Hope for Hard Times

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Hope for Hard Times
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Hope for Hard Times

• Reject your normal fears.

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Hope for Hard Times
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation
the old has gone, the new has come. 2
Corinthians 517
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Hope for Hard Times
Do not fear what they fear do not be
frightened. But in your hearts set apart Christ
as Lord. 1 Peter 314-15
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Hope for Hard Times

• Reject your normal fears.
• II. Redefine abundance.

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Hope for Hard Times
Abundance Intimacy with God by becoming more
like Christ.
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Hope for Hard Times
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in
heart and united in love, so that they may have
the full riches of complete understanding, in
order that they may know the mystery of God,
namely, Christ. Colossians 22
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Hope for Hard Times
In him we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the
riches of Gods grace that he lavished on us with
all wisdom and understanding. Ephesians 17-8
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For you, O God, tested us you refined us like
silver. You brought us into prison and laid
burdens on our backs. You let men ride over our
heads we went through fire and water, but you
brought us to a place of abundance. Psalm
6610-12
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Hope for Hard Times

• Reject your normal fears.
• II. Redefine abundance.
• III. Renew your commitment to trusting
• Christdespite your circumstances.

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Hope for Hard Times
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at
the sound decay crept into my bones, and my legs
trembledThough the fig tree does not bud and
there are no grapes on the vines, though the
olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen and no
cattle in the stalls, Habakkuk 316-17
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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful
in God my Savior. The sovereign Lord is my
strength he makes my feet like the feet of a
deer, he enables me to go on the
heights. Habakkuk 318-19