30 Days of Praise Day 29 - Hope

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Father, I praise You for hope.  You've been faithful to me since I was a little girl.  I often wonder how people function without knowing You and trusting You to work things out.

My trials and troubles have been many, and only one time did I lose hope.  I felt like You'd abandoned me because things didn't work out the way I wanted.  So, I decided not to talk to You anymore.  I will never forget the feeling I had when I didn't hear Your voice speaking to my heart.  It was horrible.  I felt lost and empty.

As I lay on my bed that night, I prayed for forgiveness and told You I never, ever wanted to go through not hearing Your voice again.

That night, You renewed my hope.  As time went on, things worked out much better than I ever dreamed they could.

I came out of that trial with a new perspective and the rock-solid belief that You will always work everything out for my good.  And You have ever since.  It's been twenty-five years and my hope is still in You.

Thank You for this comforting verse that I memorized over forty years ago:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, 

to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(Romans 8:28  KJV)

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31 Days of Praying For Our Children- Day 20

Hope

 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. (Jeremiah 18:12)

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. (Jeremiah 31:17)

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.  (Romans 12:12)

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which enters into that within the veil (Hebrews 6:19)

Father, hope in You is my anchor.  My hope holds sure and stedfast, because I know Your heart.  I know how much You want my children to live for You.  I have confidence in Your Spirit to do the work in them to draw them to You, to teach them Your ways, and to perfect what concerns them.

Father, I rejoice in You.  I know that Your ways are past finding out.  I know that You can work in ways that I can't even begin to imagine.  I remember the times You have answered my prayers for my children in the past.  I have hope and I look forward to Your answers, trusting Your timing.

I'm thinking this morning about Jonah.  You had a work for him to do and he rebelled.  You arranged for him to have a seaside retreat to think it over until He bowed the knee to You.  I remember how You worked with Balaam.  When he wouldn't listen to You, You used a donkey to persuade him.  I remember the mighty prophet Elijah had a pity party in the wilderness,  and You ministered to him through birds. I remember the times I got off track, and You used birds to speak to me, too. 

Father, I have hope in You, not in my own ideas or efforts.  I pray for You to work in my children's lives, and I pray for them to have hope also.  I pray they will have the hope that springs eternally.  That hope will carry them through any difficulty.  It will cause them to endure till the end.