hope
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We are celebrating hope this week, and the very mention of a place name brought great hope for the people of Israel. Micah prophesied it and the people waited. But the prophecy came in 700 B.C. and the messiah 700 years later. A lot happens in 700 years and people forget. So when Jesus was…
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Human hope knows nothing. It’s guesswork. It is based on well wishing and not given fact. This doesn’t make it bad. It just doesn’t make it reliable. Biblical hope, on the other hand, has God at its foundation and is based on promised certainty, not well wishes.
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The peace of heaven is the knowledge and emotional security of knowing that because Jesus left heaven to come to earth and now reigns from heaven after conquering His own death, we can be in heaven with him — very much alive. In John 14, Jesus said he was leaving this earth to go to…
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Often times when you see a Christian overwhelmed by worry, you know that they are having difficulty with giving up their anxieties to God and allowing the peace of Jesus to cover their hearts. Praying doesn’t mean the troubles go away. But when you pray and truly give the requests to God, fears are overwhelmed…
J.C. Newton 