Quotes About Hope

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ëMy Name shall be there,í so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.

“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.

May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,

for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëThe jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.í”

So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.

The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”

Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boyís life return to him!”

And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the childís life returned to him, and he lived.

Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.