{"id":4160,"date":"2025-10-23T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:43:55","slug":"hope-that-holds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/hope-that-holds-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope That Holds On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, October 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hope That Holds On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.\u00a0<strong>Hebrews 6:19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hope is powerful. It\u2019s what keeps us moving forward when we feel stuck. It\u2019s what lifts our eyes when everything around us looks dark. But the kind of hope the Bible speaks of the hope found in Christ is not fragile or fleeting. It\u2019s described as an anchor for the soul.\u00a0Why an anchor? Because life often feels like open water, unpredictable, shifting, and at times, overwhelming. And when waves of anxiety, grief, or doubt hit, we need more than surface-level encouragement. We need something deeper. Something stronger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus is that anchor. His promises don\u2019t fail. His love doesn\u2019t waver. His presence never leaves. When we\u2019re tempted to drift into fear or despair, His hope holds us in place.\u00a0The storms may come, and trust me they will, sometimes it will come at you so fast that you will find yourself shaken but take heart no matter the winds or the waves you won\u2019t be uprooted. You\u2019re anchored in something eternal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:<em>\u00a0Father, thank You for the hope I have in You, a hope that holds me steady when life feels unstable. Teach me to lean into that hope daily, to trust that You are who You\u00a0 say You are. Anchor my heart in Your truth so that I may stand firm, no matter what comes. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 23 Hope That Holds On We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.\u00a0Hebrews 6:19 Hope is powerful. It\u2019s what keeps us moving forward when we feel stuck. It\u2019s what lifts our eyes when everything around us looks dark. But the kind of hope the Bible speaks of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}