My Future (HOPE) Bishop Joel Duncan-Williams 22nd September 2024

Amen.

Ten would be to Acts fourteen and verse eight. Reading

to the ten verse Acts fourteen and verse eight, Acts

fourteen eight. Yes, you may be seen in heavenly places,

and the Bible says, is it on this screen as well?

Okay?

And the Bible says, and in lystra a certain man

without strength in his feet was sitting a cripple from

from his mother's womb, who had never walked. Verse nine.

This man had Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and

seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with

a loud voice, stand up straight on your feet, and

he leaped and he walked.

Amen.

Now this is not part of my message. I'm sharing

this scripture with you because I want you to understand

how important it is to pay attention to the Word

of God when is being preached and to have faith

that God can come through for you. Do you understand

to have faith that God can come through for you?

So when you are listening to preaching, it's not a

time to be lackadaisica, or it's not a time to

sit there with your hands folded, or it's not a

time to sit there as in you are in a

lecture room or in a boardroom. It's time for you

to flow with the word. It's time for you to

say amen. It's time for you to clap your hands.

It's time for you to be excited, because listen, listen,

the Bible says. The Bible says Paul watching him and

seeing that he had faith to be healed. How do

you watch someone and see that the person has faith

to be healed? It means that the person was giving

a response, the person was doing a certain action. The

person had such an innate ability to show on their

face that they were ready to be healed this morning.

Any of you don't need healing, may you find it.

Any of you don't need grace, May you find it.

Any of you do need a new blessing, May you

find it. Any of you don't need an open door,

May you find it. May it locate you in the

name of Jesus. If you believe it, clap your two hands,

shout and say yes Lord. So you have to have

that faith. Look at your neighbor and say have faith,

or say like you meant say have faith? Can you

say like you minute one more time? Say have faith? Amen.

Now I'm preaching a message.

I'm entitled this morning my future, Hope, My future, Hope.

Now turn with me to Jeremiah, chapter thirty one and

verse seventeen in the NLT translation. NLT translation, NLT translation. Beautiful,

there is hope for your future, says the Lord. Your

children will come again to their old land.

Father.

Let the entrance of your wed bring forth illumination. Let

it take us from where we are to where we belong.

And the church shouted and said, amen, or your amen

is true. I can't hear some of you. Your eyes

are on your phone. I can't hear some of you

say amen.

Amen.

All right, lovely, So it says there is hope for

your future.

Now. Hope is very important.

Because without hope, you can't have a bright future. Without hope,

your future cannot be bright because it takes hope for

you to get to your future. You have to have

hope to get to your future. You have to have

hope to make it. Every day. You have to have

hope to make it. Every week. You have to have

hope to make it. Every month. You have to have

hope to make it every year. It takes hope to

hold on. It takes hope to hold on. You cannot

just you cannot just go about life like that. You

must go about life with hope. Look at your neighbor

and say hope. Now, a few things I want you

to understand. Let's define the word hope so you understand it.

Let's define the word hope so you understand it. Hope

from Merriam Webster's dictionary is to cherish a desire with

anticipation to make something happen. And from the Baker's Evangelical dictionary,

hope means to trust in, to wait for, desire something,

to expect something benefit in the future. And I say,

hope is the expectation of something that is yet to come.

Hope is the expectation of something that is yet to come. Amen, Oh,

I said amen. Now let's go to Job fourteen and

verse seven. For the Bible says King James Virgin. For

the Bible says, for there is a hope of a tree,

if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,

and that their tender branch thereof will not cease. You

have to understand, as a spiritual being living a physical experience,

and not as a physical living a spiritual experience, that

things happen in this life. Things happen in life, and

one of the first people to give up on you

when something happens in this life and it's unfortunate are Christians.

They become judgmental, They set you aside in righteousness. They say, oh,

I'm better than this person, So I don't want to

associate myself with them. How will I look if I

associate with such a person. They are the first to

cut you off, first to cut you off. But what

I want you to understand is that situations arise in

this life that make you look like you have fallen.

The other day David said, how is it that day

that hates me have increased? But Lord, b dow Lord,

that's dow Lord, that's dour lord. If you've if you've studied,

if you've studied English, you know that. But is a contradiction.

