28. Monday Meditations: Hope
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Growing up I was consistently told that “hope is not a strategy.” This made no sense to me. I thought it was silly to say that it wasn’t because we’re told in 1 Corinthians 13:13 that the three things that will last forever are faith, hope and love. I kept my own “hope strategy” to myself and fought back on the premise I was repeatedly told.
Choosing hope will be more difficult at certain times than others. Sometimes the unexpected hits and it throws us off course and challenges our hope. In these trying times, you must remember that you’re wrapped in the loving arms of our God. He will catch you. He will carry you. He will lead and guide you. Remember that the Lord is our Shepherd who renews and restores our souls with hope.
In life, we will continually experience the unexpected but that’s the beauty of the promise of hope we have in Christ–we will not fail. View unshakeable hope as an adventure with God. Just you and Him in lockstep. Only God can take us into newness of life and opportunity. Only He can guide us into new places, experiences and opportunities beyond our feeble imaginings and wildest dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations. It's officially the first week of May, the first full week of May. |
| 0:09.5 | So to start the week off right, the word we're going to be meditating on is hope. |
| 0:16.2 | Growing up, I was constantly told that hope is not a strategy. |
| 0:20.9 | This made no sense to me at the time, and I always fought back on it, but they kept saying, |
| 0:24.9 | hope is not a strategy. |
| 0:27.0 | And I thought it was so silly to say that hope wasn't a strategy because we're told in |
| 0:31.1 | 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 13 that the three things that will last forever are faith, hope, and love. So I kept my own, |
| 0:40.6 | quote unquote, hope strategy to myself and every now and then kept fighting back on the premise I was |
| 0:46.1 | repeatedly told. On a deep spiritual level, unshakable hope comes from intentionally and consistently |
| 0:53.8 | placing your trust and confidence in God |
| 0:56.1 | in His goodness. And when your hope is rooted in God's word in your knowledge of God's provision |
| 1:01.1 | and character, it becomes a fortress of security and stability regardless of what lies ahead. |
| 1:07.0 | So what I'm saying is that having hope, that unshakable hope, it's a choice. |
| 1:12.3 | You must plan to hope. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm reminded of Psalm chapter 118, verse 24. |
| 1:17.5 | This is the day which the Lord is made. |
| 1:20.6 | We will rejoice and be glad in it. |
| 1:23.0 | And the key words there are we will. |
| 1:25.6 | It's deliberate. |
| 1:26.7 | It's a daily choice in our spirit to choose Christ, |
| 1:29.9 | to choose to rejoice, to choose hope. And yes, choosing hope will be more difficult at certain times |
| 1:37.1 | than others. And sometimes the unexpected hits and it throws us off course and challenges our hope. |
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