Ever heard these words before? More importantly, have you ever felt this way before; your helpless as you watch someone you love/trust go down a path of destruction..You’ve come to a dead end in your marriage, finances, life or you just feel like there’s no where to turn. There’s no one there to help you and the ones who are there, have their own issues and struggles therefore, you bottle the feelings inside. You know that’s not good, you need to open up and release it but the pressure keeps building and building. Of course you have everyone else telling you how and why you should do what you do; once it’s all compiled, you have no where to go..dead end.. You’ve been there huh?

It’s a terrible feeling especially when you feel all alone. Depression kicks in, thoughts run through your mind and to separate how God tells you to act and your emotions, it’s a huge struggle.  It’s been said that Faith is:

“Believing in what you can’t see because of the things you can see.”

That’s a tough pill to swallow but it also gives us hope. For example, you never think twice before sitting down in the same chair you put your “hope” in 1,2-3 years ago? You never think twice when starting your car because you turn the key and it starts…we place our hope in a lot of things on a daily basis but when it comes to God, we don’t truly trust Him. Why? I’m not sure why other than this sinful body but be honest..Do you truly trust Him to meet your needs when you’re down to the last $100 for the month and it’s the 1st week of Feb? Yet you’re tithing will take $20.00 of that money and so now the dilemma is, “Do I give the $20 or do I hold out for one more week until I get my check?” Do you trust Him when someone you love or even you gets sick, yet we will “pray for you” or we tell them, “just trust in God, He will see you through”. When it happens to us however, things aren’t as clear as it was when it was someone else.. Get the picture yet??

I know I don’t trust God the way I should. I have something I’m going through now and I know God will help, if I’ll move out of the way and allow Him to work; or listen to Him in my quiet time..DO my quiet time like I’m suppose too..

  • “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Romans tells us, God is a God of Hope, not hopelessness..A new beginning, not a dead end and a U turn, when there’s no where to turn. Allowing God to fill you with joy and peace AS you trust in Him, then YOU overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. You have to trust Him first, allow Him to fill your life/heart with the joy and peace that passeth all understanding. Through that filling of joy and peace, then YOU will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. See, my problem stems by not allowing God full control of my joy and peace; my environment and surroundings are controlling them and that must stop. I’ve not allowed God to fill me up so therefore, I’m helpless, hopeless and I’m traveling down a road where there’s no where to turn except into a dead end.  I want what David say sin Psalms:

Psalm 71:14 NIV

“As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.”

Don’t you want to have hope? Do you want to feel like there’s no hope for the situation you’re in now and those to come or do you want to have victory? The outlook is up to you; now I didn’t say outcome because that’s where God wants you.. Your outlook is how you perceive and accept what God wants for your life. It’s not always what we want or what we even like at times, but God knows us better than we know ourselves. So, are you ready to stop feeling hopeless? Are you ready to have hope not in you, others or even your circumstances, but in God? What are you going to do to change it? What steps are you going to take to make things change so you’ll have Hope, a future and peace for the rest of your life? I know what I have to do, I have to start by praising God first for having this feeling and then allow Him to fill me with the hope He has for me. In return, I pass that hope onto those around me and I become better once again; not bitter. :) Something to think about because there will be changes you’ll have to make and accept, but in the long run, it’ll be worth it..