God My Hope Is In You Always.

Hope is one of the Apostle Paul's Big Three. "Now these three remain: Faith, Hope, Love."

Ya gotta have Hope to survive bro. You can't make it on Gloom, Doom, Negative Thinking, Despair, and Pessimism. That Old Dragon Pessimism has haunted humans throughout our history, but it's time to say goodbye to that aged ugly devil forever because he's a joy-killing serpent disguised, most of the time, as a wise knowledgeable Prophet Of Doom out to steal away your Hope -- but he'll not succeed cause our Hope is in such as this:

"I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you Hope and a future." {Jeremiah 29:11 applies, in principle, to we the people of God in all generations because God cares for His John 3:16-Human Race-Love Project and therefore He gives us Hope.

"Those who Hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles." Isa. 40:31

Blessed Assurance Jesus is mine ♫ ♫ Oh what a foretaste of joy divine Heir of salvation, purchase of God Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

So tell that Serpent Skepticism to take a long walk on a short pier. Goodbye Mr. Doubt. Hello Sunshine. Hello Hope.

But Hope has to last forever. What ultimate good is Short Term Hope? Not much. Eternal Hope is better, but you need Eternal Life to have Eternal Hope. "He that believes in Me," said the Lord Jesus, "will live even though he dies." That's called C.H. {Continuing Hope}. You don't want to love life for only say 1140 months {95 years}, you want to love it forever and ever. Thank You Lord Jesus for giving us the gift of Eternal Life.

Now enter: Negativity, Cynicism, and Depression. Even though the hideous vultures of Gloom, Doom, Fear, and Pessimism come a'calling ~~ in Christ I have bright cheerful expectations bubbling over with optimism, and that Ugly Buzzard Of Anxiety immediately runs away when he hears me quote Isa. 41:10 "Do not fear for I am with you" and John 3:16's promise of Eternal Life for those of us who believe in the Lord Jesus as our Savior.

Conclusion: From whence cometh my Hope? My Hope was originally conceived in the heart of the Father who said He so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that if I believed in Him I would never perish but have Eternal Life.

My Hope begin in Gethsemane, was made eternal-steel-strong on Golgotha, and eternally secured by that Empty Tomb on Resurrection Sunday {Easter}. Here we can say Hallelujah.

He had no concerns for His own Hopes but shed drop of blood for mine. "Not my will but thy will be done", said the Lord Jesus "His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground" as He anticipated the agony of The Cross out of Love for us.

O my God, I hope that after death Thou wilt admit me to everlasting happiness, and that Thou wilt give me here such means as are essential to the attainment of that happiness. I trust that Thou wilt grant me for this end the grace of the Holy Spirit, such temporal good things as are necessary to me, pardon of sin, help in time of need, and a gracious answer to my petitions. I hope this, because Thou, Who art almighty and all-bountiful and ever-faithful to Thy promises, hast promised these things to me, and because Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, has merited them for me by His cruel death upon the cross. O God, increase my hope.

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1. Hail, Jesus! Hail! who for my sake
Sweet Blood from Mary’s veins didst take,
And shed it all for me;
And shed it all for me:
O blessed be my Saviour’s Blood,
My life, my light, my only good;
My life, my light, my only good,
To all eternity.

2. To endless ages let us praise
The Precious Blood whose price could raise
The world from wrath and sin;
The world from wrath and sin.
Whose streams our inward thirst appease,
And heal the sinner’s worst disease,
And heal the sinner’s worst disease,
If he but bathe therein.

3. O sweetest Blood, that can implore
Pardon of God, and heaven restore,
The heaven which sin had lost;
The heaven which sin had lost:
While Abel’s blood for vengeance pleads,
What Jesus shed still intercedes,
What Jesus shed still intercedes,
For those who wrong him most.

4. O to be sprinkled from the wells
Of Christ’s own sacred Blood, excels
Earth’s best and highest bliss,
Earth’s best and highest bliss:
The ministers of wrath divine
Hurt not the happy hearts that shine,
Hurt not the happy hearts that shine,
With those red drops of His!

5. Ah! there is joy amid the Saints,
And hell’s despairing courage faints
When this sweet song we raise,
When this sweet song we raise:
O louder then, and louder still,
Earth with one mighty chorus fill,
Earth with one mighty chorus fill,
The Precious Blood to praise!

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