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HOPE

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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expectation of good happening, hope, joy, strength, Vision

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Hope is a confident expectation of good happening. But in order to have hope you must first have a vision. You must be able to see something different than where you are or what you are facing.

Proverbs 29:18 tells us that “Where there is no vision the people perish.” The reason being is that without vision you have no hope, without hope you have no joy, without joy you have no strength and how can you live without strength, without strength you have no life.

David said in Psalms 42:5 “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” David asked himself the question “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” And he answers himself by telling himself to hope in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Right here there was a shift in David’s vision. He began to see something different than where he was. He began to envision the favor of God and that vision of favor caused him to hope. It caused him to have a confident expectation of good happening.

The Amplified version of Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish.” In other words, where there is no revelation or vision of what Jesus did for us at Calvary we perish because without the cross we have no life.

Paul prayed for the church in Ephesians 1:15-18, “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” We cannot know the hope or the confident expectation of good to which He has called us without us first seeing Him in all His beauty, loveliness, majesty and power.

The enemy doesn’t want you to have hope. He wants you to give up having a confident expectation of good happening in your life. So he comes to distract you by causing you to look at the things happening in your surroundings and take our eyes off of Jesus the hope of glory. He knows that the moment you take your eyes off of Jesus you will lose hope and throw in the towel. You will deem your situation as hopeless.   And there is no place to go but down when you give up.   And by down I mean physically, mentally and emotionally. You will have no joy and you need joy to have strength and you need strength to have life.  Nehemiah 8: 10 says, “…for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”   If the joy of the Lord is our strength we need to know what the joy of the Lord is. The scripture doesn’t say our joy in the Lord (while that may be true) it says “the joy of the Lord.” His joy is our strength. So what is His joy?  Christ’s joy was in fulfilling the will of the Father and the Father’s will is that we have life. So the joy of the Lord is providing for us, protecting us, keeping us, healing us and giving us everything we need to live and enjoy this life. Now as we mediate upon this that it’s His joy to give to us, regardless of how dark or hopeless our situation or circumstance may be we will have hope. And if we have hope, even in the midst of all the stuff that may be going on around us we will have joy and if we have joy we have strength to continue living and enjoying life.

Look at Abraham. Scripture says he hoped against hope. Rom. 4:18, “Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be.” Abraham hoped when there was no natural or human means for him to hope. His situation was completely hopeless as it related to him having an heir. He was old and his wife Sarah was old and barren. So how could he have hope? Abraham had to move his eyes off of the things he saw in the natural and he had to get a new vision. Remember, without vision you can have no hope and without seeing Jesus you will have no vision. Psalms 119:130 says “The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” The word of God causes us to see. Jesus is the Word our living hope.   Abraham was able to have a confident expectation of good happening to him because he had a word from God and that word gave him a vision. He was able to see in his mind what God was telling him. As Abraham mediated on the words of God it gave him hope and that hope became an anchor for his soul or for his mind and emotions.

Where are you today? Are you feeling hopeless, down and depressed? You don’t have to stay there you can have a change of mind and heart if you take a hold of the word of God. Simply ask the Holy Spirit to give you a revelation of Jesus and it will give you hope. It will take you from being hopeless to being full of hope.

“Now we have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it, a hope) that reaches farther and enters into the very certainty of the Presence) within the veil. Where Jesus has entered in for us in advance a forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order with the rank of Melchizedek.” Hebrews 6:19-20

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Think Of The Father’s Love

06 Wednesday Oct 2010

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compassion, God, help, Jesus, love, mediate, strength, think

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Whenever I am faced with a situation or circumstance in life that could cause me to feel down I think of the Father’s love for me.  And as I mediate on His love for me, it releases in me His strength.

In the natural when you know that someone loves you, you know that that person has your back.  You know that you can call on them anytime and they will do whatever they can do to help you because they love you. Well, how much more our heavenly Father?  Isaiah 49:15-16 says, “Can a women forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.”

However, the enemy doesn’t want you to think on God’s love for you, he wants you to think that you are all alone and nobody cares and God loves everybody but you.  He knows that if he can get you to think like that he can get you to feel like that.  His plan is to drain you of your strength and make you feel weak and hopeless.  Your thinking affects how you feel.  Change your thinking and change how you feel.

Instead mediate on the love God has for you.  Think of how God loved you so much  He gave you His Son as surety that every term of the new covenant will be fulfilled in your life (Heb 7:22).  Think of how it please the Father to bruise His Son to save you (Isa 53:10).  Hear his voice saying I love you so much that I given you my only begotten Son.

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Stop Being Tired

24 Tuesday Aug 2010

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Jesus, rest, strength, Weight

Matthew 11:28
“Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Have you ever said to yourself “Lord, I’m tired? You started something with an expectation of success but you ended up failing.  You might give the first failure to not having the right plan, or not having enough resources so you get up start over with a new plan or more help.  Nothing can describe this more than starting a diet.  Those of you who have struggled at some point in time with weight can feel me on this.  It’s call yo-yo dieting.  We start and stop to start over again, without seeing any real success and we come to the place where we say, Lord, I’m tired.  Tired of trying and failing (herein lies our answer).

Amazingly, it’s not just in physical things but in spiritual things as well.  Maybe you’ve  tried to stop being angry and bitter but as soon as someone mentions the person or incident that caused you to be anger and bitter  once again you find yourself giving way to those feelings of anger and bitterness.

Let’s get off this merry-go-around.  You’re tired because you’ve been working so hard, relying on your own efforts to bring you success. That’s usually what happens when you work the flesh, it gets tired.  Jesus said “come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Matt 11:28-29).

It’s as plain as this, if we stop exerting our flesh, come to Jesus,  get connected to Him,  allow him to teach us His ways, He will be rest for our souls.   It’s so easy, so easy it just might work.

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Resting In The Strength Of The Lord

26 Wednesday May 2010

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griefs, help, rest, sorrow, strength, weakness

2 Corinthians 12:9
My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Have you ever been to the point of ‘I just can’t take this anymore?’ Well, you’re not alone I can’t image there is a person out there that hasn’t experience this at one time or another in their life. We all have come to a point where the pressures of life seem a little overwhelming and almost too much for us to bear. Jesus experienced the same thing too, once in the garden of Gethsemane and than again on the cross. In the garden he prayed in agony saying, “Oh my Father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt” (Matt. 26:39). And on the cross he cried out “…my God, my God why hast thou forsaken me” (Matt. 27:46).

Jesus went through it so that we could have his life. Isaiah 53:4 says, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.” Why? So we can have his life. He bore it; he didn’t give up so that we would never have to give up. Jesus knew that you and I would not be able to bear it alone. Therefore, he came to dwell within us so that when you feel like you just can’t take it anymore, all you have to do is lean back and rest in the strength of the Lord for his strength is perfect in weakness. He took our weakness to give us his strength.

Heb 2:18 says, “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”

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