“Faith is being sure of what we hope for.” Heb 11:1

“Without faith it is impossible to please God…” Heb 11:6

Awakened by Faith

Awakened by Faith

Animated by Love“For Christ’s love compels us…” 2 Cor. 5:14

Awakened by Faith

Animated by Love

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is

leading.Oswald Chambers

Awakened by Faith

Animated by Love

We labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God 1 Timothy 4:10

Accomplished by Hope

This is God’s Word for my lifeIn this Place and at this Time.Today I am a new creation in

Christ, I am God’s very own,

and I KNOW He has a purpose for my life.

When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” So Jesus went with him.

A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Mark 5:21-36 (NIV)

“Until you learn to name your ghosts, baptize your hopes and pursue your purpose, you have not yet been born. You are still the creation of others.”

Hope Goes Beyond FUTILITYHope doesn’t give up, give in or give out!

“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?” Romans 8:32

Hope Goes Beyond FEARHope is not wishful thinking,

it is Bold, Courageous and Active

“Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.” 2 Cor 3:12

Hope Goes Beyond ORDINARY

“she felt in her body that she was FREED from her suffering.”

v29

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee

lie!

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent

stars go by.

Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting

Light;

The hopes and fears of all the years are met in

thee tonight.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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 8:37-39

What you believe, you become.