Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: Hope

Bishop T.D. Jakes  sends message of hope amid pandemic. Many churches and other houses of worship around the country will remain closed for services over the weekend because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Potter's House megachurch, led by Bishop T.D. Jakes, is among them. The congregation with 30,000 members has suspended in-person church activities until further notice. Bishop T.D. Jakes joins "CBS This Morning" from Dallas, Texas, to talk about how he's carrying out his duties in light of the pandemic.

Watch Bill Johnson: Hope Deferred Makes the Heart Sick. Bill Johnson teaches from Proverbs 13 and the well-known verse, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire realized is a tree of life”. When hope is deferred and you experience disappointment or loss, it is important to be aware of your vulnerability in those moments and be intentional to protect your heart by guarding what you think about, what you say, and who you spend time with. You were born for fulfilled desire, and dreaming is part of your training for eternity. Bill Johnson finishes the session by sharing insight from verse 23 on how to address poverty and come alongside people to break off injustice and generational poverty.

Ebenezer Quaye - Watch Sermon: Keep Your Hope. Pastor Eb takes the stage to talk about hope. He references what the Bible says about having hope vs hope in materials statues like awards, titles, and status. He challenges the audience to reassess their mind and remind them where in fact their hope and faith should be placed. He explains that you can't afford to put your hope in an outcome or achievement, your expected end is more than a moment. Marry your faith and hope so you endure tough seasons. He concludes that the only way you can produce things you have seen before is to have hope in His plans and in His Word for us.

David Jeremiah (March 16, 2024) Daily Devotional: Season of Hope: The Meeting Room.

Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” - John 20:19

 Recommended Reading: John 20:19-29 - THE APOSTLES COMMISSIONED - 19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”...

After His triumphal entry, Jesus instructed Peter and John to secure a large room in a house in Jerusalem where they could meet and partake in the Passover meal.

On Sunday evening the disciples were gathered in that same Upper Room, still mourning the loss of their Savior and also probably talking about how they could escape the wrath of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly a Man appeared in the room. The disciples were terrified, for the Man in the room had not come through the door, and the door was still locked. Was it a ghost? But then the Man showed them His nail-scarred hands and His side. It was Jesus! He had indeed risen from the dead! One disciple, Thomas, was absent on that evening and did not believe when they told him the good news. So a week later the resurrected Lord appeared again in the Upper Room, allowing Thomas to personally feel the nail prints in His hands and touch the hole in His side from the spear. And Thomas responded, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)

We can be thankful that God reaches out to us where we are, like He did for Thomas, to erase our doubts and support us in our weaknesses.

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine—so near that a whisper can reach Him. - Amy Carmichael

Watch John Hagee Sermon: The Power of Hope. Hope is the anchor of the soul. It brings us into the presence of Jesus Christ. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and can achieve the impossible. “Impossible” is a word used by people who don’t want to try something, but everything is impossible until somebody does it. As a believer, ALL things are possible. Place your hope in Almighty God.

Jentezen Franklin Message: You Have a Future Filled with Hope. On TBN's We Will Get Through This hosted by Jentezen Franklin discusses how and why you can look to your future assured it is filled with HOPE. Pastor Jentezen Franklin encourages, "Victory is coming."

Charles Stanley (March-04-2024) Daily Devotional: Hope in the Storm.

To receive peace when your world is in chaos, call on Jesus for help.

Matthew 8:23-27 - When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep. And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, ``Save us, Lord; we are perishing!" He said to them, ``Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. The men were amazed, and said, ``What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"

Many people in the world—maybe even you—are facing terrible storms in their life. Broken homes, joblessness, loneliness, loss, financial struggles, and world crises slash at the very fabric of hope. Some may even feel as though they’re lost, adrift at sea in a small boat during a hurricane. And many wonder, How on earth will we be able to reach the shore safely? 

The disciples faced this fear as well. While they were crossing the Sea of Galilee in their boat, the weather took a frightening turn. In desperation, they woke Jesus and cried, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!” (Matt. 8:25). He rebuked them for their lack of faith and proceeded to calm the storm, showing Himself to be Lord over all creation. 

