I want you to know you’re not like the people of the world. You are in the world but you’re not of the world. Hope is a positive expectation of good. Today the world says what? Don’t raise your can I tell you something? Don’t raise your hopelessness. The reason you can believe for a confident expectation of good is because at the cross Jesus bore all your sins.
If you are sick in your body, you should have hope that you will be well. If you are suffering addiction, you you must have hope that you will get out of it. It’s not just I hope it will happen one day, but you are you’re without any power. No, the God of hope is behind your hope. Hi, this is Joseph Prince. Thanks for tuning in.
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Be blessed as you feed on God’s word today. You know what a joy it is? Every time I see all of you, I feel like this is God’s dream being fulfilled in the heart of the father. For aons before time, God had you in mind. The Bible says that we were born in predestination to fulfill this dream to be conformed to the image of Jesus.
So that’s the first dream that God has when God planned for a family even all creation is to serve this purpose. The second thing is the church. God’s dream is for the church. Amen. How does all this pertain to me, Pastor Prince? Last night, I didn’t have a good sleep. This past week has been terrible for me.
I have had challenges after challenges and um last week I got a bad report from the doctor. How how will all this God’s dream affect me? Well, many of times the larger incorporates or encomp encompass or includes the lesser. All our needs actually compared with eternity is less. Amen. When we understand God’s purpose, we fit in.
We see where we have lost our bearings. where we have you know not followed the compass the true north which is God’s plan for our life today we see the world no longer wanting to follow God’s pattern we see the world um abusing their bodies abusing the gifts that God has given all the gifts that God has given whether it’s their body you only on one body by the way take care of it this is the house you live in you got no other house you This is not like uh selling off a property and then buying another one.
You got only one property. This house that you live in, God has given you this house. Take good care of it. Amen. And the devil wants to destroy it. The devil wants to destroy it. There’s a very beautiful verse in the Bible. It says, “My flesh shall rest in hope.” And it’s in reference to Jesus when he was in the grave.
He knew the father would resurrect him. He knew resurrection day is coming. So he says even my body rest in hope and his body never decayed. He’s the only man whose body never decayed because there’s no sin in him. Amen. All the sin that he carried in his body was finished at the cross put away and when he he was buried on the third day God raised him from the dead.
