Being a House of Hope

Imparting Hope Not Harm

This is a difficult world, and God allows challenges and obstacles to come into our life to teach us perseverance.

What difficult circumstances are you currently facing? Do you believe the truth of Romans 15:13? God has the gift of hope for you in the midst of your season of despondency. Trust in him and ask the Spirit to fill you with hope as you trust in him.

look beyond what’s currently happening in your life and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

In the Greek, the meaning of hope is expectation of what is sure. This meant that God was the God of what we can be sure of. He is not peddling false hope and shallow words of encouragement. Whereas life, people, and outcomes are all unpredictable, God can be trusted. He offers words of life when we are in despair.

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Like seasons, we will all eventually find ourselves in a valley, a season of despondency. Sometimes we are able to rebound quickly, sometimes we are left with the lingering feelings of despair. And when the circumstances of our lives prompt discouragement to link arms with the past, it can feel impossible to overcome.

Thus, we may find ourselves plunging deep into hopelessness. This was the place I found myself. I was discouraged. I had been here before, but this time was different. I had prayed the same prayer for years. Though I longed for resolution my prayers went unanswered.

It would be a tragedy to have the promise of overflowing joy and peace and not take hold to it because of a refusal to trust in God.

God wants to be our protector, provider, and defender, I want to emphasizes the power of God and how no mountain is too high for Him to overcome.

“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” Romans 5:5

John 8:12 ESV

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Proverbs 23:18 ESV

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Hebrews 5:8–9 ESV

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Romans 15:13 ESV

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Zechariah 2:1–5 ESV

And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.” And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it. And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”

ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER.

BE KIND.

BE FLEXIBLE!

CARRY THE LOAD FOR EACH OTHER.BE PATIENT.

PRAY FOR EACH OTHER.

Belgium drafted guidelines which will extend physician-assisted suicide to not only people with terminal illnesses, but those with mental disorders. Did you catch that? Not a terminal illness, but a psychiatric illness! Under these new guidelines, basically, doctors are empowered to determine whether a person’s hopelessness is enough to warrant an assisted suicide. A person doesn’t even need a diagnosed medical or psychiatric condition. He simply has to be despairing of life, or feel as though life’s not worth living – a doctor can then take steps to verify that, and then legally fulfill the person’s death wish.

Let’s roll up our sleeves and share Christ’s hope with despairing people we know/ Let’s come alongside people struggling against depression, and help them discover that life is worth living.