PREACHER :
PS X MKHIZE
MESSAGE TITLE: HOPE
Referral Scripture: Zechariah
9:12 (NKJV)12 Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even
today I declare
That I will restore double to you.Hope – an attitude of mind that is based on a positive outcome in the midst of negatives.
Zechariah is one of the Prophet who
was sent to prophesy on the children of Israel who had lost hope, to tell them
about the future, declaring things to come. Normally hope is something seen or
needed when you going through hard times and have a reason to carry on while
situations are against you.
Nothing is bad as being hopeless,
God doesn’t want us to be hopeless, book of Philippians, Ephesians, and
Corinthians Paul the Apostle was writing these Epistles being in prison but
when you look on his writings you can never tell that the person who is writing
this is in prison, on his writings he is giving the believers hope while he
himself is in a hopeless situation, giving hope to people who seem to be free
compared to him. He even say REJOICE ALWAYS AND AGAIN I SAY REJOICE, He tells people
about joy while he is in a place with no joy.
Hope mean we expect good things while current situations doesn’t
agree with us, in the midst of everything seeming to be going wrong but we look
and speak a better future. Hope compels a believer to soldier on in the midst
of trouble.
In Zechariah 9, the
Prophet is giving hope while the current situation of Israel is hopeless that
it can change, verse 12 says Return to your fortress, you
prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to
you.
No matter what we go through, we must have hope, and our
Hope is in what God can do, Israel is in exile because of their rebellion but
when they cried to God He sent them a Prophet that will give them a word of
hope that God will return them back to Jerusalem.
Job is another man, his situation is a bit different because
no one was speaking positive, encouraging words in his life, at least for the Israelites
there were Prophets But for Job there was nobody, it ONLY HOPE that He had
inside him.
There is time where in life you will lose every supporting
structure, every one that is supposed to be giving you positive words, even
prayers seem like God is not hearing them, in the midst of all that we must
have hope, be prisoners of hope. Verse 12…’
Return to your fortress, you
prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as
much to you’ Being
a prisoner of hope mean whatever situation we face HOPE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.
Whatever situation you’re in GOD WILL SHOW UP, stay in hope,
there is a better future ahead. Don’t focus on pain but focus on what God can
do, look beyond the pain, look beyond the current situation. God will multiply
everything we lost, He did it for job, and if He can do it for one He can do it
for all of us!
Worship with us Every Sunday 9-12am
