Hopelessness is a lot like depression. It puts a negative spin on everything in your life. It takes away your desire to even try to deal with the issues of life.

Hopelessness causes you to feel like it wouldn’t do any good to try to solve any of the problems and challenges you face. You just can’t seem to feel like your efforts would improve anything. But, with Jesus, He will show you how He plans to start doing very important things for you.

When you start to try to improve on something in your life, the concept of “why even try” immediately comes into your mind. You feel like nothing is working for you; it seems like no matter how much effort you put into it, it always fails. That is a feeling that you won’t have to try to defeat. With Jesus, it isn’t about what you can do for yourself, it is about what Jesus will do for you, to you, with you, and through you. You can look to Him to bring you your hope back. He will reach into your heart and supply you with His joy.

Just ask Jesus to empower you to put forth a little bit of effort. As Jesus gives you the power to start looking into these studies, He will keep on helping you understand and feel small aspects of hope. He will be working miracles for you so you can start hoping again. He will show you He loves you and is ready to help you start winning at life. Just select the “Hopelessness” word in the gray box and it will take you to that study.