Blue  v1-3 Ch 13 Jud

 

These 3 Remain: Faith, Hope, Love
 1 Cor 13:13

 There's a time to speak to what is not as though it were and there's a time to confess what is, even though it's negative, to speak then follow it by what will be.  Discernment & Balance are key.  Discernment is looking for the place of faith Heb 11:1 (more so than who dunnit and which spirit is behind it, although discernment does this also).

Hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one hope for what it sees (Ro 8:24).

~With Elisha and the widow woman whose son was dead, her confession was that "It is Well."  2 Kgs 4:23, 26
                               
          -And her son was raised (v32-37)

~With Manoah's wife, the Angel of the LORD told the truthful negative fact, "You are sterile and childless, BUT you are going to conceive and have a son..." Jud 13:3

 Negative confessions are followed by positive ones.  Speak to the hope in the story, even though it's invisible.

 

The righteousness of God is found in the Gospel of Christ and is revealed from faith to faith (Ro 1:16-17).  Stand by faith (v20).