I was with a friend the other day and I told her, I struggle with hope because when I hope and it doesn’t happen it brings about disappointment and I have disappointment fatigue. She smiled at me with her older than me self and said, “That is because you do not have a revelation of hope!”

This statement has been musing in my spirit from the day she spoke it. Since she said I do not have a revelation of hope, my spirit has been crying out for a revelation of hope. Our hearts long to know truth and so we will search for it until we find it, if we are lovers of truth.

My spirit has been searching for this revelation since that day and I have been getting puzzle pieces of it here and there for the past three weeks. One of those puzzle pieces is going from the idea that God can do something to God will do it. This tectonic plate shifted from He can to He will and confidence came.

Then I was with an Indian man from India yesterday and he said to me, “Lisa, growing up we were taught about karma, I can’t escape it. What we sow we reap, but we don’t expect anything from what we sow, because of karma. For we do not know if what we will reap is good or bad, so we have no expectation when we sow.”

When he left, I repented of not expecting anything good from the seeds I sow. Seeds of time, money, love, energy, help, whatever it may be. I realized when he said that, the Jews never doubted they would reap something good when they sowed and the Lord whispered “that is hope.”

Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”

Hope is CONFIDENT EXPECTATION OF GOOD! My confidence is rising; my expectation of good is increasing; and I am gaining a revelation of hope daily as the Lord speaks truth to me about what He has for me. Hope is not my circumstances or other people’s choices, it is my trust in the words and ways of God. Hope is a game changer, I hope this encourages you, just like my friend challenged me to get a revelation of hope. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org