Deuteronomy 4:29
Seek God with Your Heart
29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Luke 20:37-38
The Living God
37 But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Hebrews 6:17-20
Hope is the Anchor to our Souls
17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf.
Romans 8:22-25
Hope that is seen is no Hope at All
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
John 17:3
Now This is Eternal Life
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Hebrews 11:1-40
By Faith
1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for.
3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
5By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions about his bones.
23By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
32And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets, 33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
Wisdom from the Spirit
9However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"— 10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
Faith starts in seeking God…And if we seek God with all our heart, we will find Him…And when we find Him, we then know that He exists...We must believe that God is exists and is alive, to have faith in Him…He is The Living God, and He exists, and is real…Because anyone who has faith in God, must believe that He exists…We cannot believe in what He says or what is written in the Bible, if we first do not believe He exists…Therefore, our faith does not make God real, but God makes our faith real…
Faith in Him, provides us hope…When we seek Him, then find Him, then know Him -then that He is eternal...Jesus tells us that very thought...Jesus says this is eternal life: to know Him and the One He sent...Through hope springs these eternal things...And hope is the anchor to our soul…To have this hope, we therefore need to know God and His Son...Faith is believing in these things we cannot see…Hope that can actually be seen is no actually hope at all…St. Paul teaches us that who really hopes for things they can see and already have and know and know about...That is not hope, or what hope is about...
By our faith, we believe that God has created the universe...We can still believe even though others may believe differently and have different theories like evolution, that leave out God in their theories…In faith, we understand we must sacrifice things in life…There will be troubles in life...For what good is there in life if we are happy every second of everyday...There would be no contrast between happy and unhappy...We realize that there must be some suffering and some sacrifice in life to find good...And when it comes to God, He is the Ultimate Good...He made the ultimate sacrifice with His Son, in His love for us...So we must give to Him our all (like He gave us), and understand that He is the Way, the Truth, and our very Life…So how and what we think about God is being eternal lives on, with others…God knows all these things in our very hearts…
Good men do their very best to please God and walk with Him…Those men are our Great Saints...We should look up to them and learn from them…God may challenge us in life to leave what we know, and go somewhere else, to meet someone new, to do something we are very uncomfortable in doing…He might challenge us when we are young or challenge our minds when we have weakened and aged-barren bodies when we are older...Bur by faith God helps us do great and difficult things and making them look ordinary...God sometimes in men's lives have them do ordinary things that are later looked on as being great, difficult, and not so ordinary...But in either case, we must trust in Him…All the Great Saints and the men and women of Great Faith trusted Him...They were still living by faith when they died...All the Great Ones of Great Faith knew that God had planned something better for all believers and that those things would be perfect, and in a perfect place called heaven...There mind could not comprehend what it was, for their eyes had never seen it, and their ears had never heard it -but they knew and trust in His will, and His Plan...