Tag: Hope

Faith, the Substance of My Hopes

What are you hoping for, and what kind of vision does your hope produce?

We as believers must have an earnest desire of what we are expecting our outcomes to be. Our faith builds as we examine God’s word and then start implementing it in our lives. Amen!

These building blocks of faith keep fear at bay and we stop pondering all the, “what could happen scenarios.”  Then we stay with the vision God gave us out of His word and into our spirits.

God speaks in visions; His word gives us an image of our future and our future in Him gives us “High Hopes.”

When we follow God’s word for our lives as a way of living, our obedience then fuels our hopes.

And “High Hopes” produce our desired expectations, bringing our faith into realizing.  Our realizing pleases God because faith pleases God. Amen!

True faith would conquer all pressure and we would not even think on the, “what could happen” scenarios. When we stay rooted and grounded in the word and the vision God gave us, we increase our belief in the truth.

True faith relieves our bondage again to fear, our hopeful expectation expels all fear. Because hope sees the future outcome of our situations, and all situations come out for our good and God’s glory!

God’s word and Spirit give us a faithful vision, a vision full of faith.  And by faith, we lay hold of peace, a peace that can only be attained when we stop allowing other visons to play out in our minds.

Our mind truly is the battlefield where all our faith battles are fought.  A heart full of God’s word and a strong spirit which has been fed on Godly vision will intervene in the battle of the mind and cause you to see your victorious outcome.

There is always more with us than there is with them; them being the negative pull of the devil and his cohorts.  God always causes us to triumph.

We overcome in every situation when we get our vision past the battlefield of our mind, and into our hopeful outcome. God and His spirit are with us in every small situation, up to and including life-changing situations and dreams!

When we feed on the Word of God, our Word-filled inner encouragement becomes the catalyst that portrays the vision of our hopeful outcome.

God will always give us a vision of a good outcome, as we walk by faith in Him!

God is always checking our heart condition to gauge our level of faithfulness.  He knows where our faith really is, and sometimes we need to cry out to Him, “Lord I believe, help me with my unbelief.” This moves us into a place of humility and allows God to release more grace to us, and with enough grace, we can do anything! Amen!

You see grace isn’t too far from faith, and our true faith causes a release of more grace, which will produce for us our hopeful vision. We must get real with ourselves to allow and enjoy all the gifts that God has to offer.

God is always standing at our call, with His arms wide open. His embrace is full of love, full of guidance, and full of wisdom giving us that warm fuzzy feeling when we know we have pleased Him.

God is always pleased with our faith abiding in Him, humbly crying out for and accepting His help, which is His grace shown to us His people.

By allowing God to direct our path, “By Faith”, we are given His light, and with His light, we see our desired outcome and avoid all the, “what could happen scenarios.”

God really wants us to have our hearts desire in every situation, in every dream. He just wants us to attain them through Him and, “By Faith.”

As we look past what we see, our desired outcome is produced by our Godly vision, and the more light we have the more vision we have, the more vision gives us the reality of what we started out hoping for.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1.

Let your hopes fuel what you’re seeing, “get your hopes up today.”

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Scriptures of encouragement and content: James 1:22-25, Psalm 89:19, NIRV translation, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 8:15, 2 Kings 6:16, 1 John 5:4, Mark 9:23-24, Hebrews 4:16, Psalm 37:4, and Hebrews 11:1 in the New Living Translation, Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. Amen!

Encouragement, Not a Pep Talk

Encouragement is a call to action for an extended period of time, unlike a pep talk that is utilized for a current, in the moment realignment to get you through the task at hand.

To give encouragement we must first establish these three criteria for being a persuasive encourager. Modes of persuasion are: ethos, which convinces others of your qualifications and gives you place in their lives; pathos, which shows you have compassion and a genuine care for the good outcome of others; logos, shows and directs folks towards logical solutions, a persuading of the thought process.

Changing the thought process is an ongoing solution to a negative pull that would stimulate and develop a state of certainty in one’s ability to deal with the now, and thrive in the future. Engaging you and enlightening you as to what is immediate and can be carried out in the now moment, but also staying with you as you persevere in the future.

As we continue in counseling and encouraging, words are supplied to cause an image of overcoming, a stimulation of your core being that enables you to move forward purposefully. “I believe in you”, “you are a perfect fit”, “you got this”, “you are making a difference”. All these words grouped together form images, so that you can gain confidence in yourself, and become self-assured.

You see, we as people tend to be our own persuader of uncertainty and that leads to our being unsettled in our abilities, whether that be physical, mental, or spiritual. Physical hurdles are overcome by spiritual action, the main persuasion of the spirit is hope, hope is an action of expectation and expectation believes the future will be bright, it sees ourselves as more than conquerors. Amen!

