Hope

  Hope

We need to develop hope without hope faith will not work

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

 ¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

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Hebrews 11

 ¹NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, ^[a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]


We need to develop hope without hope faith will not work 

 Faith perceives  as real fact what is not revealed to your natural senses   
and even when your mind is battling faith   your faith can still continue to grow and expand  until your mind  comes to subjection in your spirit
Hope is a product of your mind and its in you mind that you have hope without  hope your faith will not work because

Hebrews 11:1

 Faith is a product of your spirit its the explosive power of God that is resident in your spirit that will reach up and grab a hold of hope
Faith is a building block that takes your hope and transforms it to reality Hope  is the object of your Faith

Hope is a picture in your mind based on the promises of God of what you expect to receive from God

  you can have a picture in your mind that's not of God this is not hope this is imagination   there is a difference between hope and imagination    you can have a picture in your mind that is based on  your  circumstances and it can be a negative imagination hope is  not negative hope is not based on what you see,hear or feel it is based on the promises  of God  hope is always positive 
Hope will give your faith something to work with to bring into reality

Hebrews 11

By Faith We Understand

 ¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Romans 4:18

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¹⁸[For Abraham,  human reasonfor] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised, So [numberless] shall your descendants be.


Notice human reason is gone
 Many times in our life human reason is gone in our life and  in our economic situation in this nation 
It seem like there is not a lot of hope in our economy
there seem like there is not a lot of hope in many places and we do need a miracle and we do need to vote and become involved but we must not lose our hope for destiny for our life's and  for our nation we must not lose hope of the promises of God to proper its not contention on where you live
So here is Abraham he had  no human reason to hope he was a old man.God had given him a promise years before and now years had past and Sarah could no longer have children  she had past the age of child bearing and Abraham was a old man but he did not stop hoping he never lost that picture in his mind even when there was no human reason for him to continue to hope. You might have a child, relative, or a loved one it seems like  they will never  get saved and come to Jesus and come to Jesus but let me announce  to you don't give up hope hold on to the word of God  the word of God said all of your children will be disciples to the Lord always Obedient to his voice  of the Lord and Great will  be your children . It does not  say oh woe is me your child will go to hell there is nowhere in the bible that says that. Every verse that talks about  your children as an over comer possessing that gates of their  enemy loving the Lord returning to their own boarders. It the same way with you mate you can believe  the unbelieving  is sanctified     and know your mate is going to follow  the Lord . The bible said they are sanctified  by your own behavior  if you are a believing wife .. I believe it goes the other way around to. The believing husband can sanctify the unbelieving wife to.
  So Abraham had no human reason to hope when and reason can't give you hope when your  job can't 
give you hope when your bank account can't give you hope when your job can't give you hope you got to hope on it.
Trust God to heal you hope will not only witness to you hope will witness to everyone around you because hope gives substance to your Faith. So  here is Abraham's human reason for hope being gone he continued to hope in Faith he continued to give something to his Faith substance to his Faith he believed and  his hope was based on the promises of God that he would receive the promise it was not based on circumstances it wasn't based on it wasn't based on what he wanted personally it was based on what God said.
Hope in the dictionary means a happy expectation for good but the kind hope hope God wants from you is beyond that  hope is a happy expectation that crates a picture in your mind and you know what you can expect to receive from God because it is based  on the promises of God. Now listen to what else Abraham did not weaken in his Faith when he considered the otter importance in his own body he was good as dead because he was about 100 years old  when he considered the bearingness of Sarah's womb. Notice the word consider hope is of you mind there is a battle that goes on when you creating hope in your mind there are things that will change hope in your mind there are times your natural weakness will say to your spirit you can get rid of that picture image you are never going to see yourself well expect the illness in your body NO it does not say that in the word of God . Abraham did not let what people say get in the way he did not weaken  in his faith he believed what he had received from God. When challenges came he stopped    and began to give glory to God and he didn't weaken
 we must not lose our hope  don't give up  hope
Hope is based on the promise of God
If you begin to dwell on the negative if you begin to dwell on what the doctors says on what the natural vision says if you begin to dwell  on thous things   then unbelief will begin to creep in.
How do you get of it you got to step into worship you   got to believe and begin  to praise the Lord  and then Faith will rise up to meet your hope.
 

Romans 4:19-21

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¹⁹He did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah's [deadened] womb.
    ²⁰No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God,
    ²¹Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.



There is a Scripture that actually gives you recipe for hope Romans chapter 15 hope is a lancing pad  for your destiny God gives you pictures in your mind of potential based on your promise of God and Sometimes we think the potential is beyond us don't say that

Romans 15:13

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¹³May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.

God is full  of plans he does not sit in the heaven saying I  am wondering what I can do with a bunch of losers -No he has plans there is constant planning -he says lets talk about the future I have got plans I have high hopes I have got plans I have high hopes I want to impart to them something wonderful  that will empower them to step into a new dimensions of there of there faith great things for the kingdom of God
God has Plans God even has plans for me .He is  a God of hope ,expectation,and plans .Have you ever look at the bible and a verse reaches out and grabs you well there is hope that this message will reach out and grab your spirit.
When you go to the doctors,finances are bad, and  etc and your not doing good . you better get in the word
and find those scripture  so you can get the Faith picture in your mind
May the God of hope fill you will all joy
God wants you to have hope so you can have joy
 Joy of the Lord is before Jesus
 Joy is always before you
 Joy is the ability to look beyond
Jesus could get thou the cross because he could see beyond the cross and when he looked beyond the cross he seen the promise of God that if you are willing to die if you are willing to take the punishment if you are willing to go to hell for these people then I will redeem the entire human race thou you and its going to hurt to go to the cross and your going to suffer on the cross and it isn't going to be fun to go to hell


I choose to believe God loves me choose to believe  God prospers me I choose to believe God strengthens me  I choose to believe I am more then a  conqueror I choose to believe that I   fulfills the plan of God   my life you have got the power in you to believe you have a choice everyday God will not force you to walk in Faith he will not force you to be prosperous he will not not even force you to walk in heath if you don't want to believe in healing you don't have to    he won't make you and the holy goast wants something to happen so as you believe the promise peace comes and as peace comes faith rises and the power of the holly goast begins to release in you thou the power of the power of the holy goast you begin to abound and be overflowing bubbling  over with hope suddenly when you choose to believe pictures of possibility explode in your mind you begin to see yourself differently you begin to see the potential God has for you and when you believe  to see    to potential God has for you that picture in your mind will begin to stain  you and the faith with in your spirit will rise up grab that picture and exploded it into reality-? Will it happen instantly no there will be time you have to carries that picture for a long time for certain things there are some healing that come quietly and some things you have to walk out  and have to keep  on- -Why doesn't Good give it to me instantly it because he wants me to learn patience he want me to learn endorse   he wants my faith to get bigger and bigger . If you will embrace the picture God gives you if you will embrace the joy  if you will embrace the promise the hope will come and the hope will energize your faith and the faith will deliver  you

 

Hebrews 12:2

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²Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hope in the Lord’s Faithfulness

Lamentations 3:21

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²¹But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation:

   

The promises of God ( God has a plan and purpose for our life)

Zechariah 9:12

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¹²Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you.

Isaiah 60:1-5

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Isaiah 60

 ¹ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!    ²For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you.
    ³And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
    ⁴Lift up your eyes round about you and see! They all gather themselves together, they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried and nursed in the arms.
    ⁵Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the [Dead] ^[a]Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their treasures.


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