"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life."- King Solomon  

Why are so many of our hopes and dreams still on hold?

To defer is to "postpone, delay, put off to a future time; to decide to do something later on."

Why would you hope for something later in life that you want God to do for you now?

Fulfilling the desires of your heart produces life and inspiration for others. Unfortunately, many people have years of experience working a trade, but none accomplishing their highest hopes and dreams. Gaining experience can devour your best years, zeal and passion if you are not careful or intentional in your career path.

Would you attend a college to gain credits that are not transferrable towards your degree?

Then why would you work 10 years at a "BRIDGE" job that does not provide skills, experience and aspirations that are transferrable to your dream job?

Your employment is not just a place to earn a paycheck; you are earning a skill, leadership, authority, trust, humility, confidence and influence. Things you could not earn on your own unless an employer or client gave you the platform and opportunity to do so.

To the contrary, if you have been unemployed for two years, you should be two years smarter. You should be almost complete with a certificate or degree; you should have experience from some volunteer position that has allowed you to transfer your skills to paid jobs or should be an authority by now on how to write resumes and interview effectively so that unemployment tenures decrease.

You should not look or smell the same; you should not be recognizable.

Here are five things to remember as you catalyst a Hope Revolution in your region OR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE:

1.   Hope is the prerequisite to praise.

Have you ever had all hell break loose against you, yet have a song in your heart in the morning as if nothing happened?

To the contrary, have you ever been at work or in a church service and preoccupied or silenced by problems?

That's what hope or the absence thereof does.

King David wrote: "But I WILL hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more. MY MOUTH shall tell of Your righteous acts and of Your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is more than I know. I will come in the strength and with (OF) the mighty acts of the Lord God; (Psalms 71:14-16)

Our pain is producing godly character and exploits. We need the character of God (virtues like faith, hope, love, etc.) to overcome and our circumstance, more than we know, is preparing and qualifying us for our crown and reward.

2.   Hope produces confident, fearless favor.

You already have favor on your life; but are you fearless with it?  

• Does it hopefully and expectantly seek favor in places you would not expect it to be?
• Does it believe for favor in positions, promotions and homes you don't seem qualified for?
• Does it believe for favor with clients that seem too big for you? 

Job 11:16-19 says: "For you will forget your suffering, recalling ⌊it only⌋ as waters that have flowed by.  ⌊Your⌋ life will be brighter than noonday; ⌊its⌋ darkness will be like the morning. You will be confident, because there is hope. You will look carefully about and lie down in safety. You will lie down without fear, and many will seek your favor."

3.   Hope is the product of a promise.

We lose hope when people break promises.

But the strength of our hope rises or falls on how trustworthy we perceive our expectation to be. And our hope is not in "man." It is the product of a promise made by Someone that cannot ever lie or deceive us.

King David wrote: "Remember ⌊Your⌋ word to Your servant; You have given me hope through it. This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life." (Ps. 119:49-50)

4.   Hope secures a future and destiny for you.

You will have no future if hope is not "present."

King David wrote: "Make us glad in proportion to the days in which You have afflicted us and to the years in which we have suffered evil." (Ps. 90:15)

When Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream of 7 years of famine, there were also 7 years of plenty.

RIGHT NOW, God is restoring years in proportion to what you have suffered.

Don't rehearse your past; rehearse your hope and expectation. An opportunity for your dreams to come to pass is coming from an unlikely source in a place you have been thrown into by unlawful force.

5.   Hope makes failure out of doors to bring uninterrupted conquest into your life.

"[AND] There I will give her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor [troubling] to be for her a door of hope and expectation And she shall sing there and respond as in the days of her youth and as at the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt." Hosea 2:15

The "Valley of Achor" is called a "door of hope," because immediately after the execution of Achan for his sin, the Lord set Joshua before the people and commanded, "Fear not!"  And from that time Joshua became a dynasty of uninterrupted victory and dominion.  

God told him (in Chapter 1): "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life."

In that season of death and loss you face, God always presents a DOOR OF HOPE to spark a revolution of uninterrupted, authority, power and dominion and conquest in your life. But you must respond and sing in a barren land.

Today, it's time for your dreams to live again.

Find your hope; it is not lost, but hidden in Christ.

It is still possible.  If you obtained success and creative ideas before, YOU CAN DO IT AGAIN.

You may have to change industries, you may have to go back to school; you may have to learn how to sell the years of experience you have as a consultant, but determine within yourself to maximize the areas of influence and experience you have gained.

This is the place of your greatest impact, ministry and success.

JOIN THE REVOLUTION TODAY.