what is under your tree? hope is difficult to embrace in the midst of suffering

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Page 1: What is Under Your Tree? Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the MIDST of Suffering
Page 2: What is Under Your Tree? Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the MIDST of Suffering

What is Under Your

Tree?

Page 3: What is Under Your Tree? Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the MIDST of Suffering
Page 4: What is Under Your Tree? Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the MIDST of Suffering

Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the

MIDST of Suffering

Page 5: What is Under Your Tree? Hope is difficult to EMBRACE in the MIDST of Suffering

A Gift to Give This

Christmas HOPE

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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the

power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope!

(Romans 15:13)

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares

the LORD, plans for welfare and not evil, to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11)

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Are you overflowing with Hope?

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Hope deferred

makes the heart sick…

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We tend to put our

FALSE HOPE in things we

can SEE

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People Possessions

Power

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FALSE HOPE is

rooted in IDOLATRY

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REAL HOPE is NOT Seen

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REAL HOPE is an imperishable,

undefiled, and unfading GIFT

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REAL HOPE is an

ANCHOR for the soul!

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He is OUR HOPE and no one else can take

HIS place!

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It gives you strength to TRUST in God during

your present sufferings

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It allows you PATIENTLY to wait on God’s plan

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It provides the CONFIDENCE for the future

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What is Under Your

Tree?

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