Hope is defined as: To desire with expectation of fulfillment. If our hope is to spend eternity with God, and He has promised this to us, we can expect our hope to be fulfilled.
Faithful is defined as: Firm in adherence to promises. To be faithful in prayer is to be constantly in conversation with God, praising Him, professing our love for Him, and thanking Him for our many blessings and promises.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12
Thanks to the Internet, we are—as much as we allow it to be so—barraged with “historical” facts. But! It has occurred to me—not for the first time—that history is an ever changing account of the facts as someone knows them and tells them. The simple fact is, history is merely which, or whose, story a person chooses to believe.
(I was going to say more about this subject but… historically, it has been shown that people only read the title and first paragraph of an article. The rest, they say, is history, which is said to repeat itself, which—studies say—is quite impossible and generally only confuses the facts.)
When God becomes the focal point of our lives, the world will become a different place, and the hills will literally be alive with the sound of music, as all creation claps its hands and shouts for joy. Read the rest of this entry »
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