“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3
When we were born again one of the greatest attributes that our Father bore into us was a lively hope. Christians are able to hope when the world is unable to even think of hope, when the world has no answers, Christians have hope, and the lively hope that has been born into us is the power behind our faith. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 And as we have studied before, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith; so Jesus is the One Who is authoring and empowering us to continue in God’s lively hope. Christians are able to have hope when there seems to be no hope, and the reason that we are able to have such hope, is because we have not been given a spirit of fear, 2 Timothy 1:7 We have been given a spirit of peace, love, power, and a sound mind. Now do these attributes sound like anyone we may know? Jesus has all of these things in abundance and He is now within us authoring our faith, which has its beginnings in the lively hope that God has born into us! Our Father is all of these things, He is the fullness of these attributes, and He has chosen us and He has birthed us from His Divine Seed. When God created us, He created us in His image, He breathed life into us, and that life came directly from His life. Our Father didn’t conjure up a different life force for us; He gave us His life force, just as He gave it to Jesus. Jesus doesn’t fear, He doesn’t fear failure; He doesn’t fear death, He doesn’t fear sickness, and He doesn’t fear what people think of Him. Jesus has no fear and when He was here as a man, he had no fear. What He did have was absolute trust; absolute trust in what our Father had spoken would be done. Absolute Trust that God was willing and able to complete all of the promises that He had proclaimed! The things that our Father was going to do through Jesus had just been spoken of, and that was enough for Jesus! Just God speaking it gave Jesus complete trust and faith that it would be done and we now have Jesus’ mind and we have His Spirit, and we are members of His body!
Think about Jesus’ hope and what it means. Jesus hoped that He would be able to be offered on the Cross, so that we might be saved and have eternal life. His hope was that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly. He hoped that by His stripes we would be healed. God had not done any of these things through man before Jesus went to the Cross, He had only spoken of them, and Jesus had hope that they would be. He had the hope that our Father would strengthen Him so that He could accomplish all that He was to accomplish, and this hope that Jesus had came from only hearing God’s Word about it! This is what we are born of; this is now our hope. The same force within Jesus, the force of hope that allowed Him to come as a man and die on the Cross, is the force of hope that our Father has given to us. Jesus was able to hope and thus He was able to walk in faith, and faith produced the miraculous works that God did through Him to serve others, and faith allowed Jesus to endure the Cross, which served us all! This same lively hope has been born into us! Now stop and actually allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you in the power of this Truth!
When people think of Jesus, they tend to put His hope, His faith, His attitude, and His works in an unattainable category, as if Jesus was the only one that could ever be used to do them. We do this because Jesus is our Lord, He is God, and we believe that by doing so is a way to worship Him. But that’s not what Jesus came to do. Jesus didn’t come to show us that He was superior to us, even though He is! He came to show us and to empower us to live as our Father desires for us to live, just as He lives. Jesus came to show us that we could have hope as He has hope, that we could have faith, as He has faith, and that God could do His works through us, just as God did through Him. Jesus came to tell us that our God could even do greater works through us because He has gone to the Father. That is why our Father had it written that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, that He is the one that gave us hope, and that He is the One performing the works through us. Jesus is Sovereign, He is our Lord, and He gave us all that He has, so that we could live as He lives. Jesus is hope, and He is faith, and He is love, and He is power, and we are now and forevermore one with Him. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Jesus is a being of hope, and as He is, so are we in this world! We truly worship Him and we truly please our Father by allowing Him to live within us, as He lives within Jesus! We can’t help but be filled with hope; it’s how God has made us!
“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13 Our Father has given us the Holy Ghost to empower us to believe His Truth and in believing we will have peace, just as Jesus does. Jesus isn’t fretting about anything, all of His needs are met, and we too are able to have His lively hope in this! Yet we don’t just hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit we abound in hope! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and we have been given the Holy Ghost so that we may abound in God’s hope, so praise be to God, we may abound in His faith! And to insure that we do, we have our Father's very Spirit within us! Jesus taught that if we have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, that we could tell a mountain to move and it would obey us. It doesn’t take a lot of faith to be powerful, and our Father has given us Himself, so that we may abound in it. Our Father is a God of hope, and this is what He hopes for us and He has filled us with all peace and with all joy so that we may abound in His hope! Faith comes from hearing the Word of God, so you bet ya; I am going to desire and allow our Father to preach it through me! I need this Truth, life in this world without Jesus is ruff! But through Jesus we have hope and hope brings faith and faith brings abundant life results!
“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.” Romans 5:5 There is no fear in the perfect love of Jesus and we have not been given a spirit of fear! We will not be ashamed in hoping for these things. Our Father is in our hearts. These Truths are how He is, these scriptures are His Truths, Heaven and Earth will pass away, but these Truths shall remain, and hoping for them, will never leave us ashamed! There is no fear in hoping for the greatness of God to be revealed and realized through us! We shall not be ashamed in our hope that our Father will perform His signs through us, and that we will have boldness is the Day of Judgment!
