Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13.
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God is disposed, delighted and ready to share his eternal abode with us as Christ also made it known (fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Luke 12:32-34) to us to be in heaven to prepare a place for us, and to come back to receive us unto himself into the kingdom prepared for our inheritance from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34.
Adam lost it in the fall at the Garden, but Christ secured it back by for us through his atonement death and resurrection from the dead. You must be born again to enter and to inherit the kingdom of God: you must become a new creature in Christ to qualify for this eternal kingdom. 2 Corinthians 5:17. Why should anyone doubt the possibility, necessity and the present transformation of the new birth as Christ recommended it (but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13), even as Nicodemus once raised the question of the possibilities of a changed life and changed course of life before the Lord when he asked the Lord, how could this be? John 3:1-9. Note: it is not in vain that the scriptures warn us to walk in the Spirit if we live in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25) because everything in the kingdom worth of eternal value must commence by, or with the Holy Spirit, and it should continue by the Holy Spirit, and with the Holy Spirit if we are to remain or abide in Christ, and shall be completed by the eternal Spirit according to the power whereby God is able to subdue all things unto himself when he shall change our vile bodies to be fashioned like unto our Lord glorious body.
Many of us reading this article today were once alienated and enemies of God in our mind by sinful, carnal and wicked works before the reconciliation with God through the blood of the everlasting covenant of our Lord Jesus Christ to make us at peace to have fellowship with the heavenly Father. Are we not love by God because of Christ? Are we not called by his name? 1 John 3:1. Our spiritual eyes which was once blinded by sin and the god of this world (and Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, are we blind also?  Jesus said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, we see; therefore your sin remains. John 9: 39-41. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4) are now open to see thorough the mercy of God, whereby he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life? Titus 3: 5-7.
Now, we have come to know and believe in the love God has for us as we are rejoicing daily that our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life in heaven. How shall we escape the wrath to come, if we continue not in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which we have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven? Colossians 1:23. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? Hebrews 2:3-4.  
The law of spiritual equivalent proportion is revealed by Christ when he says, blessed are those who thirst and hunger after righteousness, they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6. If you give yourself continually to the word of God and prayer, you will be filled with God and be filled with the life which is in the word of God- in him was life. If you give yourself to the pursuant of righteousness in Christ Jesus, you can be sure of increasing peace from the God of your righteousness because righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psalms 85:10. Whatsoever you give yourself to, or whatsoever you devout your time for is going to shape your outward expression, pursuit and longing. If you give yourself to nothing worthwhile in the Lord, you’ll be filled with demons; be careful to lay hold of eternal life by following after righteousness, charity, faith and peace along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart: and as you follow those things, you will be filled increasing and abounding in them through the power of the Spirit of God given unto eternal life. Matthew 12:43-45. 2 Timothy 2:22. What is the joy of a hypocrite though he has gained? Sorrow and vexation of spirit is the portion of sinners and the hypocrites in Zion as their heart fret against the Lord. Proverbs 19:3. The scripture says you should serve the Lord with gladness (Psalms 100:2), but if you are not walking righteously, you can’t have the joy of the Lord because it is the blessing exclusively reserved for the righteous man to sing and rejoice: in the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Proverbs 29:6.  
Have you seen anyone of this world with great financial investment whose bonds and riches has increased and was not happy? If your treasure is not lay in heaven where it should be laid up, it means that your heart is in the wrong place and direction, and your joy in the Lord would certainly wither as the moth and rust with time, would corrupt them, and thieves shall break in to steal continually: how possible are you going to be joyful in hope (Romans 12:12) for the inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you (1 Peter 1:4) when all that you are laboring for is kept under the sun? Even then shall your joy of salvation be replaced by the earthly losses you have incurred unto yourself by your wrong choice, investment, priority and pursuit. Is the Lord’s love not better than wine, gold and silver? For what cause or worldly exchange should anyone who has truly tasted the goodness and sweetness of Christ allowed the joy, peace and faith of first encounter to wither away than to be grounded and rooted in the love, faith and the word of God (Mark 4:17), so that they might be increasing filled with peace with God and joy in believing through the power of the Holy Ghost to the end, if they are indeed keeping themselves in the love of God and in the patient waiting for Christ? Jude 1:20-21.
Now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed as we witness the predicting events in the world unfolding just as the scriptures says; let us therefore lift up our eyes and rejoice because our redemption draws near: to keep praying to hasten the day of the Lord’s return. Christ is in heaven to prepare a place for us, having leave and given us his peace, not as the world gives: let not your heart be troubled by any of the evil and turmoil in the world. Why on earth for such a little time left should any of the Lord’s brethren should cast away such confidence which has a great and eternal recompense of reward for all that they’ve gone through so far? For what reason should the future eternal joy (whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:8-9) and hope which is presently deposited in us by the Spirit of God should wane or dwindle as we await Jesus Christ whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began? Acts 3:21.
