One Reason It's Hard To Hope

As I sat down to write, I heard the Holy Spirit say: It's hard to hope without the Word. As I have mentioned before, the heart behind these letters is that you would ultimately place your hope in Jesus Christ, who is the only REAL source of hope in this world and is an EVER LIVING hope as you read in the last Hope Letter. Jesus is hope, Jesus is God, and Jesus is also THE WORD. This truth is written below in the scriptures from the book of John:

In the beginning was the THE WORD, and the Word was with with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1)

And THE WORD was made flesh, and dwelled among us (and we behled his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of GRACE and TRUTH (John 1:14)

For the law was given by Moses, but GRACE and TRUTH came by JESUS CHRIST (John 1:17)

God's Word is Him and He IS His Word. So in order to truly place your hope in Jesus Christ, it means you must place your hope the Word of God, The Bible. To place your hope in the Word of God, you must consume the Word of God. In my personal walk, whenever I'm distant from God's Word I become very weak in my mind. Life circumstances and situations start speaking to me louder than I'm speaking to them. Light at the end of the tunnel becomes very faint and I get tempted to wonder if it's even there.

Trying to hope in God without His Word is like baking a cake without any flour, you're not going to get very far. Resources like these Hope Letters, sermons, and Youtube videos are awesome to help us keeping holding on, but it's the actual WORD, which is Christ himself that's going to be the anchor of our hope. When we have the Word in our hearts, it's the one thing this world can never take away. Despite what happens or who comes to attack our hope, we stand on the Word and declare God's truth over EVERYTHING. Isaiah 40:7-8 says The grass withers, the flowers fade because the Spirit of the Lord blows upon it: surely people are grass. The grass withers, the flowers fade: BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER.

Whenever I'm reading scripture consistently, my hope is greater because I remember the promises of God over life circumstances. I'm more confident about that light at the end of the tunnel because I know God is not a man that He shall lie. I'm able to encourage others and point them to hope because when the Word is on my mind, it naturally comes up in conversation.

If you're finding it difficult to hope in Jesus, I encourage you to get into HIS WORD. That's going to be the foundation and life source of your hope. Even if it's just one scripture verse a day, that's a seed of hope that can work wonders in your life! Start with the Bible App and read the verse of the day each day (you may find you want to know more about the verse and you end up reading the whole chapter it's from!). You can also Google, scripture verses concerning whatever you're hoping for, if it's healing look up 3 healing scriptures and write them on flash cards and read them every day when you wake up and every night before bed. After doing this a while, go deeper, start reading a half a chapter in the Bible a day or a whole chapter (I suggest reading in the New Testament if you're new to Bible reading). Before you read pray to God to help you understand His Word and to show you hope through His Word. The more you do this, the stronger your hope will be and the more confident you'll be that Christ CAN.

I pray this letter ministers to you my friend. The Lord loves you.

May your hope be in Jesus Christ,

Anreka


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The Hope That NEVER Dies!

One of the most common thoughts and discouragements that come into a person's mind when they contract an STD is: No one is ever going to love me or No one is ever going to want to be with me. This is certainly something I believed and it brought me deeper into my sorrow after my diagnosis. However, this is a conclusion I came to after believing the popular myths about STD's and allowing those myths to dictate my future. This was my state of mind. Maybe you're in this place right now or maybe you just started talking to someone special and you fear they won't want you anymore once they find out.

In addition to believing this because of the myths, I also believed this because throughout my whole life I placed my hope in people, in this case men. My hope for a future marriage was in a man seeing me as a qualified candidate. I had to pass his tests. I had to meet all his expectations. I had to be everything he'd want me to be in order to be his wife. This is what I believed. I didn't believe I was worth being anyone's wife. Although I hoped to be one day, deep down I believed that my future husband would be the real prize and I'd just be one of his options. My hope, value, worth, everything was in a man choosing me as an option. So, if I already believed I was a last pick option and then I contracted herpes, it's clear to see why I completely removed myself from the game altogether. My hope was entirely in the opinion and acceptance of a man, so if you remove the man, you remove my hope.

Maybe your hope for relationships or future marriage didn't die, but your hope in other areas did: confidence, self-esteem, identity. All of these took a hit for me. If you're in that place right now, I'd like to point you to the scripture below:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant

and boundless mercy caused us to be born again to an EVER-LIVING hope and confident assurance through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3).

When I gave my life to Christ on my bedroom floor on January 2, 2012, for the first time in my life my hope went from natural things and people in the world to Jesus Christ. I end every Hope Letter by saying "May your hope be in Jesus Christ" and this is why! When we surrender our lives and repent of our sin and ask Jesus to be the Lord of our lives we are born again. This verse is saying that our new birth experience gives a NEW hope, a hope that is EVER LIVING, a hope that NEVER DIES because it's through the resurrection of Christ. When Jesus rose from the dead He defeated EVERYTHING satan could ever throw at us in this world. Jesus defeated herpes, AIDS/HIV, syphilis, cancer, depression, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, death, EVERYTHING!! Through Him we have victory over the grave and anything that would try to send us to the grave because in Him our souls will live eternally in full health, prosperity, and glory. There's nothing the devil has over us anymore! This new hope that never dies is what carried me through when I first got saved and it's what's carrying me through today.

