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High Hopes Hebrews 10:23 says: "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful." There are two words in that verse which I want to examine-confession and hope. Before I learned how to walk by faith, all my wife and I lived on was hope. But hope will not change your circumstances. It takes faith to release the power of God to change your circumstances. Hope will only keep you alive until things change. If you never bring faith to bear upon your circumstances, all you will do is live in hope. Your circumstances will never change. However, in order to really walk by faith, you have to have hope. Hope is a goal setter. What's your goal? My goal or objective is to reach the top of the mountain in all areas of life. Everybody should have a goal. If you do not set a goal you will never reach one. This is one reason why many people, and even many Christians, never achieve anything. They never set goals. They have nothing for their faith to obtain. Hope sets the goal and faith achieves it. Hebrews 11:1 says: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." I want to challenge each of you to high hopes this New Year. I have high hopes and I obtain the goals I set. Though there still are some that have yet to manifest. I know that some things take more time than others. I want to challenge you to have high hopes, to set some goals for 2009. If you do not set any goals you will never reach any. Now be careful and use wisdom when you set your goals. Do not set them so high that you become frustrated and lose hope. If you do, it will cause you to give up and do nothing. Have you set goals concerning your financial and spiritual needs? Do you have any goals with regard to your desires, your family, your husband, your wife, your children, your job, your career, your education, your ministry or your physical health? You need to have high hopes and there are steps you can take to obtain any goal. The first one is to remain steadfast, as it says in Hebrews 10:23. You have to be tenacious and hold on to your goals. Do not let go until your goal manifests. It takes that kind of attitude. Stay with it even if it takes forever. It may take a while for your goal to come to pass, but if you remain steadfast sooner or later it will manifest. First Corinthians 15:58 says: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." If you want to reach your high hopes you have to be steadfast. Even if hell rises up against you, if the water rises, you stick with the goal. This is what steadfast means. It takes discipline and commitment to be constant. Jesus said in John 15:18-19: "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. "If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." The enemy will put pressure on you when you attempt to reach your goal. But you can handle it. Jesus did. You are in good company. In fact, you are running with the best. He has already warned you. If they persecuted Him they will persecute you. Situations may arise in which you are unable to figure out what to do. We all have encountered this at one time or another in our lives. When you are walking in the Word and by the Holy Spirit you have divine, inside information to meet your goal. Second Corinthians 4:8-9 says: "We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;" If you are steadfast, standing through the persecution, deliverance is at hand. You can obtain your High Hopes. This devotional was excerpted from Dr. Price's audio teaching, "High Hopes." Please call us at (800) 927-3436 or visit our website: www.faithdome.org for a complete list of his products.
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Spotlight on JESUS
(Corporate goal - Spotlight on JESUS, Productions, Inc.)
(the little rose of Peace)
(Refrain)
When the sun sets its last in my life Lord, let it be
That the spotlight be on JESUS and what HE has done for me
Let the spotlight be on HIS feet when HE descended on a stable
And shed HIS blood on the CROSS that I may ever be able
To forever live with HIM in the mansion HE prepared
For each of us HIS CHILD for whom HE died that we may ever live
In our HOLY FATHER’S kingdom of joy and peace that has no end.
I
Oh Holy author of my Bible, speak to me through Abraham
Genesis, Deuteronomy, Solomon or Malachi,
Job, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Ruth, Proverbs or in Psalms
Be it KJV, NKJV, NIV, NLT…open my mind, my heart, my eye…
Holy Father fill me up with you discernment, your wisdom
Build a hedge around my heart when the devil’s on the prowl
Oh grant that me, myself and I…in your blood, Oh quickly die!!!
(Refrain)
II
Oh my MAKER, cast me not from you presence and your sight.
If it be in your will, arm and empower me to fight
Against the author of darkness, ever envious of your light
Oh my heavenly CREATOR, who spoke the universe to life
And commanded the sun to shine at dawn and hide at night
Oh my FATHER, use me now to bless your creatures
Be they yellow, blue, brown, be they red…or black or white!!!
(Refrain)
III
HOLY SPIRIT breathed in MATTHEW, HEBREWS, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN,
The life on earth the Father gave to each of us through the spotless LAMB
That shines a light onto our path as we tread our way to the Holy Land
Fill us up with your fruits that through our lives all may believe
JESUS is the Creator, Redeemer, Holy Spirit REVEALED
In the WORD that was made flesh and existed before time
JEHOVAH HIREH, ADONAI…YOU are the Great GOD…I AM!!!
