HOPE IS IN THE HEART

In the journey of life, to arrive and remain at the center of divine assignment, having hope in the heart is critical. Claiming to have hope in God is not only by mouth but must be rooted in the heart. Anyone that does not keep his or her heart diligently as requested by the word of God, does not understand and therefore cannot have hope in God.  According to (Proverbs 4:23), “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” The question is, do you have a heart with hope in God?
The Bible records what it takes to have hope in God: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear…” (1 Peter 3:15)) A heart that is sanctified (separated) for God will have hope in God. A heart that is sanctified to God is a heart that seeks God diligently; to have hope in God is meditating the word of God.
Let us take a closer look at what meditating the word of God really means according to the book of Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” According to this statement, giving one’s heart to God in His word day and night without any doubt will help in the journey to have hope in God. Giving self to meditating the word of God day and night will help one to know God enough in order to trust and remain standing in hope for God’s response. Do live to meditate the word of God without depending only on the memorizations.
Sanctifying heart to God is hallowing God:
Hallowing God according to His command is the evidence of heart with hope. When the word of God locates a man for direction, hope in the man’s heart will do as commanded. Moses could not do as commanded by God but do against the word of God. The Bible records about Moses failure to hallow God: “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”  Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:7-12) A failure not to believe God for His word is not having hope to do as commanded by God. Trust in God without hope is not complete:
Many have received God by their confession but cannot believe God by the testimony of their heart with no hope. For example, it is good to trust in God when people gather to pray but with no heart with hope people will be confessing negativity over what has been prayed for.
In your prayer of trust before God, move forward with the heart of hope to experience the manifestation of prayer point before God. Jeremiah 17:7 pointed out the importance of understanding and knowledge of trust and hope as the combination of being blessed, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
All men should desire and cautiously trust with the heart of hope claiming the promises in the word of God, doing according to God’s command. Psalm 146:5 buttressed, “Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”
Description of hope in the Bible summarizes, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Manifestly, hope is the life wire of faith, it is crucial for a believer to move forward with the blessings of God; claiming the blessing of God, consciously trust with the heart of hope in God.