TSK · Romans 4:18

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

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

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?