Hope is an overall optimistic view of the future, based on the goodness and the promises of God. Hope sees your joy-filled future, through choosing to view the world through the eyes of God.
“My hopelessness about my problem is a bigger problem than my problem.” Steve Backlund.
“We must face finite disappointments, but never lose hope in an infinite God.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Your past hurts will have no power to determine your future if you choose to retain hope in the goodness of God and His awesome plan for your life.
When my most cherished dream fails to come to pass, hope reminds me that God has the best plan for my future.
Or when I face the most devastating loss, when I realise that all I have left is God, suddenly I realise that He is enough.
“Let your hopes and not your past hurts shape your future.” Robert H. Schuller.
Optimistic hope filled people make the best leaders.
People of hope have world changing influence.
People you meet will enthusiastically invite your influence, if you overflow with hope for a better tomorrow.
“Leaders are dispensers of hope.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
Choosing to hope in God, in a world that feels like a living Hell, will empower you to transform it into a living Heaven.
For over ten years I was involved in an upliftment initiative to the poorest of the poor people displaced by war. Our passion was to inspire hope and not just give help to the needy.
I was asked: “How do you think you can encourage hope to such desperate people?”
My answer was, when I introduce them to the God who passionately loves them, their eyes light up with hope.
Hopeful individuals are happier people. Hope and joy are happy bedfellows.
“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.” Romans 15:13.
“Any area in your life that does not glisten with hope, means you are believing a lie and this area is a stronghold of the devil.” Francis Frangipane.
One of our most pressing needs is to develop the skill and the integrity to identify and repent of the lies that are robbing us of our hope. A
s we search for the truth, the truth will expose the lies and “the truth will set us free.” John 8:32.
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