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A thought by Christine Caine from her book, Unexpected: Leave Fear Behind, Move Forward in Faith, Embrace the Adventure (p. 112). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And this is something that we need to realize in our battle with hopelessness. Christine says, “We quiet them when we read, believe, and pray the words of Jesus. We quiet them when we listen to God’s voice in Scripture more than the voices of the past, the voices of social media, the voices of other people, or even the voices of our own thoughts. “Staying secured within the fortress walls of hope means taking captive every hopeless thought before it takes us captive: ‘The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.’ 2 Corin

A thought by Christine Caine from her book, Unexpected: Leave Fear Behind, Move Forward in Faith, Embrace the Adventure (p. 108). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And we have a choice. Christine says, “We can choose to fall into the abyss of despair on one side, or into the abyss of hope on the other. Both look like scary choices, but when we choose to fall into hope we soon find ourselves wrapped in the arms of a loving God—a God who always catches us and always promises to carry us from the precipice of despair into the wide-open space of new life. That’s where we find the new opportunities and experiences that get us beyond our disappointments and disillusionment. It is a place of freedom where we let go of what we once wanted in exchange for what we never expected—a new adventure. But we can’t get there by ourselves. Only God can catch and carry us into the new life we never imagined and take us to places we never

A thought by Christine Caine from her book, Unexpected: Leave Fear Behind, Move Forward in Faith, Embrace the Adventure (p. 107). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) This may be what you really needed today.   I’m glad you stopped by. Look at this, Hebrews 10:35 (NIV), “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.” Christine says, “It doesn’t deny the reality of our pain, but it does give us a life beyond our pain. It gives us permission to believe in a new beginning. It is the happy and confident expectation of good that lifts our spirits and dares us to believe for a different future. It is always looking to God with expectation: ‘But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you’ (Psalm 39:7). A prisoner of hope “But when we lose hope, when all we feel is the pain of loss and disappointment, it can be so hard to believe that God wants to help us, or that he cares, because we have mo