HOLD ON TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE

Snippet

Optimism depends on human beings and hope depends on God.  And while I don’t see any reason to be optimistic, I see every reason to be hopeful.  Randy Harris Soul Work pg 66 Leafwood Publishing pg 66 2011

Scripture

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:3-6 NIV

Song

Hold On To What you believe Mumford and Son

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6MLTSKITw

I, I can't promise you

That I won't let you down

And I, I can't promise you

That I will be the only one around when your hope falls down

But we're young,

Open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world.

And love,

This city breathes the plague of loving things more than their creators

I ran away

I could not take the burden of both me and you

It was too fast

Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break

When it was a promise I could not make

What if I was wrong?

What if I was wrong?

Oh, what if I was wrong?

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

And, oh, hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

And now this land

Means less and less to me without you breathing through its trees

At every turn

The water runs away from me and the halo disappears

I'm not whole when you're not here

So what if I was wrong?

What if I was wrong?

Oh, what if I was wrong?

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

And, oh, hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

So hold on to what you believed in the light

Sentence Prayer

O Lord, in Whom is our hope, remove far from us, we pray Thee, empty hopes and presumptuous confidence. Make our hearts so right with Thy most holy and loving heart, that hoping in Thee we may do good; until that day when faith and hope shall be abolished by sight and possession, and love shall be all in all. Amen

http://www.beliefnet.com/Prayers/Christian/Hope/Prayer-Of-Hope.aspx#