Having hope everyday is hard but when you can make it a believable and living hope which is through Jesus, then it is real hope that we can have 365 days a year!
I volunteer with a group called Celebrate Recovery at my church and they like to use acronyms so I came up with one for hope:
H – He
O- Overcomes
P – Problems
E – Everyday
That my friends is the truth and a believable hope. “He Overcomes Problems Everyday”
Romans 15:3 says, “Now May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Jesus is the power that can deliver us from anything today and all the tomorrows and for deliverance we must have a living and believable hope in Jesus Christ. I call it Hope365 because it is with me all the time 24/7 and 365 days a year.
Romans 12:12 says: …REJOICING IN HOPE, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer…
In our world today we find very little hope in God and most have a hard time believing in an invisible God and they put their trust and hope In those tangible things like money, houses, cars and houses.
But when they cannot find hope, their lives become hopeless and too often this hopelessness leads them to self defeating behaviors and habits which wreck havoc upon their lives. Before long, in desperation they may do something even more drastic, drink too much, overdose on drugs, run away, break the law and get sent to jail. Or it wrecks their families and again life ends in a divorce or worse, suicide.
Did you know that the word hope appears in the Bible 129 times in 121 verses? In the New Testament the majority of the verses link hope to salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
I Thessalonians 5:8: “But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.”
Real hope is a living, believable hope. It is HOPE365!! Simply stated when we trust the word of God, we trust Jesus because the word testifies of him, and a hope in Jesus is a sure thing that holds fast and protects us as a refuge from the worst of storms.
“For I know the thoughts that i think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil, To give you a FUTURE AND A HOPE!!
Jeremiah 29:11 has become my mantra because God spoke this to my heart when I was at the bottom, thinking my life was over, because I’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. My life was over and when I looked up to the heavens and asking God a lot of questions and a lot of Whys?? God used His word to reassure me all was well and to have hope.
God gave me a hope and a future, just like he’s given one to all of you….. it’s a Hope 365 and it is a believable and living hope that is ready for you to step in and accept.
