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Paul asks that the God of hope fill these believers with all joy and peace "in believing" or as they trust in Him. In other words, Paul is not asking God to simply dump joy and peace into their hearts without cause. He is asking that as these believers trust in God, their faith will bring joy and peace to their hearts.

Romans 15:13 Teaches that True Hope, Joy & Peace can Only be Found in God. May the God of hope… God, we praise you for the hope that is found in you. For all who know you, we do not live in despair. We know there is always, always, always a light at the end of the tunnel no matter how dark it seems.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.

God is the one who causes us to hope for good things. I pray that God will bless you very much. I pray that he will cause you to be happy and to have peace in your minds.

God is a God of Hope. His thoughts toward His children are of good and not of evil, to give us an expected end. His plans are not of failure, hopelessness, or destruction. No! Don't let your hope die.

The Greek Word for hope is 'ἐλπίς' (elpís), which literally means 'Expectation of good'. The Father wants us filled with joy, hope and abounding in the expectation of good by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hope grows out of peace and provides the environment where God's love may flourish in our hearts. And love is the fulfillment of hope. It is the ultimate goal, the greatest thing of all. Let's look together at this relationship, or rather this sequence of faith, peace, hope and love that Paul shares with us here.

you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope. by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13.

In 2 Thessalonians 3:16, Paul wrote this: “Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times, in all ways. The Lord be with you all.”

2 Thessalonians 3:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Now may the Lord of peace Himself grant you His peace at all times and in every way [that peace and spiritual well-being that comes to those who walk with Him, regardless of life's circ*mstances]. The Lord be with you all.

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Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a short prayer by Paul for the Christians in Rome. The verse also is used as a benediction. It is a reminder that God is the source of all blessings.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you will abound in hope and overflow with confidence in His promises.

13I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

By placing our trust in him we have the privilege of engaging in an uneven exchange. We give Him our discouragement, and he offers us overflowing joy, peace and hope. We do not have to live discouraged. We do not have to be perpetually stuck in a place of despair or hopelessness.

Hope is a deep knowledge that evil does not have the last word, because Christ was victorious over sin on the cross. One day the world will be made anew, and it will be a place of justice, joy, love, and peace. Biblical peace is about wholeness and things being right in our relationships, bodies, minds, and world.

But there is this clear difference: Peace can be a subjective feeling in the heart or an objective state of affairs between two formerly hostile parties. Joy, on the other hand, only refers to a subjective feeling in the heart. There is no such thing as an objective joy outside of the experience of joy in the heart.

Romans 15 concludes Paul's teaching that those strong in faith ought to sacrifice their own desires to live in harmony with other believers. Paul shows that God always planned to welcome the Gentile nations, and his mission is to introduce Gentiles to the message of salvation by faith in Christ.

Romans 15:13 tells us our God is a God of Hope. That's because God has not left us to face the struggles of life alone. He is with us in both the good and bad times. He knows we have temptation and that we sin in spite of our faith.

13May God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit. 14My brothers and sisters, I myself feel sure that you are full of goodness, that you have all knowledge, and that you are able to teach one another.