[Faith-talk] Fwd: SF Daily Devotional - High Hopes

Mon Dec 31 17:56:01 CST 2007

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> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:27:05 -0500 (EST)
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> Sunday, December 30, 2007
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> High Hopes
> Dr. Frederick K.C. Price 
> 
> Hebrews 10:23 says: "Let us hold fast the confession
> of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is
> faithful." 
> 
> There are two words in that verse which I want to
> examine-confession and hope. Before I learned how to
> walk by faith, all my wife and I lived on was hope.
> But hope will not change your circumstances. It
> takes faith to release the power of God to change
> your circumstances. Hope will only keep you alive
> until things change. If you never bring faith to
> bear upon your circumstances, all you will do is
> live in hope. Your circumstances will never change.
> 
> However, in order to really walk by faith, you have
> to have hope. Hope is a goal setter. What's your
> goal? My goal or objective is to reach the top of
> the mountain in all areas of life. Everybody should
> have a goal. If you do not set a goal you will never
> reach one. This is one reason why many people, and
> even many Christians, never achieve anything. They
> never set goals. They have nothing for their faith
> to obtain. Hope sets the goal and faith achieves it.
> 
> Hebrews 11:1 says: "Now faith is the substance of
> things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
> 
> Hope by itself has no substance. Faith adds
> substance to your hope. If you do not have hope then
> you have nothing for your faith to obtain. On the
> other hand, if you have hope and do not have faith
> then you have nothing by which to obtain that which
> you hope for.
> 
> I want to challenge each of you to high hopes this
> New Year. I have high hopes and I obtain the goals I
> set. Though there still are some that have yet to
> manifest. I know that some things take more time
> than others. 
> 
> I want to challenge you to have high hopes, to set
> some goals for 2008. If you do not set any goals you
> will never reach any. Now be careful and use wisdom
> when you set your goals. Do not set them so high
> that you become frustrated and lose hope. If you do,
> it will cause you to give up and do nothing.
> 
> Have you set goals concerning your financial and
> spiritual needs? Do you have any goals with regard
> to your desires, your family, your husband, your
> wife, your children, your job, your career, your
> education, your ministry or your physical health?
> 
> You need to have high hopes and there are steps you
> can take to obtain any goal. The first one is to
> remain steadfast, as it says in Hebrews 10:23. You
> have to be tenacious and hold on to your goals. Do
> not let go until your goal manifests. It takes that
> kind of attitude. Stay with it even if it takes
> forever. It may take a while for your goal to come
> to pass, but if you remain steadfast sooner or later
> it will manifest.
> 
> First Corinthians 15:58 says: "Therefore, my beloved
> brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding
> in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is
> not in vain in the Lord." 
> 
> If you want to reach your high hopes you have to be
> steadfast. Even if hell rises up against you, if the
> water rises, you stick with the goal. This is what
> steadfast means. It takes discipline and commitment
> to be constant. 
> 
> Jesus said in John 15:18-19: "If the world hates
> you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
> "If you were of the world, the world would love its
> own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I
> chose you out of the world, therefore the world
> hates you."
> 
> The enemy will put pressure on you when you attempt
> to reach your goal. But you can handle it. Jesus
> did. You are in good company. In fact, you are
> running with the best. He has already warned you. If
> they persecuted Him they will persecute you.
> 
> Situations may arise in which you are unable to
> figure out what to do. We all have encountered this
> at one time or another in our lives. When you are
> walking in the Word and by the Holy Spirit you have
> divine, inside information to meet your goal.
> 
> Second Corinthians 4:8-9 says: "We are hard pressed
> on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed,
> but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken;
> struck down, but not destroyed;"
> 
> If you are steadfast, standing through the
> persecution, deliverance is at hand. You can obtain
> your High Hopes.
> 
> 
> This devotional was excerpted from Dr. Price's audio
> teaching, "High Hopes." Please call us at (800)
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> 
> Dr. Frederick K.C. Price is the founder and pastor
> of Crenshaw Christian Center West in Los Angeles and
> CCC East in Manhattan. To obtain more information
> about his ministry, please call (800) 927-3436 or
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