Unfathomable Hope Is Ours, If We Choose

Unfathomable Hope Is Ours, If We Choose
copyright Millie Plastaras 11/26/2006

Your Mercy, O Lord, will hold me up,
In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.
Psalm 94:18-19.

God's mercies are new every morning,
in this verse it even says they hold us up.

Wow.. do you feel like you are being held and sustained this
morning? Why not? It all gets down to one point,
where you are putting your trust.

Everyone seems to have a multitude of anxieties anymore,
it is common, but how people deal with it is a different
subject altogether.

His comforts should be delighting our soul, refreshing
our spirit, reminding us we are a child of the King of Kings.

Light is sown for the (uncompromisingly) righteous
and strewn along their pathway,
and for the upright in heart ( the irrepressible joy
which comes from the consciousness of his favor
and protection.
Rejoice in the Lord, you (consistently) righteous -- upright
in heart and rightstanding with God -- and give thanks
at the remembrance of His holiness.
Psalm 97:11-12

My dear friends, if you are not feeling his comfort
and if his joy is not sustaining you
if you are not feeling rest within your spirit
you have allowed it to be stolen right out of your
spirit. If you are not feeling your path is strewn
with light, perhaps you are going down the wrong path!

I hear many people say, I cannot read the Bible,
I am too upset, I am too busy, there is too much
going on in my life, I cannot concentrate.

I hear people say, I cannot take time to pray,
I am too weary, I am too worn down, it doesn't
seem to work anyway.

No wonder you have no victory, you have
given up the very tools that bring it about!

God promised joy for the uncompromisingly righteous.

Perhaps your very problem this morning is
you have compromised your spiritual life and
lost your rightstanding before God,
you have relinquished joy and found sorrow,
you have relinquished hope and found despair,
you have relinquished the Word of God, and
recieved the spirit of fear,
you have relinquished righteousness and found
the ways of the world creeping into your
spirit and thinking.

The only way to cure this is to bow before God,
repent, and be uncompromising in your pursuit of Him.

Fill up on his Word every chance you get. Recognize
when you do not read His word your spirit becomes
depleted, run down, loses hope, it is drained of
his joy and inspiration.

Don't sit and tell the world your great despair
and your overwhelming problems.

Stand and tell the world Jesus overcame the
world and has a plan for mankind and for each
individual. Jesus is Lord of all!
Your problems should not rule and reign He should!!!

Talk to God every chance you get.. so that He
may protect you, inspire you, guide you, fill you with
hope and purpose. Neglect of prayer is the way
to despair. Trust me.. I see it in the letters I get,
in the people I meet, in the despair I read in the
faces of people around me.

Not realizing it, they have strayed far from God
and allowed their problems to rule their spirit
rather than the peace of God.

You are the only one who can change that. You
are the only one who can take yourself back to God
and before His throne, pleading your case before
Him, and finding great comfort in His presence.

If you think you are the only one who has problems,
you are not. You need to quit focusing on them
and realize God has work for you to do, and there
are people lost and dying out there without
knowledge of God.. and they are getting no help
from you cause you are too busy rehearsing your
problems to everyone who will listen.

Instead practise the presence of God,
speak His word out loud to your problems,
and remember He is God, nothing is impossible to Him.

Don't limit Him by your despair,
find unlimited hope and strength in each prayer.

Casting you care (throwing it away, giving it to Him,
never picking it back up) by releasing those burdens
you were never meant to bear, to your heavenly
Father, and then going out and doing meaningful
things with your life rather than wringing your hands
and letting the joy seep out of your spirit.

God shall prevail and bring light and hope and
mercy and joy to the uncompromisingly righteous.

Compromise destroys.
Faith builds and brings hope.

Remember
Only one life, will soon be past
Only what is done, for Christ will last