Where
does hope come from?
Romans 15:13
(NIV) 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.
God’s top three are faith, hope
and love. We see them listed in 1
Corinthians 13, the Love Chapter. We emphasize
love and we emphasize faith, but what about hope?
What is hope? Dictionary.com: the feeling that what is
wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
Do you have hope? To you feel that what you want can be
had? Do you feel that events in your
life will turn out for the best?
So many people feel hopeless…they
have no hope.
Hope comes from God! God is a God of hope. In Romans 15:12, it says that we can overflow
with hope by the POWER of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit brings us hope.
But how can we experience hope? How can we receive hope from the “God of hope”
or by the “power of the Holy Spirit”?
We have hope because we TRUST in
God. Do you trust in God? The Bible, God’s Word, is full of God’s
promises to us. We need to put our trust
in God. We do that through prayer and meditation
on what God says in the Bible.
1
Peter 5:7 (NLT) Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
Don’t
worry; pray. Put your trust in God and experience
an “overflowing” of hope, joy and peace.
God
bless,
PK
(“Pastor
Ken”)
