HOPE

Hope will make you act and be motivated. Without hope we cannot reach our goals, but hope will help us do accordingly towards who we are. We do as we are if hope is in us. You cannot exercise your potential until hope rises in you. When hope rises, actions according to who you are starts. If there is no hope you will do the opposite.

When I was building this place, the area was a swamp, full of water, but because I was in hope, the swamp was not an issue to me, but I acted according to my hope that on this place I will build for many people to come and worship God together with me.  My physical eyes saw the challenge but my hope told me you have got what you needed. If your hope tells you yes, stand on it and don’t look at the challenge you see. Many times what we desire is not God’s desire for us because we have not learned to walk in hope.

In today’s world you see a challenge of hope is everywhere, people have lost hope in God. By holding hope you will reach your goal. The way you contain hope is how you will fulfill your destiny.

In Joshua 6, the bible talks about Joshua when he was in Jericho. When they arrived Jericho they found a wall which was a challenge for them to get inside, but with hope God told them to go around the wall for seven days. Hope will give you trust in God. When the trust in God grows, it makes miracles to happen without even praying for miracles. We hold in hope trusting God, and God does miracles. Do not fast and pray if you have no hope. The Israelite did not pray, they were just in hope trusting God and God did the miracle. Trusting God makes you act and the act makes God to act with you.

Obedience cannot come if you are not in hope. When you have hopes, God will give you vision or dreams which will make you somebody. Hope will make you dream your future. Where there is hope, wisdom comes in and starts telling you what to do. While wisdom begins his work, faith comes in.

Hope and faith helps you to look back and forward correcting your mistakes and failures. Hope will never leave you without repentance. In Joshua 7 we see Joshua going back to the Lord after losing the battle, asking where he has done wrong. Hope will grant you a life of self correction, correcting yourself everyday so that you may be better than yesterday. If you see life is difficult start asking yourself where have you done wrong, instead of starting casting out the devil. If we want God to walk with us and do wonders in our life we must know where we have wronged Him, know where you have come from, where you are and where you are heading to. Ask yourself if people around you are pleased with you and what to do to make them happy. Psalm 51

Hope will help you turn around looking where your salvation is coming from, it will guide you towards your salvation. Hope drives you toward where your opportunity is. Hope will always drive you to your success, hope is a driving motor to become who you are in Him.  Look at your life, are you succeeding? Are you growing? Allow hope to come for it will make you somebody.

Consider the following questions:

• Do you trust God? In what?
•  In your family, do they have hope? Do you have hope in them? Do they have hope in you?
• At work, do you have any hope with what you do?
• In your relationships, is there any hope in your relationships, with wife, husband, children, friends, fellow etc?
• In your commitments, do you have any hope in whatever you are committed to do?

Hope is like a mountain of Zion according to Psalm 125. If you are in hope you cannot do as you want because there is somebody owning your life and whatever you do is not by your might or power but by the power of the one who owns you, the Lord. When God sees your hope and your trust He gives you what you want to make your faith strong.

Prayer without hope is nothing, but prayer with hopes brings faith and it is where there is power to cause things to happen. God give you faith but hope comes within you because you were created with it. Faith comes by hearing the word of God but we do not gain hope by listening to the word but by recognizing who we are. We plan things because of hope and not because of faith. Even sinners can live by hope because they were created with it, but it is only the believers who can live by faith.

If you cannot hold and maintain things you were created with, how can you live with things from God?

©Servant of God Presiding Apostle Josephat Elias Mwingira, Efatha Church.