Righteousness, peace and joy are the totality of the kingdom of God: none is acceptable to God; neither can anyone be approved of men in his piety if he is deficient in any of these three virtues. Romans 14:17-18. If we give in to any of the outward pressure and distraction of the world and Satan, instead of looking up on high to find grace to continue instant in prayer that his kingdom should come: to look within us as we draw peace and joy from the well of salvation (who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:5) embed in us to help, teach, instruct and guide us into all truth safely unto the end: to search and look intently into the scripture for increasing hope (faith) in believing if we are not to lose the joy and peace in believing.
You that were once without Christ, having no hope, and without God in the world (Ephesians 2:12) are now saved by hope (in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie has promised before the foundation of the world. Titus 1:2), but hope that is seen is not hope (Romans 8: 24-25): for what a man sees, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it by keeping the way of the Lord, and not wickedly departing from it: not staggering at the promises of God through unbelief, but to hope against hope like our father Abraham was fully persuaded in the promises of God, praising and thanking him for the promises until the time fullness of time they were fulfilled: so should we continue in doing the will of God, and be grateful for our eternal salvation in every situation, until he admit and welcome us into his eternal kingdom. Romans 4: 17-21. Hebrews 6:13-15. See that you keep growing in the Lord to become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught from the beginning. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done (Colossians 2:6-7) as the attestation of your salvation and demonstration of the assurance of the love of God in the appreciation of the new birth, a new perspective of life for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven (blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3), with the guarantee of his Holy Spirit which was deposited in you until the redemption of the purchased possession. Ephesians 1:14.
Did you receive the Holy Ghost when you believed? Acts 19:2. How is your love in the Spirit – its measure and fullness? Colossians 1:8. How is your fellowship with the Holy Spirit? 2 Corinthians 13:14. The answers to Apostle Paul’s prayer are in the Holy Ghost that dwells in you as he implores God that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. How is your walk in the Spirit? How is your daily labor and mindfulness to cultivate all fruit of the Spirit in your daily walk? Galatians 5:22-23. None: none can and will ever go back to the world of sin and darkness if they indeed are walking in the fruit of the Spirit, having crucified the affection with the flesh and lusts: the faith and peace to believe to the end are in the fruit of the Spirit you are expected to labor to grow, re-produced and to share or demonstrate before others that you may abound or increase in hope through the power of Holy Ghost while awaiting Christ second and sudden return. Do you keep the meekness of Christ and walk daily in humbleness of spirit like your Lord was meek and lowly in heart? The meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 29:19. Believer’s are to be strengthened with might by God’s Spirit in the inner man (Ephesians 3:16); but if you are not putting on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him to live and walk in the Spirit, you may end up believing in vain, having began in the Spirit to be made perfect in the flesh. Galatians 3:3-4. Note: any hope of heaven in the manifestation of the works of the flesh without constant walk in the Spirit is a false and delusional hope for heaven. Galatians 5: 16-21. To abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit demand of you to be filled with the Spirit of God on daily basis (a) through meaningful personal devotional time with God (b) through self- disciplined of careful, thoughtful and daily demonstration of the fruit of the Spirit in all your walk (c) and through your practical daily walk in obedience, by bringing every thought in you into captivity into the obedience of Christ in your patient waiting for him. There is nothing to bestir the joy of the spirit more than the joy inspired by the spirit of God after we have done what he ask us to do as we also focus to walk in the fruit of the spirit – joy, by ignoring and despising the dictation of outward pressure and challenges before us. Note: if we should abound in hope of God’s salvation, let us also increase and grow in obedience in his commandments by which we shall assure our hearts before him, able to say like our Lord, the Father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him. John 8:29. Thus the joy of fulfillment and the sense belonging to God in Christ Jesus is increased, including the progressive lively, but not unsubstantiated or futile hope you may have in him if those things are lacking, knowing assuredly that you shall not be ashamed before him at his coming, because you do those things that are pleasing in his sight. God was pleased to declare Christ as his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased because he did everything as commanded and instructed by the Father. None should walk or live contrary to the word of God to believe and hope for heaven afterward: loving demonstration of obedience is required if we are to please God who has called us into fellowship with him through our Lord Christ, even as the Lord humbled himself and became obedient unto the end, even unto death on the cross – Lord, I have hope for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Psalms 119:166.