A self-stimulation formed by an outside – image or a word of encouragement that brings hope would cause recognition of an accurate discernment of the truth. Then the truth about your situation is the basis for your persuasion, but when we allow contrary ideas and images into our vision we become discouraged. We in essence are discouraging ourselves, by seeing a distorted image of ourselves and our situation.

We need a renewed vision, and I encourage you to listen to a special word of persuasion; “Jesus Christ by His Grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, so encourage your hearts”.  This scripture would bring a distinct vision of future encouragement and some Bible hope. Amen!

It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, a strengthened heart is an encouraged heart, a grace-filled heart is a cheerful heart, and our cheerfulness will exterminate discouraging thoughts and replace them with, Godly vision. God speaks to our heart in vision, so my encouraging word for you today is, “be strong and courageous” and let these words form a vision in you that stirs you up, cheers you up, and calls you to the act of being persuaded.

Believe in yourself today, you are well able to achieve all that is required of you, all your desires, and all your dreams!

Dream big and let your dreams persuade you, you are the apple of God’s eye!

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Scriptures of Encouragement: 2 Timothy 1:12, Romans 8:37,
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, Hebrews 13:9, Deuteronomy 31:6 and
Titus 1:1 in the AMP classic “Paul a bondservant of God and an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to stimulate and promote the faith of God’s chosen ones and to lead them on to accurate discernment and recognition of and acquaintance with the Truth which belongs to and harmonizes with and tends to Godliness.” Amen!    

Grief, Abandon it by Faith

Grief at times can be a misunderstanding, a confusion of the circumstances, a failure to see and sense the true happenings of a situation. We need inner strength to console ourselves, a substance of a hopeful future that is grasped “by Faith”.

Faith, our true inner beliefs, our deep-seated knowing, and understanding can lift us up quickly and establish situational clarity.

Clarity allows, or extinguishes our ability to process our grief in a healthy manner dependent on our past choices in regards to what we believe. Clarity is the necessary agent required to deal with, and understand the effects our grief will have on our ability to console ourselves.

This clarity can be defined as soul peace, for God is not a God of confusion but of peace. Soul peace would eliminate the discomforting feelings and emotions and deliver you out of the heaviness and oppression associated with the grief.

Therefore let us make every effort to do what leads to peace. Calling on God can enlist Him to lead you and start the healing process. Amen!

Unchecked grief robs us of our natural healing process, but faith in God propels our healing process by a soothing of the mind, heart, and emotions. Our faith in God becomes the seat of our emotions and that gives us a clear place to sit. Seated with God in heavenly places alleviates the pressure that is causing our grief.

If we continue to leave our emotions unchecked, we will allow our imagination the opportunity to oppress us, burdening us down with fear, anger, or guilt, and this weight will keep us from climbing out of a heightened state of grief.

As grief gets its grip we enter into sadness or a feeling of hopelessness and this is the point where we must look up to, and cry out to God for help.

In times of despair, we need spiritual encouragement and we need it quickly, calling a personal friend, a trusted minister, or a Christian counselor, without delay.

You see at this point we need to be guided in a different direction, set on a corrective trajectory, leading back to that soul peace that we allowed ourselves to drift away from. Amen!

Soul peace is a place where we find our grounding, soul peace is an inherent character of God, and this soul peace ends the agitation that is causing continued grief.

Soul peace is actually the desire of us all, but realizing where it comes from takes words of encouragement, words of Godly wisdom, and a hearing of the Word of God that would lead us back to “Faith”.

A spiritual sensation that would override all our sadness and grief and replace it with hope, a hope of things not yet experienced but longed and looked to ‘by faith”.

Heart faith looks to and accepts the feelings that it is longing for, reaching towards, and then that heart faith lays hold of the substance that it was clinging to all the time, Soul Peace.

Faith is the comforting inner peace that causes us to prevail over sadness and grief, then sadness and grief are replaced by unfailing love and redemptive compassion for others that propels us forward, up and out of our feelings of despair and back into caring for ourselves and others.

Giving and receiving care, being ourselves comforted by God, and then being equipped to care and comfort others, this is the true meaning of our living and being.

Living is being full of life, and life is the condition that distinguishes, our unity with God and others, and leads us on a path of continual change.

By faith, we change from Glory to Glory, and by loving one another as we love ourselves we are distinguished as children of God.

From grief to glory, that is the plight of everyone who chooses to accept God and His goodness over the negative pull that works to cut us off from true living. 

So, mourn with those who mourn, even take time to experience and process grief, but remember that rejoicing is just around the corner.

Come back to life today, seek love and help today, while it is still called “today”.

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Helpful scriptures: 1 Corinthians 14:33, Romans 14:33, Ephesians 2:6, John 1:12 and Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen” TPT.