"When I look at your future all I see is HOPE…" The words of the Lord reverberated in my spirit. "…ALL I see is hope." All that the Lord sees is hope. Hope for me. Hope that fills my future. Nothing, but hope.
I wish I could say the same hope constantly overflowed in me, but it's definitely something I have to fight for. My heart identifies so much with Abraham (yes, he's my favorite Bible character). Abraham was a man of great faith, but he also had to fight to hold on to that faith. It was a battle. The Lord kept coming back to Abraham to remind him of the Promise. Abraham believed and then doubted. He held to the Promise and then slept with Hagar trying to bring about it's completion in his own way. Belief followed by doubt and control followed by reassurance of the Promise and back to belief. That's my story too. I want to constantly soar in hope, but it seems to be a fight for my heart. Battling to believe. Walking in faith. My 
heart faltering in the waiting. Needing to hear from Him again.
And yet with this battle in my heart the Lord comes to me and tells me that the only thing He sees for me is HOPE. So I began to probe the Lord… why? How do You see nothing, but hope in my future and I can't always see it? His response to me: "The reason that all I can see is hope when I look into your future is because I know the fullness of the anointing on your life. I know the inheritance that I am giving you. I know exactly who you are becoming. When you know the fullness of your inheritance and anointing, you will see nothing, but HOPE and soar in that."
The Lord has been showing me more and more how intimately hope and inheritance are connected. Isaiah says, "Instead of their shame My people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs." -Isaiah 61:7 Understanding inheritance is key. Inheritance is the antidote to shame, to the fear of disgrace. It is knowing the fullness of my inheritance as a beloved daughter that releases HOPE in my spirit.
"Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory." -Romans 8:17
We need to begin to understand our inheritance as His sons and daughters, to trust in the faithfulness of Him who has promised, and to walk in the beautiful hope that springs forth from His steadfast Promises.
