Now 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.
God is called the God of hope. He fills you with joy and peace as you trust Him.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Written after disaster: God’s mercies have not run out. They are new every morning.
Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Written after disaster: God’s mercies have not run out. They are new every morning.
KJVLamentations 3:22-23 in context
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. 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. 25The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Five poems of grief written over a destroyed Jerusalem, with hope at their center.
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For 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.
Said to people in exile: God’s thoughts toward you are peace and a future with hope.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Waiting on the Lord renews strength: you will run and not be weary.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Not everything is good, but God is working in all things for the good of those who love Him.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith gives substance to what you hope for, even before you can see it.