Daring to Hope

“Now glory be to God! By His mighty power at work within us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.” Eph 3:20

I just happened upon this verse in my reading and journaling this morning.  The word ‘dare’ jumped off the page.  The Lord showed me this.

There are {at least} 3 realms that God wants to show up:

1. The things we consistently make request for…this is the bottom level of power we expect to see from God.  These things we consistently ask and hope for because its what we do even as infant Christians.

2. The things we make request for and we know it has to be His power to accomplish them…I believe He was saying this is where I (and maybe most Christians stop their expectation).  This is still the level that we comfortable asking and hoping for, even though it is ‘in the realm of the supernatural.’

3. I believe He was saying this is the realm of expectation that most don’t enter into…It is the realm of Him accomplishing more than we would even  ‘dare’ to ask or hope…this is the level that we don’t even feel comfortable asking or hoping for because it seems like too much…either it is too good and we don’t think we deserve it, so we don’t expect Him to move in this realm…or it is too big for us, so we don’t expect to be put in those situations.  Either way, nothing is impossible with God, and therefore we need to begin to move our expectation into this realm of asking and hoping.

“Hope is the joyful expectation of good.” – Bill Johnson (I believe he got this definition from the actual definition of the word we translate ‘hope.’  But, I’m not sure.  Either way, I agree with it completely…Hope equals joyful expectation!

May we DARE in our hope!