Today on Summit Life, an encouraging message from Pastor J.

I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

God, the Lord, he is my strength, he makes my feet like the dears, he makes me tread on my

high places.

This is the faith that God had called for in chapter 2

when he said, the righteous one will live by faith.

And what characterizes that faith is the word hope. Thanks for joining us today on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

You know, most of us have certain parts of the Bible that are our favorites that we come back to again and again.

Books of the Bible we've studied, verses we've

memorized and that's okay, but what we don't want to miss out on is the rest of

God's word. After all, the entire book is meant to show us God, to grow us and to change us into the likeness of Jesus, right?

Well today, Pastor Jady is turning our attention to a book you might not be as familiar with,

Habakk.

The book was written during a time when God's people were in a spiritual, economic, and political

decline.

Yet through it all, Habakkak gives us a picture of gospel-powered hope and a God who saves.

So grab your Bible and pen and let's get started.

Pastor J.D. titled this message, Hope Giving Love.

Habak will describe the situation himself in chapter 3,

17 in terms that are very dire.

He says, though, the fig tree should not blossom.

There are no fruit in the vines, the produce of the olive will fail, the fields yield no food,

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