David said, “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, 
I will not be shaken. 
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. 
You have made known to me the paths of life; 
you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ Acts 2 v 25 -28 (NIV) In the Bible, hope is defined as a “confident expectation”. Romans 8 v 24 state

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish a

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Cor 5:17) I didn’t grow up in Christian home. When I first talked to my family about my new faith, my brother asked me what it meant to be ‘born again’. I don’t think I explained it very well, telling him something vague about coming to a new understanding of God and his relationship with me. I think for many Christians, being born again is a phrase we throw a