Hope4Bath

“Where are the nine?”  Luke chapter 17 verse 17. This was a question Jesus asked after He healed ten lepers and only one of them came back to say “Thank You.” How ungrateful we quickly add, so selfish. But are we any different? When did you last say “Thank You”? There will always be something in our ….  Read More

And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac. 4 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when ….  Read More

Suggested reading: 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 1-8 Paul wrote these words to the Christians in Corinth: ‘So we are always confident, knowing that while we are AT HOME IN THE BODY we are ABSENT FROM THE LORD. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased (WILLING) rather to ….  Read More

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit ….  Read More

We continue to challenge ourselves this week as to our WILLINGNESS to serve GOD. Sadly, all too often, we serve Him and others grudgingly or half-heartedly. Consider some of the words Paul wrote to Christians in Thessalonica. He recalls with them the time he and his companions first went to preach the gospel to them: ….  Read More

Most of us will be able to recall tasks in life that we have undertaken reluctantly. Invariably, the outcomes of those things undertaken in such a negative spirit have been disappointing and unfulfilling. If they had been approached in a more willing frame of mind, the results would have been so much more satisfying. On ….  Read More

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 Verses 1-9 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech ….  Read More

“There will be more joy in heaven …” Luke chapter 15 verse 7. Don’t we all need joy? Some news or experience to gladden our spirits, to help distract from present difficulties. In Luke chapter 15 Jesus told a parable that cause heaven to have great joy! Heaven is a place of continual joy, a ….  Read More

And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. 2 Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a ….  Read More

Suggested reading: Acts chapter 16 verses 16-34. Our final question this week that only God can answer was asked in an unusual place. Two Christians, Paul and Silas, had been preaching the gospel in Macedonia. When they reached Philippi, they were falsely accused of causing unrest among the city. They were brought before the magistrates, ….  Read More