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>> Psalm 50:15 says, "Call on me when you are in trouble and I
will rescue you, and you will give me glory." Matthew 11:28.
"Are you tired? Are you worn out? Burned out on religion?
Come to me. Get away with me. And you'll recover your life."
James 5:15. "The prayer of faith will save the sick person and
the Lord will restore him to health." God will rescue,
recover, and restore.
>>JENNY: Hello and welcome to the FAITH ALIVE SHOW. My name is
Jenny. It is so great that you've joined us today to dive
into the Word of God and seek after this heart today. Well I
believe that today's message will be a life-changing message
for you as Pastor Brent Rudowsky will talk to us about the power
of hope. He's going to teach us about confident expectation,
being courageous in God and grabbing hold of His promises.
So I'm so excited for you to hear about this powerful hope
that we have and I pray that it changes your life today so stay
with us and enjoy the show.
>>BRENT RUDOWSKY: The man that was at the gate, beautiful, they
call it. The beautiful gate. When Peter and John walked by.
It says the man looked at them expecting to receive something.
I mean, what else do you do when you're a beggar. You don't give
nothing. You just spend your life expecting to get something.
But I like the fact that he didn't even get what he was
expecting. He got a whole lot more, didn't he? You gotta love
that about God. God says, "Hey, you think you're getting money,
I'm gonna give you this." Huh. Amen. You can go make your own
money now. Hallelujah. I think that's awesome. And if you look
at all the different people that God healed, they all had that
kind of expectation, didn't they? So it's not enough just to
believe that God will heal. It's not enough just to believe that
God can do a miracle. We have to get our hope and our hope has to
be according to the Word of God. It cannot be based on you
because it won't last. Your word cannot stand. Your word, God no
obligation to do you word but He has every obligation to fulfill
His own for God cannot lie and He is faithful to His own Word.
How many of you know that? There's a million Scriptures. He
is faithful to His own Word. In fact, He is faith to us. In
Timothy it says if we deny Him, He still will be faithful to
Himself for He cannot deny Himself. It's kind of a weird,
God's put Him in a place, His own, He's put Himself in His own
place that He cannot deny Himself. I mean, it's if you go
do something stupid, He will still love you and forgive you
because He cannot deny His own Word. That's how faithful God
is. Sometimes, it doesn't even matter what we are or who we are
or what we do because God is faithful to Himself. I think
that's awesome. That's God's grace working in all our lives,
isn't it? Let me keep reading so I can get done. The Passion
Bible says, let me the, what did I say? Oh, yeah. "Now, may the
God of hope fill you with all joy and peace." Say fill you.
Raise your hand. Say, "Lord, fill me with all joy and peace."
Do we take that seriously? Joy and peace in believing so that
you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. I
don't know about you guys. I never thought of hope being
empowered by the Holy Spirit before. This hope is not of
ourselves. It's not us. The hope is from the Holy Spirit, from
the God of hope. The Passion says this, listen to this. "Now
may God, the inspiration and fountain of hope," I like that.
Let that ring in your ears today. Fountain of hope. They
say He's a fountain. What's a fountain? You guys ever seen a
fountain? You know, one of those things in wherever at the hotels
in Vegas or you know those things but do we have one by the
river? We have a fountain? We have a water fountain? You know,
can you imagine God's fountain of hope? God walks around, hope
just splashes on everybody? It says, "May this God fill you to
overflowing," say overflowing, "with uncontainable joy and
perfect peace as you trust Him and," everybody say and, "may
the power of the Holy Spirit," I like that, "continually surround
your life with His super abundance until you radiate with
hope." When was the last time we radiated with hope? What that
radiate? You guys know what a radiator is? Radiators,
radiators. We got some radiators right there. See them on the
side? Hot waters go through there or steam. And guess what
happens. It starts to get warm. It radiates heat, right? So when
you get near it, it's like, "Oh, that's warm." From here, you
can't see it or feel it but when you get close, it gets what?
What does it do? Radiates. We're supposed to be radiating with
hope. We're supposed to be radiators full of hope.
>>[Theme Music]
>> I wanna talk about hope. Hope is a force that crushes darkness
and there's basically two types of hope. There's a Biblical hope
and a cultural hope. Cultural hope is truly, it's really just
wishful thinking. I hope it doesn't rain. I hope it doesn't
get too cold. I hope that I survive. And that's what it is.
It's a wishful thinking. It's really a form of doubt. But
Biblical hope is something that's concrete. It's tangible.
