Are you one of those persons who's feeling hopeless?
Nobody cares
Nobody's interested in you
When you have no hope there's a sense of dread
Where is my hope in other words, what am I living for and their multitudes of people today
Who do not have any hope. They don't have any hope about their marriage
They have no hope about their children
They have no hope about their health
About their finances about their future. About their job their profession
They have no hope about life itself
So, where are you in life
Your lost
It's dark dingy
Dismal and there you are
It's like being in a swamp emotionally. There's nothing there that is attractive to you. And so you've sort of given up
That's never the intent of Almighty God
Intends for us to have goals in our life to have a sense of confidence and assurance
Because you see God
Created you for himself
He created you for himself, and he sent Jesus Christ into this world to pay your sin debt in full
So that you could become the person God intended you to be so that he could take care of all of your sins
He could give you a sense of personhood
He could give you a sense of feeling like somebody
He could give you a sense of future
He could give you a sense of satisfaction and confidence and security only Jesus Christ can do that
It doesn't make any difference who you are
Where you've been and how down you may feel
There are moments that try the human soul
So violently
and so perplexing
That if the truth were told all of us have had moments
That we wanted to throw up our hands
And walk away
Discouragement can creep in secretly
Hide behind clothes
Make up
Hairdos
Discouragement is so bold that it will even hide behind a smile
And tell you life is not worth living
If you listen at discouragement, it will cause you to make bad decisions
It will cause you to think that life is not worth living
and secretly behind
the facade of a smile and a good morning and a praise the Lord and how are you you will wonder
if you're ever going to get out of
What you're into
Don't make a permanent decision
Over a temporary
Circumstance
Don't allow a moment of agony to make you draw a conclusion about life prematurely
because if you just keep on walking
with God
God has a way of making everything
All right
We hear a lot about hope
We hear from politicians. We read it in books and we hear it on the tapes and the whole world is crying now
somebody somewhere
Give me hope
The Bible said the world has no hope but God's people the scripture says have a hope that's sent before them firm to the end
We have a hope set before us that's firm to the end
And Paul the Apostle
It says now the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing that you should abound in hope
How in the world in times like this, do we abound in hope?
Where do we get that hope?
Christ is our only hope he is our only hope no other hope left in the world
The path of hope begins by being fully assured that you're right with God
but I'm telling you we will not last what is
where the world is headed and what we may be facing unless we know that we have an
unshakable faith that my sins are covered and no matter how many lies the devil tells me no matter how
my faith may be
attacked by these vicious darts from the enemy
I know that I know that I know that Jesus reckons me righteous before the throne of God
Even those of you sit here this morning and you're wounded and you're bruised
I don't know what the cause of the bruise the wound is, but you're being harassed and hounded in your mind
That God is mad at you that that you're you're being paid back for your sins and that
You can't repent enough that there's you've got to do something
You've got to make it up to God and so you live with regrets
And you live with fear and even though you know the way and the truth and the life
There's something lacking of joy and peace
Do you have that joy?
Do you have a hope in you? This is where it begins
Bring bring to him your broken spirit bring to him your contriteness and say Lord. I'm not going to fight
I'm not going to resist it anymore
Hope is not a feeling
Hope is a path
And that path is going to take you through
Tribulation and affliction and I would venture to say
That there's not a person hearing me now
That doesn't know something about suffering and affliction
Rather than just
Murmuring and complaining and rather than saying God what are you doing?
And how do you get me out of this and and somehow
turning to the Lord and lifting our voice and crying out to God and he said
hereby we stand because you have access nothing is hindering you
Nothing between you and the throne. He said come boldly
To the throne of grace that you may see mercy and grace to help in the time of need
Hope is about living. It's about wanting to live
It's an
expectation that God in His time and his way is going to deliver
Hope
see's the invisible
Hope feels the intangible hope
Achieves the impossible without hope your life is over
Hope looks at disaster and shouts enjoy
Hope thou in God it looks at the impossible and says nothing is impossible
Because nothing is impossible with God and God is in me
The hope of glory God is with us and everything is going to be alright
No one permanently evades suffering Jesus didn't you won't
The Bible says Jesus learned the things he learned through suffering. At some point in your life
you're going to experience suffering so severe you don't think you will be able to survive another day
You can retreat from life you can get bitter or you can get better
And one of those two things you're going to do
St. Paul says rejoice for evermore and in everything give thanks
That's an impossible thing to do sometimes in everything give thanks in
reversals give thanks in great trials give thanks when you don't
understand lift your hands look God in the face through your tears say I don't
understand what's going on here
But I'm going to trust you that in the end you're gonna make it okay, and he always does
Some of you are asking so why
Could I have hope I failed so miserably
And when you fail it's a very easy thing to beat yourself up until you can never get up
The greatest tragedy of life is not to fall down it's to stay down
Get up in
In Jesus name
Get on your feet square your shoulders put your hand in the hand of God and know that you and God are
More than a conqueror
over anything you are facing or ever will face in the future to say that your life or your
Situation is hopeless is to slam the door in the face of God
There is no such thing as hopeless
no such thing
As long as God is on his throne
There is hope as long as there is life
There is hope as long as there is the desire to try again. There is hope
As long as you are willing to start living again
To start loving again to start believing again
To start achieving again. There is hope
Hope thou in God
Hope in God
Hope in God everything else will disappoint you but God will never ever
fail you