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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 4 
Painting an Inner Image (Hebrews 11:1) 
 “...the evidence of things we cannot see.” Hebrews 11:1(NLT)

If the inner image you have of yourself and your life isn’t based on The WORD of God, it needs to change. That can only happen by renewing your mind with what God says about you.

For instance, you might say, “I’m stuck. I can’t get anything done. I’m destined to be a failure.” Change what you say about yourself!

Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (NKJV).

It’s time to stop talking like that. Instead of dwelling on your past failures, consider what God says about you.

You are so important to Him that He sent His Son to die for you. That is more real and true than anything anyone has ever said about you!

Your own family may have repeatedly told you that you weren’t worth anything. They were wrong! You are not worthless. You are not a mistake. You are not the sum of your past mistakes. In fact, God says just the opposite.

Psalm 139:14 (KJV) says you were “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
And Luke 12:7 (AMPC) says, “But [even] the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

God knows how many hairs you have on your head! Think about those verses and how precious you are to God. Meditate on them. When thoughts come to your mind that you’re worthless or a disappointment, say things like, “God loves me, and I’m just like Him. I’m successful just like Him. I have the mind of Christ!”

Each of those statements takes the focus off you and puts it on who you were created to be. Say them aloud right now! If you need help knowing how to change the way you think about yourself, begin praying Ephesians 1:16-23, 3:14-21 and Colossians 1:9-14 over yourself daily.

These are powerful, Holy Ghost prayers that the Apostle Paul prayed over his partners. But don’t simply pray them and move on. Study them. Meditate, or think about, them. Begin seeing yourself in them. As you do, God’s WORD will help you change your inner image and silence that negative self-talk.

We’ve already read Hebrews 11:1 in relationship to faith: “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see”(NLT).

The unseen things mentioned here are things seen with the spiritual eyes of hope. Bible hope always “sees” it before the natural eye can. So even though you may not yet see the manifestation of these scriptures in the natural realm, continue to speak The WORD aloud and thank God for bringing them to pass. How you perceive things will change as you meditate on God’s WORD.

Take, for example, two boys whose mother told them to go check the fuel gauge in the car to see if there was enough gas to go to Grandma’s house. Both boys went out and looked at the same fuel gauge. One came back in the house disappointed and said, “Too bad, we can’t go. It’s half empty.”

The other boy Day 4 came in shouting and said, “Get your hat, Mama, and let’s go. It’s half full!” Both boys looked at the same gauge, but their preconceived ideas and the stored information in their minds determined what they saw.

That’s the reason you can’t be moved by what you see. Your perceptions and past experiences (and even past failures) help shape the way your mind perceives and processes things.

It doesn’t always present an accurate picture. Your hope, your inner image, should always be set on God’s WORD—not on someone’s experience or opinion, even your own! Decide, once and for all, that God and His WORD—all of it—can be trusted without exception.

Then anchor your hope in that WORD. While you’re believing for any of God’s promises, you must be anchored to stay steady.

​Otherwise, you will be swayed by everything you see and every wind of change (Ephesians 4:14)— and you’ll have failure all around you. Instead, get into a place of faith produced by the unchanging WORD of God and stay there, anchored by hope.

How do you anchor your hope? You must go to The WORD of God and find the verses that cover your situation. These are the hope seeds that will anchor your soul. “Stand” on them by believing, speaking and acting like they are true, regardless of what your five physical senses are telling you.

As you meditate, or think about, pray and rejoice over the inner image they paint in your spirit, your hope and faith will grow and begin to transcend the “hope-less” picture around you.

Faith comes from your spirit. As you keep God’s promises that cover your situation before your eyes and see yourself with the answer, your faith will rise up and take hold of that answer, and it won’t be long before things turn around.

If you have depended on your natural eye to make decisions and get ahead in life, start changing that today. Begin looking into God’s WORD and seeing yourself through the eye of faith.

Then anchor yourself in hope in The WORD and expect the victory you know you have! Points of Hope:
»  You are not a failure or a disappointment. If you struggle with negative self-talk, it’s time to renew your mind with God’s WORD so you can get His perspective about who you are.
​»  Your mind will tell you what is true and right based on your perceptions and past experiences, but those beliefs aren’t always right.

They are not always the truth according to God’s standards. See yourself through the eye of hope based on God’s WORD, not the natural eye.
»  God’s WORD is the measure of what is true and right. As you study His WORD, your perceptions will begin to line up with The WORD.

»  To anchor your hope:
1. You must go to The WORD of God and find the promises that cover your situation.
2. “Stand” on them by believing, speaking and acting like they are true, regardless of what your five physical senses are telling you.
3. Meditate, or think about, pray and rejoice over the inner image they paint in your spirit. 4. Your faith will take hold of the answer, and it won’t be long before things turn around.

Prayer:
​ Father, I know I have judged situations based on my perceptions and past experiences. I realize that those beliefs are not always correct. Thank You that Your WORD is renewing my mind. Your WORD is alive and working mightily in me. I declare by faith that The WORD I have sown into my heart is producing great victory in every situation of my life! In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Paint the Picture (Journaling):
Have you ever believed something, based on your perceptions or past experiences, which ended up being false?
How does this affect your hope?
​Will you take the time to anchor your hope in God’s WORD, and never let go or give up, until you receive the victory?