1. Hope provides you joy in any situation.
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (Romans 12:12 NIV 2011).
2. Hope generates faith and love.
“We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people – the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel” (Colossians 1:4–5 NIV).
3. Hope causes you to live like Jesus.
“All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure” (1 John 3:3 NIV).
4. Hope inspires you to persevere and endure through difficulty.
“We 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 NIV).
5. Hope uplifts your depressed soul.
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God” (Psalm 43:5 NIV).
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source: TheChristianPost.com
