1:10.0 | that builds hope for tomorrow |
| 1:11.8 | while helping you navigate today's challenges. |
| 1:14.9 | Now let's join Chip Ingram with today's message titled Planning, How to Strengthen Your Hope. |
| 1:21.0 | As we get started, I have on my wall, and I, you know, I haven't memorized it, but I read it |
| 1:26.1 | almost every day because left to myself and you left to yourself, we all focus on, you know, I haven't memorized it, but I read it almost every day because left to myself |
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