verses of hope

Day 30 of 

There is nothing in scripture that is not useful in your life (2 Tim 3:16), but there are definitely seasons we go through where we are combing the word for specific things to meet our present need.

  Because God is awesome and sovereign over all, our pastor had started a HOPE theme a month before the bomb.  As the year went by, the messages went hand in hand with many of the things we were learning as we walked our narrow road, not because he was using our lives as a stairway to writing sermons, but because when you talk about Hope it integrates every story and every life no matter the person or situation.

In the beginning of the Hope theme, our weekly bulletin had a list of scriptures to help us explore hope.  I spent the next few months looking each of them up, writing them in 'the' journal, and praying about how they each on their own needed to be assimilated into my daily thinking.

I want to share the references with you now in case you would like to spend time looking some or all of them up on your own.  I also want to encourage you to consider doing a word study of your own if you are in a season of searching for scripture to speak to a certain need, or asking someone else to do one with you.  Consider doing one even if you aren't.  For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope (Romans 15:4).

Ezra 10:2                                         Matthew 12:21

                                         Psalm 9:18                                       Acts 2:26

                                         Psalm 33:17, 18, 22                         Acts 26:6

                                         Psalm 39;7                                       Romans 4:18

                                         Psalm 42:4, 11                                 Romans 5:1-5

                                         Psalm 62:10                                     1 Corinthians 9:10

                                         Psalm 65:5                                       1 Corinthians 13:13

                                         Psalm 119:43, 49, 74, 114               1 Corinthians 15:19

                                         Psalm 147:11                                   2 Corinthians 1;7, 10

                                         Proverbs 13:12                                 2 Corinthians 3:12

                                         Proverbs 23:18                                 Galatians 5:5

                                         Proverbs 26:12                                 Ephesians 1:12, 18

                                         Isaiah 20:5, 6                                    Ephesians 2:12, 13

                                         Jeremiah 14:22                                 Colossians 1:5, 23, 27 

                                         Jeremiah  17:13                                1 Thessalonians 1:3

                                         Jeremiah 23:16                                 1 Thessalonians 2:19

                                         Jeremiah 29;11                                 1 Thessalonians 4:13

                                         Jeremiah 31:17                                 1 Thessalonians 5:8

                                         Lamentations 3:21-29                       2 Thessalonians 2:16

                                         Hosea 2:15                                        1 Timothy 1:1

                                         Jonah 2;8                                           1 Timothy 5:5

                                                                                                   1 Timothy 6:17

                                                                                                   Titus 2:13

                                                                                                   Hebrews 3;6

                                                                                                   Hebrews 6:11, 18, 19

                                                                                                   Hebrews 10:23

                                                                                                   1 Peter 1;3, 13, 21

                                                                                                   1 Peter 3:15

                                                                                                   1 John 3:3