Hoping Pt.1

Hoping When It Seems Hopeless

Pt.1

We must hope when it seems impossible. Your senses will tell you it seems hopeless. When it comes to pleasing God and reaching your destiny, you must forget sight. As believers, we walk by faith and not by sight. Every born-again believer was given the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). We have the faith of God, not our own faith (Mark 11: 22). This gift – the faith of God – cannot be taken from you by the enemy. Instead, the enemy tries to inactivate people’s faith – by killing their hope. Without hope, faith is useless (Hebrews 11:1). If you kill hope, it is as though you have killed faith because faith operates on hope. The enemy mounts everything up against you to make it seem hopeless. But, as long as God is alive, there is always hope. God can’t die. So, you must start hoping when it seems hopeless.

God calls Himself the “God of hope.” (Romans 15:13) Hope is eternal and it will never die. This should give us an expectation. Joy and peace only comes with hope. As long as you live by faith, you will be filled with joy and peace because the God of hope activates your faith. You must raise your expectations. You must be convinced that you do not walk alone – everything you do, God is in. God didn’t bring you here just to go this far. The enemy knows that you will reap in due if you don’t quit, which is why he wants to kill your hope. If you walk by faith and not by sight, then you will have a fruitful and prosperous life. The closer you draw to God, the sooner this will happen.

You have to decide today what kind of life you will live – a religious life or a relevant life. Religion puts God in a box. A relevant life is a life that God uses. Living a relevant life means you allow God to lead you. Christ came to earth to get us out of religion. He came to call us into relationship with Himself. When we get involved with God working in our lives, it brings excitement, freshness and adventure into our lives. You can experience the full salvation of God – the full salvation of God is deliverance, preservation, safety healing and soundness. We don’t need these in heaven, but we need them here on earth. You must work out your own salvation with fear and trembling – this means walking by faith and not by sight.

In 2009, you have to hope like you never have before. God wants to do something through you have never seen before (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). You don’t know what God has planned for you. If you trust your life completely to God, then He is completely responsible for what happens to you.

How can you see things in your life you have never seen before? First, you have to be fully persuaded. This is something you permit to be done with you. Abraham against hope believed in hope (Romans 4:17-21). He didn’t consider what he could see. He hoped in what he couldn’t see. Abraham was strong in faith and gave glory to God. Nothing is too hard for God. If God promised it, we have to hope. God fully persuaded Abraham. Let God fully persuade you. Second, it is not automatic (Galatians 3:13-14). Everything you are going to get from God comes by faith. Faith without action is dead. Faith makes the things you can’t see real. Ask God: Am I being conformed to the world? What is important to You, God? This is walking by faith. If you walk by faith, God will make it happen (Psalm 37:4). Third, you will only be filled to the level of your hunger and thirst (Matthew 5:6). You have to raise your hope so that God can show you His power by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 3:20). If God can bring life from death, can anything be too hard for God?