God’s Waiting Room

Part III; September 10, 2023

Waiting with Hope

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in Hope. —Romans 15:13 (ESV)

Hope is the anticipation of good…It’s the conviction that because God is in you, your life, and your efforts have meaning, no matter how the situation turns out. —Dallas Willard

How do we wait with Hope?

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God’s deliverance and works.

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. —Habakkuk 3:17-18 (ESV)

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. —Habakkuk 3:3 (NIV)

Remembering what God has done for us in the past grows hope inside of us.

Remembering what God has done opens an opportunity to praise Him.

Remembering the works of God in our past, keeps our minds and hearts focused on Him.

Remembering what God has done, keeps us far from sin.

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our will to God’s sovereignty.

Into your hand, I commit my spirit, deliver me LORD, my faithful GOD. —Psalms 31:5 (NIV)

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.
17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 “What things?” he asked.
“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. —Luke 24:13-21 (NIV)

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our final destiny.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. —Romans 8:18 (ESV)

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. —Romans 8:37 (NIV)

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. —Romans 5:3-4 (NIV)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? —Romans 8:35 (NIV)

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)

The one who has become a friend of God is more than conqueror!