hope. I can't think of anything we need more than hope. Today, tomorrow for as long as we live,

as we close out this month and head into a new year, remembering that God is our great hope

is the word we need. Today on the Jesus Over Everything show, we're going to wrap up our five-word

holiday prayer series with a beautiful one. You are my great hope, a prayer of

intention, declaration, and adoration to the God of all hope. I'm your host Lisa Whittle,

and if you're new here, welcome. If you've been around, you know how this goes. Jesus,

honesty, and straight talk. Let's go.

Thank you. honesty and straight talk. Let's go. In that little devotional book I wrote in 2017 called Five Word prayers, I wrote very tender

prayers to God, ones I needed at the time the very most.

Praying words like you are my great hope was good for my soul even today.

And certainly then on days that I didn't feel it, even then my soul needed to hear me speak it.

As I read to you today, I hope and pray that you will sense God's nearness, that you will feel

hopeful and remember the promise he makes in Psalm 655. You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome

deeds. Oh, God, our Savior, you are the hope of everyone on earth, even those who sail on distant seas.

Prayer for today, you are my great hope. Here we go. Jesus is the great hope of this world,

the only hope in the world we've got. He is the hope that will not be crushed by the turmoil and

confusion of the world. He is the hope that can

silence our tumult and bring our souls to a place of peace and rest. When we pray, you are my great hope.

We stabilize ourselves, for in this declaration, we lift our eyes above the chaos. We rise

above the swirling mess. Psalm 65-5 strikes a tender cord in my heart.

God is the hope of everyone on earth, even those who sail on distant seas. Some of us don't want him.

Some of us don't even know we have floated away. Some of us purposely sailed off, charting our own course,

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