{"id":3470,"date":"2021-06-11T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agape-churches.org\/missioncontrol\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2021-06-08T00:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:41:59","slug":"day-five-overflowing-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agape-churches.org\/missioncontrol\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"Day Five: Overflowing Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 15:13 (NIV)<\/strong>
\nMay the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Romans 5:5 (NIV)<\/strong>
\nAnd hope does not put us to shame, because God\u2019s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBy their trust in Christ, God\u2019s people \u201calready\u201d know joy and peace and thus live in hope, absolute certainty regarding the \u201cnot yet.\u201d The key to all of this, of course, is the Holy Spirit, who empowers life in the present and guarantees its future consummation \u2013 so much so that Paul prays for them to \u201coverflow with hope(!)\u201d by the power of the Spirit.\u201d [G. Fee, God\u2019s Empowering Presence<\/em>, 623]<\/p>\n

Our response to Christ\u2019s sacrificial love is to trust him with all our lives. God\u2019s love has been poured out into our hearts and hope overflows by the power of the Holy Spirit. Like we heard with the image of Niagara Falls [Pastor Gus], we\u2019re not going to be able to contain this love and hope when we\u2019re with Christ. Let\u2019s offer our lives to be where Jesus is and to do what he asks. Our hearts won\u2019t be able to contain but will overflow with the love and hope of God.<\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, you are the source of love and hope. I need you and ask that you would enlarge my heart for your purpose. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s worship with \u201cWellspring\u201d by Leeland. (Click Here)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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