New Hope Church

THE ROTTEN FRUIT OF TRUSTING SELF You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors. —Hosea 10:13             Those that trust in themselves and not our Lord will— Plow iniquity Reap injustice Eat the fruit of their own lies We can see how this is worked out in our own culture and in the world.  Sin is breaking up the ground of what is right and good and is sowing all kinds of unrighteousness and evil.  The weeds of injustices are growing and taking over the field of fidelity. …

THE ONLY HOPEFUL LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS—- JESUS! Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish… —Hosea 4:1-3 Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD. —Hosea 5:4             Whether it is the Jewish nation or any nation,…

HE IS OUR HELP! For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. —Isaiah 65:17 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2             Brother and sister, fellow follower of Jesus, our “help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”  Whatever we are going through and wherever we are, the One who made heaven and earth is with us.  He is our help and what greater help could we desire than His?             But rejoice!  Keep your…

FREED IN JESUS AND I AM HIS! The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn… —Isaiah 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of…

CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. —Isaiah 59:1-3             Have you known sin in your life right now?  Confess it to the Lord!  Agree with Him that you have sinned against Him.  “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and…

HE WORKS THE WAYS OF HIS WORD For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. —Isaiah 55:10-11 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. —Psalm 119:139 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. —Psalm…

BEAUTIFUL FEET! ” How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” —Isaiah 52:7 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? —Isaiah 53:1 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity…

LISTEN, OBEY, SERVE The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. —Isaiah 50:4-5             It is the Lord that enables us to speak according to His desires.  He does this so we can encourage those who are weary.  Who is it today that our Lord desires you to encourage?  To be ready to encourage someone we need to spend time…

PEACE ONLY COMES THROUGH OUR CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF ALL! 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  I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.  —Isaiah 45:12  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…

LISTEN TO HIM! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. —Psalm 119:11             When we first called on our Lord to be saved (Romans 10:13, we were “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good” (I Peter 2:2-3).  But we do not want to stay as newborn babies!  Unfortunately, “though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on…