Tag: hope
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The Future: What’s Your View?
Isaiah 40:31 “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” How one views the future has everything to do with how they will face today. If we are worried about tomorrow, it will certainly steal…
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Motivated by the Invisible
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those who call themselves born again believers in Jesus Christ believe in a God that they cannot see. Because…
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Supernatural Gifts
Ephesians 1:16-18 “ I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know…
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Hope’s Foundation
Isaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance…
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Facing Death
Hebrews 11:29 “By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.” What’s the most fearful and unknown situation you and I will ever face? Is it not death? There will come a time when there is no escaping it. It may…
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Two Great Mysteries Revealed
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.” 1 Timothy 3:16 “Great…
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A New Perspective
Ephesians 1:7-10 “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for…
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Prisoner for Christ
Philemon 1 “Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus.” The words above were written by Paul from a Roman prison. Yet, he didn’t see himself as a prisoner of Rome so much as “a prisoner for Christ Jesus.” He was a prisoner for Christ Jesus in the sense that he was in this situation because of his…
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There is Hope!
Colossians 1:21-23 “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has…
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Victory!
John 20:19-20 “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw…
To Encourage You 