Jesus is your guard against all evil
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 3 JESUS IS YOUR GUARD AGAINST ALL EVIL But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. (2 Thessalonians 3:3) Jesus warned we will have trouble in this life, but trouble and evil are not the same thing. He told us […]
God chose you for glory
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 2 GOD CHOSE YOU FOR GLORY God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thessalonians 2:13-14) […]
God will make you worthy of His call
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 1 GOD WILL MAKE YOU WORTHY OF HIS CALL To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power, so that the name of our […]
God will surely make you clean
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 5 GOD WILL SURELY MAKE YOU CLEAN Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it. […]
When you focus on Jesus, He steadies your heart
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 75 WHEN YOU FOCUS ON JESUS, HE STEADIES YOUR HEART When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. (Psalm 75:3) Our world is full of instability. From economies in turmoil to civil unrest, discord in the workplace and division at home, […]
Jesus will welcome you home
God’s Hope For Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 4 JESUS WILL WELCOME YOU HOME For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who […]
God’s love is the source of your holiness
God’s Hope For Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 3 GOD’S LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR HOLINESS And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the […]
God has put his trust in you
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 2 GOD HAS PUT HIS TRUST IN YOU Just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:4) It is the richest treasure in all creation, the greatest […]
God has chosen you
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 1 GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. (1 Thessalonians 1:4-5a) Have you ever been not […]
Jesus can truly reconcile
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 4 JESUS CAN TRULY RECONCILE Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him.) (Colossians 4:10) Paul had not been a fan of this Mark fellow. He had allowed the young man to accompany […]
