TURN UP YOUR HOPE :
May 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. – Romans 15:13
You know, that's what I want to be...
running over with hope!
I want to dare to throw my whole life
and everything I have into building a dream
that comes from the heart of God.
I want to get out there so far that without God's help,
I can't get back.
Many people don't think that way though
because they're afraid to fail.
Fear of failure is dangerous.
If you let it dominate you,
it will cause you to do the one thing that inevitably
guarantees failure and that's not attempting at all.
How do you counteract the fear of failure?
You turn up your hope.
You get alone with God and listen to Him.
You meditate on His promises
until the picture is so clear on the inside of you
that nothing can jar it out of you.
If you're lying on a sickbed
and the doctor has told you you'll never walk again,
instead of wallowing around in that bad report,
you start dreaming.
You start building a dream of climbing mountains and
witnessing to people in the backwoods.
Go to the Word that promises
that those who wait upon the Lord
shall run and walk and not faint or be weary.
Look at it until you see nothing else.
Picture yourself walking for miles and running
from one place to the next,
telling everyone that Jesus has raised you up
and made you whole.
That's what hope is all about.
It's a divine dream.
It's an inner image that's bigger
than you are because it's built on the promises of God.
If you're a Christian, you ought to be a dreamer.
Take the Word of God and build some dreams today.
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