Hello, and thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is, Keep Your Faith Anchored.

As I prayed and processed with Holy Spirit about what to share today,

I felt he wanted me to steer this post toward faith and hope.

We must continue to anchor ourselves to what God has said he is doing at this time.

In my book, The Power of Hope, I state that hope does in our hearts what seeds do in the

earth. Without hope, life is sterile and unfruitful. Dreams won't be conceived, destinies won't be

realized.

Hope is essential because it is the seed, the starting line, the Genesis, the launch pad.

It is in fact the incubator where faith is birthed.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, God tells us. If there is no hope

for the future, there will be no faith to face it, let alone build it. Jeremiah 2911 says,

for I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord,

plans for welfare, not for calamity.

King James says good, not for good and not for evil.

To give you a future and a hope.

Strong's concordance tells us the word hope in this verse is the word

ticbha. It has two meanings, an expectancy, as you might imagine, and a chord as an attachment.

The second definition is especially fascinating. Hope connects us to our future.

In this same book, Power of Hope, I share the following story of God encouraging my faith for America.

May it bring you hope in this troubled time. Quote, as I write this,

I'm sitting on my back porch, that would have been in 2014 in Dallas, drawing inspiration from an amazing picture of hope.

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