Get Your Hopes Up!: Expect Something Good to Happen to You Every Day (21 page)
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Authors: Joyce Meyer
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Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
.
1 Peter 1:3
[And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action], and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope
.
Titus 3:7
Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)…
Titus 2:11–13
[Resting] in the hope of eternal life, [life] which the ever truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began
.
Titus 1:2
But we belong to the day; therefore, let us be sober and put on the breastplate (corslet) of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation
.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
Because of the hope [of experiencing what is] laid up (reserved and waiting) for you in heaven. Of this
[hope] you heard in the past in the message of the truth of the Gospel
.
Colossians 1:5
If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hope only in this life and that is all, then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied. But the fact is that Christ (the Messiah) has been raised from the dead, and He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep [in death]
.
1 Corinthians 15:19–20
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OYCE
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Chapter 1: Raise Your Level of Expectation
1.
Source unknown; “Where’s the Pony” http://storiesforpreaching.com/category/sermonillustrations/hope/.
1.
James Brown, Evangeline Baptist Church, Wildsville, LA, in
Discoveries
, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall 1991).
1.
“About us,” “I Have a Dream Foundation,” http://www.ihaveadreamfoundation.org/html/history.htm; http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/h/hope.htm.
2.
Today in the Word
, MBI, December 18, 1991.
1.
Cited in Joyce Meyer, “Doing Your Best with What You Have,” http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=doing_your_best_with_what_you_have.
1.
Debra S. Larson, “Blind Skier Sets Goals on Disabled Olympics,” February 5, 1987, http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-05/news/vw-1122_1_water-skiing.
1.
Source unknown, “Attitude,” http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/a/attitude.htm.
2.
Source unknown, “Hope,” http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/h/hope.htm.
1.
Bits & Pieces
, July 1991.
1.
Gary Morsch and Dean Nelson,
The Power of Serving Others: You Can Start Where You Are
(San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2006), 19–21.
2.
Cited in
Today in the Word
, March 6, 1991.
1.
“Misery Dinner,” Christopher News Notes, August 1993, http://www.sermonsearch.com/sermonillustrations/1185/misery-dinner/.
1.
The Capuchin Franciscans “Fasten Your Seat Belts,” http://www.beafriar.com/New%20Projects%202012/Our%20Father%20is%20the%20Pilot.pdf.
2.
Steve Goodier,
Quote
magazine, in
Reader’s Digest
, May 1990.
1.
Niagara Parks, “Niagara Falls Geology Facts & Figures,” http://www.niagaraparks.com/about-niagara-falls/geology-facts-figures.html.
2.
“My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less,” http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/298#ixzz31E5ASKsi.
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