WORD OF HOPE (4)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Bible Verses and Quotes

a) Read passages from the Old and New Testaments that offer hope and encouragement. Everyone needs to be reminded from time to time of the hope that God, Jesus and the Bible offer to us in our daily lives.

Job 11:18-19

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.  You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.

Psalm 147:11

the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Romans 5:2-7

through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope.  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.  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

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