"Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope" - Hal Lindsey

Whenever you feel discouraged or depressed, you are likely focusing on either what you've lost or what you lack. But to regain your hope, the key is focusing on what you have left!

As a Believer in Jesus Christ, I've found one of the biggest reality checks in the Bible for me when I'm discouraged is 2 Peter 1:3-4:

"as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

So here are my verbal confessions, based upon this scripture. The word 'confess' means 'to say the same.' Ensuring that your words and thoughts line up with God's word is another key to hope:

1. I already have everything I need for life and to live in godliness through God's divine power.

2. God has given me great and precious promises through which He has met all of my needs.  

3. I know God's character from the Word and personal experience. If He said it, it is true. God is not a man that He should lie.

4. If I am not seeing a need met in a particular situation, then my Spiritual eyes need opening or my vision expanded so that I may see what God has already provided for me.

This is my prayer for all of us:

"Lord, thank you that we already have everything we need for life and godliness. Open our eyes so that we may see the resources You have already supplied to meet our needs. Go before us Lord, and perfect everything that concerns us. Thank you for Your promises, which are more precious than fine gold.

We believe that You are able to do exceeding, abundantly, more than we can ask or think according to the power that works within us. Help us to get out of our own way so that Your Holy Spirit can do great things through us. Amen."

Kimberly Taylor

Take Back Your Temple
www.takebackyourtemple.com

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