New Hope Church

LEVEL GROUND My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD. —Psalm 26:12 He refreshes my soul.  He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. —Psalm 23:3 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. —Psalm 1:1-2             Being on uneven ground can be dangerous.  Once I was trimming hedges from a stepladder and the ground was uneven.  There was one more area…

GOODNESS Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way. —Psalm 25:8             Do you think you are good?  Apart for God you are not!  Jesus said, “No one is good–except God alone” (Luke 18:19).  “For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with…

LOVING OBEDIENCE “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” —Exodus 24:3, 7 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” —John 14:21                  To be obedient is to trust the One asking you to be or do something.  God is fully trustworthy.  He is the only One who is.  As His followers we are to also be trustworthy.  As followers of our Lord Jesus Christ if we truly love Him our desire is to obey Him and…

PRAISE HIM BEFORE THE WORLD And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.” —Exodus 19:6 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. —I Peter 2:9             Israel was chosen to be a testimony to the world and they failed.  Now the Lord has chosen His church to be a testimony to the world.  We are to represent Him to the world.  How are we doing with…

PRAISE HIM BEFORE THE WORLD And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.” —Exodus 19:6 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. —I Peter 2:9             Israel was chosen to be a testimony to the world and they failed.  Now the Lord has chosen His church to be a testimony to the world.  We are to represent Him to the world.  How are we doing with…

OUR SOLID ROCK! Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb; when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.”  So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. He named the place Massah (testing) and Meribah (quarreling) because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?” —Exodus 17:6-7 For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede. —Deuteronomy32:31  The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior! —II Samuel 22:47 The LORD is my rock,…

NONE LIKE YOU! Who among the gods is like You, O LORD?  Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? —Exodus 15:11 “Who among the gods is like You, O LORD?”  The answer is “there is none like You!”  “Who is like You— majestic in holiness?”  Again, the answer is that there is none like You that are “majestic in holiness.”  Who is like You to be “revered with praises?”  For the third time— there is none like You to be “revered with praises.”  Who is like You “performing wonders?”  Repeat with me— there is none like You “performing wonders!” For Jesus had known from the beginning…

REST IN OUR PASSOVER LAMB Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the top and the two sideposts of the doorframe with some of the blood. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.  When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and the two sideposts and pass over the door; so He will not allow the destroyer to…

NONE LIKE HIM! As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.  For who is God besides the Lord?  And who is the Rock except our God?  It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.  —Psalm 18:30-32             God’s ways are perfect… all His ways.  All He does is good and righteous.  His speech is flawless.  He never needs to ask for forgiveness or apologize because He never does anything wrong… never!             Brother and sister, take great comfort in knowing that He shields all of us who take refuge in Him.  We are…