“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans. 5:1-2

Basically, every believer has a deposit of hope in his heart and that hope can be stirred up. You can come out of hopelessness and become hopeful by taking the following steps.

Look ahead!

In Hebrew 12:2, the Bible talking of Jesus says:

“…Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Jesus came to terminate hopelessness in our lives, showing us how to look away from the past and look ahead with hope, so that we can keep moving ahead.

To deliver humanity from sin and evil, Jesus had to carry the sin of the whole world and bear the punishment for it, which is death by hanging on a cross.

That is a very hard and shameful thing for anybody to go through, but He overlooked all the sufferings and the shame. 

While He was being beaten and bat-tered, He told the people not to sympathize with Him because He had hope. He knew that the cross was not His end. His eyes were focused on the joy and the glory that was set ahead of Him, thus He was able to endure and go through the pressures. At the end, He became the author of eternal salvation.

The way out of hopelessness is to see a tomorrow, see a great future set before you and then stir up your hope for it by putting the past behind you. Start off again in a new dimension with new vigour. Remember that where there is no hope there is no life and where there is no life, there is no progress. Stir up your hope again and begin to enjoy life in its fullness. Start looking forward because your tomorrow is brighter than your today.

In the course of his walk with God, Abraham asked God, “…Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless…” (Genesis 15:2). Until God helped him to be hopeful, he did not become fruitful. While he waited for the promised child, Romans 4:19 says that he:

“…Against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb..but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;” Romans 4:18-19

All over the place, you hear people expressing hopelessness in their speech and you see it in their looks, but the truth is that hopelessness is not a function of what happened to you but your attitude to what happened.

Abraham hoped against all natural laws of hope that he would become the father of many nations and it came to pass. Life is full of challenges, this is why you must remain continuously hopeful, to win continuously. The Psalmist said:

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” Psalms 42:5

You can sense depression before it sets in and like David did in this verse, encourage your heart to hope in God because when you hope in Him with joy, He becomes the help of your countenance. Remember you are not a conditional creature, you are a creature in the state of God. You have the nature of God, you have a heart that can subdue circumstances. 

Even if medical practitioners say that there is no hope for you, consider it as an expression of their own limita-tions. God has no limitations. He is older than medical science and all things are possible with Him so you can begin to hope again. Fight hopelessness with everything in your power, remain hopeful and you will see your great future begin to unfold for all to see…

This text is an extract from the book “CREATING A NEW BEGINNING” written by David O. Abioye. 
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HOW TO STIR UP HOPE.