Good morning, good morning, good morning.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another Morning's with the Masters.

We're devoured ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning indeed.

We're picking back up with New Morning Mercies and Tori's is going to take it from here. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. This is what it says.

Corporate worship is designed to instill vertical hope where horizontal hope has been dashed.

One of the themes of this devotional is hope. Every human being is hardwired and concerned about hope. We're all in a constant

search for hope that delivers and lasts. We're all a bit discouraged and paralyzed when our hopes are

dashed. When one hope dies, we grab hold of another hope as fast as we can. The Bible is a

hope story. It is about hope misplaced and hope found.

It is about hope that cannot deliver and hope that gives you everything that you need.

It is about where not to look for hope and the only place where true hope can be found.

The great hope drama of the Bible is summarized by a few very important words that are

buried in the middle of the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans in Romans 5 1 through 5.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through him, we have also obtained access by faith

into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that,

but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces

character, and character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Notice what Paul does here. He connects our hope to our justification. We have hope because by grace we have been forgiven and accepted by

the one who holds everything we need. He connects our hope to the glory of God. Our hope is that God will

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