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   God's Two-Minute Warning
   Devotion for Tuesday , August 08, 2000
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God's Two-Minute Warning Short-Term Choices, Long-Term Consequences by John Hagee

This is the time to pull out all the stops...to live for God like there's no tomorrow.

"August 8"

"Hope for the Troubled Heart page 2"

David says, “Why are you cast down, 0 my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance” (Ps 42:5). Similarly, Saint Paul says we should be “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer” (Rom. 12:12). Our greatest possession in life is the hope we have in God. Hope is to dreams what baking powder is to biscuits. A hopeful person is someone who takes along a camera and the tartar sauce when he goes fishing for Moby Dick! The most significant factor between success and failure, victory and defeat, and often even life and death is hope. Hope is a cactus and not a cushion. It makes you jump up and do something to solve the problem. Hope is putting faith to work, when doubting would be easier. Hope gives you the ability to be happy with what you have while working for what you want. Never deprive someone of hope. It might be all they have. It may be what keeps them going when it is easier just to give up and die. During the dark days of World War II, an American submarine sank off the coast of New England. Still alive as the submarine settled on the bottom of the ocean, the sailors restricted their every movement to keep from burning up precious oxygen. American rescue ships raced to the scene, divers probed the dark, murky waters, but their efforts were futile. Finally, just as the search was about to be called off, the rescuers’ equipment picked up a sound emanating from the deep. Using a wrench, a sailor in the submarine was beating out a message in Morse code: "Is there any hope?" The message inspired the rescue crews to try again, and the sailors were saved. That's what hope can do!