Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson, so glad you're joining me today.

And I thought I talked to you today about hope. What is hope? It's a verb that means

to believe or trust. And for Christians, this means we put our belief, our trust, our

hope in God and His Word. This hope in God makes us very different from unbelievers. But

not only that, it changes us and transforms us. The more we hope and trust in God, the

stronger our faith grows and the more comfort we have in Christ. So let's start with Psalm

31, 24. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

When we hope in the Lord, we grow into more courageous women and courage is certainly needed

in these uncertain days. If my help was in myself, I would feel very hopeless and helpless.

But my help is in the Lord and that is a different prospect altogether. He will strengthen

our weak hearts and give us courage that we didn't know we had. If only we will hope

in him, he is our help. In Psalm 146, verse 5, happy is he who has the God of Jacob for

his help, whose hope is in the Lord, his God. What a wonderful promise. We are happy because

we have God for our help. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help. And so we

should look and act like we are happy. We are blessed. It's a deep, satisfying happiness,

not a light, frivolous happiness that comes and goes. But we creatures are tempted to put

our trust in many things that cannot help us or deliver us. And this is foolish. We cannot

put our hope in man. We should not put our hope in our own abilities, our own insights.

Not in the upcoming elections or in modern medicine or in our good genes or in the good

old days. We need something eternal and rock solid, unchanging, all-powerful to place our

hope in. And the only one worthy of that is God. Scriptures tell us to hope in God, to

hope in his Word, to hope in his mercy. Psalm 130, verse 5, I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

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