Hope Is The Blueprint for Faith -

Hope Is The Blueprint for Faith

by Simple Reminders

Hope is the blueprint for faith. Hope is the wood frame that the concrete of faith is poured into. It’s the sketch of the builders’ building prior to the build. Hope is the goal that faith reaches out to obtain. Hope is the forerunner to faith. A hopeful mindset is great to have, however hope on it’s own has no substance. It has no power in and of itself to bring itself to pass. For example, I hope to be healed of cancer. That’s my starting point. Living cancer free is my goal…my desire.

However unless I tether hope to faith, my hope alone cannot produce the desired result. When I attach my hope, my vision, my goal to faith (what God has to say about the cancer situation), in this example let’s use 1 Peter 2:24 “by Jesus stripes I was healed“, my hope combined with the substance of faith explodes into reality.

Simple Reminders of who we are, what we have, and what we can do in Christ can empower us to overcome in virtually every area of life. Countless times in scripture we are commanded to remember. Remembering causes the current monsters we’re facing to shrink before our eyes.

Remembering that God is working in us, on us, around us and through us causes the believer to become bold as a lion. And remembering how our Heavenly Father has delivered us from situations and circumstances in our lives that at one point looked bleak, strengthens us to endure present circumstances knowing that the God of deliverance still lives.