This is a quick and easy read/review! It's a study journal with prompts, so just requires a few minutes to understand and put to application.
Unlike most journals, it adds a worship portion with lyrics and a link to a playlist. Also, it gives a powerful template that can be applied to any notebook without the need for buying multiple journals. The teaching is solid and the practice is life-changing!
I love how it gives a basic framework that ultimately aims people toward God. Nothing builds hope like the living Hope which is found in Jesus!
Hope isn’t something you will into existence. It is something that is produced in a well-tended garden, one that flourishes with the constant presence of gratitude, praise and worship, wisdom from God, time in His Word, prayer, and reflection. True growth in the Christian faith requires these things, and they don’t only produce hope. They bring you closer to the source of all good things, closer to God Himself.
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Praise is the prescription for hope. The garden of hope requires praise foremost, then as consequence of praise: grace, wisdom, faith, and proper perspectives.
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Today, I am grateful for a God who is truly good. There is no malice in Him toward His children. He loves me, and He desires a full and present life for me with Him. I am also grateful for people in my life who worship faithfully. They are a great example for me and many others. I want to be like that, one after God’s heart.
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It is the darkness, the difficulty, the despair the drive us a God who pours hope out like He does His grace. And it is his grace that becomes the foundation for unshakable hope. Through praise, we recognize His grace. Through grace, we see through the world’s economy to something much greater. By grace, we walk with hope.
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One of the tenets of worship—and the Christian life— is to get outside of ourselves. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, the things of this world fade away. When we strive to be like Him, we begin to seek out ways to serve rather than to be served.