Have you ever closed your eyes and imagined something so clearly it felt real?
A breakthrough.
A healing.
A restored relationship.
A long-awaited promise finally fulfilled.
I’m not talking about daydreaming or wishful thinking. I’m talking about the kind of vision that is anchored in God’s Word - a holy imagination shaped by faith. It’s the kind of vision that keeps you going when you’re deep in the valley, holding onto nothing but a whisper of hope.
The Bible calls that hope a gift. One that grows in unlikely soil which is suffering.
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. -- Romans 5:3-5
Let that sink in.
Scripture doesn’t shy away from suffering. Even the saints didn’t. Paul speaks plainly: suffering is real. Even Jesus, the Son of God, suffered. But theres a miracle when suffering meets faith in Christ.
It doesn’t waste away.
It grows into endurance.
And endurance? That’s spiritual stamina. The kind that keeps you praying even when the answer is silence. The kind that helps you walk into the unknown because it knows who’s leading the way.
Character is formed when you’ve seen hard days and still believe God is good. And that strong character? It builds hope. The kind of hope that doesn’t wither when prayers take time to bloom.
Hope that endures is a holy thing. Not naive, not blind. It’s a confident expectation that what God has promised, He will surely bring to pass.
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” -- Hebrews 11:1
What are you hoping for?
Visualize it. Picture it not as maybe one day, but as already taking shape because God is already working behind the scenes.
No, this isn’t “manifestation” or self-help hype. This is faith. This is being rooted in what God says, not what the world says. Visualization becomes powerful when it’s done in Christ and when our eyes both physical and spiritual see the outcome not because we’re trying to will it into being, but because we believe the One who promised.
What you visualize in Christ Jesus will happen.
Let that renew your mind. Let it shape your prayers.
You are not a product of your past. You are not the sum of your failures.
You are a product of your thinking and if your thinking is shaped by the promises of God, then you will become the result of the promises of God.
When Saint Paul was shipwrecked, beaten, imprisoned; he still wrote letters full of hope. Why? Because he had visualised what God was doing even before he saw it. His eyes were on the eternal.
So if you’re in a hard season right now, don’t give up. Your tears are not wasted. God is forming something precious in you through your suffering.
Hold fast.
Know your trials will soon turn into testimony.
Believe the promise.
Keep walking.
Because this kind of hope does not disappoint.
It whispers, “Keep going God is still in control.”
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This is based on Fr. Jose Vettriyankal's preaching on Logos Voice TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0B-7G5Uazs
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