SCRIPTURE: Romans (NIV) 15:13 May the God of 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.
OBSERVATION: Here we find a powerful benediction or blessing that Paul gives to his readers. He is calling on the “God of hope” to so fill them with “all joy and peace” that they would overflow with hope!
Why look anywhere else, or to anybody else, for hope when the “God of hope” is our Heavenly Father!!! He fills us with joy and we find contentment in our present circumstances. He fills us with peace and the turmoil of unknown circumstances smooths out before us. The God of peace oversees it all! The indwelling Holy Spirit has power to overcome anything we face.
APPLICATION: “…that you may overflow with hope…” tells me that others should benefit from the hope that is in me. When discouraged people are around me, some of my hope will spill onto them. The power and gifts of the Holy Spirit are to make me a blessing to others—to lift them, to cause them to turn their eyes on Jesus and put their faith in Him.
Some people may say that I have a positive attitude, but it is just faith that the God living in me is bigger than any problem I may face!
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, in hope, may you fill SOAP readers with all joy and peace as they trust in you, so that they may have an abundantly overflowing hope by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.
Pastor Leon
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