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of your calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Ephesians 1:17-18
When we were born again one of the greatest attributes that our Father bore into us was a lively hope. Christians are able to hope when the world is unable to even think of hope, when the world has no answers, Christians have hope, and the lively hope that has been born into us is the power behind our faith. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 And as we have studied before, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith; so Jesus is the One Who is authoring and empowering us to continue in God’s lively hope. Christians are able to have hope when there seems to be no hope, and the reason that we are able to have such hope, is because we have not been given a spirit of fear, 2 Timothy 1:7 We have been given a spirit of peace, love, power, and a sound mind. Now do these attributes sound like anyone we may know? Jesus has all of these things in abundance and He is now within us authoring our faith, which has its beginnings in the lively hope that God has born into us! Our Father is all of these things, He is the fullness of these attributes, and He has chosen us and He has birthed us from His Divine Seed. When God created us, He created us in His image, He breathed life into us, and that life came directly from His life. Our Father didn’t conjure up a different life force for us; He gave us His life force, just as He gave it to Jesus. Jesus doesn’t fear, He doesn’t fear failure; He doesn’t fear death, He doesn’t fear sickness, and He doesn’t fear what people think of Him. Jesus has no fear and when He was here as a man, he had no fear. What He did have was absolute trust; absolute trust in what our Father had spoken would be done. Absolute Trust that God was willing and able to complete all of the promises that He had proclaimed! The things that our Father was going to do through Jesus had just been spoken of, and that was enough for Jesus! Just God speaking it gave Jesus complete trust and faith that it would be done and we now have Jesus’ mind and we have His Spirit, and we are members of His body!
Think about Jesus’ hope and what it means. Jesus hoped that He would be able to be offered on the Cross, so that we might be saved and have eternal life. His hope was that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly. He hoped that by His stripes we would be healed. God had not done any of these things through man before Jesus went to the Cross, He had only spoken of them, and Jesus had hope that they would be. He had the hope that our Father would strengthen Him so that He could accomplish all that He was to accomplish, and this hope that Jesus had came from only hearing God’s Word about it! This is what we are born of; this is now our hope. The same force within Jesus, the force of hope that allowed Him to come as a man and die on the Cross, is the force of hope that our Father has given to us. Jesus was able to hope and thus He was able to walk in faith, and faith produced the miraculous works that God did through Him to serve others, and faith allowed Jesus to endure the Cross, which served us all! This same lively hope has been born into us! Now stop and actually allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you in the power of this Truth!
When people think of Jesus, they tend to put His hope, His faith, His attitude, and His works in an unattainable category, as if Jesus was the only one that could ever be used to do them. We do this because Jesus is our Lord, He is God, and we believe that by doing so is a way to worship Him. But that’s not what Jesus came to do. Jesus didn’t come to show us that He was superior to us, even though He is! He came to show us and to empower us to live as our Father desires for us to live, just as He lives. Jesus came to show us that we could have hope as He has hope, that we could have faith, as He has faith, and that God could do His works through us, just as God did through Him. Jesus came to tell us that our God could even do greater works through us because He has gone to the Father. That is why our Father had it written that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, that He is the one that gave us hope, and that He is the One performing the works through us. Jesus is Sovereign, He is our Lord, and He gave us all that He has, so that we could live as He lives. Jesus is hope, and He is faith, and He is love, and He is power, and we are now and forevermore one with Him. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Jesus is a being of hope, and as He is, so are we in this world! We truly worship Him and we truly please our Father by allowing Him to live within us, as He lives within Jesus! We can’t help but be filled with hope; it’s how God has made us!
“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13 Our Father has given us the Holy Ghost to empower us to believe His Truth and in believing we will have peace, just as Jesus does. Jesus isn’t fretting about anything, all of His needs are met, and we too are able to have His lively hope in this! Yet we don’t just hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit we abound in hope! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and we have been given the Holy Ghost so that we may abound in God’s hope, so praise be to God, we may abound in His faith! And to insure that we do, we have our Father's very Spirit within us! Jesus taught that if we have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, that we could tell a mountain to move and it would obey us. It doesn’t take a lot of faith to be powerful, and our Father has given us Himself, so that we may abound in it. Our Father is a God of hope, and this is what He hopes for us and He has filled us with all peace and with all joy so that we may abound in His hope! Faith comes from hearing the Word of God, so you bet ya; I am going to desire and allow our Father to preach it through me! I need this Truth, life in this world without Jesus is ruff! But through Jesus we have hope and hope brings faith and faith brings abundant life results!
“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.” Romans 5:5 There is no fear in the perfect love of Jesus and we have not been given a spirit of fear! We will not be ashamed in hoping for these things. Our Father is in our hearts. These Truths are how He is, these scriptures are His Truths, Heaven and Earth will pass away, but these Truths shall remain, and hoping for them, will never leave us ashamed! There is no fear in hoping for the greatness of God to be revealed and realized through us! We shall not be ashamed in our hope that our Father will perform His signs through us, and that we will have boldness is the Day of Judgment!
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of your calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Ephesians 1:17-18
“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:3 Our Father bore into us His lively hope. God gave us His Holy Spirit so that we may abound in hope, and Jesus Authors and Finishes our hope. So if we are saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, we have this hope! And praise God that means we are pure, even as He is pure! Salvation goes so far beyond what is being preached by the masses. Our Father gave it all to us and there is nothing lacking in salvation, nothing! Open up the Bible and read about how God worked through Jesus and when you do, remember that our Father gave us the same hope, the same faith, the same Anointing, and the same Spirit, so that He could do the same things through us! He did it so that we could be used as servants, just as Jesus served! We are not saviors, but we are tools of the Savior. When Jesus was here, He physically laid hands on the sick and they were healed, we are now His tools to do the same. When Jesus was here, He allowed the power of the Spirit to show people that God was real, and now we are His tools to do the same! Jesus is Lord and we are members of His body and He will use us to glorify God as He serves the needs of those around us!
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