The Hope You Need For Change
Life’s Healing Choices: The Beatitudes - Part 2
“God blesses those people who grieve. They will find comfort!”
Matt. 5:4 (CEV)
“No one can live with a broken spirit.”
Pr. 18:14 (NCV)
WHERE TO GET HOPE WHEN CHANGE SEEMS HOPELESS
1. REMEMBER GOD IS WITH ME.
“Those who forget God have no hope.”
Job 8:11a (LB)
“Lord, when doubts fill my mind, when my heart is in turmoil,
quiet me and give me renewed hope and cheer.”
Ps 94:19 (LB)
2. REMEMBER HE CARES ABOUT ME.
“I have hope when I think of this: The Lord’s love never ends; His mercies never stop. They are new every morning.” Lam 3:21-23 (NCV)
“He is like a father to us, tender and sympathetic ...for He knows what we are made of – dust.”
Ps. 103:13-14 (LB/GN)
“God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us.”
Rom. 5:8 (LB)
3. REMEMBER HE KNOWS MY SITUATION.
“You know how troubled I am; You have kept a record of my tears.”
Ps. 56:6 (GN)
“...You have seen the crisis in my soul.”
Ps. 31:7 (LB
4. REMEMBER HE HAS POWER WHICH I DON'T HAVE.
“What is impossible for men is possible with God.”
Luke 18:27 (GN)
“When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of
what he couldn’t do but on what God said He would do.”
Rom. 4:18a (Mes)
“For God is at work within you, giving you the will and the power to achieve His purpose.”
Phil. 2:13 (Ph)
5. REMEMBER HE’S PROMISED TO HELP ME.
“I expect Your help, for You have promised it.”
Ps. 119:81 (LB)
“God cannot lie when He makes a promise, and He cannot lie when He makes an oath. These things encourage us...They give us strength to hold on to the hope we have been given.” Heb. 6:18 (NCV)
STEP 2
Earnestly believe that God exists; that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover.
“The Spirit that God gives us ... fills us with power, love, and self-control.”
2 Tim. 1:7 (GN)
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