Hope
* to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen (verb)
* Someone or something that can provide help or give you a reason for hoping (noun)
My one word this year is HOPE.
This will be the word that I focus on this year to guide me and change me in lieu of resolutions.
I began praying about which word I should choose a few weeks ago and this word kept showing up in many ways. HOPE is a difficult word to define and I tried to give it more time and pray more specifically thinking maybe I was wrong and God had another word for me-- but HOPE continues to seek me out in my devotional time, in songs I sing, in books I read, in messages I hear and other ways. I can't ignore it anymore. HOPE it is.
I will do a study on HOPE --have already started gathering verses on hope and am amazed. I will hopefully blog about what I learn here throughout the year and how I let HOPE direct me and influence me throughout 2014.
My Bible verse to accompany my one word is Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you are not familiar with this idea you can learn about it at #oneword365 or similarly at #myoneword based on Mike Ashcroft & Rachel Olsen's book My One Word. Youversion, the Bible app is promoting a #verse2014 to focus on for the year. All these can be tweeted, facebooked, instagrammed, or shared on other social media sites.
What about you? Have you one word or a verse you will keep in front of you in 2014 ?
Leave me a comment and let me know your word or verse!
* to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen (verb)
* Someone or something that can provide help or give you a reason for hoping (noun)
My one word this year is HOPE.
This will be the word that I focus on this year to guide me and change me in lieu of resolutions.
I began praying about which word I should choose a few weeks ago and this word kept showing up in many ways. HOPE is a difficult word to define and I tried to give it more time and pray more specifically thinking maybe I was wrong and God had another word for me-- but HOPE continues to seek me out in my devotional time, in songs I sing, in books I read, in messages I hear and other ways. I can't ignore it anymore. HOPE it is.
I will do a study on HOPE --have already started gathering verses on hope and am amazed. I will hopefully blog about what I learn here throughout the year and how I let HOPE direct me and influence me throughout 2014.
My Bible verse to accompany my one word is Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you are not familiar with this idea you can learn about it at #oneword365 or similarly at #myoneword based on Mike Ashcroft & Rachel Olsen's book My One Word. Youversion, the Bible app is promoting a #verse2014 to focus on for the year. All these can be tweeted, facebooked, instagrammed, or shared on other social media sites.
What about you? Have you one word or a verse you will keep in front of you in 2014 ?
Leave me a comment and let me know your word or verse!
1 comment:
I love your idea for doing a Bible study of your "word" for the year and am going to do it! My word for the year is "heal" and my verses of the year are "Praise the Lord! He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." Ps. 147:1, 3 and "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Is. 43:18-19. I chose this word and these verses in light of my very recent, very unexpected, very heartbreaking divorce. God bless you as you "hope."
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