Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, and today we're

continuing in an inspiring series when you're hoping for a miracle. Now, in this series, Pastor Rick

is guiding us through God's Word and showing us how to strengthen our faith and live with greater love, peace, patience,

and self-control, even when life feels hopeless.

Now, if you've been longing for a breakthrough, you're not going to want to miss this.

And now here's Rick with the final part of a message called, when you're running out of everything.

Second thing you need to remember when you're on the journey and it's a little scary,

the source of a miracle is always unexpected.

In your life, the source of a miracle, where it comes from will not be where you think it's going to come from.

It's always unexpected.

Why does he do it that way?

So God gets the glory.

That's why you can't figure it out.

So stop trying.

Some of you, you're out of work, you're unmarried, you got a major need,

you got some need in your life that you want met, whatever it is, I don't know. And you're trying to figure it out. And you're looking all around and saying, well, maybe God could do it that way. And maybe God could do it that way. And maybe God could do it that way. And maybe I could help God a little long with this. Maybe I could drop a few hints. Maybe I could manipulate the situation.

Maybe I could get a suggestion here.

And what you're trying to do is you're trying to manipulate God.

It doesn't work.

When God told Abraham, you're going to have a son, and that son's going to be the father of a great nation.

Abraham is old in years, 80, 99, and finally it doesn't even have a child, he's 99. And there's no baby, and he's supposed to be the father of a great nation. So he takes matters into his own hands, and he has sex with a woman who's not his wife, Hagar, and has a child named Ishmael. He says, here's my son, God. See, you promised me a son.

Here it is. God said, uh, wrong answer. That's not the one I promised. That's the one you came up with with your plan. But that's not my plan. My plan is I'm going to use your wife, Sarah, and do a miracle long after she's incapable of having children. Now, I'm going to use her wife Sarah and do a miracle but long after she's incapable of having children.

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