{"id":8420,"date":"2024-05-03T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T01:06:00","slug":"where-is-hope-joy-peace-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/2024\/05\/where-is-hope-joy-peace-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Hope, Joy & Peace Found?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where is hope, joy and peace found? If you need it, He has it. And He has it in abundance.<\/div>\n
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“May the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Hope is powerful. When you have it and when you don’t. Here\u2019s some good news: lasting hope is findable. Because God, the source of all hope, is findable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Our hope in Christ is an eternal thing, but it\u2019s also a present thing. We know the eternal future of those who love God, but we also know that Christ fully empathizes with our weaknesses right now. He is our hope.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When your hope is placed in God, He gives you more hope than you can handle. Your life starts to overflow with joy and peace. You have a firm foundation, and you have enough hope to share with others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Knowing that our present and future hope can only be set upon Christ frees us from nursing and protecting our pride and living in fear of man or failure, and removes our anxieties about financial, relational, emotional, or physical provision. Instead, it gives us the freedom to love and serve others. We can joyfully and faithfully put our efforts and energies into the good work laid out before us\u2014supporting husbands, rocking babies, caring for homes, serving in churches, finishing work assignments, or whatever it is that God has placed before us. Since we trust that God has secured our future, we can stay focused on His promises and His commands, no matter what we experience in our day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you need hope today, He is here (not just there). If you need joy and peace, He is here (not just there). May He fill you with renewed hope. And may your joy and peace bubble over onto everyone you meet today. They probably need hope, too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where is hope, joy and peace found? If you need it, He has it. And He has it in abundance. “May the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 Hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-elizabeth"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Untitled-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shreveministries.org\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}