It's a contradiction. It contradicts two things. So he said,

how have my enemies increased? Then he said, but dowur Lord,

which means that God is there for you, whether your

enemies increased or not. The more the more enemies, the

more God. The more enemies, the more God, and the

more situations you go through, the more God is there

for you. Are you okay? The more God is there

for you? Are you listening? So so when the Bible

says that for there is hope for a tree, it

means that whether the tree is cut or not, there

is your hope for it. Meaning there's still second chances,

meaning there's still their chances, meaning there's still fourth chances,

meaning there's still fit chances, meaning there are still six chances.

There are ten chances available. A believer is not cut

off when they fall. That's why the sum is said.

A saint is a sinner who fell down but got

back up again. It's not about when you fail or

how you fail, or what made you feel. It's your

ability to get back up again. You didn't hear what

I said, It's your ability to get back up again.

If you can fall and get back up, that is

the test. The test is getting back up. The test

is not lying in your mess, because every test translates

into a testimony, and every mess becomes a message. So

if you are in a situation, it's not staying there,

but it's getting out of it, rising out of the

mess to make it a message, and turning that test

into a testimony. So you have to understand that there's

hope for the believer. There's hope for the believer. There's

hope for The Bible says, if it be cut down,

that it will sprout again. It didn't say it's me.

It didn't say it can. It didn't say it possibly will.

He said, if it is cut down, it will sprout again.

Can I announce to you that you are about to

sprout again? Or your aimen is too weak? Can I

announce to you that you are about to sprout again?

Can I announce to you that you are about to

have a better testimony, a better blessing, a better open door,

a better future. If you believe it, clap your two

hours and shall and say yes.

Lord, Now watch this.

I want to bring this in here just a little bit,

even though it's not my message.

I want to bring it in just a little bit. Now.

The Bible says that faith without works is dead. Then

the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word of God.

Now what feeds.

Your faith for your faith, to feed your hope is.

To hear the word of God.

It's what you hear, And especially when you are going

through troubling situations, what you hear is very important. What

you hear determines how you come out of what you

are going through. It's what you hear if you are listening,

like when somebody gets a broken hat, have you had

a broken hearts before?

When somebody gets a broken heart?

And and what do you call it?

And where's.

When somebody gets a broken heart and they keep listening

to R and B and to blues and to sad music,

you will see that there's the sadness of their broken

hearts can't lift off of them. It becomes heavier, it

becomes heavier, and it's because of what they are listening to.

It's because of what they are listening to. What you

listen to in.

The times of despair is very important for your hope

because if you don't believe that there's hope for you,

it means that you've lost all possibility and chances for

your future. Because hope is there to remind you about

your future future and hope, future and hope, future and hope,

future and hope, future and hope, faith, past, present, continuous

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and hope, future and hope, future and hope. It means

that if you lose sight of your hope, you lose

sight of your future. But if you hold onto your hope,

you have you have hope for your Oh, come on

and say, like I'm preaching. Yeah, if you lose sight

of your hope, you lose sight of your future. And

it doesn't matter what is going on with the economy

or what is going on with the government.

That does not determine your hope. Your hope is.

Determined by the word of God. Go back to go

back to the scripture we were on job job fourteen.

Go back to job fourteen. It says, for there is

hope of a tree if it be cut down.

Let me ask you, let me let me ask a

question this morning, and just wave at me. How many

of you have have have been here? You even let

me ask the question, You even let me ask the question.

This is already how many of you have been hit before?

You've been hit before, you've been cut before, you've been

I like the way you're saying it. You've been cut before. Good.

That should show you that there's hope for you. There's

hope for you because you didn't remain where you were,

You didn't stay there, did you stay there.

You didn't stay there. You are now here.

And you see what it does is that when you

are cuts, or when you are broken, or when your

faith has been tested, or when you lose sight of

your hope. What you don't realize is that it shapes

your future. It shapes your future. It shames how you relate.

It shaves how you behave. How I behave now is

not how I behave two years ago. What I've been

through has given me a different perspective on how to behave,

and how to act, and how to preach, and how

to teach, and how to pray and how to move.

It has given me a different perspective. The perspective is different.

If you don't go through situations, your perspective cannot be shaped.

You must go through a situation to shape your perspective.

Look at you never say shape that perspective.

Shape it.

Why do you go to the gym because you want

to shape your body? You go to the gym because

you want to shape your body.

Six pack, yes, six pack, and fifty.

Inchest and the biceps and the trices and the deltoids.

