Biblical Hope
1. Hope is the confident expectation that God will do what he says he will do
2. Hope shines brightest in Darkness and is not based on our mood or circumstances
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG
Memory Verse
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV
3. Hope is a form of resistance
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2 NIV
4. Christian Hope is not in going to heaven when we die but in all of creation being renewed and filled with God’s Glory
How Do we grow Hope?
1. Pray for hope, as God to renew your hope daily
2. Practice Hope, it’s a muscle that you have to exercise
3. Gard your hope, when things look bad remember that God is in control and when people and circumstances are negative, keep on talking to God through prayer and reading his word.
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