HOPE IN GOD

 “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.”  Ps 42:5

There are times when life seems to make no sense, when nothing seems to add up; at such times we are most vulnerable to despair, despondency, frustration, and before you know it, depression has set in. At such times, unless God comes around to get us on His own revelatory frequency and open our eyes to the big picture, we will be miserable and the devil will have a field day harassing us over the things that God has already concluded, settled and finished.  (….the works were finished from the foundation of the world- Heb 4:3). The major reason we become hopeless most of the times is our poor or wrong perception; when we cannot see what God sees, we get into self-pity and from self-pity to depression.

HOPE IS THE ANCHOR

When we lose hope, we become like a ship that has reached the harbor but it is not anchored. Such a ship will always be at the mercy of the waves of the seas, tossed about and restless. Bible describes hope as the anchor for the soul (This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil - Heb 6:19).

HOPE RELEASES ENERGY

Hope infuses and injects life and spiritual energy necessary to bring the invisible into this material realm. However, hope is not possible where you have not connected to God’s own frequency, to see as He sees. It has been established that vision modifies behavior—what you keep seeing will affect your thinking, what you think affects your feeling, and your feeling ultimately affects your behavior.

Therefore, if your hope is weak, it is as a result of weak vision. If you are hopeless, it is because you have been seeing a wrong picture that the devil, the enemy of your soul wants you to see. There is no how you will see from God’s perspective and not have a living hope. Hope is a powerful force produced by vision. Connect back on God’s frequency, for I’m sure that your dream will not become a nightmare, it will be fulfilled. Your vision is not a mere imagination, it is born of God; and hear this, “whatever is born of God overcomes the world” 1 John 5:4

WRONG PICTURE KILLS HOPE

They showed Israel the garment of Joseph, soaked in the blood of animal as an evidence to show that his son had been mauled by a wild beast. As a result of this false evidence (vision), Israel lost hope and lived in despondency for several years. Devil made him to be sad when it was baseless to do so. Devil made him to mourn over a child he should rejoice over. Imagine what devastation a false mental and spiritual picture can bring to your soul! You don’t have to lose hope because of what Satan is showing you about your life and destiny, because it is not true, it is false! Tune in to God’s frequency today and bounce back to life.

Hopelessness is one of the major dragon-headed evil this generation is attacked with day after day. If ever there is any crime, you can trace it to hopelessness. Suicide is like a normal evil this generation has had to put up with, divorce rate even among the children of God is assuming an alarming proportion. All these and other evils are traceable to the fact that someone somewhere has lost hope; he or she couldn’t see meaning in the whole scenario of life anymore.

There is no place where you can get an accurate and authentic picture of your future except in the word of God. Bible is full of graphics and images of your destiny. I dare you to behold it continually—behold it long enough and it is stamped on your mind permanently.

This is why I believe this is the time to preach this gospel of hope to this highly harassed and depressed generation. People have lost touch with the Source of hope (God) and are seeking for hope in things that can never give hope. Our God is called the God of hope.

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”- Rom 15:13-14

From this beautiful passage above, we see that there can never be joy and peace where there is no hope. The next time you see a joy-less or peace-less person, just go straight to the root—the hope is under attack.

Your situation is not as hopeless as Satan painted it. You can still pick up the broken pieces of your life and hand them over to the Master—the Potter will help you put it together again and make of your life a masterpiece that will be celebrated all over the world! Yield to the Holy Spirit today, He will give you the power to abound in hope.

Keep abounding in hope.