{"id":6352,"date":"2016-12-26T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T08:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2016-12-26T00:20:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T08:20:52","slug":"our-reason-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/26\/our-reason-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Reason for Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

“And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Psalms 17:15
\nAs for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 5:7
\nBut I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house<\/strong>. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.<\/p>\n

Joshua 24:15
\nAnd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 119:111
\nYour testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.<\/p>\n

Job 19:26-27
\nAnd after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,\u00a0\u00a0whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold<\/strong>, and not another. My heart faints within me!<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 3:18
\nAnd we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Revelation 7:16-17
\nThey shall hunger no more<\/strong>, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.\u00a0For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revelation 21:3-4
\nAnd I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, \u201cBehold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.\u00a0\u00a0He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Job 14:12
\nso a man lies down and rises not again;<\/strong> till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 26:19
\nYour dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!<\/strong> For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.<\/p>\n

Matthew 27:52-53
\nThe tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.<\/p>\n

1 John 3:2-3
\nBeloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.<\/p>\n

Philippians 3:21
\nwho will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body,<\/strong> by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself<\/p>\n

Do you ever wonder about our bodies and what happens to them after death? \u00a0I recently saw a very interesting comment in Facebook “we are not going to get out of this life alive”. \u00a0 I wonder if we know this but don’t really ever think about it. \u00a0\u00a0God’s word says \u00a0Genesis: “By the sweat of your face\u00a0you shall eat bread,\u00a0till you return to the ground,\u00a0for out of it you were taken;
\nfor you are dust,\u00a0and to dust you shall return.\u201d \u00a0And Ecclesiastes: “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.” \u00a0And again in Revelations: “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” \u00a0We need to be mindful of the fact that death of our our earthly body is not the end of our existence. \u00a0It is the beginning of our life apart from time and forevermore in eternity. There \u00a0is no second chance for a do over once time has ended for you’re on earth. \u00a0The decision made this side of eternity will determine if you will have life ever after with God in heaven or life forever in the lake of fire. \u00a0The “decision” to acknowledge \u00a0you are a sinner and separated from God. \u00a0“God so loved the world that He gave His only son that who so ever would believe in him would have everlasting life.” \u00a0The decision after acknowledging that your a sinner is to trust by faith in the saving redemptive work of Christ on the cross. \u00a0Everyone will give account – some to their own damnation and others into the loving arms of God. \u00a0I am saddened by how many people I know who care less about God, eternity, and eternal life. \u00a0God, open the eyes, heart, and mind of those who are neglecting You. Keep renewing our\u00a0eyes, heart, and mind to Your awesome power, might, honor and glory so that we might worship you more and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!”   Psalms 17:15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied … Continue reading “Our Reason for Hope”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2157,2155,1754,2159,2158,2165,806,2174,530,2169,2170,2168,2163,2161,2160,2156,2162,2171,2166,2173,2172,2167,1161,913,2164],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abundance-of-your-steadfast-love","tag-behold-you-face","tag-bow-down","tag-but-as-for-me-and-my-house","tag-choose-this-day","tag-comes-from-the-lord","tag-destroyed","tag-former-things-passed-away","tag-glory","tag-god-will-wipe-away-every-tear","tag-he-will-dwell-with-them","tag-he-will-guide-them","tag-heritage","tag-in-my-flesh-i-shall-see-god","tag-joy-of-my-heart","tag-likeness","tag-my-hear-faints-within-me","tag-no-more-crying","tag-no-more-hunger","tag-no-more-mourning","tag-no-more-pain","tag-no-more-thirst","tag-satisfied","tag-serve-the-lord","tag-transformed"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}