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How To Find Hope In Jesus Christ

by Lisa van den Berg October 25, 2023

written by Lisa van den Berg

In all that’s going on around us in the world there is only one source of true hope, and His name is Jesus. Here is how to find hope in Him.

When a child falls down, they hope to find someone to comfort them. Sometimes they find someone and sometimes they don’t.

The beauty is that we can always rely on the Holy Spirit to bring us comfort. In John 14:26 He is called our Comforter. But how do you know that you can trust Him?

Find someone you can trust

People may let us down but God is the only one who never lets us down. We can always trust Him, and that gives us hope.

In Romans 8:38-39 God promises us that nothing can separate us from His love because He is trustworthy with our hearts.

Read the stories of God’s goodness to people

There are so many stories of God’s goodness to people. We see this in Acts 10:38 where it says that Jesus went about doing good and healing people.

So when you feel like you need to know that God is good and wants to be good to you, simply open up your Bible and read all the miracles Jesus did in people’s lives.

Believe that God will do it again for you

And the final cherry on the top is that God will even help you to have hope.

In Romans 15:13 it says that the Holy Spirit will fill you with hope so that you can overflow with it. Now that’s good news!

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October 25, 2023 0 comments

Turn Your Focus To Praise

by GOD TV January 2, 2023

written by GOD TV

2 Corinthians 10:4 says that “The weapons that we fight with are not weapons of the world, but they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” In other words, our Kingdom weapons can demolish strongholds.

And I want to share one of the weapons that we’ve been given in the Kingdom, and that is praise. I love praise. Praise is like adoring God. It’s singing about Him, not about my circumstance, not about what’s happening in my life, but about Him. And so when stuff starts to happen and I start to get under it, maybe I’m afraid, maybe I’m confused, or I’m trying to make a decision; instead of spending time on that, I love to turn my focus to praise, and I’ll just start singing out to the Lord. Sometimes it’s in my car, sometimes I put on a worship song, but I put on one that’s about Him, because whatever we fix our eyes on will be magnified. And so I want to fix my eyes on Him.

He is the great I Am. And so I praise Him. “I praise you that you are the great I AM. I praise you that you are my Savior. You’re my Redeemer. You’re the God of all hope. I praise you, because I’m fearfully and wonderfully made,” and I turn my attention to praising the Lord. It shifts something in my spirit. It shifts something in my soul.

And I begin to use praise, not just as a fun goosebump time and worship, like that is true, too, but I use it as a weapon to enter into His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. So as I start to praise, as you start to praise and worship the Lord and use that as a weapon, the scripture says we enter into His courts. Isn’t that amazing? Through praise, just turning our affection and our attention on Him, you know, I think it’s interesting that the scripture there in the Psalm, we enter His gates with thanksgiving. It’s like our thanksgiving opens the door, but our praise takes us in deeper into the courts of heaven. And that’s how we enter in; by faith with thanksgiving and praise.

Praise is a powerful weapon. I love also in the Bible, when you look in the Old Testament, when they sent out the army, they sent the worshipers first and they praised God. Their first line of defense was praise.

And so I want to pray for you today, that you would get ahold of this revelation that the weapons that we fight with are not weapons of the world, but they have divine power to demolish strongholds. And so I release that revelation right now, that your praise is powerful. That as you fix your eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith, that it will shift the atmosphere around you. And it will shift the atmosphere inside of you, and that you will be able to operate as a co-heir with Christ and make decisions, and reach people and love people from that place, seated in heavenly places as you use that weapon of praise to enter into His courts. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

No, you can’t take anything with you to heaven. You can’t take your car, you can’t take your house. You can’t take that new computer gizmo that you got for Christmas to heaven. But there is one thing you actually can take to heaven: souls people, human beings, by reaching them with the Gospel of Jesus. That’s all we care about here at GOD TV. We want to bring as many souls with us to heaven, to present them to Jesus as we can. And you can, too, by joining with us, giving a generous gift.

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Tapping Into Faith To Activate The Power Of God

by GOD TV June 13, 2022

written by GOD TV

Believing in God for a better future requires a faith much like lowering a ship’s anchor. It is a faith that sets goals and takes action that leads to positive outcomes.

By setting goals and taking positive actions, you activate God’s power in your life. That type of faith will mean ignoring the naysayers and doubters and pressing into God.

Going Beyond Hope

Leaving a ship’s port requires the crew to put their hope in the anchor. But when storms come or ships enter harbors with no dock, crews must put their faith in the anchor by lowering it.

When the woman with the issue of blood touched “[Jesus’] garment” (Matthew 9:20), He knew “power had gone out of Him” (Mark 5:29). But reaching out and touching Jesus’ garment turned her hope into faith.

Pressing through a faithless crowd by faith, she activated Jesus’ deliverance power. He turned to her and said, “your faith has made you well” (Mark 5:34), not ‘your hope’ or ‘my power’ but ‘your faith.’

