Yom Sheni, Av 4, 6004 – July 8, 2019

Finding Hope

Certainly in this day and age it is possible to struggle with all that goes on here. It is easy to get distracted by the challenges we face and by the challenges faced by others. If we focus on these things, even unintentionally, we can get to the place where we get discouraged. But there is a way back. That way back is hope.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

If we translate the words used here, we could say it like this:

The conviction of the absolute truth of somoething is the solid structure of what you expect (good or bad), and the proof of what is not physically seen or even possibly mentally conceived.

We can understand then that it is important to know how to get the structure to build expectations upon, right?

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

This could again be translated:

The solid structure to build upon comes through what we hear with our ears (even rumors), and the ability to hear through the ears by the utterance of God/deity.

Since we are made in the image and likeness of God, and even referred to as “gods” in scripture, then we can get to hope by speaking that which God has said so that we build the faith for it.

Today, let’s think and pray about what we want to appear, and then say that.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here, and let Your will be done here, on earth as it is in heaven. Send us now the overwhelming provision, that we might overflow to those around us. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all the good that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides, the more besides. We ask all these things of You, Father, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiach. Amen and Amen.