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Building an Empire of Hope

With My Dying Breath

Dylan BatesDecember 5, 2018

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Dylan BatesDecember 5, 2018

Ben Courson

Ben Courson is founder of Hope Generation, host of a global TV program airing in 180+ countries and national radio program, a best selling author of the book “Optimisfits” and an international speaker based out of Applegate Christian Fellowship.

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Speaking alongside my friend @biancaolthoff yesterday in Los Angeles to these amazing singles in Montebello! If you’re reading this and you’re single, do what Adam did when God gave him Eve: take a nap! God wasn’t just a Maker but a Match Maker! It was when Boaz was snoozing on a grain heap that God gave him Ruth. Don’t stress. Sleep. Enter the rest, because God didn’t put desires in your heart to frustrate you but to fulfill you. When you rest, God will go to work. If you’re in a storm of solitude, do like Jesus and sleep in the ship - because you WILL get to the other side, to your destiny.

@greglaurie is one of my favorite mentors and friends. Last night meant so much as he continued to pour into me. Our time together always leaves me edified. Hearing him talk buoys my hope: his heart for this next generation is a thing to behold. The mark he’s made on this world is astounding, and his gift as a communicator - his relaxed concentration, flawless cadence, conviction combined with charm, content creation, artistic sensibilities, disciplined restraint, humor, Bible insight, his uncanny ability to make mastery look easy, etc - marks him as one of the greats of our time. As a student, I love watching Greg do things as a speaker that are just brilliant and yet also nuanced and tastefully subtle - he’s an endless reservoir of wisdom for students who are interested in dissecting the craft of communication. I’m thankful to have him as a teacher. Make sure you hear him speak at Angels Stadium August 23-25 for this summer’s California harvest crusade! And one more thing, my dear hope generators: keep surrounding yourself with teachers and mentors who will help unfold you into the very image of God the Lord created you to be all along! 📸 @jarridwilson

Speaking last night yewwww! The Optimisfits Book Tour continues! Love you Refuge Huntington Beach! I taught these #Optimisfits the great command of Paul. He told us to be “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;” (Romans 12:12) Not a bad way to live your life ;) Be FROTHY about your hope, wait out your suffering like a heroicStoic, and keep breathing the name YHWH today! Next speaking stops: Radio Interview and K Wave pastors perspective today, FCA Friday, San Diego Saturday, and Montebello this weekend! Check out the Hope Generation App for deets!

#deltacovibes 📸 by @can_seco

If you’re suffering an identity crisis because you have been abused, or labeled, or had your name dragged through the mud, this can not only make your psyche sick but your body too. Emotions and their biological components establish the vital link between the mind and the body. For instance, if you were sexually abused as a child or repeatedly abused by someone at the workplace, all the thoughts associated with those experiences will release NEGATIVE CHEMICALS. These chemicals travel through your body and can change the shape of the receptors on cells lining your heart, thereby increasing your susceptibility to cardiovascular illness.

Save yourself a heart attack. Vent those deleterious emotions and get catharsis in the presence of God and affirming friends. Don’t let the cruel things others have done to you make you believe you’re as low as they’ve treated you. You are NOT damaged goods just because people made you feel like you are. They made fun of Jesus and mocked him while brutally murdering him, scourging him like a guilty convict, but that only made him MORE of a hero!

When others abuse us, label us, or bully us, that makes us no less a child of God!

J O Y 🤙🏻 “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 ‭

#coolestnephewever 🤙🏻
Children have their head in the clouds, and are free of anxiety and depression because the joy of the Holy Ghost - which is the kingdom within them - gives them a profound sense of liberty, for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. The carefree days of being a kid are upon us, we are FREE FREE FREE! Jesus said in Luke 4:18 he had come to free captives and liberate prisoners...but those are two different categories. Captives are INNOCENTS who may have fought heroically but were captured in war. Conversely prisoners are GUILTY of a crime and so are incarcerated for the safety of society. Jesus came to free BOTH! Maybe you’re guilty of a crime. He can bring you back to the age of innocence. Or maybe your colored history is on the opposite side of the spectrum and you did nothing wrong but were abused as a kid and grew up too fast...ah! but he who was anointed to free the captives can anoint you with pixie dust! Neverland bids us come! Who says we have to grow up? As G.K. Chesterton said: we have sinned and grown old but the Ancient of Days is younger than we! We refuse to be a grown up - which is another way of saying we refuse to let our hearts die.

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