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Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

I can honestly attest to the fact that my faith in Christ has empowered me with hope because I believe in and expect the power and goodness of God to be active in my life on my behalf. That hope, that assured expectation, gives me confidence and strength to face disappointments, hurts, failures, and fears because I try to continually remember that this imperfect life isn't all there is!! (Hallelujah and Amen!) While these kinds of things certainly can/do knock me down at times, that hope always helps me refocus, regroup, and get back up to go on. He will complete His good work in me. (Phil.1:6) I want all that Christ desires for me!

Knowing how much the precious hope born of faith has seen me through, I feel so sorry for people who have a meager, vague, spineless kind of hope. So often they get negative and pessimistic, expecting the worst instead of God's best. There's no overcoming power, no "Victory In Jesus"! They just settle in to endure failure. Defeat becomes a comfort zone. Loss becomes the norm. They have narrow tunnel vision that can't see past the next problem or crisis. They're saved, but they don't move forward in kingdom living, and the work of the kingdom suffers for it.

I can't improve on Paul's comprehensive plea. I should pray that believers without strong hope would have the eyes of their hearts enlightened so that they may experience a confident expectation of all that God has called them to. May they get dissatisfied with the lack of joy, peace, and power in their lives and be ready for the light to come on!

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living?

For me hope is the assurance of things I can’t see that I know will happen. As I walk more in the light of Jesus things of this world grow increasing dim. But the things of Christ grow increasing brighter. Like the love of Christ, the assurance that Christ will return one day, that the Word is true, and that love is the only thing that really matters.

What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope?

They have no joy. They are negative and bitter. They look to this world for fulfillment.

How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

That the light of Christ would shine on them. That Satin and his darkness would have no power over them. This light of Christ would bring hope and the hope would bring faith and love. 1 John

The hope we have in Christ Jesus through the Word of God reveals to us how GREAT IS OUR HOPE IN HIM. We cannot lose, if we continue in our faith in OBEDIENCE to His commands....in LOVE. The fulfillment of our Hope in Him may not be here on earth, but while I am here, I am encouraged to persevere and grow in faith and KNOWLEDGE OF WHO HE IS IN MY LIFE. I yearn to know HIm as I am known by Him, and to have that great Agape Love for Him as He reveals it to me and I am able to capture its essence in this life...in our relationship together. That oneness of His presence is coveted, for it creates inside me a hunger and thirsting for MORE OF HIM.

Since my words may not be accepted by others, all I know to do is to let the love of God shine through my own life, in hopes they will SEE HIM AND WANT WHAT I HAVE. The JOY OF MY SALVATION is wonderful inside me, and I pray it is seen by others also, for without it, I would be like those who do not have His Joy...and though they have belief, somehow have not visualized the greatness of their deliverance from sin's grip upon their hearts. As to praying for these, I believe only God can disperse the smoke from their eyes and plugs in their ears, and pray for Him to deliver them from their own deceptive hearts and understanding and to enlighten them with Himself. I do pray for God's protection also from evil influences and lies from Satan to distract them from searching for His TRUTH.. for the Truth will set them free from their lack of hope or trust or joy....and bring them His love into their hearts.

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living?
MY CHRISTIAN HOPE HAS CHANGED MY WAY OF LIVING BY GIVING IT PURPOSE. IT IS THE DRIVING FORCE TO WHICH I DO EVERYTHING.

What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope?
THE RESULT OF A CHRISTIAN WHO ONLY HAS A MINUTE OF HOPE IS DOOM. A LIFE WITHOUT SUBSTANCE. WITH OUT A DEFINED PURPOSE. SORROW AND DESPAIR.

How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?
JUST AS PAUL PRAYS FOR HOPE IN OTHERS. PRAY FOR AN ACTIVE FAITH WITHIN BELEIVERS. PRAY FOR HOPE IN THE COMING DAYS THAT WE HAVE WITH JESUS CHRIST, FOR SUBSTANCE, FOR PURPOSE, FOR JOY AND ENLIGHTMENT.

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

I was lost in a world of depression and despair. Hope allowed the person who was insde me to come back to life. There is now happiness were theire was none. There is joy where there was sadness. There are resources where before I had none. My God, my Father has given this to me - this precious gift.

