{"id":16005,"date":"2013-12-02T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2013-12-01T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:00:20","slug":"unswerving-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/02\/unswerving-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Unswerving Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each week during the season of Advent \u00a0our blogs will focus on a central theme associated with the coming of Christ—His Advent. \u00a0This week’s theme is HOPE<\/em><\/span>.
\nChristians throughout the world celebrate Advent. Some light candles or sing songs; some give gifts or \u00a0hang\u00a0wreaths. \u00a0All of these are simple joyous\u00a0ways of extending the celebration\u00a0of Jesus\u2019s coming beyond a mere 24 hours on\u00a0December 25.\u00a0Our prayer is that these devotionals throughout <\/span>this season of Advent would help you to celebrate His first Coming and anticipate with joy His second Coming.<\/h4>\n
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Hebrew 10:23 NIV <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for he who promised is faithful.<\/p>\n

Who is this Who is faithful<\/em> that we should put all our hope on? \u00a0And what is hope?!?<\/p>\n

Hebrew 11:1 <\/em><\/p>\n

Now faith is the substance of things (HOPED) for, the evidence of things not seen.<\/p>\n

Hope comes when you are at zero<\/em> (0) and you want to be at one<\/em> (1). \u00a0How to get to one…you just don’t know how. \u00a0It is all dependent on an external force, an external factor to propel you to get to one<\/em> (1).<\/p>\n

In this world we hope for so many things and many of these depend on others. \u00a0As we have seen the scripture on Hebrew 11:1, faith is the substance of things hoped for, things that we would want to have! \u00a0Things we desire to own, but, as much as we desire things of this world and hope (believing) of owning them one day…let us also hope for an eternal life that is given by accepting Christ Jesus which is better<\/em> and of much greater value.<\/p>\n

When we hope for the better<\/em>, rest assured that the Faithful One will make it a point we have it. God is the One who is Faithful. \u00a0He fulfils all His promises to us and therefore we “… hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised….)”<\/p>\n

Psalm 119:74 <\/em><\/p>\n

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.<\/p>\n

Testimonies follow when we hope in the Lord, and others will see His providing for us.<\/p>\n

Psalm 130:5 <\/em><\/p>\n

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.<\/p>\n

Let us acknowledge God as our own Father and approach him as a father; \u00a0you will never regret the way your hopes are being answered. \u00a0God is our hope. He is our everything and in all things we praise Him.<\/p>\n

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Father, we put our trust in You, and give our all to the glory of your Holy name. \u00a0AMEN!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each week during the season of Advent \u00a0our blogs will focus on a central theme associated with the coming of Christ—His Advent. \u00a0This week’s theme is HOPE. Christians throughout the world celebrate Advent. Some light candles or sing songs; some give gifts or \u00a0hang\u00a0wreaths. \u00a0All of these are simple joyous\u00a0ways of extending the celebration\u00a0of Jesus\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[4652,4651,3188,3173,365,1287,425,4647,490,518,4649,4650,3174,4648],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-1st-week-of-advent","tag-advent","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-daily-devotional","tag-faith","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hebrews-1023","tag-hebrews-111","tag-hope","tag-psalm-11974","tag-psalm-1305","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-things-hoped-for","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4a9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16009,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions\/16009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}