God Wants YOU to be FULL OF HOPE this Christmas Season
EVEN while Life is Hard.
That’s why we start our countdown to Christmas tomorrow as the–Season of Hope: Unleashing the God of Hope into Daily Living (Romans 15:4,13).
Hope is our breath of life.
As humans, we can live about 40 days without food;
And about 4 days without water and about 4 minutes without air.
But as humans, we struggle to go on, even for a moment, without hope.
That is why we so desperately need this Season of Hope,
Because God is the God of Hope.
Our goal these next few weeks is to learn what the Bible says about:
Unleashing the God of Hope into Daily Living
Only God can offer honest, enduring, and unshakeable hope.
Open with me to Romans 15.
In this chapter, God provides a life overflowing with hope.
Please stand and follow along as we read v. 4-6, 13-14, 33
Romans 15:4-6, 13-14, 33 (NKJV) For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
(Hope is dispensed by the Spirit of God through the Scriptures. Little Scriptures = Little Hope)
5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(God-given, Spirit-powered, Scripture-fed Hope transforms all of our relationships)
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
(God is characterized by hope. The Spirit overflows us with hope, joy, and peace. All we do is surrender, ask, and believe God can do what He promises).
14 Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
(God’s offer is to overflow our lives, fill our hearts, and enable us to have His hope in our everyday lives.)
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