It is God’s desire that you will spread out your wings and rise like an eagle as you enter into year 2022.

Everything is hopeless more than hopeful.

IMF (Int’l Monetary Fund)  projection for 2021 is 5.1 % , 2022 is 4.9% .

Everything is getting worse due to the new virus.

New Variant (Delta & Omicron) of the virus, brings about apprehension.

The point of mutation is at the spike of the protein, virus mutates at the spike and affects the effectiveness of vaccines.

The medical specialists from various fields were more hopeless than hopeful as the virus mutates.

What is hope?

Hope is not Wish.

Wish is to have something which is unlikely to take place.

Hope is not optimism. Optimism is not hope.  It is a tendency to take a favorable view.

Optimists are not realists.  They deviate from reality.

Hope is not wishing

Hope is not optimism

Hope is not expectation

Proverb 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill with joy and peace in believing,

That you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hope – It is a certain that what is going to happen.  It is a sure thing.

Expecting what is certain.

Psalm 62:5

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord.

Thoughts of peace and not of evil,

In the midst of difficult moments, there is hope.

Our God is the rope who will help us to climb up the slope

Hope towards the future is dependent on the God who is with you in the present and who has been faithful with you in the past.

The power of positive emotion.  Traumatic people need positive emotion to recuperate.

Positive emotion – love, joy

Hebrews 6:19

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil

Make God an anchor.  He is a God of Hope.

Reasons to have hope in God:

He will not go against His words. 7,000 promises of hope in the bible

He is our Father, He will not put us down