This week we continue in our Sermon Series, “A Double Blessing.”  The book, should you choose to get it, is by Mark Batterson. 

Saturday and Sunday, will be “Prisoners of Hope.”  Sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it is not.  We did a sermon series some time ago called “Unexpected,” from a book of the same name by Christine Caine. Here is what she said about becoming a prisoner of hope: 

When we become prisoners of hope, we declare with defiance that there is…

·      No need that God cannot meet.

·      No mountain God cannot move.

·      No prayer God cannot answer.

·      No sickness God cannot heal.

·      No heart God cannot mend.

·      No door God cannot open.

When we become prisoners of hope, we aren’t dismayed when dreams…

·      Take longer than we think they should.

·      Cost more than we think they should.

·      Are harder to realize than we think they should be.

When we become prisoners of hope, we shift our perspective.  We…

·      Look at what we have left, not what we have lost

·      Believe the best, not assume the worst

·      Keep moving forward, not shrink backward

Let’s choose to be a prisoner of hope.  

Can you think of a more appropriate time for this than NOW?