JEREMIAS 29:11 (ABTAG01)

Sapagkat nalalaman ko ang aking mga panukala para sa inyo, sabi ng Panginoon,
mga panukala para sa ikabubuti at hindi sa ikasasama, upang bigyan kayo ng
kinabukasan at ng pag-asa.

- State current situation that looks hopeless

So we need hope. What is hope.

HOPE - hope
noun
 

Definition of hope (Entry 2 of 6)
1a: desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment
 HOPE is not for something we already have

Rom 8:24

24Sapagkat tayo'y iniligtas sa pamamagitan ng pag-asang ito, ngunit ang pag-

asang nakikita ay hindi pag-asa, sapagkat sino nga ang umaasa sa nakikita?
Christian HOPe
1 Timothy 1:1
New King James Version

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the
Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,

Jeremiah 17:7

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,

    and whose hope is the LORD.

Jesus’ resurrection is the foundation of our faith. Had He not risen from the dead, there would be

no reason to believe in a better future (John 11:25, 26; 1 Cor. 15:13-26)

Importance of hope

We badly need hope, on an individual as well as on a corporate level as a church. The world

around us needs hope. Not only the hope of economic recovery in a time of financial crisis and
the hope of somehow halting ecological doom before Planet Earth has destroyed itself. But

most of all we need hope on a deeper existential level, since in the hearts of untold millions

despair and angst have replaced the Enlightenment belief in constant progress and the

Christian experience of hope. Any book that describes the main characteristics of

postmodernity mentions pessimism about the future as one of the key marks.

When there is hope, our hearts are gladdened and strengthened today, and we can face tomorrow.

True hope is found only in God, a God of hope. From the depth of his being, David cried out, “And

now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You” (Ps. 39:7).* Hope that is rooted in God is a hope

that will never let us down. As Christians we can “rejoice in hope” (Rom. 5:2). We need not

“sorrow as others who have no hope” (1 Thess. 4:13). We are “called in hope,” “saved in . . .

hope,” and exhorted “to lay hold of . . . hope” (Eph. 4:4; Rom. 8:24; Heb. 6:18). The Bible is a

book filled with promises of hope. It points us from what is to what will be. It lifts our eyes from

the temporal to the eternal. It leads us from what is around us to what is above us.

Hope with other values …

Rom 8:25

25Subalit kung umaasa tayo sa hindi natin nakikita, hinihintay natin itong may

pagtitiis.

1 Corinthians 13:13

• And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these

is love.
 e. Hope orients Christians toward the future, faith provides content to hope, and love energizes

both to service.

d challenges it to persevere in the midst of great adversities by reminding faith that there is

more to come than what we now see and experience. The present is not the final expression of

cosmic reality. Something new and wonderful is coming; as such, hope imbues faith with

expectation. Hence hope is always willing to wait, trust, and endure, providing to faith stability

. Faith informs hope that Jesus is not only the One who will come, but also the One who has

already come, bringing reconciliation to us, and in the process providing hope a solid and reliable

foundation for the time of waiting

Hope is dynamic, and as such does not allow love to become pure sentimentality, so obsessed

with its immediate object—the present needs of human beings—as to forget the consummation

of salvation.

Hebrews 6:11

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We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you

hope for may be fully realized.

But love challenges hope to act in the present. It takes the future last-day existence

characterized by freedom from selfishness and suffering and makes its presence felt in the here
and now in selfless care for others (cf., Heb. 6:10, 11). In other words, love makes hope relevant in

the now of human existence.

e. Although we should live with our eyes set on the future, we still have a responsibility to the

present. That includes acknowledging the suffering of those around us, lending a shoulder to cry

on, giving to those in need. It includes being faithful to God’s law, trusting that “the fear of the

Lord leads to life” (Prov. 19:23; cf. 12:28). Finally, it means sharing the good news of salvation and

our glorious hope to everyone within our reach. Without this message of hope, people’s best

efforts will still lead them straight to the tomb

These three theological virtues are not natural to humans. They are the result of God’s presence

in our lives through the power of the Spirit. The greatest of these three virtues is love, because

faith and hope without love could become, during the time of waiting, oppressive forces in the

hands of corrupt human beings. In this triad love assures us that faith and hope find their source in

God, who is love by nature.

Hope in our lives

Romans 5:3
We are full of joy even when we suffer. We know that our suffering gives us the strength

to go on. 4 The strength to go on produces character. Character produces hope. 5 And hope

will never bring us shame. That’s because God’s love has been poured into our hearts. This

happened through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Hope Without Healing

Particularly under difficult circumstances, such as not being healed from a disease, many of
us need help making the choice to be optimistic. Family and other social support are
essential in this process. Pessimists tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, and
they often relinquish the idea that situations will improve. The approach of the optimist, on
the other hand, is to view a negative event as a temporary setback and be spurred on to try
harder. Sometimes the realistic approach, which takes challenges and problems into
account, may be viewed as pessimism; at the same time, a realistic optimist nurtures hope
and perseverance, choosing to believe and work toward the improvement of circumstances
and situations. 
Research demonstrates that hope and optimism are associated with better mental and
physical health and more effective coping mechanisms. 1

Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

We can especially be happy and experience genuine laughter when we completely trust God,

knowing that He is in control of our lives no matter what the circumstances may be. Other studies

have shown that nurturing positive thoughts and emotions about people and situations impacts our

own personal well-being. 3

What to do when u lose hope

JEREMIAS 29:11 (ABTAG01) – remember god’s promise

Sapagkat nalalaman ko ang aking mga panukala para sa inyo, sabi ng Panginoon,
mga panukala para sa ikabubuti at hindi sa ikasasama, upang bigyan kayo ng
kinabukasan at ng pag-asa.

Read bible- Romans 15:4

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For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through
the  patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
[a]

Mark 9:23-24 – call out to god for help

Jesus said to him, “If  you can believe, all things are possible to him who
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believes.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I
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believe; help my unbelief!”

Conclusion

We need to stay ready and expectant. The point is not to live in fear and morbidity. If
we focus on the disasters around us, we miss the joy that life can bring. This was
Habakkuk’s experience. He ends his book, his waiting and unfulfilled expectation, with
praise.

Though the fig tree does not bud

and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Saviour (3:17,18).

Hope for the future helps us praise in the pain. Habakkuk trusted God’s promises, that
even though he didn’t understand, even though he would never see it, God would
make all things right. As we live expectantly, holding onto nothing more than our hope
at times, the way we serve others and praise in joy will be the things that set us apart
and see us ready as God’s children.

Without Christ, there is no true hope. 

Richard Rice reminds us that the hope of the Christian embraces four essential qualities: (1)

The fact that Christ will return and will transfer what we hope for into reality; (2) it includes that

we actually long for his return; (3) it involves therefore watchfulness; and (4) it involves

preparation.7

v Because Christian hope is anchored in what God did for us in Christ, it concerns (1) his

children individually, but also (2) his church and (3) his world. This hope is realized in the

tension between the already and the not yet. (1) We may hope for the new life in Christ, in the

rebirth and sanctification in the here and now and in the total recreation in the world to come.

(2) We have hope for the faith community to which we belong. It can already represent him

today as his spiritual body of (yet imperfect) saints, while looking forward to belonging to the

perfect multitude of the redeemed. (3) And although we hope for a consummation of history in

a new heaven and a new earth, we do not give up on our current habitat, believing that in

some preliminary sense the kingdom can already be a present reality (Luke 17:21).

Let us not lose hope because we know God is the one in charge of everything

Ecclesiastes 9:4
Anyone who is still living has hope. Even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

Rom 5:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in
hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.