{"id":847,"date":"2018-02-13T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2018-02-13T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:36:40","slug":"devotion-romans-824-25-sure-knowledge-sure-hope-sure-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Romans 8:24-25 Sure Knowledge, Sure Hope, Sure Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:24-25<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0For in this hope we were saved.\u00a0But hope that is seen is no hope at all.\u00a0Who hopes for what they already have?\u00a025\u00a0But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Romans 10:14 –\u00a0<\/b><\/span>How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hebrews 11:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.<\/span><\/p>\n

1 Timothy 1:12b<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0\u2026 I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Family, we hope for things that we do not have, or for the completion of what we do not fully have.\u00a0 What we have there is no need to hope for because we already have it.\u00a0 In hoping, it is wise to know what you hope for.\u00a0 It is wise to know if it exists.\u00a0 It is wise to know that what we hope for is obtainable.\u00a0 Otherwise we throw our hope to the wind and it is swept away without any benefit.\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

We are not those who hope on hope.\u00a0 That is useless.\u00a0 We are not those who pray to the skies not knowing of anyone to pray to. We know God.\u00a0 We know that we know God.\u00a0 We know him personally and tasted that He is good (Psalm 34:8, Hebrews 6:5<\/b>).\u00a0 Though others may not know that we know, we know that we know God.\u00a0 What they consider unknowable, we know.\u00a0 We know because we know Him personably.\u00a0 God has made His home within us (1 Corinthians 6:19<\/b>).\u00a0 He walks and talks with us daily.\u00a0 Family because of Him we always have hope.\u00a0 God loves us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3<\/b>).\u00a0 We always have hope because we always have God.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not fret about things we are not meant to know, but let us consider what God has given us to know (Deuteronomy 29:29<\/b>).\u00a0 We may not know what our circumstance will bring, but we do understand that God loves us and God is fully able to protect us.\u00a0 That is what we must focus on.\u00a0 That is what we must know.\u00a0 If we know God then we know that He is always good.\u00a0 If we know God we know that He loves us.\u00a0 If we know these two things, if we believe these two things, they are the secret to peace through any circumstance.\u00a0 \u00a0The truth of His goodness and love for us must be a truth that is unassailable by attacks from without and within.\u00a0 When this is so we always have hope.\u00a0 In this knowledge is a joy and peace that will never leave us.\u00a0 Our joy and peace are based not on who we are or what we are capable of, but on who God is and on what He is capable of.<\/p>\n

Let unquenchable hope find a home in our minds, our hearts and our souls because He lives and He loves us.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Let hope with a sure reason abound!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:24-25\u00a0–\u00a0For in this hope we were saved.\u00a0But hope that is seen is no hope at all.\u00a0Who hopes for what they already have?\u00a025\u00a0But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Micah 7:7\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,1872,104,99,94,17,10,2036],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-deuteronomy","tag-hebrews","tag-jeremiah","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-romans","tag-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}