HOPE- DO YOU NEED SOME?
MAY THIS EMAIL WRITTEN TO ME...GIVE YOU DEAR HURTING SOUL THE SAME ENCOURAGEMENT IT GAVE ME!
Dearest Blossom, (Place your own name here.)
I've been pondering the idea of faith and hope and how intricately they intertwine.
- I feel that we are to NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF OUR FAITH.
- Because FAITH is the evidence of things HOPED FOR and the substance of things NOT YET SEEN...we should not take lightly the power that faith provides.
- What is striking is that in order to have faith in something, you first have to have HOPE for it.
- What fosters your hope?
- What has God spoken?
- What truths are absolute to you?
- What are those things that you will never allow Satan to rob you of?
1. Form, construct, or create new
2. To give a new life or energy to
3. To reform spiritually and morally.
Hope is therefore quite a powerful weapon when attached to what regeneration means...hope creates the new. It reforms the spiritual and the moral. it brings energy and new life. Without hope we would not push forward.
Hope has double strength, twice the power of the doubts or lies of the enemy. Hope also has the quality of multiplication like cell regeneration. As you maintain your "stance of hope" it will grow and increase. Even a small level of hope today will keep you "believing in faith for" a brighter tomorrow. Like white blood cells that fight off disease, so is your hope as it multiplies...it fights off the enemy of your soul that would have you forever defeated.
Hope is very important to have Blossom. You much foster that hope daily by rehearsing over and over again WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY DONE IN YOUR LIFE.
Hope will keep your "mind sound." If you allow yourself to become one who doubts God's goodness in the midst of your mess or that He is unable to HEAL YOU then you will become despondent, removed and depressed.
I can only imagine how hard it is to stay strong, but sister, God chose you with purpose and intention for such a time as this. Lay your pretty head on His chest and keep listening for His tender heart beating for you. He is so proud of you Blossom!
I love you sister and am praying for you,
Love RAV
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About the author
Blossom Turner is an award-winning novelist, and a free-lance writer published in Chicken Soup and Kernels of Hope anthologies, and former newspaper columnist on health and fitness. A Word Guild semi-finalist for Anna's Secret, Katherine's Arrangement, Amelia’s Heartsong, and a Word Guild winner for Best Romance for Lucinda’s Defender. She has found her home in the writing of historical fiction but is open to wherever God leads. The many 5-star reviews attest to the power of love and romance authentically woven into the Shenandoah Bride Series about five sisters and their five love stories.
Blossom lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, David, of forty years and their dog Lacey named after Lacey Spring, Virginia, where this series takes place. A former businesswoman, personal trainer, and mother of two grown children she is now pursuing her lifelong dream of writing full-time. A hopeless romantic at heart, she believes all story should give the reader significant entertainment value. However, her writing embodies the struggles of real life. She infuses the reality of suffering with the hope of Christ to give a healthy dose of relatable encouragement to her reader. Her desire is to leave the reader with a yearning to live for Christ on a deeper level, or at the very least, create a hunger to seek for more.
Co-author Suzie Zanewhich
Suzie is a certified life coach, leader of emotional health, and resource specialist. She has found her niche as a soul coach.
Suzie finds purpose in empowering individuals to move towards growth, healing, and alignment with their authentic self. Suzie is driven by a calling to live authentically, as the person God created her to be, to reach her fullest potential and lead others to do the same. Her passion is to help others find meaning through discovering their strengths, gifts, personality, temperament and core values.
Suzie is a life-long learner, continuously immersing herself in new courses to learn more about human behaviour, relationships, psychology, child development, emotions, trauma and healing. Because of her craving to always learn more she has earned the title of resource specialist in the area of self-discovery.
Suzie Zanewich lives with her husband in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She has a patchwork family of four grown children, two daughters, two sons and three granddaughters.
Comments 1
Guest - Donna
on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:28
Thank you for sharing this Blossom.