Be Empowered By Hope

Romans 15:4, 13 (AMPC): 4For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction, that by [our steadfast and patient] endurance and the encouragement [drawn] from the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.



13May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.

As an acrostic, the word “HOPE” can mean ~

          Heavenly

          Optimism

          Personally

          Experienced

Hope is a virtue which the soul needs for energy and motivation. Hope is always necessary for the restoration of a wounded spirit. We need hope to press on, to endure, to stay focused, and to see dreams fulfilled.

Hope has been called the energy and effort of faith. It is the power to be cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

1 Peter 1:3 says Jesus “caused us to be born again to a ‘Living Hope.’” 

Hope fuels life with joy, peace, and love. Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope ~ Accept and Trust. Accept the mystery of hardship, suffering, misfortune, or mistreatment. Don’t try to understand it or to explain it. Accept it. Move on.

Then trust God to protect you by His power from this very moment to the dawning of eternity. God has an agenda for each of us.

Jeremiah 29:11 ~ For I know the plans (agenda) I have for you, declares the Lord…to give you a future and a hope.

God’s agenda for His people is that they never lose hope.