“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
As we have studied, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith; so Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit is the One Who is Authoring and empowering us to continue in our Father'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.
“But God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7
Through Christ we have been given a spirit of peace, love, power, and a sound mind. Now do these attributes sound like anyone that 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 our Father has born into us! Our Father is all of these things. He is the fullness of all of these attributes and He has chosen us and He has birthed us from His Divine Incorruptible Seed. When our Father 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 Own 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! What He does have is absolute trust; absolute trust in what God has spoken will be done. Absolute Trust that God is willing and able to complete all of the promises that He has proclaimed! Think about when Jesus was manifested as a man, the things that our Father was going to do through Him had just been spoken of, and that was enough for Jesus! Just our Father speaking it gave Jesus complete trust and faith that it would be done and we now have Jesus’ mind, and we now have His Spirit, and we are now members of His body!
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
As we have studied, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith; so Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit is the One Who is Authoring and empowering us to continue in our Father'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.
“But God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7
Through Christ we have been given a spirit of peace, love, power, and a sound mind. Now do these attributes sound like anyone that 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 our Father has born into us! Our Father is all of these things. He is the fullness of all of these attributes and He has chosen us and He has birthed us from His Divine Incorruptible Seed. When our Father 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 Own 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! What He does have is absolute trust; absolute trust in what God has spoken will be done. Absolute Trust that God is willing and able to complete all of the promises that He has proclaimed! Think about when Jesus was manifested as a man, the things that our Father was going to do through Him had just been spoken of, and that was enough for Jesus! Just our Father speaking it gave Jesus complete trust and faith that it would be done and we now have Jesus’ mind, and we now have His Spirit, and we are now members of His body!
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