Faith is not Hope. Faith does not say, I'm hoping what I believe is true - Faith knows that it is true (real) and relates to the Hope correspondingly. My dictionary says for corresponding: having or participating in the same relationship. In terms of Christianity this means having the same access and Relationship with God the Father as Jesus did (Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” -- JOHN 20:17) in the Light (5This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. -- 1 JOHN 1:5-7) and actually participating of the very selfsame nature! (by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. -- 2 PETER 1:4). This is what Faith enables, if you do not enjoy (know and walk/rejoice in) these Gracious Priviledges then your Faith is fake! Faith KNOWS God and LOVES (Obeys) Him!


FAITH, HOPE and LOVE:

But no reckoning was made with them of the money that was given into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. 2 KINGS 22:7 Darby.

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man : but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. 1 TIMOTHY 1:13 Darby.

Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust? 2 KINGS 18:19 NKJV.

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman. GENESIS 34:3 NKJV.

And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. MARK 12:33 NKJV.


CREATION:

24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

29 And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. GENESIS 1:24-31 RSV.


THANKSGIVING:

Lord, thankyou for sleep! After a physically or mentally demanding day there is nothing like a good sleep to get away from it all! Lord, please strengthen and confirm me and my Brethren (Your Children) in the world so we can stand before you and be counted worthy of attaining to the Resurrection from the dead (Luke 20:35) and "be satisfied when I [we] awake in Your likeness" (Psalm 17:15) ROMANS 8:25 Weymouth.