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I choose to be a broker of hope.  Hope is something that we all need and is offered based on someone or something that is much better and better than us.


Proverbs 23:18  GWT

There is indeed a future, and your hope will never be cut off.


What does the future look like for you?  Is it bright or dark?  Is it full of possibilities or troubles?  It is a place you are excited about or one you are dreading?


Those answers can be real intense and tell me a lot about your life.  The honest answer is our future ought to be one full of hope.  Hope for you and those around you.  Hope for you to give away as often as possible.


God will not cut off your hope.  I meet people every day that have no hope.  Their hope is gone.  That is why it is time for us, the people of God, to put hope where people can reach it.  Did you hear that?  Hope is unreachable for some people, but we have hope and can share with others.


People need hope.  Are we giving the people around us hope?  How can we offer people real hope?  How can we put hope where people can reach it?  It begins with us seeing God and accepting hope for ourselves.  Then we pass on to others what God has given us.  


People will see hope lived out as we share and serve.  They will see hope living and breathing, not sitting and souring.  Hope makes us get out off our chair and do something.  Hope gives people a desire to do something with their lives.


Most importantly, hope gives people the opportunity to see the one who gives real hope.  Offer somebody hope today.  Hope may just change their life for eternity!


Romans 5:5  NASB

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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