Hope

As Christians, it is our job to give hope and not cause chaos. There are many people hurting, confused and lacking knowledge. Many of God's people have been lied to and deceived. This is why we need to know the word of God for ourselves because then we know the whole truth and are sheltered from the lies of the enemy. Knowing the word of God brings light so that we no longer walk in the darkness. Our souls become light! It's A great place to be, this causes our love to grow for God and people and also strength and knowledge increases and God blesses us with wealth.

Thanks God bless you.

Amen!

Thanks for the kindness everyone God bless!

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Yes! This is the kind of post that is needed, sometimes we can get distracted in debates and lose focus of the purpose of why we are Christians and many new believers and non Christians visit this forum and the bdf is likely the first one they will be interested in visiting and not just that but other Christians here who frequent the forum all the time may not say it but they have inner pain worries and and need hope sometimes none of can be strong all the time.

Every post that shows his love, every post that shows patience , every post that inspires and teaches bringing others closer to him these all matter far more than most realize thank you for such a fantastic post

Blain I see you have touched God. Congrats! your awesome love it!

Blain I'm sorry you had to go through such horrible things as A child.

Blain I will keep you in prayer for your health. We all have many trials some different and many the same. God will help us in everything he makes it better.

Thank you I appreciate it, My life may have been hard but I supposed warriors are made not born and it isn't all bad the love I never had as a Child God gave me I got to experience it first hand.

When he and I go into our moments of intimacy where I just be still and know him sometimes things happen and one of these times was when I was embraced in his arms and he poured his love into me it was only a drop but it was so rich and so beautiful that I begged him to let me come home in his arms.

It was only a drop and it was to much for me to handle the human body simply cannot take it all at once imagine what awaits us when we don't get just a drop of it

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Assurance vs Wishful Thinking

● 1Pet 3:15 . . Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks
you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

The New Testament's Greek word for "hope" in Peter's instructions is elpis
(el pece') which means to anticipate (usually with pleasure) and to expect
with confidence. Note the elements of anticipation, and expectation, and
confidence.

In other words: elpis hope is a know-so hope rather than a cross your
fingers hope.

So, unless someone knows for proof-positive, beyond even the slightest
glimmer of sensible doubt, that they have a passport to the kingdom of God
locked in and irrevocable, then of course it is impossible for them to comply
with Peter's instructions seeing as they would not yet have the kind of hope
about which he wrote.

● Rom 12:12 . . Rejoice in the hope.

When people are praying for the best, while in the back of their mind
dreading the worst, they have absolutely no cause for rejoicing; but they do
have plenty of cause to fear the unknown.

Elpis hope is one of the three primary elements of Christianity (1Cor 13:13).
It's also a calling. (Eph 4:4)

When people are lacking the kind of hope described by the Greek word elpis,
then I believe it's safe to assume that they have not yet responded to God's
call; or worse, He has not called them; and quite possibly never will.
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Romans 5:5-11

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.