Kenny

It depends what kind of hope you desire! If you hope that God will save you if you are worthy then that sort of hope is tinged with doubt, it lacks the full power of faith. But if you truly believe then you accept that God always tells the truth that he cannot lie otherwise he ceases to be God so then you have hope in him because whatever he says must be right. Faith is also like this; you have fallen over the edge of a precipice and hang from certain death by only your finger tips. You call for help until you are hoarse but no one is near, finally and as a last hope you call on God for help and Jesus comes to your aid and asks what he can do for you. You asked to be saved. He replies ‘do you truly believe I can save you?’ 'Yes', you say with all the faith you have in you, hoping that it is sufficient, Jesus reaches out to you and says ‘then let go’. If you hope he will save you then you probably won’t have the courage to let go. But if you have faith not wavering then the power of faith comes into play and Jesus will save you and then you have hope in Him. Faith precedes hope

Ok, we lived with God prior to coming down here, he loved us perfectly, and we were balanced human beings, no hang ups. We had free agency and we had curiosity. We must have reached the limits of our existence because we questioned why our Father and Mother were not tangible spirits like we were. Then the plan was put to us. This was a perfect plan and the only way to obtain the joy our Father and Mother enjoyed. So our Farther sent us down here as mature spirits into infant bodies, (only Adam and Eve were placed in mature bodies) to have all knowledge of our past existence veiled over. The Lord had taught us how to continue to receive the instructions we had received since we were organised. So the majority of the human family forgot how to get this instruction and lent upon their own understanding and with it the diminishing of faith replaced by hope but hope not by faith where the real power was but a lesser hope tinged with doubt. God can by a single word heal the afflicted He does this by faith, we possess the same ability to use the same power but lack the faith. Does the Lord love us any less because we lack the faith to heal ourselves and others, no! We have doctors as a testament to that even though we don’t really need them. Having a limited faith we fall short of our true potential so God commands us to be obedient, obedience is one of the keys to strengthening faith. By obedience we learn to trust God, by obedience we diminish doubt and hope returns to God, our loving Farther blesses us when we do as he asks without murmuring just like we reward our children when they do likewise.

In Jesus’ ministry He preformed many miracles but told the recipients to only praise God and say nothing of the marvellous things done to them. Later believers fell into two groups those that had hope in Christ despite what he did and those that hoped he was the Christ because of what he did. My faith in Christ is despite what He does I always believe in Him because He knows me better than myself and will never forsake me especially in difficult times.