Hope

The Foundation of Faith


The first step of hope is to put God’s Word in your heart


Psalm 119:11

11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart...

The result of putting Gods word in your heart introduces the light of revelation – If you have the revelation of what the word of God means (referring to specific scriptures that cover your situation) – the Devil will not be able to steel the word from your heart that was sown. Mark 4:15


Psalm 119:130

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.


Habakkuk 2:2

And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

This is the very definition of Hope – God thinks thoughts towards you, thoughts up peace! God is on our side! Hope comes directly from God


Jeremiah 29:11

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.


How Hope Works – Patience to Experience – Experience to Hope and Hope To Faith – and Faith to the materialization in the natural world of your answer

We are blessed when we put our hope in the Lord

Jeremiah 17:7

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.


The Lord’s compassions fail not – they renew every morning – therefore we hope in him

Lamentations 3:20-24

22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.


Both Patience and Experience produce hope – hope is required for faith, and faith becomes the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen


Romans 5:3-5

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.


The Issues of Life

If you have lost your issues of life – repair them by filling your heart with Godly hope (Proverbs 4:23: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.)

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.


Patience is required to be perfect and entire – wanting nothing

James 1:4

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.


Without wavering – Abraham staggard not at the promise of God – he didn’t waver

Hebrews 10:23

23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)