New Hope Church

LORD, I NEED YOU! Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. —Psalm 86:1 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. —Psalm 86:10             Truly, “Whom have I in heaven but you?  And earth has nothing I desire besides you” (Psalm 73:25).  “For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.”  I am truly “poor and needy.”  Yet You have said that— “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then…

THE PERFECT KISS! Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.  Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. —Psalm 85:10-11             “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).  The love of God came to this earth through His Son, Jesus.  “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ” (Romans 10:17).  “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”  The faithfulness of believers meets with the love of God.  It is because “God…

 TRUST OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY TO WORK HIS WORK THROUGH YOU All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him. —I Samuel 22:2 So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there. —I Samuel 23:13 Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you. —Psalm 84:12             David trusted the Lord, even when he was on the run to keep away from Saul who was trying to…

LOVING OTHERS AS OURSELVES And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself. —I Samuel 20:17 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.’” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town. —I Samuel 20:42             Oh, to have a friendship with someone like David did with Jonathan.  They had a loving friendship.  We are told that Jonathan loved David “as he loved himself.”  It is wonderful…

CONFIDENCE TODAY BECAUSE OF WHAT OUR LORD ACCOMPLISHED YESTERDAY For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry…. “I have sinned. I violated the Lord’s command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them. —I Samuel 15:23-24 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” —I Samuel 17:36-37 All those gathered here…

LISTEN AND OBEY! I heard an unknown voice say… —Psalm 81:5            I remember very well when “I heard an unknown voice say” to me— “Turn from your evil ways or be condemned forever… and become a priest.”  The voice was like someone screaming at me as loud as you can possibly imagine, yet the voice was gentle.  Below is what followed… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWYSyDZYIg A LIFE IS CHANGED in February, 1979 By Ted White   I was a junior in High School when my grandfather died.  It was the first funeral that I had ever been to and it shook me to the core.  My Grandfather was a mason, working with…

DO WHAT IS GOOD! If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God—good! But if you do not obey the Lord, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors. —I Samuel 12:14-15             Here is what is good— It is good to fear the Lord, to have a proper attitude toward Him It is good to serve the Lord It is good to obey the Lord It is good to not rebel against the Lord’s…

DON’T LET REJECTION OF OUR LORD DISCOURAGE YOU! And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. —I Samuel 8:7-8             As a messenger of our Lord Jesus, don’t be discouraged when people reject that message.  Know that “it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.”  When they reject the message you bring,…

NO OTHER ROCK! There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. —I Samuel 2:2 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. —Psalm 78:4             Our Lord alone is wholly holy.  There is none like Him and “there is no Rock like our God.”  We are to “tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.”  Oh, Lord God Almighty, may we do so by the power of Your Holy…

REDEEMED BY AND GIVEN GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS “May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” —Ruth 2:12 “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer of our family.” —Ruth 3:9             All who have called on Jesus are “under His wings.”  You, no doubt, heard about the hen that was caught in a barn fire and died.  In the aftermath, as the farmer was walking through the smoldering debris, he saw…