(Refrain)
IV
Oh my Holy SAVIOR, COMFORTER, ROCK of AGES to no end
Of my filthy, guilty soul with your blood, Oh gently clean
Fill me now with your SPIRIT, soften my stony, stubborn heart
That my faith, my life, my words, my love for others boast and shout
How powerful, how merciful, how HOLY, how great thou art!
That every soul you created in your image in awe believe…
You are the ONE and only truly living, loving God indeed!!!
(Refrain)
PSALM 119 (NLT)
“73 You made me; you created me.
Please give me the sense to follow your commands.
74 May all who fear you find in me a cause for joy
for I have put my hope in your word.
75 I know, O Lord, that your regulations are fair;
you disciplined me because I needed it.
76 Please let your unfailing love comfort me
just as you promised me, your servant.
77 Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live,
For your instructions are my delight.
78 Bring disgrace upon the arrogant people who lied about me;
Meanwhile I will concentrate on your commandments.
79 Let me be united with all who fear you,
With those who know your laws.
80 May I be blameless in keeping your decrees,
Then I will never be ashamed
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89 Your eternal word, O Lord,
Stands firm in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness extends to every generation,
As enduring as the earth you created.
91 Your regulations remain true to this day,
For everything serves your plans.
92 If your instructions hadn’t sustained me with joy,
I would have died in my misery.
92 I will never forget your commandments,
for by them you give me life…
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169 O Lord, listen to my cry,
Give me the discerning mind you promised.
170 Listen to my prayer;
Rescue me as you promised.
171 Let praise flow from my lips,
For you have taught me your decrees.
172 Let my tongue sing about your word,
For all your commands are right.
173 Give me a helping hand
For I have chosen to follow your commandments.
174 O Lord, I have longed for your rescue.
And your instructions are my delight.
175 Let me live so I can praise you,
And may your regulations help me.
176 I have wandered away like a lost sheep;
Come and find me,
For I have not forgotten your commands.”
JOHN 1 (NLT)
1 In the beginning the WORD already existed.
The WORD was with GOD,
And the word was GOD.
2 He existed in the beginning with GOD.
3 God created everything through HIM,
And nothing was created except through HIM.
4 The word gave life to everything that was created,
And His life brought light to everyone
5 The light shines in the darkness,
And the darkness can never extinguish it.
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10 He came into the very world He created,
But the world didn’t recognize HIM,
11 He came to his own people,
And even they rejected HIM.
12 But to all who believed HIM and accepted HIM,
He gave the right to become children of GOD.
13 They are reborn - not with a physical birth
Resulting from human passion or plan,
But a birth that come from GOD.
14 So the WORD became human
And made HIS home among us.
He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.
And we have seen his glory,
The glory of the FATHER’S one and only SON!!!!!
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16 From HIS abundance we have all received
One gracious blessing after another.
17 For the law was given through Moses,
But God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came
Through JESUS CHRIST.
18 No one has ever seen GOD. But the one and only SON is Himself GOD
And is near to the Father’s heart.
He has revealed GOD to us.
GILIW
(BELOVED)
A forgotten Philippine “KUNDIMAN” (classical love song)
JESUS
Giliw, ikaw and buhay puso sa iyo lamang
JESUS, you are my life, my heart is for you only
Tanging ang iyong larawan, aliw ng pusong nagmamahal
Only, the image of YOU, the joy of my heart that loves
Dahil sa iyo may buhay ang daigdig pawing lahat ay may awit
Because of you, the WORLD has LIFE, almost all things echoes a song
Yaong bukid maging hangin sila’y naiingit
The fields, even the blowing winds, they are green with envy
At ang batis ng pagsuyo’y siya ring nanaig
For the streams of our romance flows ever endlessly
Pag-ibig na kay tamis di magmamaliw sinta
Oh LOVE! Oh LOVE, so sweet, will never, ever change
Hanggang ako’y tuluyang maglaho sa mata
Until I’m forever gone from thy vision
Kailan pa man sumpa’y di magiiba
Forever LOVE, promise will never change
Magpahanggang sa wakes MAHAL KITA!
Until the end of TIME, I’ll love YOU so!