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Day 1: Get Your Hopes Up (Introduction) 
Day 2: The Three Most Powerful Forces in the Universe (Ephesians 2:12)
Day 3: It Matters Which Hope You Choose (Philippians 1:20)
Day 4: Painting an Inner Image (Hebrews 11:1)
Day 5: Imaginations (Psalm 146:5) 
Day 6: Trusting God (Isaiah 43:26) 
Day 7: Taming the Tongue (Hebrews 4:14)
Day 8: Break Through Barriers (2 Thessalonians2:16-17) 
Day 9: Love Is Power (1 John 4:8) 
Day 10: Defeating Giants (Romans 15:13) 
Day 11: Launch the Counterattack (Romans 15:4) 
Day 12: Hope Set Before Us (Proverbs 13:12) 
It’s THE Way of Life (Guide) 
Prayer of Salvation/Recommitment 

Day 2
​The Three Most Powerful Forces In the Universe
“In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.” Ephesians 2:12 (NLT)

If you’ve received Jesus as your Savior and LORD, then you now have—residing within you—three of the most powerful forces in the universe. These forces have the power to change any circumstance and revolutionize your life.

What are these forces? They’re faith, hope and love.

Let’s look at how they work together.
First, “God is Love” (1 John 4:8). He is the Great Creator of the universe and all that’s in it.

He  loves you, and He’s given you and all believers— the “measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). That faith works by love (Galatians 5:6). So, no love, no faith. And since faith is “the substance of things hoped for” (Hebrews 11:1), you can see how these three—faith, hope and love—are interdependent and inseparable.

It all starts with believing the love God has for you (1 John 4:16). You have to receive it by faith.

How can you grow in the knowledge of Him who loves you? God has given you His eternal WORD— the very power that created the universe.

When you believe and meditate on it, or think about it, and grow in the knowledge of the One who wrote it, His WORD will create images of success and victory inside you that we call hope.

Once those images are formed, and you believe you receive them, faith goes to work to bring them from the spiritual realm into the natural realm.

So, that’s why getting your hopes up is so important.

Those three eternal forces run the entire kingdom of God, and without hope, faith has nowhere to go
—no goal for the substance of faith to enter into
—to bring to pass the things you desire. Hope has the power to change things-it is the blueprint for your faith!

That is precisely why the enemy would love to convince you that you are hopeless. He would like to render your faith useless. Hope is the goal- setter of faith. Without it, faith has no substance to produce.

The devil will tell you that because you don’t have enough education, money or opportunity, there is no hope for you.

That’s a lie! Hopelessness comes from being without real, Bible hope and without God in the world. However, if you’re a child of God, you can never be truly hopeless.

First Peter 1:3 tells us, “BLESSED be the God and Faither of our LORD Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (NKJV).

• When you accepted Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior, you received within you the spiritual forces of faith, hope and love.

Your hope may be small or weak. It may be hiding deep within you. But it’s there, and if you want it to do anything for you, you must build it.

So, make the decision to build up the hope within you. Give it something to operate on.

Just like a gas grill only heats up when you attach it to a fuel source, hope can only grow when it’s connected to The WORD.

Points of Hope:
•  These three work together to make it possible for you to receive everything God promised.
•  God is Love. He loves you. He gives the gift of hope and faith at the point of salvation.
• Hope is ignited when we accept the fact that the promises of God are for us today.
•  Faith gets stirred up as we meditate on God’s
•  WORD and expect Him to fulfill what He promised.
•  Hopelessness is a lie of the enemy to render your faith useless.
•  As a child of God, you always have hope—it comes from His WORD.
•  Your confidence in it may need to grow, but hope is there. It just needs to be strengthened with The WORD of God.

The problems staring you in the face today may be real, but you are still not hopeless. God’s truth always supersedes physical circumstances.

There’s no problem that’s any match for the eternal, overcoming power of God’s WORD and the dynamic hope living inside you.

As you ignite that hope, you’ll build that blueprint for your faith and see just how much your heavenly Father has for you.

Prayer:
Father, I trust in You and thank You for giving me the forces of faith, hope and love in my inner man. Thank You that You are leading and guiding me in Your WORD.

I declare by faith that I am growing in my understanding of these forces in my human spirit and how to walk in them every day. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Paint the Picture (Journaling):
Have you faced hopelessness? How does it change things to know you are never without hope?

What does it mean to you to have the forces of faith, hope and love given to you? How will you use your hope?

Old Testament Scriptures On Faith
1.   Habakkuk 2:4
"Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness."

2.  Psalm 37:5
"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this." 

On Love
"See, the enemy is puEed up; his desires are not upright—but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness."

3.  Genesis 15:6

4.  Deuteronomy 6:5
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."

5.  Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs."

6.   Micah 6:8
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." 

New Testament Scriptures On Faith
1.  Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."

2.  Romans 10:17
"In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

3.  2 Corinthians 5:7
"For we live by faith, not by sight." "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ."

4.  Ephesians 2:8
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."

6.  James 2:17

7.   Galatians 2:20
"I  have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

On Love
8.  1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

9.  John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

10.  1 John 4:7-8
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

11.  Romans 12:9-10
what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."

13.   Colossians 3:14
"And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
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14.  Ephesians 4:2
"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."