I was thinking last night in our group about the goodness of God.

 

In the long hours and sometimes heavy work of healing, deliverance, and equipping I find myself getting emotional as I often look around the rooms and see such beauty of the Lord in the precious faces I get to serve.

 

I asked myself after a phone call appointment where I could hear the choked back tears of pain of a precious woman, “Is there anywhere else better to be?”

 

Giving hope to a hopeless heart is the business of Jesus.

 

It never seems too profound to me. Nothing really of expertise in a human way. There’s a lot of listening. We’ve discussed this many times in our rooms.

 

Listening is a learned skill. A heart posture to help. There’s a lot of waiting on the Holy Ghost to hear the right time and see the Lord’s desired open door.

 

I’m still learning, daily.

 

There’s something you can hear shift in language, shift in mannerisms, shift in demeanor when someone is dealt hope.

 

When all seems lost and that life can never be better, Christ rushes in with hope.

 

Hope through His Word, hope that allows a space of safety to decompress, hope that surrounds someone with divine purpose and all that Jesus says is true.

 

I can see the dimness of eyes change when hope is received. There’s a glimmer that returns. It is quite evident.

 

I can see when depression flees because hope is moving in.

 

The countenance becomes lighter, the burden of the shoulders seems to lift, and clarity usually walks on in.

 

Sometimes you simply believe for people what they cannot yet believe for themselves.

 

I might sense a push back on my hope dealing at times. Meaning, they are unable to receive what I’m saying no matter how true it may be.

 

That’s ok too.

I can wait on Jesus to pry open the smallest opening in a hard, or hurting, heart.

 

It doesn’t take much for hope to sneak on in, you know.

 

Hope deferred makes a heart sick.

It is very true.

 

So we need people to remind us of seasons, timing, and divine due dates.

 

God will finish what He has started.

 

I had a lot of plans for my life. We discussed this last night in group.

 

But ultimately Jesus had a better plan and it was more than I could ever think or imagine.

 

The same will be for you.

 

One thing is for sure. When you’re in the assigned spot for your life, miracles, signs and wonders really do follow those who believe.

 

Hope rises from ashes, hearts are healed, and captives are set free.

 

You won’t care about titles or positions so much anymore but you will be grateful that God saw fit to make you a simple hope dealer.

 

And when the day is done. You’ll be utterly exhausted, yet, fulfilled.

 

“It was such a beautiful week, Lord.”

 

 

Job 14:7 – “For there is hope for a tree,

When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

 

Psa 31:24 – Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.

 

Psa 33:18 – Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,

On those who hope for His lovingkindness…

 

Psa 38:15 – For I hope in You, O LORD;

You will answer, O Lord my God.

 

Psa 39:7 – “And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

 

Psa 130:5 – I wait for the LORD,my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.

 

Col 1:23 – if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

 

1Ti 4:10 – For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

 

Heb 6:19 – This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil…

 

1Pe 1:13 – Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.