Confident Hope

"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him.  Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."  Romans 15:13

What is the order of things here?  Trust in the source of hope > joy and peace > confident hope
Hope doesn't just happen, doesn't just appear.  Hope comes from a source. Just as a stream doesn't just happen, there must be a source.  It may by a spring or glacier, but it has a source. God, God alone, is the source of hope.  When we trust (believe) God to be who He is, Hope, then we drink of that stream of hope. That stream of anticipation or expectancy.  As the hope fills our inner being, we experience joy and peace.  Joy and peace can be both emotions and a state of being.  God's hope produces joy and peace in both.  We feel joy and peace and we are characterized by joy and peace.  Furthermore, He causes us to overflow with confident hope [toward others] courtesy the power of the Holy Spirit.  As I have walked through the journey of my father entering into Jesus presence, I have a deeper appreciation for the joy and peace that have run deep and overflowed my being in a confident hope that, though physical death is accompanied by pain and sorrow, I can "take heart, because I (Jesus) have overcome the world." John 16:33  Yes, as we are in Christ Jesus, so we will overcome this world. I am declaring this to you, I have a confident hope, flanked by joy and peace, in this.