Confident Hope
(Romans 15:13 NLT)
”I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
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In Romans 15:13 it says, as Paul is praying for the Church, he is introducing them to the source of hope. He is telling the church that he can’t bless them on his own accord and anointing. So he says let me bless you with the presence of God who is the source of Glory and comfort. Every hopeless situation in our life, every area where we have lost our hopes, courage, and expectations, may the Lord bless it with joy and peace. In every area we are lacking, we will experience happiness and joy from God who is the source of hope. The one reason why God will fill us with peace is because we trust in him. But, if we don’t trust in God and we put our trust in people, money, etc then the peace of God is not what we are enjoying. We are going to enjoy what this world offers us.
When we experience God who is the source of hope it is a natural phenomenon for us to flow with that same hope, confidence, trust, and faith. There will be joy and peace when we wake up, and make a decision. And as we begin to be filled with God’s peace constantly, we will begin to overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Apostle Paul is praying for the Church and is expecting them to connect with the source. The more our roots go deep down into this hope-filled God. The God who has endless dreams, plans, and amazing blessings stored for us, when we have hope we will automatically begin to bring forth fruit of confidence, and faith in our life. All of this will happen not with our own ability but through the power of the Holy Spirit. There is no end to how much this God can do. . .
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