Power to Succeed Pt.7

In Romans 8:28, the Word says: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” This is the source of our power to succeed in hard times – all things work together for our good. Every challenge is an opportunity. The bigger the challenge is then the bigger the reward. Everything the enemy mounts up against us works for us. Our challenges work for us as we obey God all the way through.

You will not be disappointed or ashamed by going with God and His hope. You should be expecting how God will get you out your situation. You compound your problem when you try to go with your own selfish ambitions. God upfront has already proved to us that it is going to work out for us because He has poured out His love in our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:31-32).

God richly gives us all things so that we can enjoy it. This is about relationship, not religion. A relationship with God is not about having a slave mentality. If you think that you have to get something from God, then you are in the slave category. When you understand that you have a right to everything that God has then you are in the children category.

Remember, God is on your side. He did not spare His Son at the very beginning before you ever thought about Him. He gave His very best upfront. The enemy came to steal, kill and destroy, but God came to give us life and to give it more abundantly (John 10:10). God cannot do anything to you as His child but good. He proved that by pouring out His wrath on His own Son. God is on your side. He chose to be with you.

Hope allows us to see things that cannot be seen (Romans 8:24-25). If you hope for things that are seen, that’s not real hope. If you hope for things that aren’t seen, you will with patience and endurance wait for them. Hope also gives you the power of endurance – this means that you are able to make it. You win. The world cannot control you by the things you hear, see and feel because you can see something beyond it. You can see the true God and His Word beyond what is heard, seen and felt. More importantly, with that hope that sees things that cannot be seen, you will have the endurance to make it.

How do you use this power? Hope allows you to hear the Word of God like never before. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Faith doesn’t come by reading, fasting, praying, etc. Those things should be done, but faith only comes by hearing because God designed it that way. The primary means by which God reaches people is by hearing, which means someone has to be speaking. To increase your faith, you need to hear the Word on a regular basis. You need to have a steady diet of the Word in your life. You are spirit. You wouldn’t starve your body, so why would you starve your spirit?

In hard times, you have to pay the cost. You have to exert energy to hear the Word. You have to block out every distraction in order to hear the Word. You also have to guard the Word that you have already heard because the enemy will come to immediately steal it. If you are going to get the Word, you have to be a worshiper. You also have to honor the one who delivers you the Word. Otherwise, the Word you get will be diminished in your estimation.

Hope gives us the power to hear, give, obey, praise and pray like never before. If you cannot take the power of hope in this message and begin to hear, give, obey, praise and pray like never before, then you aren’t in a hard spot. If you are in a hard spot, then you will do something with the power of hope. You must know that God is yours because He gave himself to you (Psalm 146:5). God is faithful. He is a covenant-keeping God. He cannot change. He is our hope.

Hope in God will allow you to hear the Word like never before. Everyone’s problem comes from disobeying the Word. Hope and expectation in God will give you the sight and endurance to obey God like never before. Every word of God is good for His children. If you hear God’s Word and do it, then when the storm comes by you won’t feel it (Luke 6:46). If you don’t do it, when the storm comes your house will fall. If you really want to get power in your life, then answer the question asked in Luke 6:46.


















































































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