FAITH CAPSULE: Trust and hope testify to boldness and character.
Acts 16
As an acclaimed believer, having boldness and character will carry the mark of a winning combination.
Paul and Silas demonstrated a life of boldness and character.
One with trust and hope in the truth of God shall live life for the glory of God as having boldness and character.
Paul commanded a spirit out of a girl to affect the profit of the masters. Paul and Silas were seized and dragged to jail. (Acts 16:19)
While at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, a great earthquake broke the prison, with chains loosed.
Paul and Silas did not flee but waited and spoke a word that gave salvation to the hearers and led a family to baptism.
Trust and hope demonstrated by Paul and Silas testifies to their boldness and character.
Without a doubt, the word of God is the truth.
Jesus is the word of God.
Do you know the truth?
Are you abiding in the word?
To abide in the word is to know the truth.
Knowing the truth is the key, but knowing about completes not.
Abide in the word like Paul and Silas, the evidence that you know the truth, to be free.
In the wicked world, get to know the truth about trust and hope in the Lord and be free.
In this world, let trust and hope in the Lord be complete in you, which is the position to be blessed by God.
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”
Are you claiming trust without hope?
Claiming trust in the Lord is not complete without having hope in Him.
Do you trust and not hope?
Trust is like a character, while hope is confidence (boldness).
Many trusts in God, and for example, they are active in the church and lack hope for the boldness to stand and claim in God.
Trust is like a character; Hope (confidence) is like boldness.
Do you have trust and hope, boldness, and character?
It is boldness and character that make one free, having the mark of a winner.
King Saul trusted God and waited for seven days as commanded by Samuel. However, when all his people were scattered, he lost hope and had no confidence in the word of God by the prophet Samuel.
Saul trusted to wait but had no hope to stand, wait through for God, and could not be free but lost. (1 Samuel 13)
As an acclaimed believer, with trust and hope, the truth of the word of God will make one a free indeed.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to grow in trust and hope in His word.