Laurie Hopkins

What is your heart saying today?
If you are not sure, just listen carefully to what is coming out of your mouth.
When we have heart issues our speech changes.
Bitterness, anger, jealousy, discouragement, fatigue; they all sound familiar when we begin to speak.  Those around us know our heart when they encounter our words.
Words have power. 
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21
Words are also a great indicator of the condition of our heart.
 Listen carefully to your words today. 
Do they inspire joy, peace and love? 
Or do they speak of negativity, bitterness and discouragement. 
One cannot hide the issues of the heart from others or from oneself. 
They are a mighty river that flows in and through us and up out of our mouth. 
Words can bring life and refreshing or a raging torrent of destruction. 
Choose carefully.

Hope = to wait in confidence and expectation.
We often use the word hope in a tentative and unsure way……
”I hope it is sunny”,
“I hope things work out”. 
But hope is a word that is filled with confidence and expectation. 
It is not a maybe, but an “I’m sure of.”
And because we often use it as a tentative and unsure word, we hope about things that we already see, rather than hoping about those things we do not see, in confidence. 
What are you hoping for today? 
Is your hope small or big? 
Can you actually see what you are hoping for already (in which case it isn’t really hope)? 
Or are you hoping for those things you know (confidently and in expectancy) that are coming?
Hope should bring comfort and expectation, not worry and hesitancy.
Hope big today!

Hope = to wait in confidence and expectation.
We often use the word hope in a tentative and unsure way……
”I hope it is sunny”,
“I hope things work out”. 
But hope is a word that is filled with confidence and expectation. 
It is not a maybe, but an “I’m sure of.”
And because we often use it as a tentative and unsure word, we hope about things that we already see, rather than hoping about those things we do not see, in confidence. 
What are you hoping for today? 
Is your hope small or big? 
Can you actually see what you are hoping for already (in which case it isn’t really hope)? 
Or are you hoping for those things you know (confidently and in expectancy) that are coming?
Hope should bring comfort and expectation, not worry and hesitancy.
Hope big today!