BELIEVING IN HOPE !

BELIEVING IN HOPE ! Now let's go to (Romans 4:17) Paul tells about faith. In verse 17 we find that God calls things that were not as though they were, and He taught Abraham to do the same. Then in verse 18 He tells what to do when there is no hope. "Who against hope believe in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed." (Romans 4:18). This says that Abraham, when there was no hope, made a decision to believe in hope. You might ask, "what do you mean, he believed in hope when there was none ? Abraham was looking through the realm of his five senses, at his age and his wife's age ! He went back to God's Words and found the hold he needed. There was no hope naturally, but there was supernatural hope. What are you going to do when there is no hope concerning your financial situation ? Maybe you are in that situation, with no hope naturally concerning your finances. What are you going to do when there is no hope concerning your medical situation maybe you are in that situation, with no hope naturally concerning your medical situation ? Go to The Word of God and get yourself some hope. Check to see what God said about your finances are your medical. God believes in miracles. You will too if you keep His word in your mouth. That's the key: confessing what God said is true concerning your finances, or your medical situation. Many people bless their darling hearts and their stupid heads, will go to great lengths to believe what the doctor said or what their body is saying; and cast God's Word out by saying what the doctor said or what their body is saying. "Who (Abraham) against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be (Romans 4:18). It didn't look that way to him; it may not look that way to you; but he decided to believe, believe what ? "So shall thy seed be, just as God said they would. "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about 100 years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah'S womb. (Romans 4:19) Notice, Abraham refused to consider his own body, his five senses, now dead. NaturallySpeaking, 100 year old men don't father children. But Abraham would not consider the fact that his body was dead. He was not just ignorant ignoring it; he was doing something about it. Sometimes people just ignore a situation, thinking it will go away. But things won't go away just because you ignorantly ignore them. Abraham decided to do something about it. He believed what God said, and he started saying the same thing. Abraham may have said something like this; "it sure doesn't look like it's going to come to pass. I sure don't feel like it. But I choose to believe God that I might become the father of many nations." (Romans 4:21).