Daily writing prompt

How do you want to retire?

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Always re-tire. Never retire.

Forget about retiring! I want to re-tire with hope and a never-ending mission. As long as I live, I want to put new tires on my dreams and keep on rolling to encourage and serve other people.

Difficulties can bring hope instead of despair. The hope of the afflicted is to look to the Lord as their refuge. When people can see no human way out of a difficult situation, they either give up and self-destruct, or they begin look intently to God for deliverance. Hurting people who wholeheartedly seek the Lord as their refuge and stronghold are never left in the hopelessness of despair. The Lord sees their affliction and rescues them.

People who God has supernaturally delivered from the angst of affliction, bondage to tormenting thoughts, and enslavement to sin, have personally experienced the risen Jesus as so real and so present that gratitude constantly overflows from their heart. They tell the wonderful things Christ has done and is doing in and through them. They tell how He has overthrown their inner enemies and even erased the memory of their torment. Never-ending gladness runs through their heart like inner rivers, and they sing out praises to His name. They don’t retire; they re-tire!

Your inner media — what you say, hear, and allow in your mind — will raise you up or crush you down. Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice.” Constantly stay tuned in to His hope-filled media. Jesus is so real and so present that you can connect heart-to-heart with Him without going through a religious institution. I believe in non-religious, non-political, and non-proud Christianity that flows like rivers of living water from deep within the heart.

Let hope always abide.
Never allow anything
To override
Christ in you
The hope of glory.
Abound in hope.
Rejoice in hope.
Overflow with hope
And tell Christ’s story
By the power
Of God’s Spirit