Gloria Copeland — Hope And Healing Part 1

Gloria Copeland

God’s mercy provides us with hope. We must have
hope for our faith to work because faith is the substance
of things hoped for. Without it, our faith has no image to
bring to pass.

Lamentations 3:21-23 says, “This I recall to my mind,
therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are
not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are
new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

Our hope is in recalling that the Lord’s mercy is
renewed every morning. We can place our faith in knowing
that God is faithful to His mercy. Every day when we wake
up, He is there to fall in love with us all over again!

We are to remind ourselves, as the psalmist did in Psalm
103, of the provisions of God’s mercy. The psalmist told his
own soul—his own mind—to remember them. He said:

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord…and forget
not all his benefits. (Then he went on to list the
benefits:) Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who
healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy
life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth
thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is
renewed like the eagle’s.

God causes His mercy to sit as a crown on our heads
and to fill our mouths with good things. As we spend
time praying in tongues, the Holy Ghost will work on the
weaknesses of our flesh and create in us new desires to
which our bodies will respond.

God will build within us the desire to pray, walk in
love and speak the right words with the result that we will
speak out good things—good prayers and good confessions
of faith, mercy and freedom from sin. The filling of our
mouth with good things will then, in turn, produce fruit
according to the things we have spoken, and our youth
will be renewed.

Gloria Copeland

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