New Hope Church

LIFE BY OUR LORD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS   And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’ — Jeremiah 33:16             The Lord is our righteousness. We have none of our own. It is all His doing. He is the One who makes us righteous. We cannot make ourselves righteous. This is true before we called upon His Name for salvation and this is true after we call on His Name for salvation. He gives us His righteousness at salvation and He keeps us righteous after salvation.   It is all His doing and not our own.   We simply receive His righteousness as a gift…

NOTHING TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR LORD!  Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of hosts is his name: “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.” Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares…

HIS GLORIOUS WORD!  The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. —Psalm 19:7-9             God’s Word is so very precious and we need to be listening to what He has to say to us. How can I live a life pleasing to Him if I am not listening to what His desires are? May you and I read His Word and ponder what…

RIGHTEOUSNESS  And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’ —Jeremiah 23:6              We have no righteousness of our own. Oh, there are those who think they are self-righteous and this is nothing new— To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of…

REPENT OR…  If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. —Jeremiah 18:7-10              Will the United States heed the warning! Surely what was said by our Lord to Jeremiah applies to us today…

FATHER’S FIRST PRIORITY— ABIDE IN OUR LORD!  I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” —Psalms 16:2              A father that has this statement for their own will be a father that has an understanding about themselves and others. Dad, do you truly understand this? Do you truly know that apart from the Lord you and I have no good thing?   If we are going to pass on to our children, grandchildren and others that which is truly good we need to not only have a relationship with our Lord, but we truly need to be listening to Him. Every good…

THERE IS NONE LIKE OUR LORD!  There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might. —Jeremiah 10:6  But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 12:17             Simply put— there is none like our Lord. Nobody even comes close. All are so distant from who He is. Not only is He great, but His very Name is great! This is simply a fact. People can deny, doubt and disbelieve, but the truth does not change. He is he Lord God Almighty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCg3HU1jhVA             People, kings and nations do not…

BE PREPARED!  Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? —Jeremiah 7:8-11  Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen…

FRUIT OF DISOBEDIENCE  Though they say, “As the LORD lives,” yet they swear falsely. O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. —Jeremiah 5:2-3  Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. —Jeremiah 6:19              There are those who speak as thought they know the Lord, but it is a…

HE KNOWS MY NAME!  https://youtu.be/EHBKnZHDraA?t=129  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” —Jeremiah 1:5              Brother and sister before you were born God knew all about you. He formed you to be you in your mother’s womb. You are you and He wants to work in and through you for your benefit, the benefit of others and for His glory to radiate.             God does not make junk! It is true that sin has affected all of His creation, but He is in the work of redeeming His creation. That includes…