expectations

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

²⁸The expectation of the just is rejoicing. But the hope of the impious will perish.

¹⁸For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away.

⁶Yet, truly, my soul will be subject to God. For from him is my patience.

⁸And God is able to make every grace abound in you, so that, always having what you need in all things, you may abound unto every good work,

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.

⁸I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

¹²For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

⁵And he looked intently at them, hoping that he might receive something from them.

¹⁴So, too, is the doctrine of wisdom to your soul. When you have found it, you will have hope in the end, and your hope shall not perish.

³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

²⁰by means of my own expectation and hope. For in nothing shall I be confounded. Instead, with all confidence, now just as always, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us:

¹The hand of the Lord was set upon me, and he led me away in the Spirit of the Lord, and he released me in the midst of a plain which was full of bones. ²And he led me around, through them, on every side. Now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceedingly dry. ³And he said to me, “Son of man, do you think that these bones will live?” And I said, “O Lord God, you know.” ⁴And he said to me, “Prophesy about these bones. And you shall say to them: Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord! ⁵Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live. ⁶And I will set sinews upon you, and I will cause flesh to grow over you, and I will extend skin over you. And I will give you spirit, and you shall live. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”

¹⁹And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

²³Amen I say to you, that whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and who will not have hesitated in his heart, but will have believed: then whatever he has said be done, it shall be done for him.

²⁸You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.

³Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.