What is so distinctive about our hope? Today we are looking at some Old Testament promises and prophecies to blow open our hearts about the reality of our hope in Christ. It's time to get even more excited about the best time of the year.

Welcome to the Sheproos Faithful Podcast, episode number 64, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone, thank you so much for letting me be a part of your day today. It's such a joy and an honor.

If you're a first time, third time,

or lifetime listener, my hope is that today you'll walk away refreshed and encouraged by the

life-giving word and the truth of the gospel. We're going to look at God's Word and discover

how we can prove faithful as women, wives, and mothers. That's my goal with every podcast, so I'm

glad you're here. Today is all about hope.

Hope that is especially hopeful, hope that makes us celebrate in like a big Christmasy way.

Now the inspiration for today's podcast came from the Shepruce Faithful in the Word reading plan.

It's a free Bible reading plan. You can go to sheprucefell.com slash in the word to sign up.

But I was really encouraged by what I read in Second Samuel about David being promised to have

an heir on the throne that would reign forever, basically, that his kingdom would be established.

And I cross-referenced it with Jeremiah 33 and was so encouraged and amazed. And then I

got to the next day and on my reading plan was Jeremiah 33. I don't know. I didn't make that

connection. I made this reading plan a while ago. And so I was like, well, there you go. Cross-reference

very next day. So I read that and was really encouraged by the book of Jeremiah in general and how, I mean,

thousands of years ago this was written and how it's so amazing to look back and see the hope

that they had in the midst of consequences of their sin and God giving mercy, and then us being able to see

full circle how God fulfilled his promise and how we are declared righteous through Christ alone.

So I'm really excited.

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