Power to Succeed Pt.3

As believers, it is our job to follow instructions. If you cannot follow instructions, the enemy will take you out. The enemy’s whole goal is to take you out, but he can’t just do it, you have to open the door. If you deviate, the enemy will ultimately get you. You need to find some direction to follow every single day. If you choose convenience over following instructions, the enemy will own you. That’s why God’s Word says that we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV). If you do what you want to do and do not follow instructions, everything won’t work together for your good.

We need to pay acute attention to God, the Word of God, the Spirit of God and whatever is going on around us. God will make it work out for your good. You have to stop struggling. Struggling is anti-God. You should be content with such things as you have. You have salvation, you are born-again, you are filled with the Spirit and you have a loaded and ready mouth. God is on your side. He said that He will never leave you or forsake you. God can’t play on your team if you are struggling. Let God do whatever He wants to do. There is no hope or power in struggling.

God wants more than abundantly to show you that you will not be ashamed (Hebrews 6:19-20). Jesus is our hope. You have this hope as an anchor to your soul, so how can you not be excited and have a zest for life? You have to activate the power that has been given to you.

Hope changes the way that you see (Romans 8:28). Hope drives faith. This power to succeed in hard times changes the way you see. Hope is power. Without the hope, there is no faith. Hope changes the way a person goes about making choices and decisions because they are not looking with their natural eyes in order to make these choices and decisions. Your senses are not there to tell you how to live. We walk by faith and not by sight.

We ought to be eager about the things of God (Romans 8:24-25). Only by putting God first will you ever see the things that you desire manifest in your life. Get eager about God! All you have to do is be expectant. You have to imagine and meditate on God’s Word for hope to be conceived. If you can see the hope, it is not real, Bible hope. For you to have the hope that drives faith, you can’t see it. Hoping for what you can see is a lower level of hope. Hoping for what you cannot see brings out excitement and perseverance.

Hope will make you hear the Word differently, obey the Word differently, pray differently, and praise differently because you will have excitement and endurance to do whatever is necessary. It kills the whining and the complaining because you get real hope – the power to succeed no matter what.

Hope is the power to open up your eyes. Abraham hoped in God against the hope that his eyes could give him (Romans 4:18-19). This is the hope that is the power God has given us to succeed in hard times.














































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