Episode 200: The Assurance of Things Hoped For

This final episode of 2024 is a deeply personal conversation as Dot and Cara reflect on a year marked by challenges, growth, and their fight to hold on to hope. We’re looking at Romans 4:18-25 to be reminded of Abraham’s unwavering faith, even when circumstances seemed impossible and to renew our conviction to place our hope not in outcomes, but in God Himself. If you're feeling weary or uncertain, pull up a chair and join us—because Jesus is Emmanuel, our hope in every season.Got a question about today’s episode or something else you’d like to hear us talk about on the show? Let us know! Episode recap:Start by writing down Romans 4:18-25 (0:13)This is our last conversation for 2024 (2:30)When we struggle with hope, it’s because our eyes our fixed on circumstances (7:38)Do you believe the promises God has made? (13:27)If you believe something, but don’t live out that belief, what good is that? (20:01)It’s okay to pray for very specific things (25:27)Faith means holding on to the fact that God will, if it’s best for you (30:00)Hope keeps your heart from becoming bitter and hard (38:00)Either I believe God loves me or I don’t (40:18)He loves me and wants a relationship with me and that is what gives me hope (42:00)Are you interested in having Dot come and speak to your community? Email us at [email protected] Write this Down! on YouTubeFind Dot Bowen on Instagram and Facebook Scripture Verse: Romans 4:18-25 “In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”