Hope.
What is it?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Hope: 1. to desire with expectation of obtainment. 2. to expect with confidence: Trust.
"Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come." - Sydney Smith (18th centuary writer/clergyman)
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." - Samuel Johnson
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all." - Emily Dickinson
"Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier." - Anonymous
Do you have Hope?
Job 11:17-18 17Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. 18 You will be secure, because there is hope you will look about you and take your rest in safety.(NIV)
Psalm 9:18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish. (NIV)
Isaiah 40:30-31 30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (NIV)
Jeremiah 29:11-12 11For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12In those days when you pray, I will listen
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (NIV)
Proverbs 23: 14 Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off (NIV)
Lamentations 3: 19-22 19I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. 21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. (NIV)
Psalms 31:24 Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD. (NIV)
Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (NKJV)
I have The Hope.
1 Peter 1:3-4 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you
Do you?
