I've been working hard today on our upcoming online auction, and I needed to take a break. I needed a refresher. I went back to some old blog posts on my other blog and remembered this one. At the beginning of this year, just before we signed our first paperwork to begin the adoption process our Pastor preached several weeks on the topic of hope. The below post is notes from church during that time.
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What is Hope?
Hope - desire accompanied by expectation. An anticipation of fullfillment. NOT wishful thinking.
A CHOSEN DESIRE.
Hope - desire accompanied by expectation. An anticipation of fullfillment. NOT wishful thinking.
A CHOSEN DESIRE.
{She is chosen. Actually, we were all chosen.}
Hope is an anticipation for good in God. Hope is not about striving, but resting and allowing His grace and His strength to take us through a "door of hope".
Hope is a perspective of an abundant life.
Hope must go from a concept, to a specific powerful virtue in your life.
Hope redefines our past.
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Hope is a lifestyle. It's where you grow to the place where you daily focus on "answers of hope, solutions of hope".
With hope- we see more with our eyes closed than we do with our eyes open.
Hope is an anticipation and belief in good from God, now and in the future.
Psalm 27:13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Hope gives us the ability to look out a very long way.
And my favorite...
Hope can become part of your fiber when the unseen world becomes more real than the seen.
How many times have I said that Heaven is so real now. The unseen world (Heaven) and the seen world (Earth) are just separated by a thin veil when you have held the babies I have held and have been talking to Jesus as he ushered them into the presence of the Father. Heaven is so real.
Lamentations 3:22-24 says, "Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Hope is an anticipation for good in God. Hope is not about striving, but resting and allowing His grace and His strength to take us through a "door of hope".
Hope is a perspective of an abundant life.
Hope must go from a concept, to a specific powerful virtue in your life.
Hope redefines our past.
Hope is a lifestyle. It's where you grow to the place where you daily focus on "answers of hope, solutions of hope".
With hope- we see more with our eyes closed than we do with our eyes open.
Hope is an anticipation and belief in good from God, now and in the future.
Psalm 27:13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Hope gives us the ability to look out a very long way.
And my favorite...
Hope can become part of your fiber when the unseen world becomes more real than the seen.
How many times have I said that Heaven is so real now. The unseen world (Heaven) and the seen world (Earth) are just separated by a thin veil when you have held the babies I have held and have been talking to Jesus as he ushered them into the presence of the Father. Heaven is so real.
Lamentations 3:22-24 says, "Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
We wait in HOPE.
