Hope requires us to choose.

Thought of the day: fasting hopelessness 

Hope requires us to choose. 

When I pray for hope in exchange for my worries my desire to obtain Gods help for an outcome MUST be rooted in the Character of Gods Spirit. 

If they are not rooted in Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control ...I pray that God would change my desire and re-root them. 

This is... the process of active faith - transform your mind to see suffering as a producer of the ability to endure and obtain character that hopes in Gods love to work all things for good.

Steps to walk it out:

Is our hope motivated/rooted by our flesh (evil) or Gods Spirit?

Hope - a desire motivated by our character.

Our character - a set of characteristics that make up who we are, they define us a person.

Characteristics of Gods Spirit - Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control . 

Our Character - the qualities (gifts) we receive as we Endure our suffering. 

Endurance- ability received as we experience our suffering.

"We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."- Romans 5:3-

Additional thought for today's fast of hopelessness

Is the suffering I'm enduring producing/making me lean upon :love,joy,peace,patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness or self control?

Check your fruit, if you feel bitterness, anger or resentment ask God to help you work your way through those feelings and to transform them into the fruits of the spirit.