Hope
🧵 Hope that holds
Why the Bible calls hope an anchor, not a wish.
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Lamentations 3:21-24
Written amid ruins: hope returns by remembering that his mercies are new every morning.
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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Jeremiah 29:11-13
Spoken to people in exile — a promise of plans for a future, and of being found when sought.
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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Romans 5:3-5
Suffering produces endurance, endurance character, character hope — a hope that does not put us to shame.
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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Romans 8:24-25
Hope looks forward to what is not yet seen, and waits for it with patience.
24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
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Hebrews 6:18-19
Hope is an anchor for the soul — firm because it is fastened to God’s unchanging promise.
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
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1 Peter 1:3-4
A living hope, grounded in the resurrection and kept safe for us in heaven.
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
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Romans 15:13
A closing prayer: that the God of hope would fill you with joy and peace as you trust him.
13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
