1. Our souls can be cast down.

2. We can hope in God.

3. We can hope in the Living God.

4. When we hope in God, we can praise Him.

1. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
C. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand: all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.
2. When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil.
3. His oath, his covenant, his blood, support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay.

4. When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found: dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.
Edward Mote https://hymnary.org/text/my_hope_is_built_on_nothing_less

Sermon Questions:

1. When has there been a time that you have been "without hope?" How did you receive hope?

2. Have you seen souls that are downcast? How does that appear?

3. What are some other key Bible verses/concepts that encourage you during seasons of hopelessness?

4. Who is a person of hope around you, and how has their hopefulness encouraged you?

5. What stood out to you from the repetition of Psalm 42:5, 11; 43:5?

6. Where is a place in your life today that you need God's hope?