We are talking about the book, Tell Your Heart to Beat Again, and after hope is lost, Here are some ways to get it back1
1. Get busy Living – The authors brother got to watch an open heart surgery where they were having trouble restarting the man’s heart. The surgeon whispered in the patient’s ear….tell your heart to beat again. Immediately it started. Lesson learned….get back to living and breathing, there is life ahead of you.
2. Run with Hope – Hope is your anchor – Heb 6:19. Hebrews 12;12 tells us to strengthen our feeble knees. Feeble can be translated paralyzed. Fear paralyzes or immobilizes us. Hopelessness can paralyze. The Lord is your portion, even when life is like the smoldering ruins of Jerusalem, Jeremiah in Lamentations 3:21-24 says God’s faithfulness is new every morning, therefore I will put my hope in Him.
3. There is still music in you – Romans 4;18 In hope against hope, Abraham believed. There was absolutely no hope, yet Abraham hoped anyway. Dare to hope against your hopeless situation. Job, David, and Paul and Silas all found that God was still the One who gives songs in the night. There is music somewhere in your soul, don’t give up. Romans 8:28 is filled with hope. When we are called according to His purpose, God will work things out for our good. Work together is translated synergy from the Greek, and is the combined action of two or more who have a greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects. God can take all of your negatives and make the end product a positive.
4. Tell your heart to beat – Don’t make the storms of life your point of reference. Draw near to God, and keep drawing near. Rekindle the gifts of God inside you as it says in 2 Timothy 1:6-7. Don’t lets fears, phobias, or insecurity let you shut down the gifts of God in you. You have been given a spirit of love, power and discipline which encompasses the word sozo which is your complete salvation.
5. Life won’t always seem horrible – pass through the valley of Baca (weeping) and come to a place of healing and joy. (Psalm 84:6) Mount Horeb was horrible for Moses, but learned great lessons there that turned sorrow and hopelessness into hopefulness.
6. Our future begins now. Our Mt. Horeb can be a place of new beginnings. A desolate place becomes a place where God begins repairing and restoring you for your amazing future.
7. Expect! You will sing, you will dance, you will live , you will hope again!
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