Intercessory Prayer Group Post- August 9, 2020 Excerpt from The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children- Stormie Omartian REMEMBER THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE HOPE IN THE LORD Hope keeps us going. It is what gets us up in the morning. It's what keeps us praying. Hope is not wishing on a star for something; it's believing in the promises of God. "Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us" (Romans 5:5). God's love in us inspires hope, which inspires prayer and the faith to believe. The enemy tries to steal our hope about the future with his lies, but we can silence him with the Word of God and find joy in the process. "You have made know to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence" (Acts 2:28). Nothing builds your faith and makes you feel better about the future than reading what God says about it. The Bible says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life" (Proverbs 13:12). If your adult child has become heartsick because her/his desire for the future has been a long time in coming and answered prayer has been delayed, ask God to fill his/her heart with hope in His name, joy in His presence, and comfort in His Word. Jeremiah said that when you trust God and put your hope in Him, you are like a tree planted by the water and your roots spread by the river and therefore you don't have to fear when the heat is on in your life. You don't have to e anxious in a drought (Jeremiah 17:7-8). If you ever have been in a drought, you know how frightening that can be. When you are out of water, you realize what a precious and vital commodity it is, for you have o life without it. When you or your adult children are in a dry place, God will pour out living water on both you and them, and hope will rise in your hearts. Words of Pastor Cochran: "Carry On Children"