Prisoners Of Hope

Prisoners of Hope

We all need hope.

• Hope is vital part in human life. Shout hope

• People go into deep disappointment and depression in life when they don’t see hope in their life

• People sometime lives a colorless life when they don’t see any hope in their life.

When you start living a life with hope in God, then you see a rainbow.

You will see all the seven colors in life. I prophesy that holy spirit is going to give you those 7 colors in your life.

He is going to make your life so colorful.

Everyday we use that small, magical word—hope. It's tough to live—or even make it through one day—without hope.

What is hope? Based on all the examples I just gave (and the Biblical text we're going to explore) I'd define hope like this: Hope is a vision for better days that changes us in the present. Hope is a vision for better days.

In Romans 5:3-5, Paul says that we can rejoice in our sufferings because we are a people of hope:

So, how can we have hope when everything looks hopeless? In the midst of suffering, we can rejoice because challenges cause us to:

1. Rely on God’s presence

God uses suffering to make us rely on his presence.

Rejoicing in suffering does not mean celebrating when bad news comes. But, it does mean that we can believe that God is doing a redemptive work.

This word “redemptive” means that God does not waste a hurt or disappointment. He is using them to shape and build us into the image of Jesus, which is his highest passion.

When we go through suffering, we often pray and seek God more intensely than at other times.

In Psalm 23:4, David writes that he does not fear because God is with him. He relies on God’s presence,

Remember that for there to be a shadow, there has to be a light. I don’t know what your “valley of the shadow of death” is, but I do know who the Light is that is walking with you in that valley.

2. Rely on God’s provision

In 2 Corinthians 12:7, Paul reveals that he has suffered from a “thorn in the flesh.”.

In our current situations, God is saying to us that his grace is sufficient, and even when we feel weak, he is making us stronger than we have ever been.

His grace is not an abstract idea. It is the person of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The hell you are going through may be the very circumstance God uses to take you to a whole new level.

3. Rely on God’s power

“Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Cor. 12:9b, ESV).

A job situation that has gone awry.

A medical diagnosis that has scared you.

Maybe, like Paul, it is also insults, hardships, or persecutions. Whatever it is, Paul says he will boast in those things because when we are weak, the power of Christ rests on us.

The greater the enemy comes at you, the greater Jesus is in you.

The greater the enemy comes at you, the greater Jesus is in you.

Maybe you hear voices telling you to just quit, give up, and let it go. Don’t stop.

When you are weak, then he is strong.

Remember the greater the attack against you, the greater Christ is in you, but you have to rely on his presence, his provision and his power.

10 Reasons to Hope (When All Seems Hopeless)

When discouraging and depressing news threatens to flood the nation, the church, and the soul, we need God’s help to lift up our heads, hearts, and hands.

1. Hope moves us forwards:

Christian hope is a realistic expectation of and joyful longing.

The more we long for the future, the less we will yearn for the past.

Hope deletes regrets and underlines expectation.

2. Hope energizes the present:

It is worth living today because the eternal tomorrow is so much brighter.

3. Hope lightens our darkness:

Hope does not deny nor remove the reality of dark and painful providences. However it does shine a bright light into these valleys and points to the sunrise at the end of them.

4. Hope increases faith:

Faith fuels hope, but hope also fuels faith. As Hebrews 11 makes very clear, hope and faith are very closely tied together, the one enlivening the other. Without faith we cannot soar in hope, but without hope faith will limp home. The greatest believers are the greatest hopers

5. Hope is infectious:

Just as we can drag others down by our recriminations and moping, so we can inspire and motivate through our inspiring hoping.