JESUS My Lord and Savior
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Everyone experiences seasons of hopelessness now and then…
We have all had times when we looked at the circumstances of our life…and sighed in hopelessness; not knowing what tomorrow would bring. Or, knowing what tomorrow would bring…and not being able to change it.
Either way, the dread of our hopelessness over-shadowed every thought, invaded our sleep, and consumed every waking hour. No matter which way we turned…the outcome was dire…and appeared totally hopeless.
When was the last time hopelessness was your closest companion?
Was it in a broken relationship, financial disaster, natural disaster, a negative health report, a lost job, a lost home, a lost love, or an over-powering addiction? Perhaps it was in grieving a death or impending death of a loved one, an unwanted change, broken boundaries, being controlled and manipulated by others, or perhaps…when you just didn’t get your way!
Hopelessness comes in all sizes, shapes and colors; to the old, young, rich and poor; obscure and famous. Hopelessness offers everyone an equal opportunity to feel its pangs in the tragedy, trauma, and drama of every day life.
So…what do ‘you’ do when hopelessness knocks on your door?
The list of possible negative coping devices is at least as long as the reasons causing your feelings of hopelessness.
Do you create more chaos and hopelessness by swallowing a pill, indulging in destructive sexual contacts, complaining, crying, drinking too much, over-eating, accusing or blaming others, running away, angry outbursts, or attacking, swearing, or sleeping all the time…etc, etc, etc?
Or, do you turn to prayer…and place your hope in Him?
Times made for the foot of the Cross!
This is not to say we must wait for hopelessness before we turn to Jesus. However, we often tend to put off taking it to the cross until we feel desperate…or at least broken enough to lean on Him.
Let us all remember to take our hopelessness to the foot of the Cross of Jesus Christ. He can, and will, give the hope we seek…covered with His perfect peace.
The Bible offers hope in the midst of our hopelessness…
The divinely inspired Word of God is overflowing with scripture to guide, inspire, encourage…and promise hope in our seemingly hopeless situations.
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. – Romans 15:4
Scriptures of Hope…
You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. – Job 11:18
Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. – Psalm 25:5
May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you. – Psalm 25:21
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD. – Psalm 31:24
But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. – Psalm 33:18
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you. – Psalm 33:28
For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. – Psalm 37:9
But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you. – Psalm 39:7
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. – Psalm 42:11
I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints. – Psalm 52:9
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. – Psalm 62:5
You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas. – Psalm 65:5
May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.- Psalm 69:6
For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth. – Psalm 71:5
But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. – Psalm 71:14
Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws. – Psalm 119:43
Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope. – Psalm 119:49
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word. – Psalm 119:7
My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word. – Psalm 119:81
You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word. – Psalm 114
Sustain me according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed. – Psalm 119:116
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word. – Psalm 119-147
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore. – Psalm 131:3
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God. – Psalm 146:5-
The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.- Psalm 147:11
The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.- Psalm 10:18
The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath. – Proverbs 11:23
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. – Proverbs 13:12
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death. – Proverbs 19:18
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. – Proverbs 23:18
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. – Proverbs 24:14
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. – Proverbs 26:12
Anyone who is among the living has hope —even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! – Ecclesiastes 9:4
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. – Isaiah 40:31
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.” – Isaiah 49:23
You were wearied by all your ways, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint. – Isaiah 57:10
Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this. – Jeremiah 14:22
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water. – – Jeremiah 17:13
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. –Jeremiah 29:11
So there is hope for your future,” declares the LORD. “Your children will return to their own land. – Jeremiah 31:17
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. – Lamentations 3:25
Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope. – Lamentations 3:29
There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. – Hosea 2:15
But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. – Micah 7:7
Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. – Zechariah 9:12
In his name the nations will put their hope. – Matthew 12:21
Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. – Matthew 17:20
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope. – Acts 2:26
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” – Romans 4:18
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. – Roman 5:5
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. – Romans 8:25
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. – Romans 12:22
And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him.” – Romans 15:12
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. – Romans 15:13
Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. – 1 Corinthians 9:10
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. – 1 Corinthians 13:13
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. – 1 Corinthians 15:19
He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us. – 2 Corinthians 1:10
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. – 2 Corinthians 3:12
But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. – Galatians 5:5
In order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. – Ephesians 1:12
I Pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. – Ephesians 1:18
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called. – Ephesians 4:4
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. – Philippians 1:20
The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel. – Colossians 1:5
If you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. – Colossians 1:23
We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. – 1 Thessalonians 1:3
For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? –1 Thessalonians 2:19
Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. – 1 Thessalonians 4:13
But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. – 1 Thessalonians 5:8
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope. – 2 Thessalonians 2:16
(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. – 1 Timothy 4:10
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. – 1 Timothy 5:51
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. – 1 Timothy 6:17
Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth. – 2 Timothy 2:25
Faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time. –Titus 1:2
While we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. – Titus 2:13
That, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. – Titus 3:7
But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. – Hebrews 3:6
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. – Hebrews 6:11
God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. – Hebrews 6:18
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. – Hebrews 6:19
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. – Hebrews 7:19
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. – Hebrews 10:23
[By Faith] Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. – Hebrews 11:1
[Praise to God for a Living Hope] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. – 1 Peter 1:3
[Be Holy] Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. – 1 Peter 1:13
Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God. – 1 Peter 1:21
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. – 1 Peter 3:15
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. – 1 John 3:3
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