Before she touched His garment, she said to herself, “if only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well” (Matthew 9:21). Hope caused her to see an opportunity, but faith caused her to seek that opportunity.

Activating God’s Power By Faith

To understand salvation, don’t look at it as only a future event, rather see it as God’s power laying dormant in you. That power will lay dormant in you until you activate it by pressing into Jesus by faith.

Differentiating between hope and salvation, Paul wrote of the “breastplate of faith. . . [and] . . . the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8). Hope of salvation is like having hope for a better future, whereas faith means taking action.

“I was suffering from depression and through the teachings on GOD TV I was brought to faith and was healed of the depression I was suffering from.” – Sofia, Norway

Activating God’s power to deliver you will allow Him to ‘convey’ you into the “Kingdom of the Son of His love.” That type of faith will allow Him to work through you to accomplish His purpose in you.

Holding onto the Hope of Salvation

In 1 Thessalonians 5:8, Paul told his audience to put on the “breastplate of faith” and the “breastplate of faith and love.” Hope is the anchor, faith is the act of lowering the anchor, and love is the chain that gives the anchor its purpose.

“I had to move and was feeling very alone. The first night in my new home I switched on the TV and GOD TV came on. Without GOD TV I would not be here.” – Gail, UK

So, faith and love are not exclusive, rather both are necessary to God’s purpose. One without the other is no more helpful to the Christian than an anchor without a chain is helpful to a ship’s crew.

Paul emphasized the importance of love when he said, “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). An anchor without a chain is useless, and hope and faith in Christ without love is a “sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).

So, the hope of salvation is the expectation that God will deliver us from the storms of life. But “[we] are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation” (1 Peter 1:9). Our faith activates God’s power in our lives leading to positive outcomes.

The Cross as an Anchor to Christ

Anchoring ships to surfaces of oceans and seas provides sailors safety and security. Safety amidst tumultuous waves and security within portless harbors.

Just as the anchor of a ship serves a dual purpose, so also does the grace of God through salvation.

Paul described that dual purpose in Colossians 1:13:

“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

Though grace is neither the anchor, the act of casting the anchor, or the chain of the anchor. Grace is the ship offering deliverance from the storms of life so we can experience God’s power to convey us.

So, salvation’s first purpose is deliverance and the second is conveyance. The woman with the issue of blood acted in faith and received deliverance from her infirmity. That deliverance led to her conveyance “into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

Running Your Race

In Hebrews 12:1-2, the writer called Jesus the “author and finisher of our faith” because “for the joy that was set before Him [He] endured the cross, despising the shame . . . .”

Facing the shame of the cross allowed Jesus to deliver us from the power of the darkness. And His deliverance power in us leads to His power to convey us into the Kingdom of God.

Pressing through a faithless world allows us to experience salvation’s dual purpose. We both experience and express His power to deliver us when we turn our hope into faith.

In this same passage, the author encouraged his audience to “run with endurance the race that [was] set before [them]” (Hebrews 12:1-2). Jesus endured the cross because of “the joy set before Him.” But those who came after Jesus are to run their race because “[they are] surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.”

In Hebrews 12:1, he told his audience to, “run with endurance the race that [was] set before [them]….”

In Hebrews 6:18, the author said, “hope [is] set before us.”

Focusing on the “joy set before Him” allowed Jesus to endure the suffering of the cross. Focusing on the hope set before us will lead us to run our race by faith.

The hope of salvation, which begins with the hope of deliverance, is the hope set before us. We have that hope “as an anchor of the soul” (Heb. 6:19), but turning that hope into faith activates God’s power to deliver us.

So, the hope of salvation in 1 Thessalonians 5:8 is the anchor of the soul in Hebrews 6:19. It is also why Jesus said to His disciples, “For indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21).

After calling our hope in Christ an “anchor of the soul,” the author of Hebrews called it “sure and steadfast . . .” Our hope in Christ is “sure and steadfast” meaning it is active and able to deliver you from the power of darkness.

But the ability to deliver you is not deliverance, thus you must activate it by faith. Activating His deliverance power will allow Him to convey you into the Kingdom of the Son of His light.

Holding Onto Hope

Just as the author of Hebrews reassured his audience they did not need to lose hope, you do not need to lose hope. You can activate God’s deliverance power in you by stepping out in faith.

Though you may or may not experience the outcome you hope for right away, acting in faith will build your faith. And the more you build your faith, the more God will use you in ways you did not expect.

By turning your hope into faith, you become like the woman with the issue of blood. Her hope became faith when she stopped hoping and pressed through the crowd into Jesus.

Pressing through a faithless world into God will activate His power to deliver you. You can do nothing thinking your hope is enough. Or you can step out in faith, set goals, take action, and begin to live out God’s purpose for you.

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June 13, 2022 0 comments