New Hope Church

BEWARE OF LIP SERVICE!  This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. —Matthew 15:8-9              What a dangerous place to be! With speech to make it look like one is doing the right thing in honoring our Lord, but it is only “lip service.” The mouth speaks one thing, but the heart is far from the Lord. So a person can sound really, really sincere. They outwardly can put on a show, an appearance of honoring our Lord, but inside, the real person, is what they really are and it is…

FAITH…WORKS!  And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. —Matthew 13:58  And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”  He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” —Matthew 14:28-31              Unbelief will hinder many of His mighty works from being done. Fear and doubt as…

THE DISPELLING OF DOUBT  Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them and blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” —Matthew 11:2-6  Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one…

LABOR, FEAR NOT— LIVE FOR JESUS  Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” —Matthew 9:37-38  And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. —Matthew 10:14  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart…

  WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVATION?  Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. —Matthew 7:1-5            …

RUN TODAY’S RACE AND DON’T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW’S  Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. –Matthew 6:34              Where is your focus?  Are you focusing on living today?  Is your focus on what MIGHT happen tomorrow?  Are you already writing a script for tomorrow as to what MIGHT happen?  Is tomorrow and what MIGHT happen controlling your life today?  Are you being anxious over what MIGHT be going on tomorrow?             Hey, live life today!  Be faithful to our Lord today.  The Lord that we serve is not only Lord over today, but He is…

REPENTANCE  Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. —Matthew 3:8  From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” —Matthew 4:17  I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance. —Acts 26:20              Repentance— deep sorrow for our sin and a desire to turn from our own ways and follow God’s ways. If that truly has happened then there will be fruit in our lives that reveal we are now children of God. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23).   “The fruit of the…

IMITATORS, DECEIVERS, DESTROYERS USE FALSE COMMUNICATION  “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” —Matthew 2:8  And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” —Matthew 2:12-13  Then Herod, when he saw that he…

HE KNOWS THE FUTURE BETTER THAN WE REMEMBERING THE PAST!  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God…

TAKE COURAGE— BE ENCOURAGED AND NOT DISCOURAGED!  “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. —II Chronicles 32:7-8              What are you facing? “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed” regardless of what You are facing.   Do you not know “with us is the LORD our God,…