Hosea 2:15 I will give her vineyards from there and the valley of Achor as a door of hope.
Hosea is a relevant prophetic book because its central message to Israel is also applicable to you and I today.
The name "Hosea", prophetically means “he saves, he helps in troubled times”.
The book of Hosea is a prophetic declaration that even when Israel is going through a valley of troubled times, the Lord God is there in the midst of that valley.
The word “achor” means “trouble and gloom” and what this scripture is saying is there is a door of hope in the valley of trouble! Today, we live in a world where there is a lot of trouble. But what you need to understand, as a child of God, is Jesus is your door of hope in every valley of trouble you go through.
David says:
“Yea, though I go through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me, your rod and your staff they comfort me”. (Psalm 23:4)
Jesus is your door of hope in the valley. The door of hope is not on the top of the mountain, it's down there with you in the valley. The rod and the staff are pictures of God’s Word. Meditating on Jesus' Word and what He promises you is what will bring you through every valley victoriously!
People often see valleys as places of defeat but they are places of victory.
David defeated Goliath in the valley of Elah (1 Samuel 17:1-4). But David wasn’t the one fighting this battle, he wasn’t coming against Goliath and all the Philistines in his strength, the battle was the Lord's:
1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD'S, and He will give you into our hands.
When faced with a problem or challenge, we tend to ask ourselves, “What am I going to do?” And well-meaning family members and friends will come along and ask, “What are you going to do?”
But when we see Jesus as our Door of Hope in every valley, we will hear Him say, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. In other words, you will not need to fight in this battle.