Thursday, 26^th June, 2025

Bible Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 (NIV)

Memory Verse:  Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord. Psalm 27:14 (AMPC)

Friends, Jesus can turn your ‘Hopeless End’ into ‘Endless Hope’.

In whatever situation you find yourself right now, what are you expecting God to do? Some of you aren’t expecting Him to do anything. But God works in your life according to your expectation. That’s called faith!

Paul knew this. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:9-10, “This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us … and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (NIV).

The purpose of the dead-end is to teach you to trust in God. Why does God let things get so bad and so out of control? So he can force you to learn to trust in Him instead of trusting in your own ingenuity and cleverness.

What’s the promise when you trust God? He has delivered you, he will deliver you, and he will continue to deliver you. When God delivers you, he uses three different kinds of deliverance:

1. God uses circumstantial deliverance. Sometimes God miraculously alters the circumstance, and the Red Sea splits. That will happen many times in your life, but it’s not going to happen all the time.

2. God uses personal deliverance. Instead of changing the circumstance, God changes you from the inside. You get a new dream, a new vision, a new attitude, and a new perspective.

3. God’s ultimate deliverance is Heaven. God has not promised to remove all of your pain in this world or solve every one of your problems. Because we are on Earth, there is pain and sorrow and suffering. The ultimate deliverance will be one day in Heaven where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no suffering, and no heartache.

There is only one way to get to Heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). When you’re at a dead-end, Jesus can take that hopeless end and turn it into an endless hope.

Are you at a dead-end? I invite you to take that problem, that situation, and your own life and give them to Jesus Christ.

Quote:  What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God – Rick Warren

Prophetic Decree: Receive the breath and ventilation of the Almighty in your soul that brings hope and illumination, in Jesus name. 

Prayer Focus

1. Thank you Father because you give grace and glory. 

2. Over (mention the situation in my life) manifest by fire, in Jesus name. 

3. Wall of impossibility surrounding my life, crumble, in Jesus name.

4. Holy Spirit, please fill my heart with hope, in Jesus name. 

5. Lord, please transform me from within, and equally change my circumstances, in Jesus name. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 16, 2 Chronicles 17