Faith, Hope, and Love
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Rise above in Faith, Hope, and Love.
Rise above in Faith, Hope, and Love.
Rise Above.
These are words that our Father is calling us to this year of 2023.
Our Father is one who rises above, so we do not have to rise above alone. He is with us and we will rise above.
13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Abide stands out to me here and in this season of our lives.
Abide Synonyms: remain, dwell, continue, tarry, endure,
Abide:
C in reference to state or condition.
1 to remain as one, not to become another or different.
2 to wait for, await one.
The sense of each of these words are:
Faith / Trust
Hope / Feeling
Love / Affection
These three senses are what remains, what continues, what dwells and what abides in as believers.
The trust of Faith,
The feeling of Hope,
The affection of Love,
I will describe these more and ways we can grow in each.
Faith:
Faith:
What is faith really?
What is faith really?
Is faith a forced belief?
Is faith in something?
Is faith in that something will happen?
Or Is faith something more beautiful and more tangible then that?
Faith = belief in God
from a root word = trust in or to have confidence in or be persuaded.
To make friends of.
Sense; To have a strong confidence in or reliance on someone.
I have often explained faith is; you know that you know. You may not be able to fully explain why you know but you just know.
Synonyms for Faith: believe in, connect to, abide in, trust in, confidence in, reliance on, obey, be persuaded by, joined with..
Faith is always about God or a person. Faith is relational.
In other words faith is the proof of your connection with.
Faith, Hope, and Love are all intertwined. 1 cor 13. These are all relation attributes.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
You can know that you know about someone even before you see any proof of that.
How do we grow in faith?
or
How do your grow your connection with God and people?
If faith is proof of a connection with God, then we grow faith by connecting.
We don’t grow faith by seeing if we can heal.
We don’t grow faith by trying to deliver someone.
We don’t grow faith by throwing money at things.
We don’t grow faith by any works that we can do for God.
Faith comes by hearing Christ. (Rom 10:17)
We can grow faith by hearing God in all those areas and then acting on what we heard.
We grow faith by hearing and letting what Jesus is telling you sink in that area of our hearts.
If faith grows by hearing God, then we need to hear God about each other.
If Faith is the substance of hearing God their is a counter substance too.
Unbelief is the substance of hearing and believing lies.
Lies have come to plant unbelief in a person or God.
Lies have come to plant unbelief in God’s people.
Have you been around someone who has faith in God for finances or healing?
They have experiences with Jesus
They have hard times where nothing happened yet they still trusted Jesus.
They have times where Jesus showed off with moving in supernatural.
The delay of His promises and the sudden fulfilment of His promises grow Faith in our hearts when we stay in love, faith, and hope.
Activation:
What do I know is true about Jesus no matter what?
Jesus what area do you want me to rise above in Faith with You?
Hope:
Hope:
26 ‘Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;
Living in Hope is different than having a wishful hope for something to happen.
Hanging around hope changes you from the inside.
When we hang out with Hope:
The disciples hung out with Jesus and began to have hope that their problems were going to be fixed by Jesus.
They hoped for things like being saved from the oppression of the Romans.
They hoped for being set free from the controlling hypocrites in the temples.
After being with Jesus for while their focus and questions began to change. They began to have hope about being greater.
Who will be the best?
Who gets to sit at your side?
Doubt is the substance of hearing and believing lies even if the evidence says those lies are true.
When Jesus was killed all their old questions and concerns came flooding back to them.
But After Jesus rose from the dead their entire paradigm changed from then on.
Have you ever been around someone who just has hope no matter what happens?
When your around that kind of person their hope grows now matter what is happening on the outside.
The delay of His promises and the sudden fulfilment of His promises grow Hope in our hearts when we stay in love, faith, and hope.
Activation:
What do I have a sense of internal Hope in my life?
Who or what do you want me do be with or do to grow hope in me?
Love:
Love:
35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
You will know that we are abiding in Jesus by the love that comes from their life.
Beloved
I have been thinking of the word ‘Beloved’.
I keep our Father calling us Beloved and now Be Loved.
Have you ever been around a person who knows they are loved by Jesus.
You see this often at the beginning of someone born again experience or in children.
To abide in His love is to Be Loved and to show what Being Loved looks like.
Fear is the substance of hearing and believing lies.
Peter when He was Simon said how can you pick me for I am a sinful man.
In other words I am not loved.
The woman at the well was believing the lies that said she is an outcast with jews and her own kind.
She believed she was not love therfore she lived in fear.
Jesus said to her, you may be rejected by other but not by the Messiah.
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
These verses discribe the evidence of love.
It discribes what Be Loved looks like.
