In the book I've written called get your hopes up one of the things I teach on is that we can increase our hope by counting our blessings instead of our problems you know whatever we look at the most is what becomes the largest in our lives in the Word of God we see the term oh magnify the Lord well what does it mean to magnify the Lord it means to make Him larger then anything else so if we magnify our problems even if its one problem if we magnify that problem it can become so large in our thinking that we don't even see the many ways in which we are blessed you know I think even when you think about a relationship how often do we only think about the 2 or 3 things that somebody does wrong and we don't even see the maybe 20 things that they do right I know that we all have our different things that we don't like about different people but I honestly believe that most of the people in our lives our friends our spouses our family members I think if we would really sit down and make a list of the things that we really do appreciate about them and what we like about them would outweigh the couple of things and the focus on that we don't like so why don't you stop focusing on your problems and start focusing on your blessings start counting your blessings instead of your problems and you are going to have a great increase in hope and happiness and energy and many good things will happen as a result of that God bless you. You know Paul talked in several different places about he stirred the people up by putting the people in remembrance by causing them to remember and you know what I think we should do I think we should take 5 minutes everyday and have a think session and thought about something that God has done for you and lets just be childish and lets just go God I am amazed and theres just so many places that I could go but I just cant Deuteronomy 8:1-20 God said I lead you all the way in this wilderness to humble you to prove you to test you to see if you would keep my commandments or not and He said your shoes didn't wear out your clothes didn't wear out I poured water out of a rock and I fed you manner and I did all this to bring you into a land flowing with milk and honey when you get there if you forget me you must remember you say whats this bucket up here this is something that is extremely precious to me these are the journals that I have kept my daily journals of the dealings with God in my life and problems I've had the tears I have cried the breakthroughs in the last 30 years I wasn't maybe as diligent with it in maybe the first 10 years but there is barely a day that goes by that I don't write in these journals these are my books of remembrance God says in Malachi 3:16 that there is a book of remembrance and that when people say and talk about Him that He records it in His book and I tell you what I had quite a week going through these journals september 24th 1983 we have a serious financial need we need $200 by tuesday to pay our bill we have less money now then we have had in a long time God is good great things are about to happen the storms always come before the clouds the clouds always hide the sun but the Son is still there praise the Lord I don't have any charges anymore because I am able to pay my bills every month but there was a day and I want those of you who are in that day that I had that day and many like it but amazing I'm still here Hallelujah everybody say amazing ok now this one almost about just did me in this one was in august 1979 just years after I was filled with the Holy Spirit I have a prayer list in the back of this it says Father in Jesus Name we ask you to provide the following things for us and we receive them by faith in your word and we thank you ahead of time heres what was on my list God I need twelve wash cloths new sheets I need a new skillet a can opener money for a heater fan for both cars and you don't know how excited I was when I had recorded what I had got what I had asked for and so on 8 22 I had asked God for 12 wash cloths and on 8 29 my doorbell wrang somebody that I don't know she came to my meetings occasionally and I didn't know her and she certainly didn't know what was on my prayer list and she said now I hope you don't think I'm stark raving mad but I thought God told me to bring you 12 wash cloths amazing!!!

• published: 11 Apr 2015
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