HOPE SANDWICHES

Romans 15:13 AMPC May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.

We looked at this verse yesterday but have you noticed it begins and ends with hope? Have another look, it’s so encouraging. It’s a bit like a ‘hope’ sandwich, with joy and peace filling! Maybe we need to feed on hope sandwiches every day!😊

I’m so glad our God is the God of Hope and not the God of Doom and Gloom, aren’t you? 

Psalms 3:3 NIV But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.

Our God is the One who is there for us when our shoulders are all hunched up and our heads are down because we can’t see the end of the tunnel. It’s when the Holy Spirit reminds us how much our Father loves us and He lifts our heads back up to focus again on the Lord Jesus who gave His all, so we can have a glorious hope, to know He has good plans for our future. 

Notice God wants us to be so full of His joy and peace that we’re bubbling over with it, and how does it happen? By our choosing to believe what He says in His word, by believing His promises,  by lifting our eyes off our problems and looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

We’re called Believers for a good reason!😊 God has placed within us His very own faith and He’s given us the ability to believe not just for the possible, but for the impossible because we have the power of God at work within us.

So be uplifted and let me kickstart our ‘believing engines’ again today, to take off into the future with the God of our Hope, where God puts no limits on us, but encourages us to believe He can do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think or imagine because of Jesus.

Take a bite of the sandwich and get ready to overflow with hope, get ready to bubble!😊 In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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