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in First Kings 17 there’s a story and I
really suggest you go read it for
yourself I’m not going to take the time
to to read it all but Elijah was a great
prophet and there was a famine in the
land and he was living by a brook and
God was feeding him supernaturally by
having he got water there from the brook
and then Ravens brought
him
food and I love the Bible says and and
the brook d
up you know when your Brook dries up
God’s saying it’s time to
move and God spoke to him and said go to
zarap for I have provided a widow there
that’s going to take care of
you so he went and he found this Widow
but the problem was was she
was I say poor broke depressed and
suicidal now wait a minute I’m I’m not
just making it up
huh and that’s who God sent him
to I mean come on God I like the bird
idea
better why would you send the greatest
prophet in the
land possibly the greatest Prophet ever
to somebody in that
condition who said to him when he asked
her for a morsel of something to eat she
said
we I’ve only got one little bit of meal
and one little bit of oil I have just
enough to bake one cake divide it
between me and my son and then we’re
going to eat it and die I told you she
was
suicidal she had her mind on death not
living and Elijah
said bake it as you have said but give
me a little of it
first now you know how that would go in
the media
today TV evangelist comes to
town and Rob’s poor broke depressed
suicidal
Widow
amen amen well if God was supernaturally
taking care of
Elijah Elijah didn’t need the
Widow he didn’t need her food she needed
a miracle and in order to get one she
had to sew
seed are you hearing me
you cannot have a harvest in your life
without sewing seed if you need hope
give some
away if you need a breakthrough
contribute to somebody else’s
breakthrough what you make happen for
somebody else God can make happen for
you multiplied many times
over
amen another way that change will not
come is feeling guilty and condemned
about all the mistakes you’ve made in
the past once and for all will you let
it go get over it and go on with
God
today not another day
today running to people for help instead
of running to
God Seven Ways change does
come the anxious for nothing but in all
things by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving let your request be made
known unto
God
prayer with gratitude and Thanksgiving
for what you already have if I’m already
negative and grouchy about what I’ve got
why should God give me more to complain
about so we need to have a foundation of
gratitude in our life that goes without
saying thank God in all things for this
is the will of God for those of you who
are in Christ
Jesus thank God in all things that’s why
my devotional for next year is 365 days
of gratitude
am we need to practice till we get it
amen how thankful are
you I would like to become the most
thankful person on the
planet amen and I’ve got a ways to go
the Bible says be thankful and say so
it’s not good enough just to be thankful
we need to say say so we need to show
appreciation to
people we need to tell God and other
people how grateful we are for what he’s
done in our
lives prayer is so
powerful make this year a year where you
pray more than you ever have before and
I’m not talking about having to be on
your knees hidden away somewhere I’m
talking about praying your way through
the
day I ask God help me with this many
times this morning but just right before
I came out again Lord help me this is
you you got to do it and I’m planning to
thank him when I’m
done and then I’ll get on the plane and
pray for a good trip home and then I’ll
go to the restaurant pray for a good
meal amen
amen pray your way through the
day Matthew 7: 7 and 8
get your hopes
up keep on asking and it will be given
you keep on
seeking and you will
find keep on
knocking and the door will be opened
unto
you for everyone who keeps on asking
receive and he who keeps on seeking
finds and to him who keeps on knocking
the door will be opened unto
him I mean be determined in prayer I
mean I tell God sometimes and I’m not
being irreverent but I’m just telling
you this is in your
word and I’m not going to shut
up until I see it happen in my life or
for whoever I’m praying for and that’s
not being irreverent the Bible teaches
us to be
persistent not not with
a you owe me something attitude but hold
God’s word up to him the Bible says pray
the word and remind him of his
promises God this is what you’ve said
and I’m expecting I’m expecting to see
this take place in my life or in the
life of the person that I’m praying for
come
on
get your hopes
up treat other people good while you’re
believing for things
yourself pray and say wait expectantly
and hopefully for the change you need
keep a good confession while you wait
number four wait with patience and a
good attitude
be a blessing to others while you wait
do your responsibility but cast your
care and number seven don’t let what you
see disturb
you Romans 8:24
and2 aren’t we just having too much fun
today this is the happy place
for in this hope we were saved but hope
the object of which is seen is not
hope for how come one hope for what he
already
sees but if we hope for what is still
unseen by us then we wait for it with
patience and
composure come on we’re going to read
that
again hope is for when you don’t
see yes so you don’t get hopeless
because you don’t see anything happening
that’s exactly when you need
hope we have hope until we have the
manifestation for in this hope we were
saved but hope the object of which is
seen is not hope for how can one hope
for what he already
sees but if we hope for what is still
unseen by us then we wait for it with
patience and composure I’m going to be a
Prisoner of Hope how about you
you and then finally Hebrews
11:1 faith is a substance of things
hoped
for the evidence of Things Not
Seen It is the title deed and the down
payment of the good things that are to
come be a Prisoner of
Hope Proverbs 13:12 says hope
deferred makes the heart sick
we started on Thursday night with
really uh a real word from God that he
was going to deliver people this weekend
from depression and all of its
relatives which is basically anything
down because Jesus said look up because
your Redemption draws night he’s our
glory and the
lifter our head of our
heads all this down discouraged
depressed despondent despair all that
stuff is from the
enemy and that’s not the way that God
wants us to live that’s not the destiny
that Jesus purchased for us with his
blood hope deferred not having hope is
what gets all that started in our lives
it makes the heart sick the heart
becomes
sick so I’m declaring today that if you
will be be a Prisoner of
Hope if you will expect something good
to happen to you every
day I can’t tell you exactly what day it
will show up but I can tell you that
you’ll be happier every day while you’re
waiting than you would be if you waited
with fear and worry and anxiety and
frustration and works of the Flesh and
all kinds of misery and hating your
life
I’m expecting
God to do great
things I’m expecting God to do great
things you know I get tired when I do
these conferences I wake up tired by the
time Saturday morning rolls around and
you
know I always trust God to reward me in
some way for my hard work and so I’m
kind of curious to see what God’s going
to do I’m expecting God to do
something come on why don’t you just
start having fun with
God why don’t you just be his son or his
daughter and let him take care of
you why don’t you just get rid of your
religious attitude and start saying God
you’re my BFF you’re my best friend
forever
amen and I believe that something good
is going to happen to me and through me
today and every day
amen