2/24/2024 0 Comments Scripture hope deferredI begin taking on a critical outlook on life. I lose the childlike wonder and expectation of better things to come and in its place a cynicism develops. Trust and belief becomes stupid and childish to me. Therefore, faith for the moment isn’t what the enemy is after, no, he’s after our DESTINY! If he can succeed in making us sick in our heart, he can keep us from operating in the realm of faith for our entire lifetime and therefore keep us living far below our high calling in Christ Jesus! If hope deferred is allowed to do its work in me, my heart becomes hardened. If our heart can be made sick, the very atmosphere that produces faith can be taken out. Hope deferred just doesn’t assault our faith….it’s worse than that, it assaults the very core of our being, where faith resides…our heart. One of the enemy’s greatest weapons against our faith is hope deferred. EVERYTHING in this world system moves in direct opposition to faith, so our faith IS going to be assaulted continuously. So, when our hopes are dashed, our faith is assaulted and what we DO during that assault determines whether or not our faith survives and grows stronger or is killed. Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God! (Heb.11:6) ANYTHING that is not of faith is SIN! (Rom. Faith is what touches the heart of God, not need, not lack, not sorrow, not desire….FAITH. Unbelief shuts a person away from God, out of His reach. As Bill Johnson says, hope deferred brings discouragement and if not dealt with, discouragement leads to depression and ultimately to the sin of unbelief. The word sick in this scripture means just that, sick….weak, worn, wounded, diseased, afflicted. When hopes are dashed and trust is destroyed, the pain of that incident enters the very heart and soul of a person and if not dealt with correctly, injects a poison that weakens a person in their very character. Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” It’s not the incident itself but how we process the incident that determines the condition that our heart takes on and therefore the direction we take in life. Remember when you were a kid and you hoped for something that didn’t happen? Remember believing in something or someone and your trust was destroyed? Everyone has had those times but little did we know it, they were defining moments in our lives.
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