Nothing is too big a problem when you figure in the
anointing! So take hold of that anointing by beginning
to expect. Start expecting something good to happen
to you. Lay hold of the hope that’s set before you in
the promises of God.

Don’t be a stranger to those promises. Dig into them,
find out what God has said about your situation.
Then start saying, “I expect it because God promised
it!”

Think about that promise and meditate on it. Let it
build an image inside you until you can see yourself
well…until you can see yourself with your bills paid…
until you can see yourself blessed and prosperous
in every way.

If you’ll do that, you’ll eventually get bigger on the
inside than you are on the outside. Your hope will
grow so strong that the devil himself won’t be able
to beat it out of you.

Most believers never experience that kind of
confident hope because they allow their emotions
to pull them off course. They don’t feel healed or
they don’t feel blessed, so they let the promises slip.

You can avoid that pitfall by anchoring your soul.
Anchor it by becoming a follower of people like
Abraham “who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.” (See Hebrews 6:11-20.)

The Bible says Abraham hoped against hope
(Romans 4:18). He used the hope of the promise of
God to fight against the natural “hope”
(or hopelessness) that told him it would be impossible
for Sarah and him to have a child.

Romans 4:21 says he was “fully persuaded that,
what (God) had promised, he was able also to
perform.” Now, Abraham wasn’t always fully
persuaded. There was a time after God had
promised to give him a child when he asked, “How
can I know these things will happen?”

God answered him by cutting a covenant with him.
Abraham killed the covenant sacrifice animals, split
them down the center, laid the halves opposite
each other and God walked in the blood of those
animals. I believe with all my heart Abraham saw
God’s footprints in that blood.

From then on, Abraham’s soul was anchored. His
mind and emotions couldn’t argue with him. His old,
dead body couldn’t argue with him. His barren wife
couldn’t argue with him. That covenant put an end
to all arguments. From then on, Abraham was fully
persuaded. Fully expectant.

Gloria Copeland