Supernatural Hope Vs Natural Hope

Testimonies are powerful. They can bring people to the Lord. They can also sabotage the devil's plan/schemes for your life. God has a plan for your life, we also have plans for our lives. In the same way, the devil also wants to stray us away from God’s plan. A testimony can destroy the devil's plan. It is equivalent to bombing the headquarters of Satan.

The Bible is a book of testimonies right from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible shows us real and raw testimonies of people who met the Lord and those who strayed away from God, without censoring the bad parts. Judas Iscariot, Samson etc. are characters who have a bad testimony. The Bible doesn’t hide anything, it contains only the truth and that is why we can believe everything written in it. There is nothing fictitious in it.

We know the story of Abraham and his generations in Genesis from Chapter 11 onwards. Abraham is also talked about in various books in the New Testament. When someone lives a model life, God uses their testimony as a prototype to speak to others even in the far future.

Romans 4:18-21 
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without growing weak in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.

This talks about two hopes- ‘in hope’ which is a supernatural hope, and ‘against hope’ which is a natural or human hope. Abraham and Sarah were old and barren. They received God’s promise of a son when Abraham was 75 years old and Sara, ten years younger.  But when they did not see it happen, they got frustrated. Abraham had a child with Hagar (Sarah’s maid) and they faced terrible consequences from this. We should learn from the mistakes of others instead of waiting for a hard lesson to teach us eventually.

In hope (the supernatural hope), against hope (the natural or human hope), Abraham believed. God promised Abraham to be a father of nations. This was a heavenly hope. However, Abraham was around 100 years old at the time and Sarah’s womb was said to be dead. There was no hope humanly for a child to be born. But even in a humanly hopeless situation, Abraham was strengthened in God’s promise ( Genesis 15.5,6  And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the LORD, and it was accounted to him as righteousness) and giving glory to God, he believed supernaturally that God would do what He said.

Many times, though we have God’s promises in our life, our faith becomes weak. But God is able/has power to fulfil the promise. Abraham against all human hope believed in supernatural hope in God’s power to fulfil His promise and so received its fulfilment.

We must believe that God hears our prayers even before we ask them.

Matthew 6:32
“For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.”

God knows what you need before you even say it to Him. Every blessing you have was freely given to you, and not because of your prayer and pleading. God sees what you need and prepares things before you even ask.
Even in difficult and seemingly impossible situations, we can hold on to God’s promises in supernatural hope, against all natural hope. We must hope and so believe.

Testimony:
A lady had a stroke and was in the hospital for 3 months. She was fed through a tube and couldn’t move around. She came to Blessing Today’s Super Sunday and at the end of the worship, she was completely healed and left running and dancing. The very next week, she even took baptism!

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