You go because you want to work out all of

these things. And you want to look like a Coca

cola bottle. So you go to the gym.

What that is?

Coca cola fan towels? Right, they are so save ale bottle.

They all look the same.

Amen.

Now, I want to give you this scripture, and I'll

continue the message next week. I want to give you

this scripture and I'll continue the message next week. Jeremiah

twenty nine and verse eleven n IV. The Bible says,

The Bible says, for I know the plans I have

for you, declares the Lord plans to prosper you and

not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and

a future, plans to give you.

And a.

Hobe goes with hope, goes with hope, goes with not

my words the word of God, not my words the

word of God. It says, for let's declare this. Rise

upon your feet, Rise upon your feet. Let's declare the

scripture together. Let's declare the scripture together. One, two, three,

go For I know you may be seated, So watch this,

watch this. The Bible says that God is not a

man that he should lie, nor the son of a

man that he should repent. God is telling you that

I have a future for you. Just have hope in

that future. If God has told you he has a

future for you, how many how many of you believe?

How many of you believe that if I me, as

a mortal man the way I am, if I want

to help somebody and change their future, I can help them.

How many of you believe that I can help the person?

Now this is not a master because you see, some

men are willing, but they are not able, and some

When I say man, I'm talking about men and women. Now,

some men are willing and they are not able. And

some men are able, but they are not willing. But

your God is able and willing to do exceedingly abundantly above.

Do you get what I'm saying?

So your God is able and willing to do exceedingly

abundantly above. And the same God is telling you that

I have plans for you. I have plans at about you.

Do you know the great thing about plans? The great

thing about plans, If you ask any great architect or engineer,

or the people who drop plans they are called word architects.

If you ask any of them. The beautiful thing about

a plan is that after you've designed it, you've designed it.

You can always stop, erase part of it and redesign it.

You didn't get what I just said. You didn't get

what I just said. I said.

The beautiful thing about a plan is that after designing it,

you can get to a point where you say that

this no longer fits in the plan, or I want

the plan to look nicer than this, So you can

erase a portion of it. As a matter of fact,

you can scrap the whole thing and start all over again.

You redesign what you have already designed. Love riches Wow.

So if God is the architect and he is holding

your plan in his hand, he can always redesign.

He can always reorchestraight Listen.

The Bible says that Jesus must need go through Samaria.

Jesus must need.

Is a necessity that he goes through Samaria. Some of

the things we go through in life. One of these

days i'll share my testimony. You cry for me. You

love to hear. One of the things that is important

in this life is that you are allowed to go

through situations. Like I said earlier, it shapes you, just

like how their shape wear for.

Men and women. You can wear.

You can wear something that shapes you. There's situations you

go through in life also shape you.

They also shape you. They also shape you.

And it's very important that you allow yourself to be shaped,

because if you don't allow yourself to be shaped, you

miss certain things.

You will miss a lot of things. There are so

many things that are.

Not important to me anymore, so many things I don't

get myself into, so many things I don't do because

my perspective has been shaped. It's been shaped, It's been

shaped a particular way. When you allow God to shape

your perspective, there's a brighter hope for your future. Because

because listen and I want to end with this and

I'll continue next week. You can never forget. You can

never forget, and please pay attention here. I want you

to get this. I don't want you to miss this.

You can never forget that the same God who is

yesterday is today, and it's tomorrow and it's forever, and

that is your future.

And that same God.

That same God says I have plans for you, I

have hope and a future for you. If he said

it yesterday, it means that you will continue today. It

means that you saying to it tomorrow and it means

that you will shape your future. Please rise up on

your feet. I want to ask to prayer prayer as

many of you that have lost hope, you've lost hope,

Come and feel this order.

I want to pray for you.

You've lost hope, Come and feel this order.

I want to pray for you. It's not a bad thing. This.

Don't never forget. There's certain man at Lystra.

There's certain man at Lystra who was crippled, but he

had faith.

To be healed. Come and feel the order. I want

to pray. You've lost your hope, hope you come back.

Your hope will come back. Your hope will return. Your

hope will come back. Your hope will return.

Your hope will your hope will return, Your hope will

come back.

You know your hope will return. Listen to me saying this,

with me saying the name of Jesus, in.

The name of Jese, I decree, I decree, and I declare,

and I declare by prayer, by prayer, that I have.

Hope, that I have hope, My hope, my hope is intact.

