How New Hope Is Rising Up

Did you know you have MORE THAN ENOUGH to offer those around you? Yes, you do and Mitch Ivey, our guest contributor for the month, reveals to you just how much you have to let hope arise in your life and others. Find out how new hope is rising up in your life.

What do I have to Offer?

Today we find a world full of anxiety, frustration, stress, discouragement, disillusionment, and oppression. I am so thankful that I am not of this world but rather a Kingdom that has overcome this world.

We hear statements like that, but how do we live a life that reflects a Kingdom and not this world we are living in? It all starts with me. Not, not about me, but rather with me. 

Am I willing to engage in the presence of the Lord that touches my heart and transforms my mind and thinking allowing me to view this world from a heavenly perspective?

Encounter With God

We see in Moses when he went up on the mountain and met with God that his face shined with a radiance that illustrated he had been with the Almighty God.

I believe if we could have seen the faces of the men and women who encountered Jesus and His touch of Heaven upon their lives, we would have seen radiance and beauty causing those around them to stop and look and ask what had happened.

Do people who encounter the love of God today radiate His beauty? I believe the answer to this question is a resounding YES! 

Just this morning as I was sharing about love, I could see the agape love of God touching a heart and the countenance of the person in my office began to change; it began to radiate!

In all that is happening in our world and lives today, we have a choice of who we are listening to and what we are spending time with. Many times we spend a moment with the Lord yet hours of media, social media, entertainment, news, and conversations only reinforce the belief systems of a broken world.

Radiating God

But when we spend time with a loving Heavenly Father, I believe we absolutely will begin to radiate Him, have a change of mindset, and become empowering people in this world.

Listen, the world needs you! They need you full of the life of Jesus and the love of the Father and the power of the Spirit working in and through you to impact this world. They need the real you. 

The world needs the fullness of the body of Christ to step out from the shadows of struggle and bring genuine hope. You have all the world needs. Jesus and the love of the Father and the power of the Spirit. You have all that you need to be free and walk in freedom.

Freely Give

In Matthew chapter 10 Jesus sent His disciples out into the world to release what they had been given. He said in verses 7 and 8, “As you go, proclaim: ‘The Kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with leprosy, and drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”

Freely you have received, freely give. You do have something to offer this world. When you walk out of the door and encounter this world, you can do so defeated or as an overcomer. Jesus has made you an overcomer and you have something to offer. Jesus. 

You don’t need to know how to offer Him, you just need to offer Him. And it starts with you seeking Him, being lifted up by Him, and then releasing Him into this world!

In verse 13 Jesus said, “and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it; but if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.” You have something to give to those who are open. And there are many who are open. 

There are many that are confused and looking for hope. You have the peace of Christ. You have it. And you can transmit it into the lives of those you are in contact with.

Simple Prayer

You might be amazed at the power of a simple prayer, “Holy Spirit, let the Peace of Christ rest on this person right now in the name of Jesus.”

As simple as that you have something to offer. What if we looked with intentionality to sow peace into the life of someone today? What if each of the several hundred people reading this today intentionally gave the Peace of Christ away today?

Do you know what could happen in this desperate world? 

Hope would arise.

Now that you know how new hope is rising up, what is the first you’ll take?

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