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Friday, November 9, 2012

Put Your HOPE in Christ...and Find JOY!



Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Don’t be afraid; it’s filled with only the purest of ingredients…..concentrated hope and love….which, when stirred together, makes a great, tasty serving of JOY.

            We’ve talked a lot lately about the subject of HOPE!  All of us need hope, don’t we?  Problems and discouragement aren’t particular with who they keep company!  All of us have to face the enemy of hopelessness at one point or another.

            I read just the other day that hope is both a noun and verb. How true! Writer Karen Cook explains that “hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for certain things to happen.” (noun) But it is also the action (verb) of putting your faith in that hope….and moving forward!

At times….hope can be a little scary!  Anytime we put our faith in something “unseen”, it can be a bit unnerving.  That’s why a strong faith in God is so important!  As Hebrews 11 tells us,Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

When you begin to doubt how strong your faith is; when you need a “hope boost”, go to the eleventh chapter of Hebrews and see the “Hall of Fame for Faith”! These people put their hope in God…and God was faithful in EVERY instance!  If He did this in “Bible times”, He will do it for us today.  For you see, our God does NOT change!  He is a God of HOPE!
           
Put your hope in Christ and savor the sweet taste of JOY! 

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