HOPE THOU IN GOD!

The Lord is the one who makes a way where there seems to be no way. He removes barriers and opens closed doors. He heals bodies which are sick. He can bring the answer that you cannot find anywhere else. Hope thou in God.

You cannot know how God is a Healer unless you have been healed. You cannot know how God is your Provider unless you have had a need met. You cannot know how God is the friend who sticks closer than a brother unless you have been abandoned, felt lonely, or been rejected. Embrace trouble, for it is the time when you discover how awesome of a God He is.

Here are four practical steps you can take every day to build a sure foundation of hope that will carry you through the storms of life:

Submit yourself to God. God is the source of our hope. Come to Him in humility and He will restore you (1 Peter 5:6-7).

Strengthen your faith. Allow God's previously fulfilled promises to renew your hope. God has given us written record of countless ways He has provided hope for believers in centuries past. Look to these marvelous accounts for renewal (1 Chronicles 16:11-21).

Trust God's timing. Sometimes God answers our prayers and fulfills our hopes quickly. At other times, for His own divine reasons, He allows us to wait. Remember, it was through faith and patience that Abraham's hope was fulfilled.

Thank God today. Though it's arduous to rejoice as we wait for hopes to be fulfilled, rejoicing enables God to perfect us in ways we are unable to see at the time. And this kind of hope, purified in the crucible of waiting, and sometimes suffering, "does not disappoint" (Romans 5:1-5).

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source: http://www1.cbn.com/hope