Episode 282 - How to Overflow with Hope with Jennifer Hanson

“Gideon’s eyes were taken off his circumstance, off his enemy,
and put on God. Then, he was able to move forward with hope.” And
we can do the same! Our Pacific Division Coordinator, Jennifer
Hanson, brings peace to our worried, weary and overwhelmed souls
by reminding us that God is the One Who fights our battles and
brings the victory. We can have overflowing hope as we place our
trust in Him!


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ABOUT OUR GUEST


Moms in Prayer has changed Jennifer’s life and impacted the lives
of her children in amazing ways. She grew up with a praying
grandma and recognized the blessing of that. She wanted something
similar for her kids. In 2015, a precious tourist visiting Valdez
left a Moms in Prayer Booklet with her. That started an
incredible adventure. Jennifer read the Booklet and started a
group that fall.


Through the four steps of prayer, Moms in Prayer has taught her
to focus on God and His character instead of whatever problem is
presenting itself. She wants every mom to know the peace of
entrusting their kids to God through prayer. Sometimes she
doesn’t know what to pray. Praying scripture has released her
from that. May this passage encourage you from Isaiah 55:10-11,
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not
return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and
flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the
eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not
return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve
the purpose for which I sent it.”


Jennifer lives in Valdez, Alaska with her husband and two
daughters.


SCRIPTURES


 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his
comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a
cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to
the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down,
so that the tent lay flat.” And his comrade answered, “This is no
other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel;
God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.” As soon as
Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he
worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said,
“Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your
hand.” Judge 7:13-15 ESV


The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me
to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over
me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ Now therefore proclaim in
the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and
trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount
Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000
remained.


And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take
them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and
anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall
go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not
go with you,’ shall not go.” So he brought the people down to the
water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water
with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself.
Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.” And the number of
those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300
men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.
And the Lord said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will
save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the
others go every man to his home.” Judges 7:2-7 ESV


Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the
name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7 ESV


Do you not know?


    Have you not heard?


The Lord is the everlasting God,


    the Creator of the ends of the earth.


He will not grow tired or weary,


    and his understanding no one can fathom.


He gives strength to the weary


    and increases the power of the weak.


Even youths grow tired and weary,


    and young men stumble and fall;


but those who hope in the Lord


    will renew their strength.


They will soar on wings like eagles;


    they will run and not grow weary,


    they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah
40:28-31 NIV


I remember my affliction and my wandering,


    the bitterness and the gall.


I well remember them,


    and my soul is downcast within me.


Yet this I call to mind


    and therefore I have hope:


Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,


    for his compassions never fail.


They are new every morning;


    great is your faithfulness.


I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;


    therefore I will wait for him.”


The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,


    to the one who seeks him;


it is good to wait quietly


    for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations
3:19-26 NIV


For everything that was written in the past was written to teach
us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and
the encouragement they provide we might have hope. Romans 15:4
NIV


May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust
in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the
Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV


 


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