There is Hope 2

Wednesday 17 February
READ:Micah 7:7 - 10
MORE LESSON:Prov 24:16

Hope is the assurance that something good can still happen even in the midst of glaring present bad situation. It is the expectation of the positive to come out of the negative. It is the anticipation of light to rise out of present darkness. A man of hope does not judge by what his senses, feelings and situations tell him, because his attention is on the invisible. This is the reason he can rejoice even at the point of death. It is when a man loses hope that he doesn't see any reason to live anymore, Job said that there is hope for a tree even if it is cut down. A tree cut down has no contact with the root anymore so it has no source of nutrients and water. When a tree is cut, its leaves wither and its root withers in the ground. This implies that there is no green leave to process the light energy that should be the source of food manufactured for the tree. Job refused to give up on such a tree. He said there is still hope (Job 14: 7). It takes a man like Job to believe that such a tree still has hope. Job was the richest man in the East who was virtually cut-off from all he had, his family and his health in one day. He lost all he had in life. He was left alone to die. He was just abandoned, looking as if even God was against him and things were in such a bad state. His wife saw no hope for him, so she felt he was better off dead than alive the way he was. So she asked him to curse God and die. Things were really bad for him but he never lost hope. Job was a great man to listen to on the issue of seeming hopelessness and what he had to say was there is hope.
I don't know how much you have been cut down, I want you to know that there is hope. Mic 7: 8 should be your confession, Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. You can rise again from whatever your present situation is. Light can rise whatever your present darkness. Never lose hope, God will come through for you because there is hope for you
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Prayer/Action
* Decree that your expectations shall not be cut off, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that in the name of Jesus there is a rising up for you this month.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
My destiny, you shall not struggle to achieve in 2016, you shall have power to press to the prize mark, in the name of Jesus