livinword: WORDS of hope.

SCRIPTURAL RELEASE
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the HOPE that is in you with meekness and fear: 1.Peter.3:15. (KJV)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the HOPE of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, Ephesians.1:18. (KJV)
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one HOPE of your calling; Ephesians.4:4. (KJV)
‘I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his WORD do I HOPE.’Psalm.130:5.(KJV)
Meditate on this Scripture deeply.
Hope is a key biblical theme expressed early in the bible, after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, WHEN GOD promised to send someone to crush the head of satan. Throughout the Old Testament, God continued to offer HOPE to His people through numerous prophets of a coming deliverer. The New Testament reveals that these promises were all fulfilled in Jesus Christ. This truth is so certain that ‘HOPE’ and ‘TRUST’ are interchangeable throughout the bible.
Our HOPE is rooted in the faithfulness and trustworthiness of God, based on Christ resurrection and return to his Father. You and me as Christians have HOPE as we look forward to his return, resurrection of the body and to life with Christ that will never end.
Jesus Christ came as both the HOPE of Israel and HOPE of all nations. Those who KNOW Christ have HOPE as a stabilizing anchor in life. –‘Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast…’- Hebrew.6:19. (KJV) Unbelievers, those who do not KNOW and profess Christ as Lord and Savior are without HOPE in this world and in eternity.
HOPE, one of the three major elements of Christian character – And now abideth faith, HOPE, charity, these three… – 1Corinthians.13:13. (KJV), it is joined to faith and love, and it is opposed to seeing or possessing- ‘For we are saved by HOPE: but HOPE that is seen is not HOPE: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet HOPE for?’ Romans.8:24 (KJV). HOPE is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life style, so essential, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity.
Then talk to God or pray this prayer; “I am counting on you LORD, am counting on you. I have put all my HOPE in your WORD knowing you are not man and will not lie.
HOPE in the LORD!

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