It's a, you know, you have great expectation of something good is
going to happen because God is in this. Several years ago, when
we first started pastoring, we pastored a church in a small
town in east central Saskatchewan and we had just
started. We're like four days into it and my oldest daughter
got hit with a serious depression and it was really, it
was kind of shocking and yet when we look back, we could
almost see it coming out slowly. But it happened so fast and four
days into pastoring, first church we were ever in, we
didn't really know what we were doing. We were scared and
fearful and then that hit. It was terrible. She was really
suffering, really struggling, and it's hard to see your child
do that and so we were, we didn't know what to do and
didn't know nothing about depression and I was watching a
video and it was by a doctor in Ontario and he was talking about
depression. He's a Christian doctor and he was really making
sense and I was beginning to understand that as he was
talking, the Lord spoke to me and said that Sienna's gonna be
okay. She's gonna be alright. I have her. You have to learn how
to trust me so it was at that moment, when He spoke that to my
heart that I had this overwhelming sense of hope came
over me. I was so, it was peaceful. It was like it covered
me from the top of my head all the way down to my feet. And I
had this hope and it was a peace and I thought, "Oh, yeah, she's
gonna be okay." At that moment, it was just an incredible
experience. I'll never forget it because I was, I went from
almost being physically sick to feeling tremendously hopeful and
it wasn't wishful thinking anymore. This was a hope that I
knew that God was gonna bring her thorough and it was really a
battle and things didn't change right away. There was, you know,
a lot of months later and a lot of struggles later but through
all the struggles and all the pain and there was this hope and
there was this peace and I just knew that she was gonna be
alright and one day, it was amazing. She was set free by the
power of God and it was really awesome and it was at that time,
the devil was talking to me and telling me, you know, if you go
back to mining, everything will be okay and you just gotta go
back to the way your life was before. But I knew we had to do
what we were doing. I didn't know why but I knew we had to do
what we were doing because God had called us into that ministry
and in that moment, it was just wonderful. I felt a peace that
passes all understanding. Until this day, I have that peace over
my children because if God, I just, I learned to trust God.
Trust God no matter what I see, no matter what's going on, I
just trust God. And Romans 8:28 says that all things work
together for good for those that love God and who are called
according to His purposes. Not all things that come are from
God but God works all things out to work for His purposes and
that is a truth worth telling.
>>BRENT: When was the last time you felt like you were a
radiator of hope? More like a radiator of pessimism, doubt and
unbelief and death and negative. We're supposed to be radiating
with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now I'll be honest,
I'm not the radiator of hope. But as I read this, I'm saying,
"Lord, I want more of this in my life." How about you guys? So
this to me is not something I have to drum up. Its when I
spend time with the Holy Spirit. When I spend time with the Word
of God. I spend time and all of a sudden, He starts to impart to
us this gift of hope. Not something we have to do. I think
that's the worst thing about faith, faith teaching and all
this stuff is that we kinda take it and just kinda make it our
own and trying to just make it work. And I think we've missed
the whole point there because we were never supposed to do any of
this stuff without the Holy Spirit in our lives. And I think
that's where we miss it. And so, as you spend time with God and
you're praying in His spirit and you spend time with Him in the
Word of God, the Holy Spirit starts to impart hope in our
lives. Real hope. He starts to give you a picture of what
you're supposed to have. Come on, are you guys hearing me
today? And all of a sudden, you start to get an expectation of
God's will in your life. Amen. And it's not just you trying to
make something happen. It's the Holy Spirit working in you until
you radiate with this expectation. We're supposed to
walk around radiating expectation. What does that look
like? That's what kids do at Christmas time. First day or
night before, they're radiating expectation, aren't they? And
they are just hopping. The Amplified says, listen to this
one. "Bubbling over with hope." How many of you are bubbly
creatures? Who's bubbly? Jamie! Jamie, yeah. Everyone's like,
"She is." Now everybody's, she's a bubbly person, the natural.
We're called to be bubbly spiritually. We're supposed to
be bubbling with hope. It's bubbling, bubbling, bubbling,
bubbling. Bubbling in my soul. It's Jesus. What's that song?
Remember that song? I always hated that song. Because I don't
bubble. I don't bubble. Snider does not bubble. There's a few
of you that are not bubblers, you know. Cory doesn't look like
a bubbler to me. Look at him, he's like, "No." But you know
what? We're supposed to be bubbling over with hope. You
say, "I don't wanna bubble like that." Yes, you do. Because it's
of God. It's of God. It's not me. We should be bubbling with
hope and the only thing we can bubble with hope is to have high
expectation of what God's doing.
>>[Segment Music]
>>RENE: It's amazing when you read the Gospels, how many times
the kingdom of God was all around people and how many
people didn't benefit from it. You take the story of the woman
with the issue with blood, you know. It says that the crowd was
thronging Jesus and I don't know exactly what that means but I
think that means that they were, you know, crushed up against Him
and they were there and yet, the kingdom of God virtuous and
flowing out of Jesus until a little woman came through and
made a demand and pressed in and started to plow her way through
the crowd and all of a sudden, healing virtue came towards her.
