New Hope Church

(Today’s fasting and prayer Scripture— Luke 18:1-8—- Do not give up praying for family, relatives, friends, neighbors, workmates, classmates, strangers…  Jesus told us to “always pray and not give up.”  Our faith in Jesus will be seen by persevering prayer…  This will be my prayer focus that I seek within the hour of 6am, 12pm and 6pm)   HANNAH’S PRAYER ANSWERED! She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son,…

THE IMPACT THROUGH EVERYDAY LIFE I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. —Psalm 77:11 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there—Ruth 1:1 And the women of the neighborhood gave him…

PRAY AGAINST WICKED PERVERSIONS And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light. —Judges 19:25-26             That is what worthless men of the Benjaminites of Gibeah did to this woman.  Sexual perverted men allowed their sexual perversions rule over them and attacked the house where this woman and her husband were staying.  They took the woman and abused here all night long.  The woman made it back to the house she was…

 DOING RIGHT— IN MY EYES OR IN GOD’S EYES Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. —Judges 17:6             People, left to themselves, living for themselves, will do what is right in their own eyes.  This is where things become relative and people say there are no absolutes.  They will say, “Well, that is what you believe, but don’t agree.”  Or, they may say, “There are many ways to believe and not just one way” or “That’s good for you, but not me.”  This is the way of man when they do not pay attention to the absolute authority of God and His Word.  They want to be…

CONCEIVED FOR GOD’S PURPOSES The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, “You are sterile and childless, but you are going to conceive and have a son.” —Judges 13:1             Imagine the joy of this woman who desired to have a child.  She was “sterile and childless.”  That is utterly painful for a woman who wants to have children.  But nothing is impossible with our Lord.  He who created all things has no problem telling a woman that she is “going to conceive and have a son” even though she is sterile.             The One who created the universe is all-powerful and can do whatever He desires.  In…

PERSPECTIVE AND INTENTIONALITY But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.  For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…  They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth…  But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! —Psalm 73:2-3, 9, 16-19 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will…

SHARE HIS WONDERS AND GLORY! Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen! —Psalm 72:18-19             Our Lord’s Name is to be lifted up and praised forever!  How great is His Name and how great are the wondrous things He has done, is doing and will do.  Oh, that “the whole earth be filled with his glory!”  Right now, what do you praise our Lord for?  Take time and do so and may we allow His glory to be seen in and through our lives today and for…

PROCLAIM THE ROCK OF REFUGE EVEN TO OLD AGE! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come… —Psalm 71:3 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. —Psalm 71:18              My Lord Jesus is “to me a rock of refuge.”  Oh, that I would “continually come” to Him!  He alone is my protection.  He alone is my comfort.  He alone is my peace. He alone unconditionally cares for me.  He alone is my help. He alone is my strength.  He alone is my wisdom. …

DISOBEDIENCE TO OUR LORD CAN ONLY LEAD TO EVIL But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? —Judges 2:2 And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel. And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. —- Judges 2:10-11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. —- Judges 3:7             What…

BE LOVINGLY OBEDIENT, NOT REBELLIOUS Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? —Joshua 22:20 “It is true,” Achan replied, “I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did: When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” —Joshua 7:20-21 …choose this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will…