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There is still hope in the world

There is Hope! All hope is not lost. According to the bible, God is the God of hope. The word hope in the bible is from the Greek word “Elpis.” It means, a desire of some good with an exppectation of obtaining it. Jeremiah 29:11 from the bible says, “I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.” Romans 15:13 from the bible says, “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.”

Dr. Reginald Kliminoch said, “The edge of disaster and the brink of a miracle are the same place.” Over the last three hundred years of history, when cities and nations have been on the verge of collapsing morally, God has raised up people who would pray and God brought Spiritual Revivals and Spiritual Awakenings and brought people back to “a right standing with God.” It’s time to pray to God and turn our hearts back to God and turn away from our rebellion against God and His word, that our children, our families and our nation might be saved. We appear to be standing on the shore of historic calamity in America. Wave after wave of bad news in destructive tsunami fashion arrives at the speed of “Instagram,” “Twitter,” “Facebook,” “Text,” or “T.V.” demolishing hopes and dreams and discouraging even the best encouragers.

So many are addicted to feeding at the information trough, waiting for the next download of bloody carnage, like a monstrous sow gorging on the latest slop. This exercise in futility and philosophic brain burn is somehow overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time. Meanwhile thousands are dying nationwide from drug overdoses, and suicides, and senseless violence, broken and battered by bad choices and a failure to find hope in America, the quote, “land of opportunity,” while we blindly follow to our spiritual detriment.

In America, children are being told to question their own gender. God made you who you are! God doesn’t make mistakes! Stop the craziness! Stop the political correctness! We can disagree with each other spiritually and morally and not hate one another.

Where has hope gone in the schools and towns and cities of America? Have we lost the hope that once resounded in our schools, when children called out to God in prayer? Hope is not far away! It seems to be hidden in plain site behind church walls and in the bible, God’s word, in the hearts of followers of Jesus Christ who have been silenced by fear and intimidation. Arise sons and daughters of the Living God, and share this message of hope and the transforming Love of God through Jesus Christ,that the world so desperately needs.

Don’t let hope be shrouded by the blabbering brain burning information gate keepers, the seller of, “No hope,” they club the truth to death hoping we will be mesmerized by the special effects and ignorant that our minds are being bludgeoned with hopelessness and we will tune in for more of the same later.

It’s time to throw off hopelessness! It’s time to dream again! It’s time to overflow with hope and joy and peace as you trust in the God of Hope! Pray this prayer with me and ask Lord to give you hope through His Holy Spirit. Lord, forgive my sins and come into my life in Jesus name! I thank you for renewed hope, a desire of some good with an expectation of obtaining them! I thank you for the promises in your word that give me hope! in Jesus name.

Find a life-giving church to attend, one that believes that Jesus is the only way to Salvation, and that the bible is the final authority on truth. Enjoy your new found hope! God bless you!

(“From the Pulpit” is a weekly sermon provided by the clergy members of The Weirton Ministerial Association)

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