Power to Succeed Pt.5

The power to succeed in hard times is hope. Without hope, faith is useless. Hope drives faith, and faith changes everything. Satan is attempting to strip people of their hope in order to knock out their faith. Every challenge is an opportunity for promotion. When you are at your end, you stand at the threshold of an opportunity. Impossibilities are opportunities to show how what can’t be done can be done.

God’s Word is the source of hope. Everything works together for the good of those who obey God (Romans 8:28). The promise of “all things work together” is backed up by God’s statement that the hope will not disappoint. Hope does not disappoint because the love of God was poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5).

God is on our side, so no one can beat us (Romans 8:31-32). God already gave us His best when we were born again. This hope will not leave you embarrassed. God chose to be on our side. He says that He is for us. We received the impossible up front because the Righteous died for us. How, then, will God not also freely give us all things? In hard times, we ought to look for how God will work it out.

Hope gives us supernatural power. It comes from the power that God used to raise Jesus from the dead. Hope enables us to do things supernaturally that we could not otherwise do.

The power of hope is that you can see things that are not there (2 Corinthians 4:17-18). Hope changes the way you see. You see with the spirit. The things that we see in the natural are meant to block us. The way we get around this is looking at what we can’t see. You will go down looking at what you can see – it is an illusion to keep you trapped.

Hope also gives us the endurance to make it (1 Thessalonians 1:2-3). The enemy seduces people to quit. We have to chain him up. We have dominion. We have to partake of our inheritance. We don’t have endurance in and of ourselves, but God gives us hope. The only way we don’t make it is if we give up. We shouldn’t call it over until we win (Galatians 6:9).

To love God, you can’t sit at home – you have to do what He commands (Hebrews 10:36). Without hope there is nothing for faith to give substance to (Hebrews 11:1). If we are fully persuaded, we talk of what we know (Hebrews 11:8, 11-14). Jesus’ joy was seeing what He could not see (Hebrews 11:2).

The power of hope enables you to obey God out of your situation. While you are obeying, God has already done something. All things work together for your good while you are obeying God. When you obey God, you aren’t doing it, God is. Grace gives us the power to obey. God makes the way of escape – don’t fight Him, obey Him (1 Corinthians 10:13). The promises of God are not a menu, they are an inheritance.

Salvation is for hope (1 Thessalonians 5:7-8). This will guard your thoughts from facts. It will protect you and will give you the endurance to make it out, and you will be rewarded. We faint in our minds – this hope will keep us from the seduction to give up.

Paul learned in difficult times that he could more than make it with Christ who makes him who he is – this is the power of hard times (Philippians 4:11-13). The key is being with the one who makes us who we are. We are not alone.

We live in the presence of God. To remind ourselves that we are not alone is to live in the presence of God. God knows what you expect by the name you choose to call Him, i.e. Wonderful, Emmanuel, the Counselor, the Everlasting Father, the Might God, the Prince of Peace, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Alpha and Omega, etc.

The power of hope is to learn that you will more than make it!



























































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