Hopeful

Hopeful

Enduring hope.

Hope that endures.

Hope that does not disappoint.

You need not be ashamed of my hope.

For you are not without hope.

You are not hope less.

You do not lack hope.

I am your hope.

Receive my gift of hope.

Apply hope.

Apply the ointment of hope.

Apply liberally not sparingly.

Do not limit hope.

Do not measure hope.

Pour out hope.

Overflow with hope.

Be drenched in my hope.

Hold on to hope.

Receive my hope.

Only one thing is needed.

Bathe in my hope.

Drown your sorrows in my hope.

Immerse your sorrows in my hope.

Drown your pain in my hope.

Full immersion.

Don’t stick your toe in my hope, jump in, dive in, be overwhelmed by my hope.

Be full of hope.

For my hope cannot be contained.

For my hope far surpasses all containment.

Over the edge, over the brink, over the verge, beyond the precipice.

When you are holding on by your fingertips, I am your hope, my hands of hope hold you up.

For there is no falling.

My hope holds your hand.

For you cannot be cast down for it is I that holds your hand.

Be uplifted.

Feel the breeze of the uplift.

Take a breath.

Yes take a breath.

Breathe in my hope.

Take a breath of my hope.

Fill yourself with my hope.

Breathe in my hope.

Who is it that told you to hold your breath?

Who is it that told you to confine yourself?

Why lock yourself in, when you hold the key to your exit?

Go out.

Be out.

GET OUT!

Seriously get out!

Say to yourself be out, get out, get up, lift yourself up, cast yourself up, elevate yourself, pick yourself up, take your own hand and pull yourself up. Be up not down, be above and not beneath, be not cast down oh my soul, yet I will praise him.

Break the bonds of your captivity.

Be out of bounds.

Yes that is it, be out of bounds.

Be out of your supposed position.

Who told you to take that pose?

Since when should you do what you are supposed to do?

Have I not called you out?!

Be out of bounds.

Be without bounds.

Be without boundary.

Be reckless!

Be without wreck.

Have I not given you the wide open space?

For your thoughts cast you down.

Here have my thoughts.

Receive my thoughts.

Have another thought.

Definition.

A new definition.

Be defined by hope.

For my hope draws you out.

My hope forms your shape.

My hope covers your position.

My hope lifts you up.

My hope causes you to stand.

My hope causes you to rise.

For here you sit, in the containment of your fears, your thoughts, a prison of your own making.

Yet this is not the pit, it is the basement elevator.

Are these not the words you hear?

Going up!

You know what I am talking about.

For the time of your rising is here.

There is no going down, only going up.

In the place of the outpouring, the overwhelming flow, there shall be an uprising.

Express elevation, right to the top, beyond the ceiling of restriction, to the wide open mountain tops.

Hold on to hope, for my hope holds on to you.

Be wrapped in my hope, be wrapt in my hope, for my hope covers you.

Romans 5:1-5 THEREFORE, SINCE we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God. Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity ofcharacter (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of]joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.