GOD WITH US: Brings Hope
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What comes between Waiting and Hoping?.. Believing!
24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
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Illustration: Ravi Zacharias | Hien Pham 1971
Illustration: Ravi Zacharias | Hien Pham 1971
:28Entering Advent | Coming or Arrival It’s a season that links the Past, Present & FutureSeason for Expectation and PreparationThe long journey of hope | God work through historyGod’s covenant with Abraham | Jacob at BethelThere was a repeating history of Devotion & NeglectIsaiah | Major | poster prophet of Advent :14Isaiah was a voice of Hope | 700 years before JesusThat’s nice for the people of the past, what about me?Let me encourage you not to abandon hopeHope is alive because God is with usHow Do I Keep my Hopes High?Hope based on God’s WordGod will never leave us, or forsake us -12Can you feel the hope in those words?Hope based on God’s Character :20Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s CharacterMark 5:25-34 | Woman who had been bleedingThis is our God’s character | Jesus is worthyHope based on God’s Faithfulness Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
28 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God—those whom he has called according to his plan.
Entering Advent | Coming or Arrival
It’s a season that links the Past, Present & Future
It’s a season that links the Past, Present & FutureSeason for Expectation and PreparationThe long journey of hope | God work through historyGod’s covenant with Abraham | Jacob at BethelThere was a repeating history of Devotion & NeglectIsaiah | Major | poster prophet of Advent :14Isaiah was a voice of Hope | 700 years before JesusThat’s nice for the people of the past, what about me?Let me encourage you not to abandon hopeHope is alive because God is with usHow Do I Keep my Hopes High?Hope based on God’s WordGod will never leave us, or forsake us -12Can you feel the hope in those words?Hope based on God’s Character :20Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s CharacterMark 5:25-34 | Woman who had been bleedingThis is our God’s character | Jesus is worthyHope based on God’s Faithfulness Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
Season for Expectation and Preparation
The long journey of hope
God work through historyGod’s covenant with Abraham | Jacob at BethelThere was a repeating history of Devotion & NeglectIsaiah | Major | poster prophet of Advent :14Isaiah was a voice of Hope | 700 years before JesusThat’s nice for the people of the past, what about me?Let me encourage you not to abandon hopeHope is alive because God is with usHow Do I Keep my Hopes High?Hope based on God’s WordGod will never leave us, or forsake us -12Can you feel the hope in those words?Hope based on God’s Character :20Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s CharacterMark 5:25-34 | Woman who had been bleedingThis is our God’s character | Jesus is worthyHope based on God’s Faithfulness Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
God work through history
God’s covenant with Abraham | Jacob at Bethel
Jacob at Bethel
There was a repeating history of Devotion & Neglect
Isaiah | Major | poster prophet of Advent
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Isaiah was a voice of Hope | 700 years before Jesus
That’s nice for the people of the past, what about me?
Let me encourage you not to abandon hope
Hope is alive because God is with usHow
Do I Keep my Hopes High?
Hope based on God’s Word
Hope based on God’s Word
God will never leave us, or forsake us
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Can you feel the hope in those words?
Can you feel the hope in those words?Hope based on God’s Character :20Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s CharacterMark 5:25-34 | Woman who had been bleedingThis is our God’s character | Jesus is worthyHope based on God’s Faithfulness Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
Hope based on God’s Character
Hope based on God’s Character
:20Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s CharacterMark 5:25-34 | Woman who had been bleedingThis is our God’s character | Jesus is worthyHope based on God’s Faithfulness Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Rekindle hope by focusing on God’s Character
| Woman who had been bleeding
This is our God’s character | Jesus is worthy
Hope based on God’s Faithfulness
Hope based on God’s Faithfulness
21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” 25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; 26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lament 3:21-26There’s hope in the future when we remember pastGratitude breeds hope | Thankfulness fosters hope
There’s hope in the future when we remember past
Gratitude breeds hope
Thankfulness fosters hope