Zechariah 9:12 says, "Return to the stronghold, you

prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to

you." A prisoner is someone who has resigned themselves fully to the

sentencing of the judge. And what has our God said about us? What

sentence was declared over us, the children of God, the believers, a

royal priesthood, a holy nation? Christ in us, the hope of Glory, that

we have this hope as an anchor for the soul, it goes behind the curtain

and into the sanctuary... joint heirs with Christ - I have been

sentenced to a life of health, favor, victory, dreams… Prisoner of Hope,

"Return to the stronghold, I will restore you double." A prisoner of

hope understands there is a location for restoration. Today I want to

talk to you about shackling ourselves to hope. Too many people treat

hope as something that is here today and gone tomorrow. Well I was

hoping to find Mr. Right. I was hoping to get that job. I was hoping to

get that business loan. I was hoping I would feel better, but I don't. I

was hoping, but it all fell through. But God's plan for hope is that we

would be immovable from hope, incarcerated in the prison of hope. Around

our neck is hope, around our wrists and feet, hope, behind bars

immovable from hope. God promise for those who remain in hope is

restoration. Restoration means God knows that sometimes things are

stolen from us, there is a thief. God's response to Satan stealing is

restoration, even double. A prisoner of hope is not shaken by the letter

of denial from the bank, but keeps hoping. They are not worried that

it's a full count in the bottom of the 9th and they are down by 2. A

prisoner of hope still sees light, rejects bad news for the truth of

God's word, a prisoner of hope is unaffected by bad

news.