O Prisoners of Hope!

Each day I will post texts from whatever I am reading that particularly convict and encourage me.  I pray they do the same for you.

From Zechariah...

8:7-8, 13 - I will save my people...I will bring them back...they will be my people, and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness.  ...Just as you have been a curse among the nations, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.  Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.

God, though I have been a curse among the nations, and sometimes still am...right in my own backyard, I thank you that you have saved me.  I will not fear, for you are with me, you are the strength of my hands!

9:12; 10:8-9 - Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.  I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them...  Though I scattered them...they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.

God, you have done exactly as you have promised me.  You gathered me to yourself; you redeemed me.  I remember you now and my children live with me.  I thank God that you saved Brandon and I pray for the one who does not know you; gather her in, Lord; her and her family with her!  Send forth your victorious Word, O God, and bring the stranger home!