give voice to your hope!
10 December 2023
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
God chose me specially
I am royal priesthood
I am King and Priest
I am Holy nation
"holy" => to be uncommon, to be set apart, special
I am set apart as King and Priest, I am special person because I am set apart by what Jesus has done for me at the cross
darkness in the world, I arise and shine
In face of every need, Jesus provided exceedingly abundantly above all for me
to lay hold afresh what He has given me
Give and it shall be given unto me
Solomon said: Everything I have belongs to You Lord, of Your own that I give You
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and who are my people, That we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, And of Your own we have given You.
Lord promised me the blessings as I give, He open door, He pour out the blessings not enough room to receive
Pastor Lawrence
Those have to help those who don't have
Those can support those who can't
Those able help those not able
It's bless to be a blessings
God has first love me so that with His love in my heart I can love one another
God is always good and only good
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Jesus made clear differentiation
He is clearly not the thief
Death is not from God
Disease is not from God
Understand the clear declaration, Jesus made about Himself
He came to give me life and life more abundantly
He came to give
God said: "I am the good Shepherd, good Shepherd give lives to sheep"
Whatever lost in 2023, realised it is not from God and look unto Him
God is able to make things around for my good
I must have good expectation of good in future
Matthew 24:6
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Don't be trouble
What we see, beginning of sorrows, the day of Lord is coming near
We obtained salvation through Lord Jesus Christ
How do I live?
Hebrews 10:23 KJV
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Translated "hope" to "faith", it should be hope
so much the more we see the days approaching
This is how I should live!
Greek "Elpis" => Hope
Hebrews 10:23 NKJV
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
God wants me to holdfast the confession of my hope
Hope => Elpis => joyful, confident expectation of eternal salvation (Bible Hope ~ Christian position, expectation of good, joyful)
world hope - hope but uncertain
Believer hope - Hope, joyful, confident expectation of good to come, eternal salvation
Confession => Speak it out
How should I live?
1) I must have hope in every situation in my life, believe I have best outcome. Full manifestation of healing. Believe He will provide for me
Psalm 23:1
The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
God wants me to believe, having hope in my heart
2) Speak it with my mouth, give voice to my hope
Who say you are old and weak?
Caleb said in Joshua 14:10
And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses at 120 years old, his eyes have not grow dim
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.
I can trust Him
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
death and life at the power of tongue, those who love it become it's fruit
What I speak is more important than what I eat
Speak the promises of God in every area in my life
Matthew 12:13 Jesus healed withered hand man by saying "stretch off your hand"
Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.
Before Jesus could, He spoken
What I am saying, watch what I say
Declare promises of God in my life
I curse people, won't that make them worse, pushing them to dark side
People do bad things to me, bless them, use words to bless them, bring them from dark side
Romans 4:17
(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
There's power in my words
Holdfast => Endure
I need to call those things, they don't exist but I need to call it as though they exist
God see darkness, He said "Let there be light"
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Mark 5:25-34 Woman issue of blood, said to her herself that: touch Jesus' garment, I shall be healed
Abram => Abraham
Sara => Sarah
God added grace in their name
God let him to speak it off first, so manifestation comes
Start to declare, take authority in my life and situation I am in
Romans 4:18-22
18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
=> Contrary to hope
God wants me to believe in hope
Don't consider what is in natural but consider God's word
Mark 11:20-24 The Lesson of the Withered Fig Tree
20 Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24 Therefore I say to you,whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
I need to say it
Bt His stripes, I am healed
declare the word of God, proclaim the truth
Holdfast the confession of my hope without wavering, keep on declaring
Jesus said: "My Father's house is the house of prayers"
Matthew 21:13a
And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’
I confess, keep on praying especially in the Spirit
Luke 17:5-6
5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6 So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
"said" => in greek imperfect tense
increase my faith => speak to it
Speak forth God's word what I want to see
Keep on speaking to it
Hebrews 10:35-36
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
I am one day closer to my breakthrough keep on believing
Mark 4:13-20
13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble.
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,
19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
Jesus explained story ground
Mark 4:17 => word sown in my heart how powerful fruits I bear, enemy will attack. Have the word, I see the fruit in the word. I must have endurance, persevere and believe Lord. God is good
Keep on believing
Keep on speaking
Keep on declaring
I am blessed
I am rich
Hebrews 10:14-17
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says theLord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Live for Jesus
He is worthy my entire life
Book: Shoes too big by Henry Khoo
Love God, share abroad
Thank you Jesus!
Amen!