HOPE
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Hope is a living thing. Peter wrote that God has given us a new birth into a 'living hope'. Paul also says hope "abides." To abide means "to live." Only living things abide, so hope is a living thing and you have to feed it with the Word so it can grow.
If you'll do that, hope will paint a picture of God's promise fulfilled in your life. It will give you an inner image of yourself healed and prosperous, with your loved ones saved, your marriage restored or whatever else you've been hoping for. Hope will paint that picture so clearly inside you and make it so real; you will become blind to what you see on the outside.
As you meditate on those inner pictures hope has painted with God's Word, you'll begin to believe you are what the Word of God says you are. You'll begin to realize you're not what the world or your parents or your friends say you are. You're not even what you think you are. You are what GOD says you are! You're the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!
Let me give you an example: You have a condition that doctors are finding hard to handle. So you go on your knees and pray to God for your healing. You begin to locate and memorise all verses on healing in the Bible. You meditate constantly on these verses till you begin to get a clear picture of yourself healed. This picture in your heart becomes your confession. You'll actually get to the point where you don't pay any attention to how you feel now, because you've seen yourself healed in Jesus with the eyes of your spirit.
If you'll continue to look at yourself healed and not let the devil shake you, if you'll refuse to complain and tell everybody how terrible you feel, one of these days you see on the inside will become what how you feel on the outside. He'll be healed! That's what hope does. It creates a miracle working atmosphere.
Prayer:Bind and cast out the spirit of hopelessness; ask the Lord to fill you with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Scriptural Reading: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (Joshua 1:9)
Courage comes from trusting God. It can’t be mentally drummed up. It comes from believing what God says regardless of what the circumstances look like. Courage comes from faith!
Where does discouragement come from? From fear and unbelief. It comes when you listen to the devil’s lies about what God is not going to do for you.
As the people of God, you and I must shake off discouragement and rise up with courage! We must quit looking at our own abilities and failures and limitations and start looking to God. We must rise up in the Name of Jesus and the power of His Spirit and establish the kingdom of heaven upon earth.
If you’ve been discouraged lately, stop listening to Satan’s lies. Stop receiving evil reports. Whenever someone tells you God is not going to deliver you, you just tell them, “He’s already delivered me in the Name of Jesus.”
Once you begin to realize who you are and what you’ve been given by the power of God, you’ll quit letting the devil run all over you. God didn’t suggest that you be strong and courageous. That is His command!
Scripture Reading:
Joshua 1:1-9
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