Comments on: Hoping in the God of Hope (Part 4) http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/07/27/hoping-in-the-god-of-hope-part-4/ A Ministry of Shepherds' Fellowship Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:54:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas Twitchell http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/07/27/hoping-in-the-god-of-hope-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-41187 Thomas Twitchell Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:55:54 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/07/27/hoping-in-the-god-of-hope-part-4/#comment-41187 Thanks for including in this series the tri-partite nature of God, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. To often God knows all but is not present in that knowledge with power in our thinking. Yet, Scripture puts God everywhere in power with His intimate knowing of all that is, Ps. 139. It is God who works in us, what a powerful statement, but it gets better. He works the willing and the doing of his good pleasure. I like that. The word pleasure here has the essential meaning of will. There they are, his present power working in us the counsel of his own will. Now, that is hope,eh? Thanks for including in this series the tri-partite nature of God, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. To often God knows all but is not present in that knowledge with power in our thinking. Yet, Scripture puts God everywhere in power with His intimate knowing of all that is, Ps. 139. It is God who works in us, what a powerful statement, but it gets better. He works the willing and the doing of his good pleasure. I like that. The word pleasure here has the essential meaning of will. There they are, his present power working in us the counsel of his own will. Now, that is hope,eh?

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The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.

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By: Anon.

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said,
You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?

Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.

When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

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