Amen. That all those people who were around, who were just
there, and I think sometimes in church, we're guilty of being
just there. And as a result, we don't see what we're supposed to
be seeing here. Because there's too many of us not putting our
hand to the plow. We're putting our hand to the plow and all of
a sudden, you know, we're looking back at other things and
we get distracted. We get busy. We get, you know, all the
characters of life and all these different things. But you know
what, as a result, the kingdom of God is not manifest the way
it's supposed to be. You didn't just come to a church service
this morning. You came to a place where the kingdom of God
is supposed to be on display. Amen. Come on. Come on, if you
came in just to spectate this morning, you might not
experience the healing virtue of Jesus that you're supposed to.
You might not get the freedom that you're looking for. Listen,
there are things that are supposed to happening and
flowing and moving and the kingdom of God is supposed to be
breaking forth all around us. But you and I, we have to press
in. We've gotta grab on to that plow and begin to plow for the
kingdom of God. Amen. Are you here? Come on, are you here this
morning? This isn't about our comfort. This is about a king.
And this is about His kingdom and His kingdom coming and
rescuing people. We should have testimonies lined up, all the
way down the aisle. People touched by the kingdom of heaven
because we're in a place where everybody is plowing from the
front to the back. Amen. Where every hand is raised, where
every voice is crying out, where every heart is focused on the
cross before us.
>>[Segment Music]
>>BRENT: Okay. 17:1 says, "When Abraham was 99 as I am God
almighty, live in my presence." And He tells him. He gives him
the promise again. Say again. And I think where does he say it
now? Verse 15, yeah. He says, "As for your wife Saree," or I
don't know how you say it, "do not call her that anymore for
Sarah will be her name." Means princess. "And I will bless her,
indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her and she
will produce nations and kings of people and the Messiah will
come." And Abraham fell to the ground and what? Laughed. Say
laughed. And he thought in his heart, "Can a child be born to a
hundred-year-old man?" Can Sarah, this 99-year-old woman
give birth? And then Abraham says to God, "If only Ishmael
could live in your presence." Well, that's not very hopeful,
is it? You know, God, what You're asking, I just find it
very difficult to believe and yet he didn't believe it, right?
Because he did. So what he's saying here is, "This is not
possible right now." And then when you look at chapter 18:9,
those angel guys come or the Lord comes or whatever and says,
"Where is your wife?" And he said, "Well, she's in the tent."
And the Lord said, "I will certainly come back to you in
about a year's time and your wife Sarah will have a son.
Sarah had passed the age of child bearing. Right, her womb
was closed. Nothing else worked and they both laughed. Say the
both laughed. Okay, you guys getting the point now? Alright.
Now, Romans 4:19 says, "In being not weak in faith, he did not
consider his own body already dead." Say dead. So when he was
99, he did not consider. He said, "I know I'm dead but God
said this, I'm gonna believe that instead of looking at what
I am." Right? And looking at his wife and saying, "No hope there.
We're gonna trust God." Amen. Come on. Can you guys say dead?
Dead. I wrote some other adjectives to describe it. It
doesn't say kind of dead or sort of dead. It didn't say there was
a little life kicking around in there. He said, "No. Dead. Done.
Over. Useless. Futile. Nonresponsive. Unable. Past the
years of. Not possible. No hope. Not happening. Nope. Never."
That's where he was at in the natural. So can't just have, he
can't just be optimistic, can't he? Well, I hope that that can't
be, right? And then in Romans 4 up, that was verse 19. Verse 16
says, "Therefore, there's a faith that it might be according
to grace," say grace, "so that the promise might be sure to all
the seed. Not only to those who are of the law but also to those
who are of the faith of Abraham who's the father of all." You
know what, if Abraham could do this by his own strength, you
know, if he, God gave him this gift because he was more moral
or more upright or he followed the law, there was no law there
yet and maybe he worked out. He was a jogger. He was vegan or
who knows what he did and for some reason, he was able to keep
himself virile and he had a baby then he would be known as the
father of Isaac but not the father of faith. Right? So it
had to be by faith so that everyone of us that came after
him could jump in there. Are you guys hearing me? So it's not
based on your performance, your works, your keeping the law, how
good you are. It's based upon faith. And even faith can change
something when something is dead. It's dead. Buried. Done. I
guess God gives the most horrific example to help us
because we're probably not gonna be in that. But we will be, have
some dire circumstances, some struggles, some troubles,
somethings are gonna come. And if God can do this with Abraham,
you can guess what He can do with you. Are you guys hearing
me today? And it has to be of faith. It can't be of anything
else and faith works with hope. Let me keep reading here. It
says here, "I have made you a father of nations in the
presence of Him who he believed. God who gives life to the dead."
