{"id":28775,"date":"2015-11-23T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28775"},"modified":"2015-11-22T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:17:46","slug":"a-little-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/23\/a-little-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little 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;\">Well it\u2019s safe to say we\u2019ve probably never met<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Even still if a betting man was I I\u2019d bet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Every single one of us have found ourselves<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Standing in the storms of life soaking wet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But do not fret, chin up my friend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A little bit of rain is not how this thing ends<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But sometimes we forget so if you understand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let me see those hands, &#8217;cause<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Everybody needs a little hope<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You know the kind that turns your grey skies blue<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> A little something that\u2019ll pull you through<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Well good news that something\u2019s living right inside of you<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Yeah Hope<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> It makes you smile when world says don\u2019t<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> It keeps you dancing even when life won\u2019t<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> And when the music\u2019s gone keep singing<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> \u2018Cause what you\u2019ve got is hope<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Now maybe you\u2019re thinking &#8216;yeah, nice try&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But you do not know me you don\u2019t know the things I hide<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Well I\u2019ve walked that road and I\u2019ve felt that pain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> We are all the same<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come and you\u2019ll find rest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This hope is bigger than your regrets<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Bring your worst<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Bring your best<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And all God\u2019s people said\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DaAN_f3tBXU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>MercyMe<\/em><br \/>\nWritten by Bart Millard, Christopher Stevens, &amp; Bryan Fowler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now may the God of hope<br \/>\nfill you with all joy and peace<br \/>\nas you believe in Him<br \/>\nso that you may overflow with hope<br \/>\nby the power of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nRomans 15:13 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My soul, wait in silence for God only,<br \/>\nFor my hope is from Him.<br \/>\nPsalm 62:5 NASB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Christ Jesus, our Hope<br \/>\n1 Timothy 1:1a NASB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls&#8230;.<br \/>\nHebrews 6:19 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">\u201cEverybody needs a little hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, isn\u2019t <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> the truth?\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t know about y&#8217;all, but I need hope even when things are going well.\u00a0 Hope keeps me moving forward.\u00a0 Hope lifts my spirits. But, I have to check the source of my hope.\u00a0 We can put our hope in a job, a relationship, a new home, new clothes, etc. \u00a0These things can give us hope, but it is only fleeting.\u00a0 There is only one true source of &#8212;Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 1:1). God alone is the Author of our hope. \u00a0 The only way we are continually filled with His hope is through the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:13). Because of the Holy Spirit, Hope is living right inside of us!<\/p>\n<p>I love how Hebrews 6:19 describes hope&#8212; &#8216;a strong and trustworthy anchor&#8217;.\u00a0 I picture a small boat being rocked by huge waves, tossed to &amp; fro by strong winds, held firmly in place by an anchor. \u00a0 When we are tossed about by life&#8217;s struggles, when circumstances threaten to overwhelm us, our Almighty Anchor of Hope holds our souls firmly in place. \u00a0That Anchor of Hope will pull us through the trials and tragedies of this life.\u00a0 That is enough to make me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">smile when the world says &#8220;don\u2019t&#8221;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">keep dancing even when life won\u2019t<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">keep singing when the music is gone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it\u2019s safe to say we\u2019ve probably never met Even still if a betting man was I I\u2019d bet Every single one of us have found ourselves Standing in the storms of life soaking wet But do not fret, chin up my friend A little bit of rain is not how this thing ends But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"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":[9705,9706,6295,5889,425,3122,518,4618,4844,4932,1801],"class_list":["post-28775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-timothy-11","tag-a-little-hope","tag-bart-millard","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hebrews-619","tag-hope","tag-hope-in-god","tag-mercyme","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-1513","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-7u7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28777,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775\/revisions\/28777"}],"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=28775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}