Unseen Hope
HOPE
Hebrew:
batah: to trust, confidence, bold, sure, secure
chuwl: to dance, whirl, to be formed, bring forth, to wait, stay, to wait carefully
chacah: TO FLEE FOR PROTECTION, to CONFIDE IN, to make a REFUGE,........."is often used where God is compared to a rock or a shield or one with protective wings."
Greek:
sabar: to expect with great hope
elpis: confidence
Without introduction or explaining things....I just want to get straight to what God has said to me.....long so get some hot chocolate ha!
4 days ago, Father opened my eyes......no exposed or uncovered my eyes feels more like it to Romans 8.............at some point I hope you will read the whole chapter because it is EXCELLENT....but my main focus has been on 24-27.
I have no memory of ever reading the first part of this verse.......before it-yes.....after it with the part of the Spirit interceding-yes........NEVER VERSES 24-25. I just kept reading it over and over. What they heck did it all mean? Hope that is seen is NOT HOPE. I couldn't get my mind to grasp what it was saying and what it had to do with me. So I continued to just talk it out with Father till He gave me a clear vision of what needed to be said.
Hope that is seen is NOT HOPE! This plays out in many ways for many of us. We look at what God has done in the past...most times what He did not do, prayers we never heard answers to.............and say to ourselves or anyone that will listen...."This..(fill in your 'this') will never happen because He has not done it before, it will not happen now". Or we chose to look right were we are standing, in our present stage......and only see all the failure around us and say to God, "You did nothing, i have waited years for "this" or months for "this" and now I will take it into my hands because I do not believe you are capable or deserving of my hope."
Hope in the seen turns our hearts cold. It is a serious form of self exaltation and pride. By the time we are becoming so self-involved and throwing out words like..."oh they have a perfect family or the have a perfect marriage or they must have a perfect walk with God"..........we should be fully aware that satan is so on us and that he is loving every minute of our pity.
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life".
Psalm 13:12
I think this verse says it all to somebody that has spent one to many days so self consumed by what they don't have that their hearts become just as unhealthy as their attitudes. Being out of touch with reality is satan's objective. He loves the idea of obscuring our vision and thought life so much that we began to feel like everything and everyone is out to get us or to hurt us...or worse...everyone else's prayer are being answered but ours. He delights in us putting our hope in the seen.......knowing all the while it will destroy us and draw us further from our God.
"But if we hope for what we do not YET have, we wait for it patiently". You read the definitions of hope at the beginning of this post. Words like: BOLD, SECURE, TO DANCE, WHIRL, WAIT EXPECTANTLY.............pretty sure those are all positive words. All words that deal with us NOT DEALING WITH WHAT WE WAIT FOR. Not one word described hope as...."well I will just do what needs to be done if God is not gonna answer...". NOT ONE! seen hope = sin, satan, negative feelings/thoughts, control freakness, impatient and an all about yourself attitude. None of which brings a lick of Joy or Glory to God. None of IT!!!!!! Ugly pride is what it is.
HOPE, like love, like mercy.....are a daily decision we have to make one on one with God. God uses hope over and over and over in the bible to remind us to TRUST HIM. To tell us that HE HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL! Don't believe me...Oh, oh i have just spent a whole night looking up "hope" scripture............ obviously He was completely aware that we would be attacked by hopelessness many times or what would be the point of the following........
2Cor 5.3
"for we walk by faith, not by sight--"
Psalm 42:11
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Hebrews 3
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen.
Galatians 5:5
We haven't been called to be people that blame Him all during our waiting period and then afterwards say...."Oh isn't God faithful". Yuck. I mean, hello, you couldn't even be faithful in trusting Him during the bad times? I want to be consistently faithful to Him. He is WORTH of OUR EVERYTHING.....Everything I have...Worthy...AT ALL TIMES!
I have to be honest with you and say that this is not an area that I am totally familiar with. That is why I said earlier that I wasn't sure why He was revealing it to me. I don't sit around concerned about marriage or children....now i get lonely at times....but I don't allow the longing to put me in a pit or become out of touch with reality....and then end up blaming God for everything. Just not my personality, but I am fully aware that it is a big struggle with a lot of us. See, the theme in my life lately has been that it is fully about "the journey". The joy of growing in Him even when we are in the midst of not having the desires of our heart. Even in the midst of spending hours on our knees praying about a specific thing and not allowing, for one second, our minds to drift too much to the left that satan has free reign to drag us back to the pit. It's all about FATHER, always has been, always will be and in the moments of utter frustration and pain we MUST MAKE THE CHOICE TO TAKE OUR EYES AND MINDS OFF OF US................IT IS ABOUT HIM! Everything Father chooses to give us or not to give us is according to HIS ULTIMATE GLORY! It isn't what we want to hear most times, but we have to stop with this little faith, little hope, little love, little relationship with God and start having a Big, REAL, and INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM! We have to start asking Him and relying on Him in the moments when we are about to emotionally explode or shut down totally. I must make the choice to tell Him that "I need hope today. I can feel myself not wanting to trust you and i can feel myself desiring to take control. SO I chose to put my Hope in you, trusting that you will take what little I have and increase it till it is overflowing......because you are BIG ENOUGH to do it."
