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The God Of Hope
Contributed by Jeff Taylor on Jul 24, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: Hope is God's gift to the believer. The fact is that God Almighty put you on this earth with a specific purpose. You have a divine destiny that no one else on this planet can achieve but you.
Therefore, I challenge you to take your prayer journal and write the Bible verse for hope that you have, and tape those messages to the refrigerator door because you see that 18 times a day. And when you pray that prayer journal, you're going to hear a voice from heaven saying, "I'm with you. We're going to get through this". The victory is ours through Christ the Lord. The anchor holds! Keep pressing on! Hope when I have failed so miserably. There's not a person here, including the preacher, who has not, at one point in their life in some way or the other, failed. I have failed, and at times I have told God, "If I were you, I would fire me". You have failed. There's not one who has not failed and tasted the bitter herbs of failure. Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is forever an orphan. But failure is a good teacher. It's a good teacher. You don't ever do it again.
Some of you stopped living because you've parked by the poison stream of a great failure in your life. Maybe it was a marriage. Maybe it was a business deal. Maybe it was the betrayal of a dear friend, or a dream that became a nightmare that didn't work. There are untold millions who have made a wonderful start in the Christian life, but somehow along the way, they stumbled and fell. They gave up. They quit trying. They lost hope. Am I talking to you? Get up! Get up out of the dust of defeat! You can be victorious over your past! You can be victorious over the burdens you're facing! "If God be for you, who can be against you"? "Hope thou in God". The greatest tragedy in life is not to fall down. The greatest tragedy in life is staying down. The greatest disaster is not to fail, but it's to sit down by your failure, suck your thumb, and give up hope. Stop it! As long as you're willing to start living again, as long as you're willing to start loving again, start believing again, start achieving again, there is hope. "Hope thou in God". Give the Lord a shout of victory in the house. Glory to his name. Glory to his name. We bless you Lord. We bless you Lord.
