BE HOPEFUL

by Tammy Philips
December 4, 2023

[It is] good that [one] should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. (Lam 3:26NKJV)

Early yesterday morning, I asked Holy Spirit what he wanted me to write about today.  I sat down in church and heard the advent reading.  I jotted down the following…

BE HOPEFUL.  What are you waiting for? 

Your person?
Marriage?
To get pregnant?
The birth of a baby?
The conception of an idea?
A new job?
Financial freedom?
Salvation ?
Healing for yourself, your friend, or a family member?
Deliverance?
Restoration of a broken relationship?
Salvation?

Hope is the patient, joyful and confident expectation of good, at least that’s the definition I came up with from studying.

THEN…the Associate Pastor got up to deliver the message and for the first part of his sermon he  delivered ALMOST exactly what the Lord had just given me, and I had written down.  God is amazing and mind blowing. We do have the same heavenly Dad, but He still blows me away when he confirms his word like that.

So, his sermon went a little longer and took a few different turns and this encouragement ran a little shorter, continuing on…

We do not  love hoping and waiting for anything, but the Bible says, “It is good.” It is good that we  should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.  It is good that we should have confident expectation of  good from a good Father God who is our Hope.

“For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.” (Psa 71:5 CSB)

What are you waiting for?

I enCOURAGE you to be hopeful!  Be looking and expecting good.  I found hope doing dishes. (See tomorrow’s post).  Be hopeful and you will find what you have been waiting for.  It is hardly ever instant, so  be patient, too!   AND stuff may not turn out exactly as you expected. There are things we are not supposed to understand. This is where faith comes in and what faith is all about.   “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb 11:1 NKJV)

My prayer for you today:  “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Rom 15:13 NKJV) And now abide in  faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these [is] love. (1Co 13:13 NKJV)

Viva Magenta.  Live in Hope. Breathe in Hope. Be Hopeful, expecting good!