Christian Affirmations

One of the Bible concordance meanings for hope is to have a joyful and confident expectation. The scriptures encourage us to have our faith and hope (joyful and confident expectation) in God. The Bible goes onto say that this joyful and confident expectation we have is a lively hope. The word lively means to enjoy a real life, a true life, an active, blessed and endless life, a fresh, strong, active and powerful life.

The hope that we have in Christ Jesus is just not an empty hope so sought of feeling, it is a real tangible and exciting hope.

Here are some affirmations of hope from the Bible:

My hope and faith is in God

In Gods great mercy he has given me a new birth into a living hope

I have a hope that is an anchor for my soul

I will lay hold of the hope that is set before me

I have a joyful and confident expectation of living forever

I rejoice in hope

I am save by hope

I have a joyful and confident expectation through patience and comfort of the scriptures

I am filled with joy and peace in believing and I abound in hope

I have a hope laid up for me in heaven

The Bible says that there is a hope that purifies us.

1 John 3:3-4

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

In Psalm 130:5 it says, I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.

It is in Gods word that we should place our joyful and confident expectations and of course by extension Jesus Christ because he was the word made flesh. By reading and saying Bible affirmations of hope we remind ourselves of the much bigger picture and the wonderful things God has planned for us. It is easy to take our eyes off these things when we are going through the every day things we come against in life so it pays to sit back and take stock sometimes and to remember the hope that we have through Christ Jesus.

Forgiveness is the most powerful weapon you have in the quest for happiness. If you can easily forgive then no one can really ver hurt you and take away from your joy. It is for your utmost benefit to be able to forgive.

Other meanings for the word forgive in the Bible concordance are:

To send away, to bid going away or depart, to send forth, yield up, to expire, to let go, let alone, let be, to disregard, to leave, not to discuss, to omit, to let go, give up a debt, forgive, to remit, to give up, keep no longer.

So here are some affirmations of forgiveness from all of those meanings:

I will forgive
I will not hold onto the pain and suffering any longer I will send it away
I bid this bitterness to depart
I will yield up my unforgiveness
It is time for this bitterness to expire
I will now let it go
I will not think on this problem any more as it is time to leave it alone
It is time to let it be
I will disregard what was done to me
I will no longer discuss the issue and leave it alone
I omit that trespass
I definitely now can let it go
I know it hurt but I now give up that debt
I will keep this no longer

God has forgiven all of our trespasses. I’m sure you can think of plenty of terrible things you have did in the past and wouldn’t it be horrible if God wouldn’t let go of those things and kept holding it against you. God has demonstrated how to truly love and how to have a real and genuine relationship. The key is in forgiveness.

I am sure you have heard of the saying that love conquers all and it is very true. Love, along with forgiveness are the two most powerful substances known to man. With unconditional love you have no fear, you hold no grudges and you have perfect peace that so many strive to find.

The Bible has a lot to say about love and even goes as far as to say that God is love. That statement alone should alert us to the fact that if we want to find love then we need to go to the place where it is. God is love; God is that place where love can be found.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13 is quite often referred to as the love chapter. It uses the word charity which actually means love. Let’s break down the verses of this chapter to see what love is and is not.

Love is patient and kind
Love is not jealous
Love does not boast
Love is not proud
Love is not rude
Love is not self-seeking
Love is not easily angered
Love keeps no record of wrongs
Love is never glad about wrongdoing
Love rejoices with the truth
Love protects
Love always trusts
Love always hopes
Love always perseveres
Love never fails

Wow! How great is love?

So let’s see how many affirmations we can get out of this chapter.

I have the love of God and so…

I am patient and kind

I am will not allow myself to be jealous

I will not boast

I will not be proud

I am never rude

I will not be self seeking

I am not easily angered

I will keep no record of the mistakes others make

I will not rejoice about evil things

I will rejoice in the truth

I will protect others by loving them

I will always trust and not think the worse

I will always hope

I will continue to persevere

My love will never fail

Finally let’s finish with this scripture: Romans 5:5 – And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Where is the love of God? What has been shed abroad in our hearts? How did God put his love in our hearts? All the answers are in the above verse.

By the way shed abroad means to: pour out, to distribute largely. He hasn’t just sprinkle this love onto our hearts he has poured it into our hearts in large portions.

As we get older and experience pain and hurt from broken relationships and friendships slowly our trust gets eroded and we become more wary of people, which is quite sad. However there is someone we can totally trust with one hundred percent confidence who will never let us down, and that person is Jesus Christ.

In fact Jesus promises us that he will never leave us or forsake us.

How good is Psalm 5:11-12? But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

Look at all the affirmations contained in these verses…

I will put my trust in the Lord
Because I put my trust in the Lord I will rejoice
I will ever shout for joy
The Lord defends me
I love the name of the Lord
I am joyful because I love the name of the Lord
God blesses me
Gods favour surrounds me like a shield

From other scriptures from the Bible we can find affirmations like:

I will trust in the Lords mercy
My heart trusts in the Lord
I trust in the Lord and I am surrounded by mercy
I am blessed when I trust in the Lord
I will trust in the Lord at all times

The word trust means to have confidence in, feel secure, have hope in and to be sure about. It is a shame that the great majority of relationships are not realising the full potential of love that is available because one or both partners are holding back in the fear of being hurt on someway. Jesus has proven to us that he will never hold anything back; he even died for us before we were in a relationship with him. We can have full confidence in him so the onus then falls back on us to completely love him without holding anything back. We can do this, we can stop holding back in fear because he is someone we can totally trust.

The question that you need to sit back and take stock of today is in whose strength are you relying upon in your day to day life? If it is your own strength then you are destined for failure. Turn things around today by relying upon Gods strength.

How is your heart going? Would you like a stronger heart? Then take hold of Psalm 73:26 which say, God is the strength of my heart.

You don’t want to be afraid anymore? Then Psalm 27:1 is for you because it says, Who shall you fear? When the Lord is the strength of your life, of whom shall you be afraid?

Are you going through a hard time? Then Psalm 37:39 says the Lord will give you strength in a time of trouble. Psalm 46:1 also says that God is our refuge and strength, a very pleasant help in trouble.

Some Christian Affirmations of Strength

God is the rock of my strength
I will go in the strength of the Lord
The Lord is my strength and song
God is the strength of my heart
It is God who girdeth me with strength
I will be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might
I will be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus
In the day I cried to the Lord he answered me and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

In Luke 11:21 it says, When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.

We are in the house of God (the palace) and Jesus is our strong man who protects the palace and we are his goods and in total peace and security. We don’t have to struggle in our strength when we have a strong man who is way more then powerful watching over us.