The delay of His promises and the sudden fulfilment of His promises grow Love in our hearts when we stay in love, faith, and hope.
Activation:
Where do you know His love for you is present?
If you dont know you are loved and dont have that sense of affection ask Him to come bring love in your heart?
Jesus, would You grow Your Love in me?
Faith, Hope, Love
Faith, Hope, Love
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
We are light like the day and we are filled with Faith, Love, and Hope.
These elements of Christ are on the inside of us.
Breastplate of faith and love has to do with keeping your heart towards Jesus.
Helmet of hope speaks of keeping the mind of Christ and clarity in thought.
I longed to be around a mentor who was full of Hope, Faith and Love, but now Jesus is making me into the mentor I wish I had.
I longed for a friend who would be full of Hope, Faith, and Love, but now Jesus is my friend filling me with those.
God is great - Faith
God is good - Hope
God is Love towards you- Love
The opposite of these are
God is not enough - Unbelief
God is evil - Doubt
God does not love me - Fear
If you see fear, doubt or unbelief at all in your life, give that to Him now.
Ask for an exchange of those for Faith, Hope, and Love.
Abide in Love
Abide in Hope
Abide in Faith
Faith, Hope and Love are on the inside of us and as we abide with Jesus they are growing and become contagious.
We will continue, remain, dwell, and abide in Jesus; others will know we are His by our Faith, Hope, and Love.
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Faith, Hope, Love:
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
3 constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, 4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.
11 But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness.
19 ‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.
4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints; 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel
Faith:
6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Hope:
5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. 7 On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. 8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
hope
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 1680 ἐλπίς
1680 ἐλπίς [elpis /el·pece/] n f. From a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); TDNT 2:517; TDNTA 229; GK 1828; 54 occurrences; AV translates as “hope” 53 times, and “faith” once. 1 expectation of evil, fear. 2 expectation of good, hope. 2A in the Christian sense. 2A1 joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation. 3 on hope, in hope, having hope. 3A the author of hope, or he who is its foundation. 3B the thing hoped for.
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Hope (NT)
HOPE (NT). Even if the noun “hope” (Gk elpı́s) is not found at all in the Gospels and the verb “to hope” (Gk elpı́zein) is found only five times in the Gospels—with the OT sense of “to trust” (Matt 12:21; John 5:45) or with a purely secular and nonreligious sense (Luke 6:34; 23:8; 24:21)—the idea of hope as confidence in God “whose goodness and mercy are to be relied on and whose promises cannot fail” (Barr 1950: 72) is everywhere presupposed in the NT (see also TDNT 2:517–35 and LTK 5: 416–24).
In the Synoptic Gospels the notion of hope is conveyed through the sense of “expectation” (Gk prosdechomai) generated by Jesus’ preaching of conversion in the face of the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God.
Love
9 “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
Abide:
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3306 μένω
3306 μένω [meno /men·o/] v. A root word; TDNT 4:574; TDNTA 581; GK 3531; 120 occurrences; AV translates as “abide” 61 times, “remain” 16 times, “dwell” 15 times, “continue” 11 times, “tarry” nine times, “endure” three times, and translated miscellaneously five times. 1 to remain, abide. 1A in reference to place. 1A1 to sojourn, tarry. 1A2 not to depart. 1A2A to continue to be present. 1A2B to be held, kept, continually. 1B in reference to time. 1B1 to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure. 1B1A of persons, to survive, live. 1C in reference to state or condition. 1C1 to remain as one, not to become another or different. 2 to wait for, await one.
Beloved:
two word combo
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3588 ὁ
3588 ὁ [ho, he /ho/] article. In all their inflections, the definite article; GK 3836; 543 occurrences; AV translates as “which” 413 times, “who” 79 times, “the things” 11 times, “the son” eight times, and translated miscellaneously 32 times. 1 this, that, these, etc. Additional Information: Only significant renderings other than “the” counted.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 27 ἀγαπητός
27 ἀγαπητός [agapetos /ag·ap·ay·tos/] adj. From 25; TDNT 1:21; TDNTA 5; GK 28; 62 occurrences; AV translates as “beloved” 47 times, “dearly beloved” nine times, “well beloved” three times, and “dear” three times. 1 beloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of love.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 25 ἀγαπάω
25 ἀγαπάω [agapao /ag·ap·ah·o/] v. Perhaps from agan (much) [or cf 5368]; TDNT 1:21; TDNTA 5; GK 26; 142 occurrences; AV translates as “love” 135 times, and “beloved” seven times. 1 of persons. 1A to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly. 2 of things. 2A to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing.