Planning - How to Strengthen Your Hope
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Let’s face it - marriage is a lot of hard work! Sometimes the daily grind, responsibilities, challenges, finances, and conflicting values, conspire to make you want to give up. Where do you find hope to keep going and stay faithful to your commitment? In this message, Chip brings a simple, very doable plan to help you find hope. This is a practical, how-to explanation of how to have a marriage that works - for both of you! Don’t miss it!
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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| 0:00.9 | This is the Chip Ingram's sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.5 | Now let's join Chip Ingram with today's message titled Planning, How to Strengthen Your Hope. |
| 0:18.5 | As we get started, I have on my wall, and I haven't memorized it, but I read it almost every day |
| 0:24.4 | because left to myself and you left to yourself, we all focus on, you know, what about me, right? |
| 0:30.6 | You know, my needs, my will, my desires, this is what I want to see happen. |
| 0:34.8 | And on my wall is this prayer. It says, Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. |
| 0:42.8 | And where there is hatred, let me so love. Where there is sorrow, let me so joy. Where there's |
| 0:48.9 | injury, let me so pardon. Where there's darkness, let me so light. Where there's despair, let me so joy. |
| 0:57.5 | Oh, divine master, grant that I wouldn't seek so much to be consoled as to console, |
| 1:04.0 | to be understood as to understand, as to be loved loved as to love. |
| 1:12.5 | For it's in giving that we receive. |
| 1:16.0 | It's in pardoning that we are pardoned. |
| 1:19.3 | And it's in dying that we're born to eternal life. |
| 1:22.8 | And that's attributed to St. Francis Assisi, |
| 1:25.8 | but just I need every single moment to get the paradigm shift. |
| 1:32.6 | You know, this series is about four biblical practices that great marriages have in common. |
| 1:39.5 | And the first one is about love. |
| 1:42.3 | But, you know, when Jesus wanted to show his love, what did he do? |
| 1:47.1 | He took up a towel and he got down on his knees and the king of kings and the Lord of |
| 1:55.1 | Lords and the Son of God who has been worshipped by myriads of angels from eternity past, bent down, and he |
| 2:04.2 | washed the feet of people that were too proud to wash their own or anyone else's. |
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