Steve Backlund: Hope Fueled by the Power of Holy Spirit (Romans 15:13)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-09-17

Steve Backlund: Hope Fueled by the Power of Holy Spirit (Romans 15:13)
Steve speaks at King of Kings on Sunday, 8/22/2021. Quotes: I began to understand that my hope level was the indicator of whether I was believing truth or lies. Lack of hope was like a check engine light on a car. He showed me Romans 15:13 (Voice),  “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” When is now? "Now may the God of hope fill you." When? Now! “When the Corona virus is over? When political divisions over? Now!”

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John 8:32, "The truth will make you, free." So every area of our life where we believe truth in,
we get free. Every area of our life where we believe lies, we're not free. First I believe truth, I get free first in my emotions, then I get free in my circumstances. I first get restricted in my emotions. Then I get restricted in my experience.

So the battle's really between lies and truth. I'm not really a devil focused Christian, and I know there's times where we've got to deal with the devil, and I know there's people who've got great deliverance ministries which is needed. But the devil's not our biggest problem. If I believe truth, I'm free and if I'm free, it doesn't sound like the devil's bugging me very much.

Even to put on the full armor of God in Ephesians 6; you’ve got to believe something to get those pieces on. So, the battle is between lies and truth. So the question is, how do we know if we're believing a lie? That's the question because the nature of deception is - is that we don't know we're deceived. Once we know we're deceived, we're no longer deceived. 

I was reading a book by Francis Frangipane, called "The Three Battlegrounds", and one of the battlegrounds is the mind. It said something, it just, it changed my life. Matter of fact, our whole ministry Igniting Hope Ministry came out of this. He said, “Every area of your life that doesn't glisten with hope means you're believing a lie. And that area is a stronghold of the devil in your life.” I read that, closed the book, and became instantly discouraged.

I'm trying to find one area where I got hope. I can't find one. This was not a time to change how I believed.  Let's laugh at all these things that were telling me I was a failure. I had a non-successful car. I had a non-successful bank account and salary. My hair was starting to get non-successful. I had a non-successful church size. My home which was a single wide old trailer, sitting next to the church called the Parsonage, was not successful.

Every area that doesn't glisten with hope, means you're believing a lie, and that area is a stronghold of the devil in your life. I know I prayed a dumb prayer: “Oh God, would you show me every lie that I'm believing.” Should NOT have prayed that. Should have prayed, “Lord show me 10 percent of the lies I'm believing.” Because I got a revelation that almost everything I believed in my life was a lie.
I had good doctrine, but bad beliefs.
We need good doctrine.
If you don't get that right, you've got a problem.
The authority of scripture.
Salvation is by grace through faith alone, not of works; that's good doctrine and then there's so many others. 

We can have good Bible doctrine and still be believing lies; still be filled with pessimism, victim mindsets, unworthiness, disappointment, worry, and insecurity. I began to understand that my hope level was the indicator of whether I was believing truth or lies. Lack of hope was like a check engine light on a car. He showed me Romans 15:13, “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

When is now? "Now may the God of hope fill you." When? Now! “When the Corona virus is over?
When political divisions over? Now!” I need to go after how I'm thinking. And I began to understand that, that hope and I'll share a verse here, that'll support that quote.

When you overcome that problem in your life. When your all your family members are doing what you think they should be doing. We don't wait till… it's now. Now may the God of hope fill you. With all joy and peace. And hope's got two buddies who hang out with him. One's called all joy, the other's called peace. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.