HOPE -- A PARTNER TO YOUR FAITH !

HOPE -- A PARTNER TO YOUR FAITH ! "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). The Faith of God is the substance of things, but hope is a necessity. Sometimes people say, "You don't get anything by hoping." And that's true to a certain extent, for there is no substance to hope. But hope is a very important partner to faith. Hope is the goal - setter. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The substance of "things" --- what things ? The things you hope for that God has promised. What do we hold for ? We hope for the things that God has given us. That's why the Bible says in (Hebrews 11:6), "But without faith it is impossible to please him. . . God is not pleased when we don't enter into the provisions that He made for us through Jesus Christ. Some things we will never enter into except through faith. God's willingness is multiplied to us through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. We must know what God has given, or we can't have faith in that promise. Because, faith in God only comes by hearing and by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue; by which a given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (2 Peter 1:2 through 4). HOPE IS NECESSARY: Hope is a partner to faith. You are reading this blessing because you have to receive some insight into hope and faith. But hold along will not give you that insight. Yet, if it wasn't for hold, you wouldn't have opened this lesson. When the sick comes into a prayer line, they hope to be healed. If they didn't have hope, they wouldn't come for prayer. Since faith is the substance of things hoped for, then there must be some hope, are there would be anything for faith to give substance to. This will explain to you why some have died, even though they were saying all the right things. Others say, "I just don't understand why they died." It could be that they gave up hope.