Hope Illumination Enlightenment

By John C. Fenn

This series teaches that hope is an anchor of the soul. It presents an image that enters into the holy place and our Forerunner, Jesus, has gone ahead with a rope to guide us to safe harbor. Learn how hope links with faith and how that image is born in our soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John C. Fenn
• Release date: Nov 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311406378

John C. Fenn

John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John's confirmation in the Episcopal Church when they were twelve years old. They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age sixteen. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978. In early 2002 John and Barb founded the Church Without Walls International of Tulsa (CWOWI), a house church network, emphasizing relationship-based Christianity. The seeds of CWOWI were planted in 1992 during a time of prayer. The Lord Jesus appeared to John in a visitation and shared some of what He would be doing in the future. Part of the Lord's plan was an exodus from many of the "para-church" organizations that were raised up after the Charismatic renewal of the 1960s and 70s. This would produce a movement of more "para-church" organizations, home prayer meetings, and also home-based churches. On November 4, 2001, during an evening church meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, Jesus appeared again to John. As both John and the host pastor fell to their knees, Jesus laid hands on John and told him to start a home church network "based on my Word and the things you've learned through the people I've brought across your path this year." The Lord said He wanted it to be called The Church Without Walls International. The next month, CWOWI began meeting in the Fenn home, and is growing and gaining affiliate house churches as relationships develop. Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the spirit, his heart's desire is to make known the ways of the Father God. Church Without Walls International (CWOWI) is dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ through the establishment of a network of related house churches around the world.

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Hope/Illumination/Enlightenment

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Table of Contents

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Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

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Hope

Part 1

Hi all,

A friend with cancer had just died, and his wife turned to me and said; I don’t understand! We were standing in such faith! How could this have happened?

A teenage girl asked me to talk to her friend who was threatening suicide. The girl had been molested in her pre-teen years, was a believer, but struggling in her faith and life.

A young couple got denied volunteer positions in their church, and they were hurt and angry. That led to anger at leadership, then ‘the church’, then to God, then to stress in the marriage, then leaving the church and not wanting anything to do with ‘church’ or God.

My friend with cancer and his wife, were both actually in hope—not faith—but thought they were ‘standing in faith’ for his healing. The teenager found faith impossible because her hope had been destroyed by molestation. The couple who wanted to make a difference in their church had their hope denied, which led to a progression of ever deepening anger and unbelief. Hope deferred makes the heart sick (Proverbs 13:12).

Hope is one of the most misunderstood and least taught aspects to our lives of faith, yet it is so vitally important!

What is hope?

Hope is of the mind; of the soul. It is describe as favorable and confident expectation…having to do with the unseen and the future and the happy anticipation of good (Vine’s Expository).

Hope is a picture in our minds of what we see as our future: When a seemingly healthy person hears a cancer diagnosis, or a girl has dreams of living in pureness but is molested and now feels unclean and unworthy, or when someone is turned down for a position when they were just trying to help their church, their respective pictures of their futures is dashed – hope is destroyed.

Hope is an anchor for our soul

Hebrews 6:19 says We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain (veil). Notice hope is an anchor of the soul. An anchor is a small device when compared to the size of a ship, yet it has the power to dig into the unseen ocean floor and hold that vessel firm. Our