Without hope there is not much to cling to. No reason to hold on. But you become alive with Christ.

How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? I was living in a world with no sense of direction, hope has led me to find purpose and a sense of direction, responsibility towards family and those around. Appreciate the loved ones.

What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? They panic when sittuations arise. And also arent sure of what to do in times of sittuations.

How would you pray for hope to be borne in others? Lord given to them that hope, peace and love within you so that you children may find peace and purpose in life.

Thank you Lord. Amen

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?


Christian Hope is the best a person can have. If a person doesn't have hope, then there is no use living. If he lives for the present only without any inkling of what there is in the future for him, there is no purpose in living. I have changed for the better. I know there is lot to be accomplished while living now. I know that my future is very well taken care of. I know there is a crown waiting for me at the end of my life here and I know what lies there for my next 'future'. What a wonderful hope.

Christians without this hope are the ' living dead'. People who don't expect much accomplish nothing. Thier life is a sham, humbug, a caricature for the real one. They scrape through their skin of their teeth, so to speak. What a hopeless life !! Instead living like prince and princesses, they live like paupers, living on the crumbs that fall from the Kings table. What a miserable life. In fact they should be the most pitied people.


Praying that thier spiritual eyes may be opened and that would see and experience the riches and glory of Christ right here so that they will have the hope of better than this to come. Praying that their spiritual ambience will broaden to take a peek of the vision of the Glory of Jesus that they will be sharing in future with Him.

That I may have power through God Whom strengthens me. My hope is in the Lord! I'm looking forward to seeing Him face to face on that Glorious Day and all earthly things will pass away. I'm watching and praying for that day.. Hallelujah!!!
Without hope the everyday living is very drab and joyless. They have very little faith and have the "why me" attitude. Life without the expectation of Jesus coming back to earth to rule & reign is a very dull life and they have nothing to look forward to.
That just as the song says the the eyes of their hearts will be opened and they will accept Jesus and all of His Fullness. That they will allow the Holy Spirit to work in them and through them.

Q2 How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be bore in others?

It turned my life from ashes to beauty! They live a life of depair, and no hope. I would pray that the Lord will open the eyes of one's heart to see the world we live in turn from ashes to beauty. We need to be praying for a broken and fallen world all around us, in the lives of those around us no matter where they are from.

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

WOW - have I changed - - my wife teasingly asks who I am because I am so different from the man she first knew. We have a whole new way of looking at things once we have the hope of our Savior in us. THere is nothing I fear, nothing I cannot do, and a love that I have never experienced since I came to faith. God has brought me from darkness into His marvelous light - - I can only be humble and shine that light to others for His kingdom.

If Christians have only a meager hope - then are they really believers. If they knew the God I know then they would have abundant hope.

I would pray for humbleness for others to see God at His fullest - - for them to be more in the Word - to find out the greatness of God

How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

I have much more joy and peace in my life. For one with meager or minute hope the opposite is true, there is listlessness, apathy and sadness in their life. That they receive a revealtion of the magnitude of the love of Christ for each and every one of us.

My christian hope is not as strong as it should be. I did change some of the ways that I live, and I believe that is the Holy Spirit changing our hearts, but I still struggle everyday with making more changes. It is not easy to make changes in our lives, even if we know that it is the best thing for us to do. All we can do is spend time with our father and ask him for his help with what we are struggling with.

I ask God to break the bond or bonds that is holding that person or people down. I also ask him to give that individual a yearning to want something better for themselves.

I've become more "expectant" of God and His manifold blessings. At first, all teaching was that you really shouldn't expect anything from God, then I find that God expects me to expect great things from Him. My "hope" shot through the roof. I'm here now and need now things for daily living. And I've not taken a vow of poverty. If what I've asked God for today doesn't arrive, hope says there's always tomorrow.

Downcast, hopeless, listless (lifeless) et al. If there's no hope of a tomorrow, why live today. Since God holds my future (Jer. 29:11) He's promised me that its a good one. I still continue to look beyond the hill's from whence cometh my help.

