A life filled with LIVELY HOPE

Text: 1Peter1:3 (KJV)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

I want to share a testimony of a brother who was seeking for employment in a particular company. Every day, he dresses up properly with his briefcase. He visits the premises; he also equipped himself with relevant knowledge about the company. He never lost hope; neither was he depressed, but as God would have it, he was favoured one faithful day and was given employment in the same organization. We give God all the glory.

There is an attitude we must all develop as Christians, and this is because our belief has a lot of inheritance attached to it. This character is an attitude of LIVELY HOPE. The amazing part of this attitude is that you wake up so confident and determine not to be moved by the situations that life brings your way, it basically strengthens you. This behaviour makes you to live lively because you always remember His unperishable, incorruptible and unfading promises. 1Peter1:4- To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. We should learn to live a life full of active living or a life full of hope. By doing this, we end up activating those uninhibited areas of our lives. Due to the resurrection of Jesus, we have a new life that is so refined. This new life does not just start from heaven, it starts from now here on earth, and it is actually part of our calling. DO NOT ENTERTAIN EMPTY HOPE.

Once we have this attitude activated in our lives, everything that seems like a dead hope comes to life. This also goes for those low moments, which are discouraging and depressing, because they end up filled with hope. Isn’t this amazing? We should be grateful for this privilege. The truth about life is that many people are alive physically, but they are dead everywhere else, and this is mostly because of their dead hope. So, I urge you to live excitedly and be full of hope. We should not have a fading away idea. Always remember, there is glory ahead. Luke 24:26- Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? So, I urge you to provoke that dead hope to living hope; even if the situations around you does not make you happy, create happiness for yourself by using this attitude of lively hope. I pray that our expectation will no longer remain as hope, but it will become a manifestation in Jesus name.

PRAYER POINTS:

1.Father, please give me an understanding of your promises upon my life that will keep my hope alive in Jesus name.

2. Father, take me to the point of full delivery of my lively hope, in Jesus name.

ACTION QUOTE: Can you define the source of your hope?