It's Time to Start Hoping and Dreaming Again!

Do you know why some people don't like to get their hopes up?  It is because  Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.  I have ministered to many people that quit counting on hope a long time ago.  As a matter of fact if you start talking hope, they quickly look away.  It isn't that they want to be depressed, it is just that they cannot take another hope that ends in frustration and pain.    Wow.  It was a shock to me that HOPE can actually make ones heart sick if what you hope for doesn't come to pass.  So some people just can't bare to hope again.

But look at this verse:   Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is the substance of what?  The things we hope for.  So without hope faith has no way to materialize into substance into our lives.   Faith is a spiritual thing.  It is the spark that ignites hope and erupts it into reality in our lives.  Do you hope for a brighter day?  Faith will ignite that hope and bring it to pass.  Do you hope for a physical healing?  Faith will ignite that hope and bring it to pass.  So without faith it is impossible to please God but without hope Faith has  nothing to bring to pass.   

Look at this verse:  Romans 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your descendants be.

Abraham didn't have ANY hope in the natural.  He and Sarah were already past child bearing years.  It was impossible for her to have Isaac now.  Since he didn't have any thing to hope for in the natural what did he do?  He believed in hope itself!  

Maybe in the natural you have no hope, can you believe in hope itself.  Against all hope can you believe in the hope that God will do what he promised he would do?  YES!  You can!

Look at Proverbs 13:12 again.   Hope deferred makes the heart sick...

The enemy cannot stop the plan of God, so he tries to defer it, to delay it, to put it on temporary hold, so that your faith is tried, and if your give up hope, than you forfeited the promise, and it never comes to pass.   All the enemy can do is defer your answer from God, but if you wait patiently for it and do not give up, you will receive all that God has promised.   It is time to reignite your hopes and dreams, because faith is the substance of the things hoped for!