WHERE CAN I FIND HOPE?
02/17/2021
Hope is the confident expectation of what God has promised and its strenght is in His faithfulness.
All road leads to somewhere but,
* Does it lead to my expectations?
* Am I being led by the Spirit of God?
* Could it be a road to the trap of my enemies?
What are my expectations? Times are very hard, I need money to pay my bills, I need to provide a shelter over my family head, I need food on the table, I need to be like other people who are not complaining.
Matthew 6:25-34... but seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness...
Psalm 55:22 cast thy burden upon the Lord...
Psalm 37:25-26 I have never seen the ... seed begging for bread
Seeking the kingdom/ the righteousness of God
Matthew 6:9-10 thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven...
seeking the kingdom of God is a paramount way to finding hope, and establishing the kingdom of God here on earth is an ambassadorial work.
Taking up the cross
Mark 10:21-25...to enter through the eye of the needle...
Mark 10: 27-30 ...hundred folds here on earth...
Righteousness is one of the chief attribute of God - it’s chief meaning concern ethical conduct. It is God’s action acting in accordance with divine or moral law, free from quilt or justifiable a righteous decision.
we cannot be righteous in God’s eyes because of His choice and commitment.
Does the road lead to my expectations?
Proverb 14:12
There is a way that seemeth right unto man but the end thereof is a way to death.
Job 3:23-26 why is light given to a man whose way is hid...
Jer. 6:16 ...stand thee in the way and see and ask for the old paths
Am I being led by the Spirit of God?
Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Gal. 5:16-21 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh...Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Could it be a road to the trap of my enemies?
Jer. 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
Not all opened doors are actually open doors, some are traps. The roads to your enemies house are always opened but fear hinders your conquer. Some people do not see the dangers as they walk on that road probably, because they are walking in love, love or hatred walk in cautious.
Even the Lord may prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies, but you need someone beside you to be able to sit on that table.
Then where can I find Hope? Hope that will bring rest, hope that will last to eternity, hope that will touch reality?
1. Psalm 39:5-7 ...my hope is in the Lord
2. Psalm 71:1-5 ... thy art my hope
3. Psalm 119:81...my hope is in thy word
4. Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth...
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Overcoming Bad Habits - (PT. I)
Romans 7:14-24
A Habit is a recurrent often unconscious pattern of behaviors that is required through constant repetition; it is an established state of mind or character; customary manner or practice. It could be helpful or harmful.
In the past years 70s my uncle wouldn’t discharge feces without smoking a cigarette in the toilet. His nights were not complete without strange women, later the good man died of AIDS.
A friend will unconsciously be walking in the middle of heavy traffic, senseless of the dangers because he is busy chewing his finger nails.
our neighbor lost his house and two children to fire disaster due to life buried in draft board game. Even in that environmental panic, the information got to him quite on time. Our distant friend gave away his wife and a grown up daughter to sniff cocaine.
In 2003 my police friend fell from top of sky scrapper that night when he came out to urinate through a corridor that has not a barricade. He didn’t notice that he has stepped out of the building floor because he couldn’t let go alcohol.
My uncle health could not be revived, drugs were strange to system and nothing works. The blood was 97% alcohol stream, his heart, liver were dark like burnt meat. The food in his system was less than a man who had not eating for 18 days. The doctor advised to let him continue drinking and smoking, the family members declined due to such drastic health condition; two days after he died because he couldn’t let go alcohol and smoking.
A man who plays cultural drum is always finding it difficult drinking from the same glass of alcohol on the table to his mouth without pouring 70% on anyone next to him, because his hand shakes as one playing tambourine; the glass will finally break in his teeth as it collides, pouring the rest on his body due to excessive alcohol.
I have met a man whose habit is to pollute loudly in the siting of dignitaries in occasion that demands total reputation and of course he didn’t have the knowledge of what he did, until everyone starts leaving. Then he asked why is everyone leaving? His ill son told him what he did; the son shamefully began to cry and left.
These are peoples’ testimony is that bad habit. Funny as it is, yours is around you.
Bad habit is a Spirit and can be ejected. When you take it as fun it becomes a residence habit and soon will lord over you and make you a slave.
People whose habit is eating can forgo a whole day priority for a food they perceive the aroma; while some may fall into a pit just looking at one lady. Jesus said my strength is made perfect in your weakness. No matter the devil has done to you, you have tried to be normal and you couldn’t; the peer pressure seems to be stronger than your will, there is still hope.
Paul asked this question “who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
HOW DID I GET INTO THIS?
Lack of fear of God (Psalm 55:19b) because we are comfortable and familiar with the situations. If you are aware of the negative effect of your attitude you will apply a change.
No immediate and appropriate punishment (Eccl 8:11) Politicians, govt workers, school teachers, students, business men and women, house wives/wives, husbands, children, households indulges in different malicious acts, yet they move about in the streets in high shoulders.
You think this is the way God made you. (Jer. 13:23) there are differences between outward look and inward look. Jezebel the queen of Israel was so beautiful outside but very ugly inside. Saul was so handsome outside but very ugly inside until the day the Lord met him he changed the inside ugliness to the outside handsomeness and became Paul.
REPLACE BAD HABITS WITH POSITIVE NEW ONES
Eph. 4:22-24 (It takes a spiritual renewing). That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts (23) and be renewed in the spirit of your mind (24) And that you put on a new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
CHRIST IS OUR HOPE
2 Cor. 5 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. (see also Isaiah 65:17)
Jer.18:3-6 Then I went to the potters house...And the vessel that he made was marred... so he made it again another vessel...then the word of the Lord came to me saying O house of Israel cannot I do with you as the potter...
Jesus is the hope of the world, no man cometh to him and be forsaken. A new beginning is a sacrifice. Don’t give up. There is hope in thy end Jer. 31:17
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