H O P E 01-18-04

H O P E

·         H – holding on to God’s Word

·         O – opening yourself up to praise

·         P – pursuing God’s will

·         E – expect God best, and God to move on our behalf

·         Hope from SC and Lexicon, to anticipate with pleasure, joyful and confident, expectation, trust, confidence, boldness, careless

·         Romans 15:13 the God of hope, super abound with hope, to have in abundance

·         Hope is the blueprint and faith is the building material

·         Hebrews 11:1 faith is the substance of things “hoped for”

·         Promise, Covenant, Hope, Faith, Manifestation is how God’s Word works

·         H – hold onto God’s word, or we will hold onto the situation

·         Psalm 119:148 meditate on your word, on the promises, or the problem

·         Psalm 16:7 my reins instruct me, the promises quicken me

·         Psalm 119:15-19 meditate on your precepts

·         O – opening up to praise brings God onto the scene, Pastor Bunny

·         2 Chronicles 20:20-27 King Jehoshaphat coming against Ammon, Moab and Edom

·         P – pursue the will of God

·         Oral Roberts – 1. Find the will of God  2. Confer not with flesh and blood  3. Get your job done at all costs

·         Galatians 1:15-16 confer not with flesh and blood

·         E – expect God to move

·         Proverbs 23:18 thine expectation shall not be cut off

·         Satan wants to fill us with a spirit of hopelessness, depression, failure, addiction, divorce, these all are evil spirits

·         Ephesians 2:8-12 we are saved by grace, this gives us hope, having no hope was our position before

·         Andrew Bonar, in his book, “Heavenly Springs,” writes of the importance to returning to the teacher of The Church, the Holy Ghost for fresh anointing. Scottish devotional writer Andrew Bonar in 1877 appealed to the preachers of his generation: “Let us put ourselves under the Holy Spirit’s teaching anew, to be taught the Word, and how to preach the Word, not our thoughts upon it. One spark of lightning is worth a thousand of tame candle flames; so one sentence given by the Holy Ghost is worth volumes of any other”. I John 2:27

·         Hebrews 6:17-20 Hope as an anchor to the soul