New Hope Church

JESUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN, WILL ALWAYS BE AND IS CALLING YOU! Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. —Isaiah 48:16-17             Jesus did not just appear and start His existence 2000 years ago as a babe in Bethlehem.  No, Jesus— “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…

HE IS LORD AND THERE IS NO OTHER! I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. —Isaiah 45:7 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other.” —Isaiah 45:18 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.  —Isaiah 45:22 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things…

YES!  WE CAN FULLY TRUST OUR REDEEMER KING AND LORD! Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior… Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?” —Isaiah 43:10-11, 13 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god… Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses!…

WOW!  THE MYSTERY REVEALED!   He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.…

GOD’S WORD ENDURES FOREVER! All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them.  Surely the people are grass.  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8 “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” —I Peter 1:24-25             We look at all that is happening in our world today and wonder where it will all go.  Well,…

KEEP FIXED ON JESUS AND DON’T BE DISTRACTED! But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. —Philippians 3:13-25 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. —Philippians 3:20-21            …

JUDGMENT WILL COME! For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. —Isaiah 34:8             This has been true in the past and has not changed.  There are those who think God is done with the nation of Israel.  As I read the Word of God, and not filtering it through some man-made theological system, I cannot agree with that idea.  It surely looks plain to me that our Lord will be working in and through that nation still.             Be sure of this, there is a day coming when our Lord will carry out His vengeance as He has told us—…

LIVE FEARLESSLY, TRUSTING HIM TO FINISH HIS WORK INTENDED FOR YOU! Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD! —Isaiah 31:1 For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. —Isaiah 33:22 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 1:6 For to me…

LOVE THE YOU GOD HAS MADE YOU TO BE AND MAKING YOU TO BE! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? —Isaiah 29:16             Are you satisfied with who you are?  Do you desire to be like someone else?  Does God make mistakes?  Are you wishing you were somebody else other than yourself?  Why?  Do you know better than God?             God made you!  He made you like you are and who you are.  Of course we have responsibility in decision…

YOU ARE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, NOT DARKNESS Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. —Ephesians 5:6-12  Look carefully then…