How do you fill in that blank? Where do you need hope? Is it for your marriage? Your kids? Are you trying to get pregnant? Are you trying to pass a test? Is it for your career? Do your finances need hope? Is it for your prodigal? Do you need healing? Your family in general? Do you need hope for the addiction you are fighting? There is hope for my ______.
God has already given you the hope you need. Here’s what you need to do:
1. Find a Promise to Hang on To
I will never forget your promises…they are my only hope. –Psalm 119:45
Do you see the connection between hope and God’s promises? It’s God’s promises that bring us hope. For every place you are hoping, you need a promise from God. God never breaks His promises. So whatever He gives you he will come through on. Google it. By a Bible promise book. Get away and listen for God speak His promise to you. Do whatever you must, but find God’s promise to you! And hang on to it! Write it down. Memorize it. Journal about it. Share it with others.
2. Find a Story to Remember
Hope returns when I remember this: The Lord’s unfailing love and mercy has not stopped! –Lamentations 3:21-22
Now we see the connection between hope and memory. It’s stories of God’s goodness and faithfulness that bring us hope. So find that story of a place where God has been good to you. Recall to your mind a time when God came through for you. Reach back into the archives of your memory and retrieve a story of God’s faithfulness.
Claim that promise and remember that story and keep studying to ace that test. Keep trying to get pregnant. Keep working on your marriage. Keep parenting the best way you know how. Keep working as hard as you can for that promotion. Keep waiting for your prodigal to come home. Keep fighting the addiction. Keep praying for healing. Keep claiming and remembering! There is hope for your ______!
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. –Romans 15:13
Ryan Smallwood
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