Substantiating Your Hope

The Leverage daily devotional by Pastor Segun Obadje
Thursday, August 21
Substantiating Your Hope
Romans 4:18; 2 Corinthians 4:18

Hebrews 11: 1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."" Everything is made out of something. Things cannot exist without a parent source. Children are off-springs of their parents. Cars are made out of metals. Shoes are made out of leather. Bread is made out of wheat flour. John 1:1-3 reads: "In the beginning was the Word... All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made."" All things were made by The Word. Therefore, the Word is the parent material from which all things were made. The Word declares that faith comes by hearing God's Word (Rom.10:17). Faith, therefore, is the appreciation of God's Word; it is the substance of things one expects to see. Faith creates the realities of hope; it is the tangibility of it. Word based faith is the substance of all your dreams. Beloved, though your physical senses may not appreciate the realities of God's Word spoken to you, yet you can still capture the very essence of it by faith. How? You will have to learn to see with the eyes of your spirit the things that your physical eyes can't see. This is made possible by meditating on God's Word consistently. By doing this, you will engage your spiritual eyes to look at the invisible. Meditating on God's Word is interacting with light, for the Word is light (Ps.119:105). You can exercise your faith – your sense of Word appreciation- by meditating and acting on the Word of God. Put God's Word in your mouth and in your heart and you will see your faith grow to substantiate your expectations of everything God has spoken to you.

Other Scriptures for Meditation: Romans 4:17- 22; Hebrews 11:1-40

My Solid Front (Confession)
In the Name of Jesus, I declare I refuse to walk by sight. I by faith perceive spiritual realities in God's word and I lay hold on them. AMEN.