Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Crowder with Tauren Wells singing … All Our Hope … poignantly singing of the hope all Christians have in our faith and trust in Jesus.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Romans 5:5 [NKJV] … 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
… Paul assures us Christians that our hope in Christ will never disappoint or fail us.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Romans 5:1-11 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Our victory … our freedom … our peace … our hope are all found in our relationship with Christ.
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Reference Passage : … Romans 8:35-39 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
... Our hope is in Christ because NOTHING can separate us from His love.
Reference Passage : … Galatians 5:22 [NKJV] … 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, …
… Christ’s love + joy + peace = hope!
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:6-7 [NKJV] … 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
… We have no reason to worry because all our hope and God’s peace are found in an abiding relationship with King Jesus.
Reference Passage : … 1 Peter 5:6-7 [NKJV] … 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. … We must be willing to humbly give our cares to Jesus if we desire the hope only He can provide. My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Anne Cetas, wrote of a friend, Elizabeth, who found hope in Christ and was delivered from addiction. The author wrote … Elizabeth struggled for a long time with drug addiction, and when she recovered wanted to help others in return. So she started writing notes and anonymously placing them throughout her city. Elizabeth tucks these notes under car windshield wipers and tacks them on poles in parks. She used to look for signs of hope; now she leaves them for others to find. One of her notes concluded with these words: “Much love. Hope sent.”
Hope with love—that’s what Jesus gives. He brings us His love with each new day and strengthens us with that hope.
For almost two decades now, I’ve been called to lead dear brothers out from their past shackles of shame and habitual sin into the hope and freedom found in an abiding relationship with Christ. Some of them will read my journal entry today; and I pray that they all - and others reading here - would lift up a hearty “PTL!!” to what is sung in the linked song today.
And really I don’t need to add much to the message of that song because when we surrender and respond to the fruit of the Spirit, being truly born again Christians, and we’re willing to bring our cares to Jesus, … His love, joy, and peace will guard our hearts with those fruit and His grace. That’s what the truth of the reference scriptures above declares.
Our question today is … DO WE BELIEVE HIS WORD and find all our hope in Jesus?
So, I will pray today that all who read here live in the faith and trust of which Crowder and Tauren Wells sing, … “that all our hope is in Jesus!”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for the love, joy, peace … and HOPE … we have in You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all who read here find the hope in You that I have found. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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