Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. I am going to read to you again from the

new devotional title of today's post is keep your faith anchored. Today I want to talk to you

about your faith.

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,

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, 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 in Hebrews 11.

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, to give you a future and a hope.

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

It has two means, an expectancy, an accord as an attachment.

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

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

And I'm quoting from it now.

As I write this, I'm sitting on my back porch, that was 2014 in Dallas, Texas.

I'm sitting on my back porch drawing inspiration from an amazing picture of hope.

It's a tree in my backyard that I named the Hope Tree.

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