Hello, thank you for joining me today, forgive him 15.

As we continue to grieve over the loss of our dear brother, Charlie Kirk,

it's important that we'll keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and hold on to hope.

Hebrews 619 tells us we have hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

While on earth, Jesus was also acquainted with grief and knows how to heal us.

Listen to today's post and allow him to begin healing your heart and your soul.

Our title is, we must play Hope's Song.

People sometimes refer to their difficult times as winter seasons.

There's a powerful picture associated with this in Ezekiel 47. The prophet

Ezekiel was given a vision of the river of life flowing from God's presence. The river produced

life and healing everywhere it went. Interestingly, the Hebrew word for river in this passage

is Naka'a, and it means, yes, a stream, but especially a winter torrent or a winter stream.

The meaning doesn't refer to when it flows, but to what creates it. Some streams and rivers

dry up during certain parts of the year. They're refilled, however, when there's rain, or as in this

case, the spring thaw melts the winter snow and ice on the mountains.

Tiny rivulets develop, coming together to form larger flows, then streams,

and eventually becoming Naka or Nakhalin rivers.

Though Ezekiel's winter river began as a trickle in verse one, it eventually became a mighty,

unfortable river by verse five. Indeed, God's healing river often begins as a trickle. We can be confident, however, that it will deepen.

God will use the snow, he will use the snow and ice of our winter season

to bring to us a deep flow of his healing power.

He uses even the bad.

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