The Silent Killer

Is Hopelessness

By Bonnie Jones

May 2019

Many times the Lord gives me with a prophetic phrase or caption that literally surprises me and causes me to ponder. Sometimes there’s a knowing in my spirit while other times I need to seek Him for understanding.

Several years ago Bob and I made a teaching CD called Hope – The Invisible Force. I knew when I heard “The Silent Killer is Hopelessness” the Lord was referring to this message. The devil will go to any extent to distract Christians to bring them into a state of hopelessness. Indeed hopelessness is a silent killer. In the natural hypertension is called the silent killer because untreated it can lead to heart attack or stroke. It just sneaks up on you.

In the same way the enemy doesn’t make any big waves, he just gnaws away at our faith one bite at a time. He starts with a little doubt then gradually works unbelief into your thought process getting you to question your salvation. And when that seed is planted he adds a little more so you question your calling in Christ and the work of the cross in you. Before long your faith has wavered and your hope is tottering. You’ve bitten into the lie of the enemy and soon hopelessness has set up in your soul. Like hypertension is to the body, so is hopelessness to the spirit man. The silent killer has struck and you become victim to the enemy.

Love – Faith – Hope

When we got saved we began a love relationship with the Lord. He first loved us and called us unto Himself. We began to abandon our self to Him leaving our self-centered nature behind. Then our spirit man came alive and the Holy Spirit begins to work love into us. God is love (1 John 4:8) and man was created in His image. (Genesis 1:27) Then as we began to read the Bible, the Holy Spirit created faith in us. Love creates faith and faith creates hope.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) And according to 1 Corinthians 13:13 (Amplified) Hope is our confident expectation. Then hope begins to build in your spirit man to bring about revelation. And revelation begins to come into you with its love, faith and hope. Revelation then begins to move on hope by coming into our imagination. Our imagination can be good or bad, sanctified or carnal. The closer we draw near to the Lord and walk in His divine nature, the more sanctified our imagination becomes.

When revelation comes into a sanctified imagination through love, faith and hope, the Holy Spirit transforms that revelation into reality. Because faith (substance) mixed with hope (confident expectation) through Jesus (Love) is creative.  It is in this creative realm of our sanctified imagination where faith, hope and love abide that new body parts are formed, healings take place and curses are broken.

The Imagination Is Our Spiritual Womb

Our imagination is our spiritual womb. It’s the place of conception. What we began to imagine in our mind we can use for good or for evil. So if we have a sanctified imagination we’re able to take that revelation and combine it with the wisdom of the ages, which is our spirit man. Then we’re able to speak it forth and see creative things happen. Years ago the Lord has showed me the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:6  And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. They had an imagination but it was not sanctified. They were moving in a place of pride and were building a tower for themselves not for God. They worked together in unity and it began in their imagination. The Lord showed me that if we use our imagination for good then nothing that we propose to do through Him, through a sanctified imagination and through the wisdom of the ages, He would withhold from us. Why? Because we are in a place of unity with Him. Then when we speak forth that which we have seen with our spiritual eyes in our sanctified imagination, we begin to create it. And as we speak it will be done. It’s only what you hope for that you have the faith to produce. That’s our imagination!

Anchor of Hope

As you mature Christ becomes the anchor of your soul and you remain steadfast in Him when the storms of adversity come. You know the voice of the Shepherd and follow Him not the whispers of the enemy.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, (Hebrews 6:19)

Bob explained our anchor of hope like this. When a hurricane comes at sea the battleships don’t go into port instead they go out and they let their anchor of hope down. Then when the waves come they lift the ship higher and higher. As the waves lift the ship higher you grow closer to God then you ever were before.  Then the ship will come down and take on survivors.  These storms of adversity take place many times during a Christian’s life. This is harvest! When your soul is anchored in hope people don’t give up.  They aren’t going to quit. And if they get a little disease they’re not going to die. They’re going to hope and get healed and get delivered.

Bob said, “ This is what I see for our future. Hope is totally anchored to our soul to where there is no insanity, no wild thoughts and no getting off the path. Just walking the straight and narrow path of hope right into the very presence of the Father and the Son. And to where man can come again and sit down in the presence of the Father.” (Ephesians 2:6)

Antidote for Hopelessness

Proverbs 13:12a says, that hope deferred makes the heart sick, but Jesus said that out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (Luke 6:45b)Therefore if the enemy can bring distractions and get you into agreement with him, soon your hope is delayed. And the more often you delay hopelessness sets in. Then what you speak is birthed out of hopelessness and negativity. It actually becomes a vicious circle because you begin to believe what you’re saying and follow after the dictates of your heart instead of following after the Truth.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. (Jeremiah 17:7)

But the Lord says, “Keep your eyes fixed on Me and trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, instead lean on Me. (Proverbs 3:5) I will guide you into all truth. Sanctify your imagination. Come to Me daily through prayer and supplication and I will teach you My heart and I will commune with you daily. Then you shall remain steadfast and anchored in Me. There is no mountain so high or valley so low that you cannot travel for I am with thee. I am the Christ; I am your Hope of glory. Follow Me! Amen.”

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27)

The silent killer is hopelessness however Christ in you the Hope of glory will trump the devil’s ace every time so remain steadfast in Him! Amen.