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Morning by Morning Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays of Messiah Ministries
The Hope that Does Not Disappoint - Morning by Morning, May 23, 2025
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
Written and sent out from the morning prayer time of Tommy Hays each day.
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Morning by Morning, May 23, 2025 - The Hope that Does Not Disappoint
Good morning, Lord Jesus. First things first, as I look to You and listen for Your leading here in these first moments of my morning. ...
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
When our hopes are deferred, our hearts grow sick. Delays produce doubts.
Uncertainties make for insecurities.
These are challenges we face on our daily journey through this broken and fallen world. But they’re also opportunities to shift our perspective and our priorities from the emphasis upon what is temporary to what is eternal, from what is seen to what is unseen.
An old hymn comes to mind right now:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' name
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
When You are my Hope, my hope is not deferred. When You are my Desire, my desire is fulfilled. When You are my Rock, I stand secure.
My Tree of Life is rooted in the One who hung upon the Tree of the Cross that I could live every day in relationship with my God who always loves me, who’s always for me, who’s always with me through every disappointment, through every doubt, through every delay.
With my eyes on You, seeing with Your perspective, Your Spirit is at work within me, within any places in my heart that have grown weary or sick from the hopes deferred or delayed, to even use those frustrations to develop Your character in me:
“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us” (Romans 5:1-5).
Only You can do that. And You can only do that as I keep lifting up my heart to trust in You, to hope in You, to rest in You and Your work in me by Your Spirit You’ve given me. That’s how hope does not disappoint me, because my hope is not in any circumstances, whether fulfilled or not, my hope is in You. My trust is in You. In Your goodness, in Your love, in Your work to develop Your character in me all along the way. My hope is built on nothing less. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.