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January 23, 2014 Thursday  the 22nd of Sh'vat, 5774- Hope

1/23/2014

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Today I am thinking about hope. On my way to work this morning
it was a cold frosty sunrise of that pink and bright yellow/ orange sky that
looks like it goes a great distance which makes you draw your eyes to the sky
because of the bright colors. It reminded me of hope I think that is what hope
does when it draws our attention away from the everyday dramas of life to
meditate and think of the things we hope for.
We need to grow our hope
because as the morning sky fades and the sun rises so does our day and soon
another day has gone by on our dreams. We need to invest on our dreams each day.
Take time to write out some of the things you hope for and begin to pray over
them. Begin to see yourself in those roles (Walking by faith). Sometimes if you
look hard enough at this new you, you will see the courage in your new vision of
self to conquer old and bad habits that have you where you are today.


Something is holding you back from becoming what you know is the true you in our  Messiah. Ask Him to reveal those things to you and really open up to his voice  as it will come in many ways such as through someone who really cares about you,
during your worship service or even a bumper sticker, but somehow He will  communicate with you on what is holding you back from changing into what Messiah has for you regarding home, health, wealth, peace, joy etc.When he does  reveal it don’t harden your heart or convince yourself otherwise but begin to  work on visualizing yourself with the change He is prompting you to  make.Reading Romans 6 gives us an example of visualizing overcoming sin. This is the New Living Translation.
Romans 6:
1 Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of  his wonderful grace? 2 Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we  continue to live in it? 3 Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with
Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? 4 For we died and were  buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by  the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. 5 Since we  have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he  was. 6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin  might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we  died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. 8 And since we died  with Christ, we know we will also live with him. 9 We are sure of this because  Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer  has any power over him. 10 When he died, he died once to break the power of sin.  But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. 11 So you also should  consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through  Christ Jesus. 12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to
sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil  to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but  now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is
right for the glory of God. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer  live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of  God's grace. 15 Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does  that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don't you realize that you  become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin,  which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous  living. 17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly  obey this teaching we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to  sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. 19 Because of the weakness  of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you  understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and  lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be  slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy. 20 When you were slaves  to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. 21 And what was the  result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in  eternal doom. 22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become
slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is  eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. [Rom 6:1-23 NLT]

When we have hope to change things in our lives so we can be more fruitful it may mean some things get pruned but  it also means we will have new growth and new fruit.

Shalom
D'Vorah


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