1. Have hope.

“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” Clare Boothe Luce https://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/h/hope.htm

2. Look outside of yourself.

“He acknowledged the decrepitness of his body.” (Study Bible-https://biblehub.com/romans/4-19.htm)

3. Don't weaken in faith.

“When we realize that it is not our effort but God’s grace and power which matter, then we become optimists, because we are bound to believe that with God nothing is impossible.” (The Letter to the Romans, Barclay, 71)

4. Don't waver in the promise of God.

Sermon Questions

1. What is an area of seeming hopelessness in your life? Can you hope in God for this?

2. What is a way you have developed hope in situations that seem without it?

3. What Biblical stories provide you hope?

4. Describe a time when you looked outside yourself and received hope.

5. What causes you to weaken in faith? What have you seen help expand your faith?

6. What helps you to be unwavering in God's promises?