I guess I'd have to take a page out of the Apostle's book. By asking God to please open their eyes. I'm reminded of the Prophet who asked God to open his servants eyes that he might see, that they were surrounded by the help that they needed. What Christians always need, is always there, we just can't see it without hope. So I'd start by asking too, for revelatory insight.

I am so looking forward to that day, except, for my lost family members. I need Jesus to wait until their future is secure too. But I am joyful and feel so loved, and special. I just want them to be too. My hope has changed everything about my living. I have a future beyond what I can imagine. I am very blessed.

I think we lose sight of Jesus, and the world captures us back for a minute until we realize that we have lost our hope, and quickly get back on the path. It's like the shadows, if you step out of the light just a step, you are in the shadows; not completely dark, although you can see the dark.

I pray that God will bind the darkness that surrounds someone, and opens their eyes to experience true love, and the realization of what they are really in need of. If they understand that they need Jesus, and then are able to feel the real love He has to offer, that will give them hope, especially if they've never been truly loved before.

How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living?
i'm not as angry any more. most things don't seem to be as important as before (minimal). anything that's important for me to live will be provided and so i don't streee over it as i use to. i get along better with some that i didn't before.

What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope?
you get what you put out. min for min.

How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?
i pray by asking GOD if he sees it in thier future to give them salavation.

Recently I found myself as being one with "no hope" and was ready to call it quits. Hopelessness is probably the worst feeling that one could ever have. I was reminded by a dear friend that God still loves me even though I was ready to kill myself and that she and her mother were praying for me to find hope. I suddenly found myself remembering scriptures and cried to God to give me hope in my lost world. He opened my eyes to see that my task is not finished and that my hope lies in Him. He reminded me to believe in the work He is doing in and through me and to not let go of the hope He has given me. I go on everyday, with the faith and hope that God will use me in whatever manner He see's fit so that I may be a good witness for others and help bring hope to them also.

I believe that they can lose hope altogether. I also believe that with intercession, someone standing in the gap, they can come to have great hope in all things.

I would pour my heart out to God for them. I know how hopelessness feels and I would stand in the gap for as long as it takes to help them get through and find hope in something.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

My Christian Hope has given me a way of living that has meaning and truth to it. I am not floundering around in a dark and lonely world where relationships are thin and scarce, but relationships in God's house are loving, forgiving and truthful. I am valued as a person and encouraged. Jesus loves me and will never leave me or abandon me. His blood was not too dear a price to pay for me and nothing is too much for me to give to Him. This is a world where love reigns in the present. Even if there were no Heaven to look forward to it would be worth giving all to Jesus to live in Truth. But there is Heaven to place my treasures in, and life is more abundant than I could ever dream. There is purpose to my life, and that is to take others with me to that Holy place. There is revelation by the grace of the Holy Spirit which gives life to every day. My joy is rich - the joy of the Lord is my strength in very truth!What more can I possibly ask than to serve Him as He has served me.

If Christians are ignorant of all the possibilities of living life with Jesus, and live without that hope, in that ignorance, then faith will not blossom and fuitfulness will be lost. Joy will not be measured, and they will not affect people around them for the Gospel. No -one wants a message without hope.

This is my lifetime's work - to pray that the Living Hope may be born in others. There is nothing of greater importance on the face of this earth than that people should rejoice in the hope which is in Christ Jesus. Wealth, success, friends, travel, nothing can replace the Living Hope we have in Jesus. No-one can teach us the wisdom that He does. There is no Truth outside of Him. No-one and nothing can satisfy as does the body and blood of Jesus taken in holiness and faith, in spirit and in truth.

My christian hope is that i have complete trust and obedience towards God all the days of my life. It is knowing that i have the light in my life and that i can able better to express that light in others.To know that im not lost but iam found in christ who substains me. It changed me from the inside out and i have this greater belief

Q2. (1:18) How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living? What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope? How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?


How has your Christian "hope" changed your way of living?

It give me something to look forward to. Without hope in Christ we have no hope. It gives me a new way to think about things.


What is the result of Christians with only a meager or minute hope?

They have nothing to look forward to. I would not want to be without Christ. They see things from the negative side. Where we look to Jesus for our hope.


How would you pray for hope to be borne in others?

I would pray for them to be saved. And to learn to trust him. If we don't trust him we have no hope.