1. Hope
provides you joy in any situation.
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12 NIV 2011).
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12 NIV 2011).
2. Hope
generates faith and love.
"We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and
of the love you have for all God's people – the faith and love that spring from
the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in
the true message of the gospel" (Colossians
1:4–5 NIV)
3. Hope
causes you to live like Jesus.
"All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3 NIV).
"All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:3 NIV).
4. Hope
inspires you to persevere and endure through difficulty.
"We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV).
"We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV).
5. Hope
uplifts your depressed soul.
"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God" (Psalm 43:5 NIV).
"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God" (Psalm 43:5 NIV).
6. Hope
prompts you to praise God
"As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more" (Psalm 71:14 NIV).
"As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more" (Psalm 71:14 NIV).
7. Hope
anchors your soul during the storms of life.
"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain" (Hebrews 6:19 NIV).
"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain" (Hebrews 6:19 NIV).
8. Hope
moves you to take action with great boldness.
"Since we have such a hope, we are very bold" (2 Corinthians 3:12 NIV).
"Since we have such a hope, we are very bold" (2 Corinthians 3:12 NIV).
9. Hope
develops your patience.
"If we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently" (Romans 8:25 NIV).
"If we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently" (Romans 8:25 NIV).
10. Hope
establishes your sense of security and safety.
"You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety" (Job 11:18 NIV).
"You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety" (Job 11:18 NIV).
God became human ... Jesus came into our world as a baby to give
us hope – hope for freedom, forgiveness, and new life. At the season of Advent
and Christmas, we remember that Christ entered our world becoming like us to
complete the work of redemption, but we also anticipate with hope the work that
Christ will do in our world to make whole all that is broken and bring peace to
our hearts and to our world. Christian
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