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Ivan G Thompson
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Hope Deferred Overcoming Discouragement and Faltering Hope
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
A Search for Hope
In this book, I wrote that I didn’t realize I had slipped into depression. So many people are searching for hope. I wrote about how I was moving so fast and doing so much, even for God, that I didn’t realize I had lost my intimacy with God. God is the source of hope. Romans 15 says He is the God of hope and can cause us to overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Ghost. We get God’s hope as we spend time with God, sit in His presence, and meditate on His Word. This book is available on Amazon in English and in Spanish.
Book Excerpt
Hope Deferred Overcoming Discouragement and Faltering Hope
“Martha and Mary
As they traveled along, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!’
‘Martha, Martha,’ the Lord replied, ‘you are worried and upset about many things. But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.’”
I can have a “Martha” relationship with God that contains so much busyness, even good busyness like Martha’s, that I can’t detect that it is absent of intimacy. In fact, in a Martha-type relationship with God, I can be moving so fast that I can’t tell that I actually have resentment towards God.
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