New Hope Church

YOUR VALUE AND SIGNIFICANCE Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. —Ephesians 3:20-21             Do you feel small at times and insignificant?  That is the natural mind thinking!  If indeed you have called on Jesus to save you, then you are a child of God, belonging to the family of God.  Apart from Him we are small and insignificant.  Those who do not know Him surely puff themselves up to impress themselves or others…

GOD’S GREAT LOVE, MERCY AND GRACE! But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.  —Ephesians 2:4-5 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. —Ephesians 2:10             God is “rich in mercy.”  He does not condemn anyone who “calls on the Name of the Lord.  Instead, He saves them from their sin.  That is mercy.  Instead of condemning us to Hell forever, He saves us to a relationship with…

GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT GUARANTEES OUR INHERITANCE! In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. —Ephesians 1:13-14             These two verses are so rich with what happens to those who call on the Name of the Lord for salvation from sin to a relationship with God through Him.             First, we “heard the word of truth.”  Many people “hear” but don’t really “hear.”  They hear with their physical ears but what they hear does not…

JUDGMENT IS COMING! Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. —Isaiah 13:9-11 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the…

DISCIPLES ARE TO MAKE DISCIPLES! They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. —Isaiah 11:9 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. —Habakkuk 2:14 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” —Isaiah 12:2             “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”  This is…

STANDING BY FAITH! If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all. —Isaiah 7:9 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined. —Isaiah 9:2; Matthew 4:16 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and…

YOU ARE SENT! And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” —Isaiah 6:8             When we understand at least some of what the glory of our Lord is, Who He is, then we will have the desire to do His will.  When He wants us to go, we will go and when He wants us to stay, we will stay.  We will be ready to be obedient to His desires because of Who He is, His love for us and our love for Him and people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODe4sGCKxc             Jesus said, “As…

DON’T BE IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD! Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.” —Isaiah 1:2 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. —Isaiah 1:9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves. —Isaiah 3:9             How painful, how grievous it is when God’s creation, the people He created, are rebellious and against Him. …

STICK TO THE BIBLICAL GOSPEL— THE WORD OF GOD! I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now…

STAND FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. —II Corinthians 13:8             May you and I stand for the truth of God’s Word and do nothing against it.  Oh, that His Word would be what is dearest to us.  That we would listen to what He has to say to us and then be faithful to what He desires us to be and do.             What truth is God speaking to you today?  Are you standing for His Truth or allowing a watered-down version of what He says to infiltrate your life?  How are you being obedient to…