Often when things aren’t going as smoothly as we hoped, we doubt God’s Word, or doubt our ability to hear from God, or doubt that what we have believed in the past is still the truth. But as believers, we need to stand firm and not be shaken. We can abound in hope that what God has said is still what He means. We are still His sheep that still know His voice, and that we will stand strong and continue to believe and feed our faith, and starve our doubts. When our faith becomes weak, we begin to believe the deception of the evil one, and our faith can waver. That causes confusion and we know who the author of confusion is – the devil. What is necessary is that we continue hearing and being saturated with the Word and strengthening our faith, so that we can experience joy and peace in believing. In Romans 15, it talks about bearing one another’s burdens, and living selflessly, living in unity, with one mind and one mouth glorifying God the Father, which are principles we live by as believers. Paul talks about encouraging one another, and that when he did come to Corinth, he would come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. We as believers want to fulfill our mission on the earth (like Paul was doing on his travels), which is to lead as many people as we can to Christ. So our believing needs to be such that we know that we know that we know, God’s Word is true. Then we can abound and overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can accomplish all that God has called us to do – no doubt about it! That is hope filled living!