Notice God says this EVER LIVING hope is accessed through being born again. My friend, if you truly want hope, the real hope, you have to surrender to the one who IS hope. These letters can't be the source of your hope. I write them to point you to the source who is Jesus Christ. If you believe that you are a sinner and you've messed up and God came down to the earth in the form of His Son Jesus Christ to pay the price of your sins on the cross. And that he died and rose again three days later and by his sacrifice you can be forgiven, then I'd like to lead you in prayer to commit your life to Jesus.

Recite this out loud:

Lord Jesus, I believe you are God. I believe you died and rose again for my sins. I am a sinner and I ask you to forgive me of my sins. I pray that you wash me clean and show me how to walk in righteousness. I surrender my life to you and ask you to take control of my life. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.


Hallelujah!!!! You are now born again!!! You now have full access to the EVER LIVING hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ!! Praise the Lord! You have a hope that will never die, as long as it's in the finished work of Jesus Christ!


May your hope be in Jesus Christ,

Anreka

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I'm Losing Hope

God wants to speak hope this week through a sermon. This time the message is coming from my own pastor, Pastor Phillip Mitchell from Victory Church. God came down SO MIGHTLY in this message as the Holy Spirit spoke to every heart in the room to remind us that GOD IS IN CONTROL! If you are losing hope concerning your health, finances, or just life in general YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS.

Faith is the precursor to HOPE. God keeps bringing the 1 Corinthians 13:7 scripture up to me this week:

(Love) Bears all things, believes all things, hopes in all things, and endures all things.

This means when we have the love of God in us that love is ABLE to bear ALL things: every sickness, worry, fear, trouble this life could ever offer. Now that we're no longer bearing this thing, but we've given it to the love of God, that same love enables us to BELIEVE all things. We have the faith to believe God CAN heal, He CAN redeem our life, He CAN give us a new start. Through that same love of God, we can transcend from believing God can to HOPING HE WILL in all things. He WILL be my healer, He WILL be my provider, He WILL renew my mind. Then it is only through HOPE which starts with the Love of God in us that we are able to ENDURE ALL things. Through believing God CAN and hoping He WILL, I can endure this illness, I can endure this valley season, I can endure ALL because of God's LOVE.

God truly used Pastor Philip to encourage us in our faith, for without faith, there's no hope as we see in the scripture above. I pray the Holy Spirit shows you what's been fighting your faith and you start praying against it and allow God's truth and love to fill that space in your heart. Please watch the message below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnG9PaZTWyc

May your hope be in Jesus Christ,

Anreka

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The Greatest Healing of ALL TIME!

Let's talk about the GREATEST healing of all time! I came across it in the scripture below:

When Israel was a child [a young nation], I (God) loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt. The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience], the more they went away from them. They kept sacrificing to the Baals (false gods) and burning incense to the carved images (idols). Yet it is I who taught Ephraim (Israel) to walk, taking them in My arms; But they did not know I healed them. I led them gently with cords of a man, with bonds of love [guiding them]... (Hosea 11:1-4a, AMP)

Y'all all I did was see myself in this scripture when I read it and I had to start praising and glorifying God! The Lord describes the nation of Israel as His son that He set free from years of slavery in Egypt. Yet, despite His love and compassion toward them and calling them to repent and give their hearts to Him, they neglected God and continued to worship the false god of Baal and other idol images. Then God continues to explain how HE is the one who healed them and they didn't know. How did He heal them? With the cords of a man. What are the cords of a man? The thing that leads and draws a human being: LOVE! This wrecked me when I read it because that was me! I was rebellious and made myself the god of my life. I worshiped every decision that would benefit me and my desires first. Although my heart was sinful and selfish, God led me into a relationship with His Son Jesus Christ through the one thing I needed most, LOVE.

The children of Israel were exposed to a lot of diseases while in Egypt and with this being pre-modern medicine, many of these would be deemed "incurable" just because man didn't create a medicine for it yet. However, God's power SUPERSEDES that of man! God is the CREATOR and the SUSTAINER of the body. He doesn't have to wait until man made medicine and research catches up to the needs of the human body. He taught His people how to walk, as a father does a child, then took them in His arms and healed them as they went. What makes it the greatest healing is that it was two fold. The Lord saw their bodies were sick, but also their hearts from their rebellion. By drawing near to them and cradling them in His arms, God loved them. He forgave them. He showed them mercy and grace and gave them what no man made medicine could ever do: A SECOND CHANCE.

Similar to the Israel, when the Lord took me up in His arms on January 2, 2012 and started leading me with love, I didn't know in that moment my healing began. I was praying for physical healing, but had no idea God started healing me from all the brokenness that was inside me. The love and forgiveness of God is the greatest medicine a human being could ever receive. What if God just healed my body and left my heart the way it was? What if I never received the spiritual, heart healing I truly needed? I know 2 things that would happen: 1) You would never know the testimony or being reading Hope Letters for your own testimony 2) I would continue to live as my own god and sin and be on the fast track to hopelessness and hell.

We are born sinners and our sin breaks our relationship with God. It damages and brings illness and ailment to our connection with the Father. However, God created the medicine that no scientist, doctor, or psychiatrist could ever create: FORGIVENESS. God wants to start healing your soul TODAY. Will you take the medicine? Will you repent of your sin and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior?

May your hope be in Jesus Christ,

Anreka

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