New Hope Church

HE IS MY CREATOR AND SUSTAINER A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust… All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less…

TRUST THE GIVER AND TAKER OF LIFE— NOT MAN And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. —Isaiah 37:36 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. —Isaiah 38:4-5 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge…

ONLY HE KNOWS OUR LIFE SPAN O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. —Isaiah 33:2 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!” Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest;…

WORSHIPPING OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY OR SOMETHING ELSE Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” You turn things upside down! 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 29:15-16 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Our God is in…

HOW FORTUNATE WE ARE! O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. —Isaiah 25:1 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces… —Isaiah 25:8 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. —Isaiah 26:3-4             What a joy to know these things!  We followers of Jesus will praise the Name of the Lord our God.  He has done wonderful things;…

THE SPIRIT OF CONFUSION OVER OUR NATION The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. —Isaiah 19:14             The “spirit of confusion” was mingled by the Lord within the nation of Egypt.  It appears that this form of judgment is upon our nation today.  Simple, obvious values from the Word of God are being confused.  Let’s look at a few areas of utter confusion… Abortion— how confused and wicked to be killing one’s own offspring. When abortion became legal in the 70’s we were told it would be rare.  We…

THE PROMISE OF OUR LORD! The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand… This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? —Isaiah 14:24, 26-37             Don’t be discouraged! As our Lord has said,  “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.”  “What, then, shall we say in response to…

IN HIS HANDS Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? —Isaiah 10:15 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. —Isaiah 12:2 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. —Psalm 111:2 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! —Psalm 111:10             When a person understands our Lord properly, thinks about Him properly and…

FAITH, TRUST AND ACTION! They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands. —Isaiah 5:12 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil… —Isaiah 5:20 If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all. —Isaiah 7:9             Faith… Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. —Hebrews 11:1 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. —Hebrews…

BEWARE OF THE COMING JUDGMENT! But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. —Isaiah 1:28 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty.  The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low. —Isaiah 2:10-12 In that day mankind will… enter the caverns…