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Speaking Hope

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def. Hope – A confident expectation of the future

I’m talking to you today about speaking hope, every one of us has people in our lives that need to have hope spoken over them, like your children when you say I’m proud of you, you’re going to do great, – you have just spoken hope over their lives and future.

The moment you speak it, you release hope into their future.

Just like you pull back a bow and shoot an arrow you are releasing blessing.

You can literally shape their destiny through your words of hope.

One word of approval can place hope and destiny in some ones heart.

Think of some one who has done that for you.

Someone has spoken hope over your life, now who are you doing it for, don’t just have one-way traffic on this.

You have words of hope locked up on the inside of you words other people need to hear.

When you help someone else rise higher it’s a seed you are sowing and God will ensure there will be some-one to help you rise higher also.

People will rise to what you speak over them. Don’t say I won’t say it until I see it

So where can I give hope today or more accurately – to whom can I give it.

Bless someone this week with your words, express a confident expectation in their future.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 (TMNT) 11So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it
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Stretch Your Capacity

Do you feel as though you’ve reached your limit ?

Your capacity to take on any more commitments is totally exhausted

Often we are tempted to complain to God about how stretched we feel.

Why doesn’t HE know where our limits our and how stressed we feel when these limits are exceeded.

Yet it seems God is just standing back allowing the pressures and commitments of life to stack up until we feel that’s it, – no more.

God though I find has a plan in allowing stretching experiences into our lives.

His purpose is for each of us to live a bigger life, which means bigger commitments but also bigger impact.

Jesus took 12 guys who didn’t have to worry to much about life beyond tomorrow and through a series of stretching and enlarging experiences turned them into men who would taken on the world and forever change it.

Scripture often speaks about being conformed into the likeness of Christ, but Christ had the capacity to take on the sin of the whole world, lay his life down then pick it up again and lead the way through for all of us to follow.

I usually find that it’s not peoples character or competency that limits them but their capacity

Then part of following Christ and being conformed into His likeness is living a bigger life and allowing God the right to continually expand and stretch our world until it is big enough for His purposes in our lives

A challenging thought to meditate on

Barry

: Getting a breakthrough
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Your NEED is the seed for your MIRACLE

So often we curse the problems of life and wish if only I didn’t have this need in my life how much better things would be.

I want to take a contrarian view to this thought, as we look through the pages of the Bible it becomes quickly apparent that the greatest heroes of our faith also had some of the greatest needs or were in some way handicapped by their circumstances. Yet we find out of their desperate need came the desire for a breakthrough for deliverance for themselves or others.
So often a need will produce frustration to the point of action that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.
Need is one of life’s great motivators its just how God has wired us up.

There was once a group of people who were in a church in Asia minor and they felt they had arrived, they had no needs that they were aware of – life must had seemed good, but all was not okay.
We read their story in Revelation 3:17 God is speaking to them through the Apostle John, he says
“You say I am rich; I have aquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked”.
Their lack of a perceived need robbed them of humility and dependence upon God as their source of life and blessing and gave them a false sense of self sufficiency even to the point of self deception. What they possessed God hated.

So don’t despise your need, it is God’s seed for a miracle in your life if you look to Him in faith for the answer.

There is always a test when you are believing for a miracle

Number one always look to the source of your miracle – that God

Secondly don’t cave into fear, – miracles operate in a realm of faith.

God will use your need for a miraculous breakthrough

“And my God will meet all your needs according to his riches in Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19

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