Say life to the dead. Life to him and Sarah and he says, "He
gives life to the dead." Calls those things which do not exist
as though they did. He doesn't say call those things that exist
as though they don't. When the doctor says to you, "Are you
sick?" And you says no and you're coughing away. That's
backwards. He told those things that don't exist as though they
already do. He says, "I called you. Abraham, the father of many
nations. Sarah, you're the mother of many nations." And
they laughed. But they didn't know God well enough, did they?
Amen. Can you guys hear me? It says, "Who contrary to hope in
hope believed." Say contrary to hope. In other words, when all
hope was lost in the natural, he still believed. He still
expected God.
>> So as you all know, Caleb and I got married this year or last
year in Jan, July. January? I don't know when we got married.
No. In July. And right from the get-go, I was having pains when
we were intimate and it was really severe and really, really
bad. And we just automatically said, "This is not of God and we
do not stand for this and we're gonna get healing and receive
healing." And we began to pray all the time and I had a few
ladies praying for me constantly. And it had been five
months and I still wasn't healed and it was the last service
before Christmas holidays. And dad was preaching and he
preached a great sermon and he called people up to get prayer
for whatever it was, I don't remember. And at the very end of
his alter call, he said, "And for healing. If you need
healing, come up." So I came up specifically for the healing
part of it and people were praying for me for the sermon.
And I was like, "I don't want to be prayed for for the sermon. I
wanna be prayed for for healing." And I just remember
thinking it doesn't matter what they pray for because they're
praying for me and God is here and I'm gonna get healed and
Bailey came over to me and she started praying the sermon and I
was thinking that while she was praying the sermon and it was
like the moment I thought that she switched, she started
praying healing over my body and you know, nothing big happened.
I didn't fall over. Like, I didn't feel anything but I just
said I'm taking this as my moment and I am gonna be healed.
So things started to get better. The pain started getting less
and less but it was still there. And then there was the prayer
fire conferences in January and it was the very last session and
I had been doing stuff throughout it and there wasn't
any prayer for healing. It was a prayer about being the salt of
the earth. And there's a couple people left at the front
receiving prayer and I just stood there worshipping God and
I really wanted it to be gone, completely gone, and Pastor
Shelly Severson came over to me and she just attacked me in
prayer. She said, "You are made whole and you are clean and it
is done and you will leave and you are clean and don't ever let
anything take that away from you." And since then, I haven't
had any pain.
>> We lift our hands once held in shackles and raise our voice
once bound within. Heaven's song is now our anthem. Freedom's
here. We can't resist. We cannot contain this passion blazing in
us. No longer afraid. We let our voice ring out. We are not
ashamed. His spirit roaring through us. No longer
restrained. Our song becomes a dance. We stand and shout He is
our victory. We who were dead have come alive. He broke the
chains of our captivity and by His Word, we are revived. We
cannot contain this passion blazing in us. No longer afraid.
We let our voice ring out. We are not ashamed. His spirit
roaring through us. No longer restrained. Our song becomes a
dance. We're gonna dance, dance. Liberty. Sing a song of victory.
Shout aloud we have been set free. We're gonna dance, dance.
Liberty. Sing a song of victory. Shout aloud we have been set
free. We're gonna dance, dance. Liberty. Sing a song of victory.
Shout aloud we have been set free. We're gonna dance, dance.
Liberty. Sing a song of victory. Shout aloud we have been set
free. We cannot contain this passion blazing in us. No longer
afraid. We let our voice ring out. We are not ashamed. His
spirit roaring through us. No longer restrained. Our song
becomes a dance.
>> If you've been impacted by anything you've seen or heard on
this episode and you wanna accept Jesus into your life, say
this prayer with me. Jesus, I accept you into my life and I
ask that you would come and guide my steps and guide my
path. I don't want it to be about me anymore but I want it
to be about you. I ask you into my heart and that you would be
king over me. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
>>JENNY: Well thank you so much for joining us today on the
FAITH ALIVE SHOW. What a powerful message that was. You
know, my prayer for you now is that you would be overflowing
with that hope, that you would be a fountain of hope and
radiate hope everywhere you went just like Pastor Brent talked
about, just like Abraham and I pray that you would be confident
in God and strong in the Lord, not wavering back and forth from
one day to the next but full of expectation. So let hope arise
in your life. Let faith arise in your life. Amen. We wanna thank
you so much again for joining us on the FAITH ALIVE SHOW. God
bless you and we'll see you next time.
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