God Our Hope
God Works For Our Good
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. - Genesis 50:20
Scripture of the Day
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. - Romans 15:13 (NIV)
Hope is Possible Because God is Present
Learning From Joseph’s Life
10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. - Genesis 37:10-11
Hopelessness often begins when our expectations—especially of people close to us—are shattered.
Hopelessness also grows when we realize we have no power to prevent or change our circumstances.
False hope is dangerous. It teases us, flirts with us, and then slams the door shut in our faces.
Hopelessness often stems from trying to reconcile our obedience with the injustices we face.
Feeling Forgotten
Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. - Genesis 40:23
This is where many of us find ourselves—trapped in hopelessness, unsure when or if the sentence will end.
A danger really sets in at this point and it’s that hopelessness thrives when we lose our ability to trust in God’s promises.
The same God who was with Joseph is the God who works in your life today.
He’s not limited by circumstances, timelines, or human failures.
He didn’t abandon Joseph in the pit or the prison, and He won’t abandon you in your hopelessness.
God’s power to bring hope doesn’t rely on your strength or ability to see the way out.
He works in the unseen, weaving every trial into His greater purpose.
God’s Declarations for Hope
Isaiah 40:28-31
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 64:4
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Isaiah 55:1
Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
John 4:13-14
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Precursor to Hope
This verse promises an overflow of hope, but for some, that may feel impossible.
But look at the part where it says, “so that you may”. So that.
That wording suggests that something has been done to allow the overflow of hope to come.
Two things must happen before an overflow of hope can fill your life.
First, God, the source of our hope actually needs to fill us with joy and peace.
Before an overflow of hope comes, joy and peace must fill our life.
When we read that word fill, it means completely full.
The word joy means “to cause your heart to burst with happiness.”
If you’re feeling hopeless today, that might sound impossible, but it’s the promise of Scripture.
And then there’s peace.
Paul lists joy before peace because joy leads to peace.
Peace quiets the storm in your heart, creating stillness and rest.
When was the last time you heard quietness in your heart?
Here’s the second key for hope to overflow: we must trust in God.
Trusting God works simultaneously with joy and peace filling our lives.
When we trust Him, He deposits joy and peace into us
Trusting God is defined as “the act of habitually believing.”
It’s ongoing—It’s literally a habit in your life that you trust God.
Because trust is continual, it produces a constant filling of joy and peace.
But if joy and peace are absent, we need to ask ourselves: “Have I stopped trusting God?”
While God provides the joy and peace, it’s our ongoing trust in Him that enables us to receive them fully.
How to Trust God
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. - Romans 10:17
Meditate on God’s Word
It’s not enough to read Scripture; it must move from head knowledge to heart conviction.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. - Psalm 119:105
Why meditate every day? Because stress, anxiety, and despair don’t take a day off. You need to be in God’s Word daily to combat the lies of hopelessness.
Allow God’s Word to Deposit as Truth
It’s not enough to read Scripture; it must move from head knowledge to heart conviction.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17
Let God’s Word wash over you and take root.
After reading a passage, take time to pray, asking God to help you believe and apply it as truth.
Don’t just move on—let it transform and renew your mind.
Declare God’s Truth
Once God’s Word has been deposited in you, confess it.
Declare His promises: the Word you’ve read, the truth now renewing your mind, and the hope filling your heart.
When you meditate, believe, and declare God’s Word, you build trust in Him.
Our role is to maintain a relationship of continuing trust in God. Everything else is in His hands, and He never fails.
Call to Hope
Hope doesn’t trickle; it overflows
It comes not from striving but from trusting—trusting in the God who never fails, who fills us beyond what we can imagine or measure.
The overflow of hope in your life isn’t something you can create on your own.
It’s not by your effort or your strength. It’s by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God, who is the source of hope, doesn’t expect you to muster up hope in hopeless circumstances. He knows you can’t.
That’s why He sent His Spirit to dwell in us—to fill us, empower us, and produce in us what we could never achieve on our own.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Isaiah 26:3
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Zechariah 4:6
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Declare this today: “I trust in the God of hope. I trust in His Spirit to fill me with joy, peace, and an overflow of hope. And I trust that His power is greater than my circumstances!”
God is your source of hope.
Trust in Him, and let His Spirit do what only He can do.