Ok so today’s post has been in my head for a week now but I never sat down and actually typed it cuz it was a 50 hour work week which is more than usual for me.
So I’d previously posted on my thoughts on how being a child of God has a factor of Faith. And today it’s about how faith needs hope too.
So since a couple of weeks the word “hope” has been jumping into my head from the unlikeliest things.. A book I started reading which is of a series called “House of Hope”, watching reruns of old Joyce Meyer messages where she’s ministering in church and the ministry called “Hand of Hope” – add to this some personal stuff happening which has a lot of my faith running side by side with hope.
So I started thinking of how we see hope in a child. The first thing that popped to my mind was my experience I had at a girl’s orphanage home in Bangalore. I was in awe of their beautiful smiles and mostly the look of hope they had on their faces when we distributed the sweets n some small gifts to them. Now what we gave them was not anything extraordinary but still they were grateful and waited in the hope that whatever it was it would make them happy.
Then I thought of how I’ve waited on the heavenly Father – did I always wait with faith and in this hope?? Or did I just have faith and not really have hope? I think about how when I and others go to a church service, do we really go with hope expecting a touch from our Father or do we just go through the cycles? I’m now learning that I’ve to go my Lord with all my faith and hope. Yes, faith is a major part of it but when we wait with hope we’re showing Him that we’re waiting arms wide open to receive His mercies then and there.
I mean as a Christian, that too a pentecostal, it’s easy to say “I have faith” because my entire life I’ve grown up in it and I’ve personally witnessed how great our God is. But when I need to hear from my heavenly Father I need to make my faith loud and clear and one way to do it is to have hope. And it struck me, having hope and faith did not go with being practical.
Then I was reminded of how my God was the One who separated the Red Sea, the One who provided heavenly manna and water to the Israelites in the desert, the One who guided the people to victory as the walls of Jericho came down, the One who healed the blind,dumb and deaf, the One who died on the cross for me, the One who will soon come again and defeat Satan. I mean, this is my God, He is NOT like other Gods refer Psalms 135 verses “15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 17 They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.” He is NOT a God who lets people walk in sins like polygamy, kill and fight wars in the name of their “faith”.
Our God is the great One. He is the THE ONLY TRUE GOD.
What was my practicality when compared to my Father’s ways? Absolutely worthless all my thoughts compared to His. I’m honored to have the blessing to have known Him and to witness my faith and hope. I am blessed beyond belief to have born in it else I too would have perished to the worldly ways. I am nothing, He is everything and when I know that all I can do is sing His praises again and again.
So lastly, I looked up my sunday school verse, the definition of faith as in the Bible and lo and behold, it consists of hope too 🙂
Heb 11:1 – Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
To all and any of those who are blinded by the ways of the world and question how the earth was created, how we were divinely created, please read Hebrews Chapter 11. It is for you.
I heard this song for the first time this morning but I felt in my spirit that this was perfect to echo my post’s thoughts. God bless and enjoy.
So I’d previously posted on my thoughts on how being a child of God has a factor of Faith. And today it’s about how faith needs hope too.
So since a couple of weeks the word “hope” has been jumping into my head from the unlikeliest things.. A book I started reading which is of a series called “House of Hope”, watching reruns of old Joyce Meyer messages where she’s ministering in church and the ministry called “Hand of Hope” – add to this some personal stuff happening which has a lot of my faith running side by side with hope.
So I started thinking of how we see hope in a child. The first thing that popped to my mind was my experience I had at a girl’s orphanage home in Bangalore. I was in awe of their beautiful smiles and mostly the look of hope they had on their faces when we distributed the sweets n some small gifts to them. Now what we gave them was not anything extraordinary but still they were grateful and waited in the hope that whatever it was it would make them happy.
Then I thought of how I’ve waited on the heavenly Father – did I always wait with faith and in this hope?? Or did I just have faith and not really have hope? I think about how when I and others go to a church service, do we really go with hope expecting a touch from our Father or do we just go through the cycles? I’m now learning that I’ve to go my Lord with all my faith and hope. Yes, faith is a major part of it but when we wait with hope we’re showing Him that we’re waiting arms wide open to receive His mercies then and there.
I mean as a Christian, that too a pentecostal, it’s easy to say “I have faith” because my entire life I’ve grown up in it and I’ve personally witnessed how great our God is. But when I need to hear from my heavenly Father I need to make my faith loud and clear and one way to do it is to have hope. And it struck me, having hope and faith did not go with being practical.
Then I was reminded of how my God was the One who separated the Red Sea, the One who provided heavenly manna and water to the Israelites in the desert, the One who guided the people to victory as the walls of Jericho came down, the One who healed the blind,dumb and deaf, the One who died on the cross for me, the One who will soon come again and defeat Satan. I mean, this is my God, He is NOT like other Gods refer Psalms 135 verses “15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 17 They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.” He is NOT a God who lets people walk in sins like polygamy, kill and fight wars in the name of their “faith”.
Our God is the great One. He is the THE ONLY TRUE GOD.
What was my practicality when compared to my Father’s ways? Absolutely worthless all my thoughts compared to His. I’m honored to have the blessing to have known Him and to witness my faith and hope. I am blessed beyond belief to have born in it else I too would have perished to the worldly ways. I am nothing, He is everything and when I know that all I can do is sing His praises again and again.
So lastly, I looked up my sunday school verse, the definition of faith as in the Bible and lo and behold, it consists of hope too 🙂
Heb 11:1 – Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
To all and any of those who are blinded by the ways of the world and question how the earth was created, how we were divinely created, please read Hebrews Chapter 11. It is for you.
I heard this song for the first time this morning but I felt in my spirit that this was perfect to echo my post’s thoughts. God bless and enjoy.
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