Hope

At BRINGING BACK GOD in BRISTOL, TN, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS has stated many times, "Hope is like sunshine, everyone needs a ray of it." For the longest time I only thought that this meant that you should give others hope. Hope that they can change and be a better Christian. Hope that they will be a better person. Hope that they will come back to the cross. Hope that they will believe in God and Jesus. Hope. I never thought that I would think of hope for myself. But what you you need to realize is this, just because you have hope for other people doesn't mean that you should lose hope for your self.
Many times that is something that we all forget. We forget that we can change and be a better person, a better Christian, come back to the cross, come back to Jesus and God. We forget that we need to have hope for our self. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS has also taught me that you can't help others change until you have changed yourself first. So if you lose hope for yourself then you are defeating the purpose of ever being able to help others.
The bible talks about hope often. In Romans 15:13 it states Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. In Psalms 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Again in Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
So the bible talks about hope. We just need to remember to not loose hope for ourselves. Hope is like sunshine, and everyone does need a ray of it. Not only the people that we know but us too.
If you would like to learn more about this topic, come visit BRINGING BACK GOD in  BRISTOL, TN or in MARIETTA, PA. Visit PASTOR JOHN COLLINS and talk the bible with him. Or listen to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on BlogTalk Radio.
God Bless You,
The Church Goer-Girl