We don't have to stay hopeless. One small conversation can change your heart and your attitude. Just tell Him what you don't have and what you need. He wants to prove He is trustworthy, so just talk to Him already and stop trying to get your "hearts desire" on your own. Its exhausting.
The chapter ends with explaining how the Spirit intercedes on OUR BEHALF while we pray. That means that while we are praying about the things we think need to be prayed about...the Holy Spirit is praying for the things that we might not even be aware that they need prayer. And in moments when we are so overwhelmed with the current circumstance...that there are no words to say...the Mighty Holy Spirit steps in and prays on our behalf. I am crying right now thinking about that. How God still honors our coming to Him even when we can't speak. That is how wonderful He is, He prays on our behalf. Now tell me you would rather go on about life angry and mad at Him after reading that verse. NO WAY! So just stop....................... and go be with HIM....................your not making the best decisions, so just stop and go let Him deal with all the overwhelming problems that are closing in on you.
Father these words will offend, so I pray in Jesus Name that you will only allow those on this blog that need to read this. You had so much to say, so I pray that if even one needs to read this massive post that YOU will clear time just for them. It is so evident to me that you are on the move to get us to stop having little lives. You desire us to be WOMEN of the WORD......not girls of the word. I just love you. I do, and i get so excited that you will move in big ways, if that is what it takes, to get us into your arms. Family or no family, I just want to be with you, to hear from you, to be used by you. Thank you that you have written this to someone specific out there. Speak directly to them oh Father and place them safely before you as you begin to heal them. I put my Hope in the unseen...because the unseen is all about you and way better then anything I can imagine.
Hebrew:
batah: to trust, confidence, bold, sure, secure
chuwl: to dance, whirl, to be formed, bring forth, to wait, stay, to wait carefully
chacah: TO FLEE FOR PROTECTION, to CONFIDE IN, to make a REFUGE,........."is often used where God is compared to a rock or a shield or one with protective wings."
Greek:
sabar: to expect with great hope
elpis: confidence
Without introduction or explaining things....I just want to get straight to what God has said to me.....long so get some hot chocolate ha!
4 days ago, Father opened my eyes......no exposed or uncovered my eyes feels more like it to Romans 8.............at some point I hope you will read the whole chapter because it is EXCELLENT....but my main focus has been on 24-27.
"For in this hope we were saved.
But hope that is seen is no hope at all.
Who hopes for what he already has?
But if we hope for what we do not yet have,
we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
We do not know what we ought to pray for,
but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
with groans that words cannot express.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will."
I have no memory of ever reading the first part of this verse.......before it-yes.....after it with the part of the Spirit interceding-yes........NEVER VERSES 24-25. I just kept reading it over and over. What they heck did it all mean? Hope that is seen is NOT HOPE. I couldn't get my mind to grasp what it was saying and what it had to do with me. So I continued to just talk it out with Father till He gave me a clear vision of what needed to be said.
Hope that is seen is NOT HOPE! This plays out in many ways for many of us. We look at what God has done in the past...most times what He did not do, prayers we never heard answers to.............and say to ourselves or anyone that will listen...."This..(fill in your 'this') will never happen because He has not done it before, it will not happen now". Or we chose to look right were we are standing, in our present stage......and only see all the failure around us and say to God, "You did nothing, i have waited years for "this" or months for "this" and now I will take it into my hands because I do not believe you are capable or deserving of my hope."
Hope in the seen turns our hearts cold. It is a serious form of self exaltation and pride. By the time we are becoming so self-involved and throwing out words like..."oh they have a perfect family or the have a perfect marriage or they must have a perfect walk with God"..........we should be fully aware that satan is so on us and that he is loving every minute of our pity.
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life".
Psalm 13:12
I think this verse says it all to somebody that has spent one to many days so self consumed by what they don't have that their hearts become just as unhealthy as their attitudes. Being out of touch with reality is satan's objective. He loves the idea of obscuring our vision and thought life so much that we began to feel like everything and everyone is out to get us or to hurt us...or worse...everyone else's prayer are being answered but ours. He delights in us putting our hope in the seen.......knowing all the while it will destroy us and draw us further from our God.
"But if we hope for what we do not YET have, we wait for it patiently". You read the definitions of hope at the beginning of this post. Words like: BOLD, SECURE, TO DANCE, WHIRL, WAIT EXPECTANTLY.............pretty sure those are all positive words. All words that deal with us NOT DEALING WITH WHAT WE WAIT FOR. Not one word described hope as...."well I will just do what needs to be done if God is not gonna answer...". NOT ONE! seen hope = sin, satan, negative feelings/thoughts, control freakness, impatient and an all about yourself attitude. None of which brings a lick of Joy or Glory to God. None of IT!!!!!! Ugly pride is what it is.
