{"id":27285,"date":"2015-08-19T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27285"},"modified":"2015-08-18T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:03:45","slug":"hes-the-anchor-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/19\/hes-the-anchor-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"(He&#8217;s The) Anchor Of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<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;\">Marvelous, wonderful, infinite God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Author of all that is good<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Faithful Provider and Giver of life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Source of all power and love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise<br \/>\nRefuge of strength to the end <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Righteous Redeemer and mighty to save<br \/>\nHe\u2019s the Anchor of Hope for the souls of men<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Gracious, compassionate, merciful God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Radiant, holy delight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Beautiful Father, Victorious Son<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Source of unchangeable Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are Light in the dark<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are healing for the broken heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are Hope<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are Lord<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are Life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are Love that endures<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Powerful, constant, unwavering God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Shepherd who comes for the lost<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Rock of salvation, remarkable Love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Savior who died on the Cross<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Smgu-Awxb8E\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ellie Holcomb<\/em><br \/>\nwritten along with Brown Bannister<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This\u2026<em>all of this!<\/em>\u2026is our reason for Hope! \u00a0Biblically, hope is an assurance, something we depend on and count on happening. To the world, hope is &#8216;a wing and a prayer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong><em>HOPE<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 verb<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; \u2013 usually followed by for. \u00a0\u201cBut I will hope continually.\u201d \u2013 Psalm 71:14<\/li>\n<li>To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; \u2013 usually followed by in. \u201cWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.\u201d \u2013 Psalm 42:11<\/li>\n<li>To desire with expectation, or with belief in the possibility, or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing that is desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish the hopes of. \u00a0[Charity] hopeth all things. \u2013 1 Corinthians 13:7<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(quoted from Webster&#8217;s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would like to encourage you, friends, to grasp this Hope as the Truth! \u00a0We are often so good at encouraging others\u2026reminding our brothers and sisters of the Hope they have\u2026speaking to the unsaved and telling them of the Hope they can have. \u00a0But speak this Truth to yourself. \u00a0Hold to it. \u00a0Depend on it.<\/p>\n<p>Your Lord IS your Hope! \u00a0He is&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Light in the dark<\/li>\n<li>Refuge of strength to the end<\/li>\n<li>Healer of your broken heart<\/li>\n<li>Rock of salvation<\/li>\n<li>Savior Who died on the Cross<\/li>\n<li>Anchor of Hope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise<br \/>\nthe unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,<br \/>\nso that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie,<br \/>\nwe who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement<br \/>\nto take hold of the hope set before us.<br \/>\nThis hope we have as an anchor of the soul,<br \/>\na hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,<br \/>\nwhere Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us,<br \/>\nhaving become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.<br \/>\nHebrews 6:17-20<\/p>\n<p>At the foundation of it all: &#8216;this hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast\u2026&#8217;. \u00a0 A hope that we have had no part in securing, no part in determining, no part in bringing to pass. \u00a0But we do have a part&#8212;we simply must hold onto this hope\u2014an Anchor of Hope in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I pray this blessing from 2 Thessalonians 2:16 and 17 for each of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, Who loved us and gave us everlasting consolation and encouragement and well-founded hope through [His] grace, &lt;would&gt; comfort and encourage your hearts and strengthen them [make them steadfast and keep them unswerving] in every good work and word\u201d in Jesus\u2019 Name. \u00a0Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvelous, wonderful, infinite God Author of all that is good Faithful Provider and Giver of life Source of all power and love Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise Refuge of strength to the end Righteous Redeemer and mighty to save He\u2019s the Anchor of Hope for the souls of men Gracious, compassionate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16629,"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":[4937],"tags":[5257,5256,5254,5253,1287,425,5255,3121],"class_list":["post-27285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-corinthians-137","tag-2-thessalonians-216-and-17-psalm-4211","tag-anchor-of-hope","tag-ellie-holcomb","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hebrews-617-20","tag-psalm-7114","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-765","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27290,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285\/revisions\/27290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}