New Hope Church

THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM IS TO FEAR THE LORD Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. —Psalm 128:1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.  That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. —Psalm 1:1-3             Those who have a healthy relationship with our Lord— Fear the…

BY GOD’S GRACE… Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ Now then, hear the word of the Lord. —Amos 7:14-16 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. —Psalm 127:1 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. —I Corinthians 3:10             Amos was an ordinary person.  God works through ordinary people.  He does…

HE IS IN CONTROL! He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord God Almighty is his name. —Amos 4:13             The Lord God Almighty— Forms the mountains Creates the wind Reveals His thoughts to mankind Turns dawn to darkness Treads on the heights of the earth So many have stood on a mountain, a mountain that He created, and stand in awe as they gaze out over the view from the heights.  He not only creates the gentle breeze, but hurricane force storms for His purposes.  Man, when depending…

OH YES, JESUS WILL COME AND BE SURE OF THAT— BE READY! And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.  (will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.  The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be…

YOU NEED HELP— LIFT UP YOUR EYES! I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. —Psalm 123:1             To whom else is there but He who sits “enthroned in heaven?”  There is no other— “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me” (Isaiah 46:9). “I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. …

GOD SAYS OF THE FOOL…                    They exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. —Hosea 4:7 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles…. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. —Romans 1:22-23, 25             Man has this propensity to “exchange the truth of God for something disgraceful.”  It can only lead to “something disgraceful” when one turns away from God and replaces Him with something else.  When people…

HE SOUGHT ME, SAVED ME AND IS MY STRENGTH! I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. —Isaiah 65:1 This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.  Where is the house you will build for me?  Where will my resting place be?  Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”  declares the Lord. —Isaiah 66:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2 The Lord will keep you…

I AM FREE! The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. —Isaiah 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” —Luke 4:18-19             Jesus came to— Proclaim good…

OH, TO BE PERFECT! I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands. —Psalm 119:176             Have you strayed?  Are you straying?  Oh, our Lord seeks us to restore us.  We are still His servants, we just need to get back on track.  We have not forgotten His commands; we just need to be obedient to them.  Indeed, “Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.  Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be blameless, And I shall be acquitted of great transgression” (Psalm 19:12).             Watch out, if, as a follower of Jesus,…

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. —Isaiah 55:10-11             Whose word can you depend on 100% of the time?  Whose word do you know will fulfill what was spoken 100% of the time.  Surely, every person will fail us and we will fail others with…