{"id":20300,"date":"2014-06-22T00:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20300"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:49:26","slug":"place-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/22\/place-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"I Place My Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The troubles of my heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> They&#8217;re tearing me apart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> How I need Your saving hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To grant me a new start<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Lonely and afraid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I call upon Your name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Save me from my enemies<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And cover all my shame<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will lift my eyes<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> From this fragile life<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> For You will rescue me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are my Prince of Peace<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I lift up my soul<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To You who makes things whole<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, mercy-love of old<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In You I place my hope<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I place my hope<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So guide me in Your truth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Be my strong refuge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, forgive my doubting heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And lead me back to You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Help me to believe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your love is all I need<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Even when the storm is strong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You will provide for me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Even in my darkest place<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s a promise I will claim<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Those whose hope is in Your grace<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> They will never be ashamed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sjog4uWUSnQ?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center>Singer\/Songwriter: Ellie Holcomb (with Ben Bannister)<\/center><center><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span>\u00a0<\/center>This song gives me such a joyful conviction to sing out my profession of HOPE and TRUST in God\u2019s promises. My favorite part is the bridge where Ellie Holcomb sings \u201c&#8230;<em>there&#8217;s a promise I will claim\u2014those whose hope is in Your grace, they will never be ashamed<\/em>.\u201d I, too, do claim that promise! \u00a0How about you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">We have this HOPE&#8230;we do rejoice in this HOPE&#8230;we are not ashamed by this HOPE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us,<br \/>\nfor God\u2019s love has been poured out in our hearts<br \/>\nthrough the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.<br \/>\nRomans 5:5 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Listen to what Paul writes (in verses 1-4) leading us to this promise:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God<br \/>\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have also obtained access by faith<br \/>\ninto this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.<br \/>\nNot only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings,<br \/>\nknowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character,<br \/>\nand character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I trust (and pray) that these words inspire and strengthen your hearts (as they do my own)! Truly it is not in our own ability to figure it out but rather to recognize this grace and hope&#8230;and believe and trust. Our part is to \u2018hold&#8230;firm\u2019 and to \u201cstand\u201d and to \u201cgrasp and hold fast.\u201d Jesus did the hard part! And God has made His promise and oath!<\/p>\n<p>So when trials come (and we know they do!), and we are suffering (as does happen at times), we only need to grab hold of the sure and steadfast anchor of our soul\u2014our HOPE.<\/p>\n<p>For me, memorizing Scripture is the only sure and reliable way to hold these truths from the Bible in my mind. \u00a0\u2018Cause I can\u2019t always sit down at the computer, and log into some Bible software, and pull up a verse or two! \u00a0Or I don\u2019t always have my Scripture memory book or memorization cards right at my fingertips. But (for better or worse!) I do always have my mind with me&#8230;and can reach into this treasure of memorized Scripture passages to be encouraged and made strong. \u00a0Here are some additional verses you might memorize (or write down on little cards to carry along with you!).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.<br \/>\nPsalm 119:116<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,<br \/>\nHebrews 3:14 RSV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].<br \/>\n[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it\u2014a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,<br \/>\nWhere Jesus has entered in for us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hebrews 6:18-20 AMP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I encourage you, friends, to sing along with Ellie; be strong in your conviction that \u201c..<em>.there&#8217;s a promise I will claim\u2014those whose hope is in Your grace, they will never be ashamed<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0Praying for you (myself, too!) that we will remember that we <span style=\"color: #800080;\">HAVE this HOPE<\/span> and that we will cling to the anchor of our soul! 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