HOPE PLACEMENT

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

Yesterday was “CONNEX CRAZE” at AHOP in Xenia.  In a nutshell it is a “small group fair” where folks from the church can gather info and join a small group study or ministry.  It is a great fellowship and each year new people step up to volunteer or lead.

Like every year, we had a little table for FREEDOM CHURCH with our requisite cookies, candies and resources.  And we had several folks ‘purus’ the “possibility” of linking up with FREEDOM and its mission.  But I don’t believe that is why we were there yesterday at all.

Instead our little table was there to provide a glimmer of HOPE.

Hope for a desperate sister whose sibling was slipping into a deep depression and a progressing addiction.  Hope for a mama whose youngest was cemented in a life of drug abuse and homelessness. 

I am so thankful for the hope that comes from the Lord.

I will be brutally honest.  I didn’t have a solution for either of those circumstances, I didn’t have a magically elixir that would turn the tide for these two who were hurting.  Yet I could provide the hope that GOD did and that in the right time and according to His plan, GOD WOULD deliver.  And that was what was needed.

Psalm 146:3-9

Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in GOD and know real blessing!

So I ask you today, where are you placing your hope?  I am sure you, like these two, are facing a challenge or two today.

Are you going to delve into today counting on the experts or your own steam to get you through or are you going to funnel your energy more wisely and place your hope where the true power lies, the Lord? 

Here, let me help you get started…

Psalm 31:24

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

Psalm 33:18

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

Psalm 33:20

We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

Psalm 37:9

For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Have a blessed day.

I love you all.

Freedom Church