Hope focuses on joy.

Thought of the day: fasting hopelessness 

Hope focuses on joy. The joy of The Lord is our strength. 

Don't allow your circumstance to shape your belief in God.

Allow your belief (His word) to shape your circumstance.

Hope keeps its eyes on the joy set before to overcome present circumstances. Jesus was able to endure dying on a cross by focusing on the joy of conquering death. 

The more we know... Him, the more we love Him, the more we trust Him.

Truth: God loves me. He is always with me and has great plans for me.

"We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God."

Hebrews 12:2

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)