JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. ( Romans 15:23 ) . I have been meditating this verse and it has become part of my vision for this year. This verse is part of a prayer that the Apostle Paul prayed for the church at Rome. He prayed that the God of hope would fill the believers at Rome with Joy and Peace in believing. In other words, he wanted our God, the God of hope (as He calls Him) to fill the believers in Rome with an overflowing joy and a supernaturally settling peace while they were in the believing phase of a breakthrough. See, the believing phase is the phase you go through in the space between the promise and the performance; the space between your confession and the completion. It is in the space that many believers give up, get frustrated, and throw in the towel. Not only did Paul not want them to throw in their spiritual towel, but He wanted them to experience God’s Joy while they waited on the manifestation of God in their lives. Having God’s Joy should be good enough, but Paul also prayed that they would have God’s peace. Isn’t that awesome. Paul wanted them to have Joy while and the waited on God, and a peace about whatever situation they were facing. He desired for them to have this, even without any inkling of sense-realm-evidence. Meaning that they could believe that God was going to do it – whatever the “it” was – without any worldly evidence to support their belief. Believing without seeing, that’s called FAITH!
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:50:37 +0000
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