HOPE!! are you killing it or living it?

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So I’ve been thinking alot about this tiny word with BIG connotations lately .. maybe because of this tiny little beauty that has captured my heart and I have fallen in love with

This was here right after she was born. literally.. she came out perfect at 10:12 pm on September 22 don’t you think.   She was born to my beautiful twin sister and her hubby!  Meet Hope Lynn Humbert. 

In case you need to see another picture of HOPE

Look at this perfect little package who doesn’t even fit in her clothes…. she’s soo tiny!

Can you tell Aunt Nenn is completely in love. We are going to get into all kinds of mischief together. That’s the best part of being an aunt.  Spoiling them rotten. Don’t worry I am still spoiling my little man alex rotten to. 

So anyways I have been thinking about that word HOPE alot lately. 

I had a client recently tell me that she had stopped hoping. She had stopped hoping in God… stopped hoping in life.  Stopped hoping that her desires would be fulfilled. 
And as she killed off hope little by little,
I could see in her eyes
She killed off her soul to.

God created us to hope
To hope for heaven
To hope for HIM
To hope for healing
To hope for our hearts desires
To hope for holiness
To hope for … you fill in your blank

But with hoping always comes waiting.
And it’s in the waiting that I think we get scared.
We listen to the voice of the enemy and lose hope.
We kill off our soul and stop coming alive
That’s how the numbness of life seeps in.
Fear in the waiting outweighs hope.
It causes us to do crazy things.. to come up with crazy ideas.

Losing hope in God’s promises caused Abraham to find a maidservant and try to fulfill God’s promise of a son through her.  And this was a DISASTER
Losing hope in God’s goodness caused David to go after basheba
Naomi to travel to moab and encounter her deepest life’s drought

Baby hope came into our lives after a particularly difficult season for our family.  Hope came but we had to wait for her. In fact she was a week late. (partly because aunt nenn had something to do the week she was due and prayed a little to effectively that she would wait.. !)
We had to wait for Hope.  We had no idea what Hope would look like when she came.  What color her eyes would be. How much she would weigh.  When she would come?  What would Hope’s personality be?
But HOPE was worth waiting for!
Hoping in God is worth waiting for also.
Let’s live alive and not kill off desire due to fear, due to waiting.
Let’s not go numb and survive.
Let’s fling the enemies arrows back to him!
Let’s HOPE in our God… whose goodness comes in the land of the living ( Psalms 27:13 I believe that i shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord, take heart and let your heart take courage! wait for the Lord)
Even though we may not always know what Hope will look like when it comes into a situation, we can know .. just like waiting for the birth of our little Hope, IT WILL come..
And
IT WILL NOT DISAPPOINT!
Romans 5:5 and hope does Not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Are you willing to hope? How can I pray for you?

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  3. "With hoping always comes waiting." I love that line! I've been trying to maintain that hope–not in a person or a situation, but in the Lord. But along with that hope and trust has come the waiting. Ugh! Great post. Found you through the (in)joy! Facebook page. I see you're a Blog Frogger too!

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