You Are My Hope

I wait and hope for and expect the Lord; I am brave and of good courage and my heart is stout and enduring. Yes, I wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.
[Adapted from Psalm 27:14]

I will come forward and draw near with a true, honest and sincere heart, in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith - by leaning my entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness - and my heart will be sprinkled and purified from a guilty conscience and my body cleansed with pure water. I will seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope I cherish and confess, and my acknowledgment of it, for He Who promised is reliable, sure and faithful to His word.
[Adapted from Hebrews 10:22-23]

For You are my hope; O Lord God.
[Psalm 71:5]

If I Keep On Asking

If I keep on asking, it will be given me; if I keep on seeking I will find; if I keep on knocking reverently, the door will be opened to me. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be opened.
[Adapted from Matthew 7:7-8]

I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in me will continue until the day of Jesus Christ - right up to the time of His return, developing that good work and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in me.
[Adapted from Philippians 1:6]

Lord, help my heart and courage endure and help my hands be strong in the days that You deal with me.
[Adapted from Ezekiel 22:14]

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me - I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency.
[Philippians 4:13]

The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.
[Psalm 138:8]

I Can Depend on Him

God is faithful, reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and I can depend on Him; by Him I was called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ my Lord.
[Adapted from 1 Corinthians 1:9]

Every word of God is tried and purified; He is a shield to those who trust and take refuge in Him.
[Proverbs 30:5]

I know Your Name, I have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy, and I will lean on and confidently put my trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
[Adapted from Psalm 9:10]

I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I confidently trust!
[Psalm 91:2]

God Himself has said, He will not in any way fail me nor give me up nor leave me without support. He will not, He will not, He will not in any degree leave me helpless nor forsake nor let me down, nor even relax His hold on me!
[Adapted from Hebrews 13:5]

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried. He is a Shield to all those who trust and take refuge in Him. For who is God but the Lord? And who is a Rock except our God?
[2 Samuel 22:31-32]

I give myself up to Him, taking myself out of my own keeping and entrusting myself into His keeping.
[Adapted from Acts 16:31]

A Light to My Path

I am the redeemed of the Lord, and I say so.
[Adapted from Psalm 107:2]

I do not know what to do, but my eyes are upon Him.
[Adapted from 2 Chronicles 20:12]

He knows the thoughts and plans that He has for me, and they are thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give me hope in my final outcome.
[Adapted from Jeremiah 29:11]

My mind plans my way, but the Lord directs my steps and makes them sure.
[Adapted from Proverbs 16:9]

His word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
[Adapted from Psalm 119:105]

Many plans are in my mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for me that will stand.
[Adapted from Proverbs 19:21]

He will bring me by a way that I know not; He will lead me in paths that I have not known. He will make darkness into light before me and make uneven places into a plain. He has determined to do this for me; He will not leave me forsaken.
[Adapted from Isaiah 42:16]

A woman might forget her nursing child, and yet He will not forget me. He has indelibly imprinted and tattooed a picture of me on the palm of each of His hands; I am continually before Him.
[Adapted from Isaiah 49:14-16]

I have a personal knowledge of His mercy, love, and kindness-- I trust and rely on Him, knowing He will never forsake me, no, never.
[Adapted from Psalm 91:14]

I will cry to God Most High, Who performs on my behalf and rewards me. He brings to pass His purposes for me and surely completes them!
[Adapted from Psalm 57:2]