There are moments when I am so
discouraged I feel like giving up. In those moments all I can see are the
gigantic waves about to take me down… the panic overwhelms me and the despair
suffocates me. I can honestly say in those moments I’m not really
tuned into what the Voice of Truth is trying to tell me. Instead all I hear are
the “ghosts” of the past
telling me lie after lie.
Then there are the other moments – the ones where
God opens the floodgates and pours out hope for my parched and weary soul. I
love those moments! Those are the ones that energize me, puts some spring in my
step, and my day has some umph in it.
Once again being honest, those
hope-filled days are the ones when I am really listening. I can clearly hear
words of encouragement like:
“Don’t be afraid,
just believe” (Mark 5:36)
“He calls His own
sheep by name
and leads them
out
when He has
brought out all His own, He goes on ahead of them
and His sheep
follow Him
because they
know His voice.” (John 10:3b-4)
In the past couple of weeks I have
been writing verses on 3x5 cards and speaking them out loud. I’m getting quite
a stack! But I’m going to keep
at it because it is making quite an impact. As I speak God’s Word out loud,
I’m hearing truth
and it is soaking deep down into my heart producing incredible peace and restocking my hope supply... and it is silencing the lie-telling
ghosts! Pretty amazing.
I’m going to let Romans 15:13 sum it up
for us today –
May the God of
hope fill you with all JOY and PEACE as you trust in Him
so that you may
overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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