HOPE IN A HOPELESS GENERATION

1. The most powerful nations were HOPELESS against COVID-19 even as cutting-edge technology is HELPLESS against CLIMATE CHANGE. The glory of human civilization is demystified as the world settles into a NEW NORMAL. There is palpable fear and frustration on many faces, but I have GOOD NEWS for you, “WHEN MEN ARE CAST DOWN, then, then thou shalt say, THERE IS LIFTING UP; and he shall save the HUMBLE PERSON” [Job 22:29] Are you trapped in generational poverty, cast down in sickness, lost your livelihood or devastated by loss of a loved? The situation looks HOPELESS in the face of daunting global DISTRESS, listen, there is HOPE in Jesus Christ, “For there is HOPE FOR A TREE, if it be CUT DOWN, that it will SPROUT AGAIN, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. … Yet THROUGH THE SCENT OF WATER IT WILL BUD, and BRING FORTH boughs like a plant” [Job 14:7-9] HOPE in this HOPELESS GENERATION is the heritage of HEIRS of the
PROMISE made to Abraham “WHO AGAINST HOPE BELIEVED IN HOPE, that he might become the FATHER OF MANY NATIONS,according to that which was spoken, So shall thy SEED be” [Romans 4:18] We 
are the SEED of Abraham through FAITH in Jesus Christ and are BLESSED in Him, notwithstanding the rot in the world, as it is written: "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (Galatians 3:14)

2. The woman in Mark 5:25-34 found HOPE in a HOPELESS SITUATION; she found Jesus Christ after twelve years of sheer agony “And had SUFFERED MANY THINGS of many physicians, and had SPENT ALL THAT SHE HAD, and was nothing bettered, but rather GREW WORSE” [Mark 5:25] When she HEARD Jesus was in town, HOPE was kindled in her; HOPE furnished FAITH and FAITH, a strong determination to break the shackles of HOPELESSNESS, “For she said, If I may TOUCH HIS CLOTHES, I shall be whole” [Mark 5:28] She battled through the crowd and pushed aside detractors to TOUCH Him, “And he said unto her, Daughter, THY FAITH hath made thee whole; go in PEACE, and BE WHOLE OF THY PLAGUE” Mark 5:34] Whatever your situation; are you terribly sick, in prison or about to commit suicide? There is HOPE for you, reach out to Jesus Christ by FAITH right now. As long as that woman was without Christ, she was enslaved to terror of DARKNESS perhaps as you are;
Jesus Christ is the LIGHT of the world, listen to Him “… I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: he that followeth me SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, but shall have the LIGHT OF LIFE” [John 8:12] While that woman in DARKNESS, “SUFFERED MANY THINGS”, including but not restricted to hospitalization, drug addiction, loss of livelihood, diverse fears, demonic afflictions, etc,. Your situation may be worse, notwithstanding, there is HOPE for you in that seemingly HOPELESS SITUATION; the worst offender is welcome to SALVATION in Jesus Christ, as it is written: "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and HIM THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT" (John 6:37) If you will REPENT of your SINS and BELIEVE in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will have PEACE in His SALVATION and experience His glorious LIFE, “… Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest BELIEVE, thou shouldest see the GLORY OF GOD?” [John 11:40]

3. Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, had a decent Jewish upbringing else the Bible would not mention his father’s name, but he was BLIND and a BEGGAR Mark 10:47-52] You know, sometimes, those who know and serve the Lord find themselves in what looks a HOPELESS SITUATION but are never ashamed of Christ or lose HOPE in Him because they know He has the solution to their challenges “And HOPE MAKETH NOT ASHAMED; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us” [Romans 5:5] When it seemed all HOPE was lost, Jesus showed up, “And when he HEARD that it was JESUS OF NAZARETH, he began to cry out, and say, JESUS, THOU SON OF DAVID, have mercy on me” [Mark 10:47] Listen closely, whereas the crowd chanted “JESUS OF NAZARETH”, Bartimaeus said “JESUS, SON OF DAVID”. You do not know the difference; the multitudes spoke what they heard from men, Bartimaeus spoke by REVELATION of DEEP THINGS of God pertaining to Jesus Christ, as it is written: “He shall be GREAT, and shall be called the SON OF THE HIGHEST: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of HIS FATHER DAVID” [Luke 1:32] By prophetic utterance, the embers of HOPE in him exploded into flames of FAITH and caught the attention of the Lord, “And JESUS STOOD STILL, and COMMANDED HIM TO BE CALLED. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, RISE; HE CALLETH THEE” [Mark 10:49] No one told Bartimaeus what to say and none spoke for him; as a child of God, I challenge you to dig deep into the depths of Christ in you and speak to that HOPELESS situation. 

4. There was a man at the Pool of Bethesda, sick for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS! His situation was by outward appearance HOPELESS, but he kept HOPE alive, HOPING against HOPE, “For an ANGEL went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity THIRTY and EIGHT YEARS” [John 5:4] This man was there before Jesus was born on earth and HELD ON in PATIENCE, BELIEVING God for his deliverance. As he was at the Pool of Bethesda, rejected and subject to vicissitudes of living in a dying world, I charge you to be PATIENT as he was. PATIENCE is our anchor whose HOPE is in Christ for REDEMPTION in stormy seas of this world, , “For surely THERE IS AN END; and thine EXPECTATION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF” [Proverbs 23:18] As the world staggers from confusion to palpable frustration, our PATIENCE is strengthened by FAITH in His PROMISE of REDEMPTION: “And when THESE THINGS begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP, and lift up your heads; for your REDEMPTION draweth nigh” [Luke 21:28] As the world settle into NEW NORMAL of “THESE THINGS”, I charge you to renew your HOPE in Him, PATIENTLY preparing yourself for His appearance, “For YE HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the PROMISE” [Hebrews 10:36]

5. Finally, if you are not BORN AGAIN, you have neither ACCESS nor HOPE in the SALVATION preached in the name of Jesus. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour today and be established in HOPE of ABUNDANT LIFE, now and in the world to come amen