New Hope Church

LOOK BEYOND YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND SEE WHAT HE IS DOING IN THE WORLD! How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?  Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?  Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?  Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.  The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.  “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed.  For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were…

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. —Nahum 1:3             The human race ought to be thankful that our Lord is “slow to anger.”  Look at all He puts up with in the human race— “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me” (Matthew 17:17).  Indeed, even though He is slow to anger, how much longer will He put up with us?             He is “great in power.”  For sure, He is all powerful.  “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible…

BE FAITHFULLY IMPACTFUL The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains.  Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.  Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together.  The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. —Micah 7:2-4             Beware when “The faithful have been swept from the land.”  What will the land look like if this happens?  We are told that— People lie in wait to shed blood People hunt each other with nets People’s…

SAVED TO SERVE! If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?  But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. —Psalm 130:3-4             God’s forgiveness enables us to serve Him— “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” —Ephesians 2:8-10             If our record of sins were kept, we would have not hope at all.  But when…

OBEDIENTLY BRING HIS MESSAGE! The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”  But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. —Jonah 1:1-3 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. —Jonah 1:17 Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. —Jonah 2:8…

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. …