HOPE, like love, like mercy.....are a daily decision we have to make one on one with God. God uses hope over and over and over in the bible to remind us to TRUST HIM. To tell us that HE HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL! Don't believe me...Oh, oh i have just spent a whole night looking up "hope" scripture............ obviously He was completely aware that we would be attacked by hopelessness many times or what would be the point of the following........
2Cor 5.3
"for we walk by faith, not by sight--"
Psalm 42:11
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Hebrews 3
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen.
Galatians 5:5
But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.
Psalm 130:5
Psalm 130:5
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
Psalm 25:3
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.
Psalm 25:3
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.
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 62:5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.
Psalm119:43 Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws
Proverbs 24:14
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Isaiah 40:31
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Need I say more. Those who HOPE IN THE LORD WILL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH......every scripture addresses positive outcomes of making the choice to put your hope in Christ......everything from strength, to being shielded, to receiving rest, to joy, to out right PRAISING HIM! ALL POSITIVE THINGS!
My point in all this is that from this day on... We don't want to be one of those people that goes back and forth putting our Hope in God and then constantly wondering why He has not answered our prayers. It's called being "lukewarm". CHOOSE A SIDE TO BE ON...EVEN ON THE WORST OF DAYS! Lets just cut the crap with the wishy washy mess. HE IS FOR US! I don't want to be one of those people that only have HOPE in Father when He did what they wanted Him to do. I WANT TO HAVE GREAT HOPE BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER TRIALS THAT I FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!We haven't been called to be people that blame Him all during our waiting period and then afterwards say...."Oh isn't God faithful". Yuck. I mean, hello, you couldn't even be faithful in trusting Him during the bad times? I want to be consistently faithful to Him. He is WORTH of OUR EVERYTHING.....Everything I have...Worthy...AT ALL TIMES!
I have to be honest with you and say that this is not an area that I am totally familiar with. That is why I said earlier that I wasn't sure why He was revealing it to me. I don't sit around concerned about marriage or children....now i get lonely at times....but I don't allow the longing to put me in a pit or become out of touch with reality....and then end up blaming God for everything. Just not my personality, but I am fully aware that it is a big struggle with a lot of us. See, the theme in my life lately has been that it is fully about "the journey". The joy of growing in Him even when we are in the midst of not having the desires of our heart. Even in the midst of spending hours on our knees praying about a specific thing and not allowing, for one second, our minds to drift too much to the left that satan has free reign to drag us back to the pit. It's all about FATHER, always has been, always will be and in the moments of utter frustration and pain we MUST MAKE THE CHOICE TO TAKE OUR EYES AND MINDS OFF OF US................IT IS ABOUT HIM! Everything Father chooses to give us or not to give us is according to HIS ULTIMATE GLORY! It isn't what we want to hear most times, but we have to stop with this little faith, little hope, little love, little relationship with God and start having a Big, REAL, and INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM! We have to start asking Him and relying on Him in the moments when we are about to emotionally explode or shut down totally. I must make the choice to tell Him that "I need hope today. I can feel myself not wanting to trust you and i can feel myself desiring to take control. SO I chose to put my Hope in you, trusting that you will take what little I have and increase it till it is overflowing......because you are BIG ENOUGH to do it."
We don't have to stay hopeless. One small conversation can change your heart and your attitude. Just tell Him what you don't have and what you need. He wants to prove He is trustworthy, so just talk to Him already and stop trying to get your "hearts desire" on your own. Its exhausting.
The chapter ends with explaining how the Spirit intercedes on OUR BEHALF while we pray. That means that while we are praying about the things we think need to be prayed about...the Holy Spirit is praying for the things that we might not even be aware that they need prayer. And in moments when we are so overwhelmed with the current circumstance...that there are no words to say...the Mighty Holy Spirit steps in and prays on our behalf. I am crying right now thinking about that. How God still honors our coming to Him even when we can't speak. That is how wonderful He is, He prays on our behalf. Now tell me you would rather go on about life angry and mad at Him after reading that verse. NO WAY! So just stop....................... and go be with HIM....................your not making the best decisions, so just stop and go let Him deal with all the overwhelming problems that are closing in on you.
Father these words will offend, so I pray in Jesus Name that you will only allow those on this blog that need to read this. You had so much to say, so I pray that if even one needs to read this massive post that YOU will clear time just for them. It is so evident to me that you are on the move to get us to stop having little lives. You desire us to be WOMEN of the WORD......not girls of the word. I just love you. I do, and i get so excited that you will move in big ways, if that is what it takes, to get us into your arms. Family or no family, I just want to be with you, to hear from you, to be used by you. Thank you that you have written this to someone specific out there. Speak directly to them oh Father and place them safely before you as you begin to heal them. I put my Hope in the unseen...because the unseen is all about you and way better then anything I can imagine.