Midweek Praise: Hope in Praise

Wednesday November 18 2020

Come, let us praise the Lord!
Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us! (Psalm 95:1)

Hope in itself is not much good, because you can hope for a situation be it healing, money, partner, promotion etc., and you don’t know if it will happen or not, it’s in the future. You need faith to make it work. The Bible tells us, “To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see" (Heb. 11:1 Good News Bible); “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (same verse, New King James Bible).

In court you need evidence to make something stand. So, faith is the evidence of things not seen and faith is the substance of things hoped for. In other words, faith is substance.

The Bible tells us that praise rebukes the enemy, that’s physical but first spiritual. If you have asked Jesus into your heart and become born- again then you are in a battle whether you want to be or not, and the sooner you learn to fight this battle you can be on Victory Street instead of grumble alley. For our weapons are not bodily but mighty through God to pulling down of strongholds.

First you must be certain God loves you unconditionally. Through Jesus’ blood we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ, which means in Right Standing with God the Father. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend, we believe in Jesus and become sons and daughters. You can believe enough to receive salvation and no more, and then live the rest of your life below what is your right as a son/daughter of the Most High God.

God is for you, he has given us the Holy Spirit to empower us, the Word to see his promises made to us, and it is a covenant sealed in the Blood of His Son. As far as He is concerned it is so. But we have to claim it by faith. Jesus also gave us the authority to use his Name. The name above all other names, so all things above, here and below must bow to his Name; sickness, debt, depression, lack, anything that’s not of love and peace and is pure. Perhaps the last song will help you to see the truth of your position in this universe and turn your hope by faith into reality. We don’t fight in our own strength but the Lord’s, by giving it back to Him and praising Him believing he will turn it around.

Speak out loud this prayer:

“Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of Glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Ephesians 1:15- 23 NKJB).
In Jesus’ name
Amen

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Rom. 10:17 NKJB

“Thinking faith thoughts
and speaking faith words
leads the heart out of defeat and into VICTORY.”
E. W. Kenyon

May God bless you
and remember
JESUS IS LORD

​Hope in Praise

Hope in Praise