Love Hopes

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

As we near the end of our series on Love Does, today we’re going to look at the role of hope in putting our faith into action. You and I need hope more than ever. We need God to give us fresh vision for the work he’s doing and will do in the world around us. And we need him to empower us to share that vision with others, that our perspective would be grounded in his goodness. May God fill us as his people with fresh hope in his presence today.

Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 13:7, and today's worship is Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship.

Thanks for listening to today’s podcast, Love Hopes.

Take notice today as you go about your day of someone around you who seems hopeless. And when you notice it, before going up to him or her, ask God for a word of hope. Sharing that word of hope, given to you straight from the heart of God, can make more difference than we can imagine in the life of another.

May God empower you today to be a giver of hope as he is.

Make sure to rate the podcast today, and take just a moment to share the hope you’re finding in

this space for God’s presence.

I pray that the rest of your day is filled with hope in God, and that God blesses you as you seek

him.

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0:00.0	As we near the end of our series on Love Does, today we're going to look at the role of hope in putting our faith and action.
0:15.0	You and I need hope more than ever. We need God to give us a fresh vision for the work He's doing and will do in the world around us.
0:26.0	And we need Him to empower us to share that vision with others that our perspective would be grounded in His goodness.
0:35.0	May God fill us as His people with fresh hope in His presence today.
0:42.0	Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
0:46.0	Through Jesus, we have been afforded an anchor of hope through God's promises of His presence now in the total restoration and the age to come.
0:59.0	We can have peace in the midst of trials, joy and persecution instead of fastness when it seems nothing can go our way.
1:10.0	First Peter 3 and 4 says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to His great mercy.
1:18.0	He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
1:35.0	As believers, we have an inheritance of boundless communion with our Heavenly Father and with this inheritance we are called to share our hope with a lost and hopeless world.
1:46.0	The hope that's been freely given to you was not meant to be solely contained within you.
1:52.0	You have a testimony in Christ that has the power to transform lives.
1:57.0	First Corinthians 137 says, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2:06.0	You are called to hope for a better life for those around you.
2:10.0	You are called to believe in people when no one else will.
2:14.0	God has abundant life and relationship for all if they will simply come to know Him.
2:21.0	And He's chosen to use His children to share that message of hope.
2:26.0	Your life has been transformed from being lost and lifeless to being filled with a powerful hope of the gospel.
2:34.0	No one is hopeless, no one is beyond the saving grace of Jesus, and God is calling you to love others enough to share with them the reality of His love in both word and deed that they might have hope in God.
2:51.0	The only hope the world has is Jesus. No amount of money, no friends, and no politician can save us from the destruction of sin.
3:02.0	The truth of God's unconditional love and unmerited grace is the only source of redemption in joy this world has.
3:10.0	So who around you needs hope today?
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