Even When It Seems Hopeless, Believe (Daily Devotional)

Welcome back to Living Supernaturally. It is good to see you here, we’ve been meditating on the word of God and we’ve been looking at how do we receive what has already been provided by grace. How do we receive and walk in the grace provisions that has been given to us because it has been provided for us and given by grace with this intent that each one of us, having believed in the Lord Jesus, having received the fullness of His grace will walk in what has been given to us, meaning that we will receive, experience and appropriate and walk in the fullness of it. The question is this, how do I receive it? We receive it by faith. We are looking at different aspects of it and the faith of Abraham, how Abraham believed and therefore he is the father of faith and we have been instructed to follow in the footsteps of the kind of faith that he had. When we look at Abraham’ life, we see that against all hope, in hope, he believed which means that even when things were hopeless, in hope, he believed. Let’s look at Romans chapter 4, verse 18 says, ‘who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”’ We see contrary to hope, in hope, he believed. For Abraham, there was no reason, no logical reason to hope, but still he hoped. He hoped in God and in hope, he believed. So, hope is an expectation of something good. He believed and he had this hope that God will bring to pass what He had promised. So, that is the same kind of hope that we are called to have, to have hope and expectation when all things are hopeless, when there is no reason and logic to hope. How can we have this kind of hope? We can have this kind of hope only through the word of God in our hearts because the word of God inspires and instills hope in us. We can have this kind of hope and let this expectation rise in us because of what God has spoken and who God is. Only then can we have this kind of hope in our hearts. Secondly, we also see in addition to having hope that we should only believe and not fear. In fact, when the Lord Jesus was speaking to Jairus, Jairus had come to ask the Lord Jesus to pray for his daughter who was at the point of death and he receives this news that the daughter is already dead and the Lord Jesus turns around and says, ‘fear not, only believe.’ When we have hope against hopeless situations and when we are believing in such situations, there is every possibility that fear might enter. When fear knocks at our door, we need to remind ourselves of what Jesus spoke, He said, ‘fear not only believe’, believe in His word and in who God is. When we believe in this manner, the Lord Jesus says, when you believe, you will see the glory of God. So, we believe first and then we see the manifestation of what we have believed and hoped in God for. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you that you have asked us to believe the way Abraham believed. Even when things seem hopeless, some of us may be going through such situations when there is no reason/ logic to have hope, where the situation is completely hopeless, in such situations, we put our faith in you, in who you are because you never change. We put our faith in your word because your word never changes and remains the same through the ages. We choose to believe in you in this manner, to receive what you have already provided or us, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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