This story teaches us where we should turn when storms arise in our own life. Sometimes people interpret challenging events as an indication that God isn’t paying attention. That’s what the disciples thought until Christ calmed the turbulent waters. But even when the world seems out of control, remember that Jesus is in the boat with you, and He’s still Lord of all. 

Charles Stanley (March-03-2024) Daily Devotional: Hope: The Anchor of the Soul.

If you are feeling battered by a storm in your life, remember God's promises cannot fail.

Hebrews 6:9-20 - But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, ``I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU." And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

God’s purposes and promises are unchangeable. That’s hard for us to imagine since we live in a world that’s constantly in flux. There doesn’t seem to be much that we can count on to steady our lives. Jobs can be lost, loved ones may die, plans must sometimes be altered, and dreams are often dashed. Yet our souls do have an anchor, which holds fast no matter how many storms we experience. 

A nautical anchor does its work of steadying a ship in the hidden depths of the waters. And that’s sometimes how God’s promises seem to us—blocked from our sight and far away. But as the waves of circumstances rage around us, our anchor of hope holds fast. We haven’t been promised an easy earthly life, free from trouble and suffering, but the eternal hope for our souls is steadfast and sure. 

The reason we have such a hard time remembering our anchor of hope is because our lives are above deck, where the storms rage. To regain our hope, we must regularly peer into the depths of God’s Word to be reminded of the eternal promises that cannot fail. 

David Jeremiah Daily Devotional March 2, 2024 - Season of Hope: Inexpressible Joy.

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. - John 15:11

 Recommended Reading: John 16:17-24 - Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” 18 They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.” 19 Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. 23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

It is said that during one of Martin Luther’s periods of depression, he found his wife, Katharina, dressed in black. He asked her why she was wearing black, and she responded, “Because I am in mourning.” He asked, “Over what?” She replied, “God has died.” He said, “You know better than that.” And then she said, “I do, and you do too. Why don’t you start living like you believe that God is alive?”

Because of the Resurrection not just happiness, in our life! Jesus spoke to the disciples about joy. “I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy” (John 16:20). Jesus knew that the disciples would experience deep sorrow in the coming days, but He wanted them to know that their sorrow would be turned to joy.

The joy that comes from Christ is not a joy that is dependent on our circumstances, finances, employment, or relationships. Instead, it is a continual, never ending, constant joy that fills our heart and life as we follow Christ. Because of the Resurrection we are filled with inexpressible joy, knowing that because He lives we will live also!

There is every element of joy—deep, ecstatic, satisfying, sanctifying joy—in the gospel of Christ. - Octavius Winslow

Charles Stanley Daily Devotional February 17 2024 - A Promised Hope.

If you are in a season of waiting, don't become discouraged—the Lord always delivers.

Isaiah 11:1-6 - Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear; But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked. Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist. And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.

Sometimes it can be hard to grasp how much time passed between events in the Bible. After the Old Testament’s completion, for instance, 400 years passed before God’s next direct revelation.

Let’s put that span in terms we can better comprehend. In 1620, the Pilgrims landed on the shores of what would become Massachusetts. That was 404 years ago. Think of all that has happened since then—everything from the American Revolution to man walking on the moon to the creation of artificial intelligence. God’s people waited that long without a word from the Lord! While many grew despondent, others clung to hope.

Anna, for example, was a widow and prophetess who served at the temple in Jerusalem, waiting for Israel’s redemption. She trusted that “A shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse ... and the Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him” (Isa. 11:1-2). This promised Messiah would bring order, strength, counsel, and wisdom as He delighted in the Lord, and He would make everything right.

Then, at the appointed time, Anna witnessed the miracle of fulfilled prophecy as she gazed into the face of the tiny baby Jesus. In response, she praised and thanked God for being faithful to His promise (Luke 2:38 - At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem). Like her, we can praise God, secure in the knowledge that God will do all He says He will do.

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