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Real Hope And Change
Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Oct 14, 2012 (message contributor)
Summary: Everything that you have ever had to deal with or will ever experience, He already has been there and conquered it. You must believe, what ever situation you will ever arrive at, or may come upon, He has already been there for you and has already been v
Real Hope and Change!
Everywhere you look, all through out history, there have been men who have inspired mankind!
David did, Caleb did, Moses and Joshua, Peter, Paul and Mary, Just kidding
But seriously, Discoverers have, Kings have, Presidents…....well you know…....just mention the names of Lincoln, Washington, Kennedy, Roosevelt and Reagan
But at best, it was all and always temporal, because men fall, men fail, men die
and the accuser, combined with time and circumstances, can change things around like the weather, without a moments notice,
Until one day it's 2012, you wake up and you see things you’ve never seen before and the news,
reports on things happening around the world, you’ have never heard of before,
And you see and hear in your own neighborhood, of people ruining their lives,
doing things and drugs that they think, are supposed to make them feel good,
and you can't help but wonder,
Where’'s the Hope gone? Or you wonder, Where’s the lack of Hope gone to?
The world needs hope, the morale of people young and old, all across the globe, needs to be lifted up and inspired,
And they need to be made aware of the hope, the greatest hope ever known and that hope is Jesus!
The hope that not just inspired a generation or two, like at best a man is capable of,
but is capable of doing it, for all of eternity,
A real and lasting, continual Hope, a hope that will never disappoint, a hope that will never let us down!
Romans 5:5 NKJ
5Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Gods “hope” in the Bible is a confident and positive expectation of good.
No where in the world can you find the good news of such a hope,
it can only be found, through the finished work of Christ!
And God wants you to have a confident expectation of good because as His child,
And like any good parent would be towards their own children, He Loves you and He favors you and wants His very best for you.
Matthew 7:11 NKJ.
11. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
He wants you to always be expecting something good from Him, just for no other reason, because your one of His own!!
And that's more than enough reason for me, Praise God!
TBS. if you are one of His own, you are qualified for everything and anything, He decides to bestow upon you, all for the asking!
Makes me want to shout hallelujah, thank you Jesus, How bout you?
Sounds almost to good to be true…...well, with the worlds twisted way of thinking…...yes it is,
but its not outside the realm of possibilities, of the creator of the universe, the one true God, who loves you very much!
Colossians1:26-29 MSG
26-29This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open.
God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing.
The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory.
It’s that simple. That is the substance of our Message.
We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message.
We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity.
To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less.
That’s what I’m working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.”
The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory.
It’s that simple. That is the substance of our Message.
That is the substance of our hope!
Its not a complicated, long and drawled out sales pitch that someone has to learn verbatim, before they can share it with someone else.
Over the years, Christianity and religion has become to complicated by man,
Well if I could just follow all the rules like brother and sister so and so, their so knowledgeable of all the scripture, their such mature Christians.
Brother and sister so and so, ain’t ever gonna get it done for you,
And the good news is, they don’t have to either, God made it easy to inspire hope in your fellow man!
The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory.
