6 Steps to Becoming a Person of Hope

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When you’re feeling stressed, depressed or overwhelmed, it’s hard to hold onto that feeling of hope. Feeling like there is no hope is one of the most challenging emotions to manage, especially when the feeling has been absent for a prolonged period of time. We’ve all had those moments when there didn’t appear to be a way out. During these periods, many who are hopeless wonder what the point of even trying is when you feel like there is no hope. Finding hope when it seems like there’s none to be found can be extremely difficult, but it is possible. Hope is there, we just need the courage and faith to walk through the wilderness and find our direction. If you’re ready to change your outlook on life and become a person of hope, here are seven steps that can see hope begin to overflow from within you.

Walk in the step with the Spirit.

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The hope of God comes to us through the Holy Spirit. When we’re filled with the Holy Spirit, we’re filled with Hope. In Galatians Paul tells the church that since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit. Here’s what that means: the Holy Spirit is not stationary. He’s not a one-time experience when you walked an aisle when you were 9. His filling is daily, his power is hourly, and to stay filled with hope, we need to keep in step with the Spirit. We need to be sensitive to the Spirit, we need to listen to the Spirit and obey His promptings. And know this, a Spirit-filled life is not a life of sitting. We’re supposed to walk with the Spirit. And he’ll lead us to people that we can serve. That’s why we serve, not sit as believers. Serving others fills us with the Holy Spirit of hope.

Believe that anyone can be transformed by the power of Jesus.

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Hope never gives up. Romans 15:13 says we’re filled as we continually trust in the God who created the universe, the God who made all of humanity, the God that can save and redeem anyone. There are no lost causes. If God can save the first Christian killer Saul of Tarsus and transform him into the Apostle Paul, then God can save anyone. Don’t ever give up on somebody. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been. It doesn’t matter how far gone they might be. It doesn’t matter if it would take a miracle for their life to be transformed. We believe in the God of miracles! Don’t ever give up on anyone.