
Sunday Bites
Keeping Hope Alive (Part 3A)


Ekow
6/22/2025
From suffering to hope (Part 3A)
We are on our final lesson of the short series, and today, our focus is going to be on one of the most powerful assets for hope. Yet, this too is a weapon of destruction welded by depression, insecurities, and anxieties. It is a force so powerful that it raises high the littlest of men and shoves down the heaviest of Goliaths. Where is your mind? It is the mind.
I can preach a thousand words into the ears of the man with the sharpest hearing.
A plethora of pictures may be placed on every area of the wall in a man's room.
Play a scene in your head: Take a smelly goat and have it dance with a bride.
But he won't ear, the man with the sharpest hearing, if he cannot understand my language.
He won't see, the man with the bedroom covered in pictures, if he is blind.
She won't smell, the woman you had dance with the smelly goat, if she lost her sense of smell.
In the same way, unless a man's mind stays actively fixated on the encouragement he receives from God, through reading the bible, prophesies or sermons, he is likely to struggle with attaining the level of hope he desires. His confident expectation of good shall be weak at its stem and easily shaken.
It is of great importance that a man continues to ear the good he has received. It is beneficial that he continues to read about his victory in Christ. We ought to be frequently reminded of what we have, of the higher way, and about Christ. For this reason, Peter said:
12 So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.
(2 Peter 1:12)
And Paul too said:
...To write the same things to you indeed is not grievous to me, but it is a safeguard for you.
(Philippians 3:1b)
God is ever ready to provide encouragement over and over again. And it is beneficial for us to meditate over and over again on what we receive.