Holdfast To Hope • Daily Devo #314
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. - Romans 5:1-2 KJV
The Message For Today (September 21, 2025):
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Greater than everything in this earth, including the battles, the strongholds, the day-to-day wars, and our own personal struggles as imperfect human beings, we have God. We have the God that created the universe and everything in it, the God that separated the heavens from the earth and told the sun and the moon where to go.
We have a good, good Father who is also the creator of all of these things. When we go to God in prayer, seeking, praying for things to change, praying for something to give, and praying that we will be able to see the manifestation, we go to Him bearing two things: faith and hope. We come believing that He is God and that He hears our prayers.
Next, we come in faith knowing that whatever we're praying for, that God can handle it. Last, we come with the hope that He is God. We come with the expectation in our hearts that there's nothing too big for Him and that we are going to see the evidence of our prayers. The moment you stop holding on to hope and believing that you can do it all on your own, the enemy has successfully robbed you of your greatest power, your hope in Christ Jesus, the solid rock on which we all stand.
The Bible decrees that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and through Him that everything that was created was created. This is the book of John, chapter 1, the first four verses in the New Testament. And it reads:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. - John 1:1-4 KJV
On the ground that we stand on and the light that is in us is the light that's rooted in Jesus Christ. That is where we place our hope, and we hold fast to that hope no matter what. Revelations 3:8-11 shows us that there is a time coming where the people will be tested, every man, every woman, and every child. That time is coming upon the earth, and when it does, the test will be individual. It'll be a test of what you believed and of the crown that you held fast to.
That crown is our hope in Christ Jesus, our hope in God. This is not a passive, meaningless hope that has been watered down to make people feel good. This is our earnest expectation inside the one who created the universe and everything in it. This is the hope that we place in the King of Glory, the Great I Am, the Lord of Lords, our Great God.
The moment the enemy can successfully steal that hope, we begin to wander and lean to our own understanding versus acknowledging God in all of our ways, that He can direct our paths. After all, He knows the plans He has towards you. This morning, commit to holding fast to the vision, hold fast to the hope of God. Hold fast to that thing.
Regardless of how long it has taken, regardless of how long you've waited and waited and waited, He is still God. He is still able. Allow nothing to steal that hope. Hold fast to it. Hold it to your heart. Hold it in your hands. Hold it in your mind. Decree it with your lips. Hold fast to the God that created the universe, the King of Glory, the promise keeper, and know that He is with you, that He'll never leave you, nor forsake you.
This is what the word shows us: that He is a good God and that He is faithful. The only way that we stop being close to God is when we stop holding fast to the hope that He is more than able. When we stop holding fast to the hope that He is good and that He loves us. When we stop holding fast to that earnest expectation of the goodness of God going to work for you and I, we then allow the enemy to succeed and steal the foundation of our faith.
It is our hope in God that is the foundation of our faith. It is our hope that Jesus died for us before He knew our names. That is our hope. That is the earnest expectation. That is the heart of the believer, unshaken by this world and the weight of it and the battles. Nothing can stop it once you are persuaded.
Once you know in your heart that you have a good, good Father. Once you've walked with God and trusted in Him and seen His goodness, you hold fast to that. Hold fast to those promises. Hold fast to His glory. Hold fast to the King. Hold fast to our Father. Hold fast to your hope.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the mighty woman of God reading this right now. I thank you for the fire, God. I thank you, God, that regardless of what we are facing in our personal lives, you have been there with us.
You are a good, good Father, and you know the desires of our highest Lord. I thank you for the mighty woman of God. I'm lifting her before you, God, thanking you that she is ready, God. She is ready to heal. She's ready to be delivered. She's ready to break free. She's ready for something new, oh, God.
Well, please restore to her the hope. Show her the vision. Show her the hope. Show her the vision, God. Remind her of your promises, God. Show her the things that you've done in her life. Remind her, God, that she has been with you and you with her all her life.
That you knew her before she was in her mother's womb. That you called her to this season, this time. Her life has a purpose because you're intentional, God. Restore unto her, oh, God, the joy of our salvation so that she may see it, she may know it, and fully step into it. Covered by the whole armor of Christ, the weight of the word on her side, and the hope in God as the cornerstone of her faith. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
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