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Pro. 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick…
( Act 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved) (Zero expectation that this situation would get better, and great expectation they were fixin to die!)
PAUL WAS HOPELESS!
I believe that since Paul was human, He took His eyes off of the promise God had given him, let the enemys voice influence his faith and gave up.
Have you heard that enemy voice whisper to you? THIS IS THE END…Its Over?
They wont ever serve Jesus
You will never get a better or another Job
You wont ever walk in freedom from this substance
Fear and Anxiety will always control you!
Your marriage wont survive
Your pain will never subside
Your ship is gonna sink and you gonna die!
If we continue to let this voice whisper, we too will become HOPELESS!
Jonah was running away from God, Paul was running towards God!
Both men encountered a terrible storm:
Hope from the root-Tikvaw To fasten/tie/attach
Now we know from what the bible says Heb. 6:19 that Jesus is our hope and…
that Jesus is our Hope
Hope is an attachment or tying yourself to Jesus in real everyday relationship.
This attachment births in your heart an expectation of something good that you cant see yet.
If you need hope, You fasten yourself to Jesus.
He is the only source of Hope that will never let you down.
Talk about rooted!
Now This is what you need to know about fastening to Jesus, Its Surrender!,
Its giving control of your life to Him,
You go where He goes,
You do what He does… knowing that He Loves you like crazy and has your best interest at heart,
If He takes you into a storm he is working it for your good ☺…
It takes FAITH to trust Him when You cant see the end of the storm!
Takeaway:
There are no deeper roots/no greater
But watch this…If true hope is being tied tight to Jesus, to become HOPE-LESS means that you have become unattached to that very same hope.
We see this in Both Jonah and Paul, they were both hopeless because either in their thought process or actions they became unattached to the source of Hope!
GOOD NEWS ALERT!
They each survived a terrible storm/a hopeless situation and went on to fulfill Gods call on their lives!
HOW? What was the common denominator that restored their hope?
Jonah 2:6,7
Jonah 2:6,7
7 “When my life was ebbing away(in hopelessness), I remembered you, Lord,and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.
6 and you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit.
I cried out to the Lord in my affliction, from sheol(the grave)
I was a goner, but I repented(re-attached) myself to God, he heard me- delivered me and restored my hope!
God met Paul in the belly of a great ship—Quiet possibly the darkest most hopeless night of his life, hungry/wet/seasick/…HOW DID HE OVERCOME THIS?
AND an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve(A physical representation of Jesus) stood beside me 24 and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar;
You are going to make it through…
In a moment(with one encounter) He went from Hopeless to rooted in Hope for himself and those around him!
In both cases Hope returned when they re-attached themselves with expectancy to God through FAITH!
Both men found out that:
Takeaway:
Hope is not found in the absence of Storms but in Jesus who may not calm the storm but will walk with us through our darkest hour, through our wildest storms.
Jesus will love you even in the midst of your mess, even if you created the mess-- but He is committed to doing whatever it takes to not leave you there in a hopeless situation!
If we will Root down into Jesus… An expectancy will sprout and begin to grow whispering …
*The storm wont last forever,
*Change is coming,
*That you won’t always be stuck on a ship that is about to sink
*You wont always be imprisoned in something that your disobedience produced
You wont always be in bondage to hurts, habits, Anxieties, fears, disappointments!
Philippians 1:6 He(Jesus) who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it!
Here is a scripture you probably don’t know but its found in Romans 8:28 He works all things for good…to those who are attached to Him! Even in a storm
Jer. 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
That word “expected” is Tikvaw(Hope that comes from attachment)
The purpose of your storms is Tikvaw—
To bring you to a place of Surrender and Trust as you attach yourself to Jesus!
Rooted in Hope!
Fastened to Jesus/Anchored in Hope/Rooted
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