Hope Anchors The Soul
Sunday August 20, 2023
Notes
Acts 27:20 NLT
The terrible storm raged for many days, blotting out the sun and the stars, until at last all hope was gone.
1. CREATED TO HOPE
Proverbs 13:12 NKJV
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 29:18 KJV
Where there is no vision, the people perish…
2. HOPE FOR YOUR SOUL
Hope does for you soul what Faith does for your heart.
2 Corinthians 4:13 NKJV
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
Psalm 42:11 NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
Hebrews 6:19 NKJV
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast…
An anchor keeps you in place when the wind and the waves are raging. You don’t move. Just like faith stabilizes our heart, Hope stabilizes our soul.
Romans 15:13 NKJV
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
3. HOPE CHANGES EVERYTHING
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
1 Samuel 30:4–6 NKJV
Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive. 6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
We all come to a ziklag moment in our lives. The soul of all the people we’re grieved
Ziklag – The root of this word
The verb צוק (suq) means to press someone into giving up something.
The verb צוק (suq) means to press someone into giving up something.
It’s used to describe putting pressure on someone so that this person gives up certain information. It’s also used to describe laying siege to a city in order to force its surrender and loot it. Nouns צוק (soq), צוקה (suqa) and מצוקה (mesuqa) mean distress or oppression. Noun מצוק (musaq) means place or agent of pressure or distress.
1 Samuel 30:18–20 NKJV
So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. 19 And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all. 20 Then David took all the flocks and herds they had driven before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”
Romans 4:18 NKJV
who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
Ephesians 3:20 AMPC
20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]