TSK · Romans 4:18

The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house saying,“Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?