New Hope Church

ABUSE OF POWER But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?” And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”  And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them…

TRUST AND FEAR NOT! Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” hen he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life. —I Kings 19:2-3             It is amazing how God gives great victory and overcomes the obstacles in our lives for us and we soon forget His workings.  How is it that when our life is threatened we become fearful and run for our lives?  Even though we have seen Him work in the past!             Think about all our…

WE ARE TO FOLLOW JESUS “Follow me.”             Are you following Jesus?  What does it mean to follow Jesus?  Do you desire to follow Jesus or not?  Your answer will determine your destiny! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk&t=14s             To follow Jesus first shows “that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him” (John 3:15).  Those who follow will be like “The wind blowing wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).  Followers of Jesus will desire to go wherever God’s Holy Spirit guides them, be what He desires them…

MY RIGHT! But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. —John 1:12-13 Rights… what rights do you really have and where do they come from?  In the U.S. Constitution we read about the Freedom of speech, the Freedom of the press, the Freedom of religion, the Freedom of assembly and the Right to petition the government.  There are many other “rights” that we have as Americans stated in the Bill of Rights.             But what is…

BEWARE OF UNGODLY COUNSEL! The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.” So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.  When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? …

REMEMBER! On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in…

BE FULLY COMMITTED TIL YOU REACH HOME! And may your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time. —I Kings 8:61 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”  Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”  Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” —Luke 23:40-43  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all…

JUSTICE IS COMING! Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ —Luke 23:30 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”—Revelation 6:15-16             We may look around at what is happening in this year of 2022 and…

 USE THE WISDOM HE HAS GIVEN YOU! I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. —I Kings 3:12 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. —I Kings 4:29-30 From all nations people came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom. —I Kings 4:34 The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, just as…

DENIAL Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter.…