It's in say any hope.

Any hope I've lost I have lost, I redeem it

I redeem it right now, right now, by the blood,

by the blood of Jesus of say, let my hope,

let my hope periodee period deem, say let my home,

Let my hope be rescued, rescue, let my home, let

my hope. You come be, come hold again, hold again your.

Voice and say, can't tell your bob.

Yeah ba sha ballad my God, Yeah shah bah blah

blah blah shandy b yeahkah blah blah blah. Here, Sapa

la ba dador shana Maga dad a, yeah, pa lah

blah blah blah, Yeah, Pa la dama. Somebody are dudes

yah pallah bador shana blah blahdah. Let that be a

revival of Hope's Sapallo Shanna da manse a yah palla

na no sa la da da Here Sapa tell him

yeah blah blah blah blah lah dah blah, hope become

home again. Yeah, Cato shan he Cato shan Memosa he

come brassa yeah, tella da manah heh Sapa blah blah

blah blah, Yeah tell h badah blah, Yeah, party a

pre yeah parlah ma na nah Yeah, ba lahna na

na partly a pen there, Yeah, siply, I tell you

the death rah ba blah blah blah blah. Yeah pla

ma nahmah yeah ba lah blah blah blah. Here's somebody

a pre appolha man there, here's somebody to you.

Yeah ma lahlah blaha.

Red cast your dead Hya sipah, lad our hopy reviveld our,

hope revived, ladder hope, revive one more time in the

name of Jesus.

Lad O HOPI revived, hop revived. He's somebody Jesus in

the name of Jesus. That's all.

See right now, right now, I decree, I decree, and

I declare, and I declare.

My hope, my hope is revived. It's revived its strang's strength.

It's brought back.

It's brought by a life, a life wherever wherever I lost,

I lost, I hope my hope and I left and

I left. See I did degree my degree. I declare

right now, right now, I pick it, I pick it

back up, back up, I rest I restore my hope,

my hope, let my lett my hope. You refine her

revived straight best straightening, lift up your high sip la gada,

learn my hooper, revive, Let our hoopy revive, let our

homer sweating lista teller baddy a p here's somebody my

love body.

Gotta tell a a palah blah blah blah.

Wherever I left my home, let it come back sea

bady up there, I break it up one more.

Time, and that what Jesus.

Yeah, here come Paddy ada here somebody up here lah

blah blah blah blah. You tell no no man, y're bill,

you'll tell the many a prom you have pa da badah.

Here's somebody about your panda my nay para ma nama, Yeah,

paramadada pasa ma na na yah Paddy all to let

I hope you revive, revive a hoop, revive ola hoop.

I see money a pa padiah badah blah. By the

blood of the common, let our hope you revive seebody

a doors.

Here's some blah blah blah blah.

Yeah, dalla YadA he co pa la my norm here's

somebody to her. I'm pallah blah blah. Yeah, old lady,

I tell yeah, shut shut in, I decree and I

declare over your life in an imoti. Prophetically, yeslow that

your hope.

Yeslow has been restored in an imotis that's your hope.

Yeslow has been revived in an amotation. That's your hope.

Yes love has been strength in an emoti. Go ahead,

believe God, Amen, and you will have your amen in

Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Are you clapping your heads

and giving God embrace? M hm. Now we've reached a

very crucial point.

In today's administration, and I want to ask as many

of you that have not given your lives to Christ

to come and let me pray for you, because there

is no hope and there's no future without first accepting Christ.

There's nothing to be ashamed about. There's nothing to be

ashamed about. If you've not accepted Christ as your Lord

and savior. Please come, let me pray for you. Please come,

let me pray for you. If you are coming, please come.

If you are coming, please come. If you are coming,

please come. If you are coming, please come, If you

are coming, please come. All right, say this prayer after me,

Say Father, today, I give you my life. Say Father,

I no longer want to say and have a wayward life.

Say Father, I give you my life today.

I give it to you.

I degree and I declare by prayer, but I believe

in you. Use me, feel me, direct me, show me

the way in Jesus' name.

Amen. Well, if you send that.

Prayer and you believed it, I want you to know

that you've given your life to Christ, and I want

you to know that Christ is there for you.

And I want you to know that.

I want you to know that God will be there

for you, and God has a hope and has a

future for you.

Never forget my future, my hope, my future. Amen. We

see that in heavenly places,