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Oct 11, 2023 · Hope (Bible) – A biblical definition of hope takes it one step further. Hope is an expectation with certainty that God will do what he has said. I hope you can see the difference. One is a wish or desire, the other is a certainty or guarantee. Let me use a verse from Scripture to illustrate the point.
- Titus 2
And the reasons why the apostle would have duty urged on...
- Titus 2
We’re hoping in God to be enough even if we don’t get what we want!) 6. James 1:2-4 and Romans 5:3-5 tell us that trials have the potential to make us grow. In what ways will you mature if you start hoping in God in this situation? 7. Read Galatians 5:16, 22-23.
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God wants your hope to be in Him. “O Lord, you alone are my hope” (PsalM 71:5 nlt). God wants His Word and His promises to be your source of hope. “You are my refuge and my shield; your word is my source of hope” (PsalM 119:114 nlt). God does not want you to put your hope in people or leaders.
Hope is the good thing in the future that we are desiring. We say, “Our hope is that Jim will arrive safely.”. In other words, Jim’s safe arrival is the object of our hope. Hope is the reason why our hope might indeed come to pass. We say, “A good tailwind is our only hope of arriving on time.”.
- Richard Sibbes, one of the great old Puritan preachers of Cambridge who died in 1635, wrote a whole book (175 pages) on Psalm 42:5. He was called “...
- A young woman from California asked me for an interview last week because she was doing a psychology project on “forgiveness,” and she needed to re...
- We use the word hope in at least three different ways. 1. Hope is the desire for something good in the future. The children might say, “I hope dadd...
- All three of these uses are found in the Bible. But the most important feature of biblical hope is not present in any of these ordinary uses of the...
- Now let us go to the Scripture to see where I get this understanding of biblical hope. We will begin at Hebrews 6:9–12. After warning his readers t...
- Now briefly let’s notice how Paul shares this same view of hope in Romans 4:18. He describes Abraham as the great example of faith, and in particul...
Verse Concepts. Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Psalm 31:24. Verse Concepts. Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 130:7.
“through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” It’s easy in a hard time to lose our bearings, but the compass towards hope always points through the Word of God. Hang in there, focusing your eyes on the words of hope found in the Word of God. It’s there that you’ll find the hope that we have found ...
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The only way to have the power to follow Christ in the costly way of love is to be filled with hope, with strong confidence, that if we lose our life doing his will, we will find it again and be richly rewarded. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us anew to a living hope through ...
