Hope4Bath

King David wrote in one of his many psalms, ‘Bless the Lord, O my soul, and FORGET NOT all HIS BENEFITS’, Psalm 103 verse 2. Forgetting is a weakness common, to a lesser or greater extent, to us all. There are, of course, some things which are less easily forgotten than others, e.g. the kindly ….  Read More

At the time of writing, 41,500 people have died in the UK from the coronavirus. Politicians have stressed that they will never be forgotten. Although this might be a well-intentioned statement, most people doubt whether it will be so. As frail human beings, we are guilty of pushing painful memories into the backs of our ….  Read More

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set ….  Read More

In the New Testament Jesus said these words, “Your sins are forgiven you” Luke chapter 5 verse 20 and they brought wonderful comfort to the man who heard them. We also read in the New Testament, “And Jesus said unto her, Your sins are forgiven” Luke chapter7 verse 48 and the woman who received those ….  Read More

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; ….  Read More

I will love You, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; m God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The pangs of death surrounded me, ….  Read More

Solomon wrote, ‘All the brothers of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He may pursue them with words, yet they abandon him’, Proverbs chapter 19 verse 7. The scene is of a poor man pursuing his friends in a time of deep need but they hide from ….  Read More

King Solomon wrote: ‘There was a little city, and few men within it, and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a POOR WISE MAN, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same POOR ….  Read More

God’s Word, the Bible, brings us all down to the same level and makes us face reality. It does not matter how rich we might be in this world’s goods, spiritually we are bankrupt and have nothing to bring to God. Isaiah, an Old Testament prophet, said, ‘But we are all like an unclean thing, ….  Read More

Hear a just cause, O Lord, attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer which is not from deceitful lips. 2 Let my vindication come from Your presence; let Your eyes look on the things that are upright. 3 You have tested my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me and have found nothing; I have purposed ….  Read More