Saturday, December 05, 2009










Once again time has flown by. In just a few short weeks we will be celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ!!
In the past few weeks I have been busy working and traveling. I went to Houston this past weekend to minister with a worship team at an Indian church. The minister, Sam Daniel John from India, was on fire. What a great time in the Lord that we had. These are some pictures from the weekend. God moved in a great way through Pastor Sam. He preached about over coming hardships in completely giving yourself to the Lord. I learned so much from him.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

A Fool for You?

I Cor. 4:1-21
A Fool for You?
How is it that I can say that all I want is to follow you?
How is that Your love for me is so tremendous that my very center, innermost parts of me quiver with joy and excitement at the very mention of Your name?
Why is it that I cannot stop the beating of the heart of sin that so badly trips me?
Why is it that time and time again I came back to You with the same ‘ole confession that You never remember?
When is it that I will finally see Your perfect plan for me, where I will serve, who I will marry, which children will be mine?
When is it that I will daily meet with You without reservation and without regard to human time?
Where is it that I can always find You?
Where is it, that place inside of me that You created that is the perfect carbon copy of You, the carbon copy that drives me to be a fool for You?
A fool for You?
I really want to be, change my heart to meet the attitude that Paul instructed the Corinthians to have.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

“I have no pleasure in the death of anyone says the Lord God… Repent and Live!” Ezekiel 18:32

I wrote this three days after 9/11/01 while living in New York City! Please pray as you read this to see what God may be saying to you during this time of reflection.

As I sit on the shore side at the Minor League Baseball Stadium on Staten Island listening to the lapping waves of the Hudson River and trying not to sniff the faint fish odor I look out across the water into the foggy haze at only an outline of the city. Without the World Trade Center buildings looming high above the concrete jungle, from this point of view the city seems dwarfed somehow, even more so today in the haze. Lady Liberty is tiny from here, not that she’s all that big to begin with. What I notice about her is that her face in some small semblance of fate is turned so that only her peripheral view can see that remaining rubble of the destroying moments. I think that it is fitting that she didn’t have to watch it happen and that only a glimpse of that day was caught by her. That is how America one day will see it, as only a glimpse, like so many other history making events that have taken place in the course of our nation’s life. We will not spend needless hours of watching and waiting, but we will see it only as a glimpse of our past. We know that it happened but we must remain standing, like Lady Liberty, to say that life goes on and we stand up for great things!

The haze of this day is a reminder that the memory of 9-11-01 will, even though it is hard to imagine, one day be only a hazy memory. Don’t get me wrong, this day for some will never weaver in brightness or rather I should say darkness but to the countless rest of us who were in no way connected other than being alive, being American, and watching the news will realize that this to shall fade from sight. In no way do I intend to down play this most horrible tragedy but in all ways I do intend to remind everyone that there is something bigger than all this, and that something is a someone. God! He loves you and He loved and cared about each one of those lost lives from that day, yes, even the men who carried out the horrible task.

I don’t want to discuss the issues of if this was God’s plan or the devil’s plan except that there are a few Scriptures that we can look at to see what part belonged to whom. The fact of the matter is that God is in control and He is a glory seeking God and all the Glory will go to Him in the end. If you see this as an act of God to wake us up or if you see it as an act of the devil to destroy us, either way there is only one way to turn and that is up toward God. A quote from the book Desiring God by John Piper helped me see clearly how I should view this event. The quote says, “How can God be happy and decree calamity? Consider that he has the capacity to view the world through two lenses. Through the narrow one He is grieved and angered at sin and pain. Through the wide one He sees evil in relation to its eternal purposes. Reality is like a mosaic. The parts may be ugly in themselves, but the whole is beautiful.” And also quoted from the same book, “If God reigns as sovereign over the world, then the evil of the world is not outside His design.” Amos 3:6 “Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?” This may sound harsh and like it is an action from an unloving God but please, I encourage you to take some time and search the Scriptures to see that God’s plan will not cease no matter how painful it may be for us. In the end He always follows His plan. Here are a few verses that I found:

Lamentations 2:11 “My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within, my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.”

Lamentations 3:37-38 “Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come.”

Revelation 17:17 “For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish His purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God’s words are fulfilled.”

I know that this may be hard to take but it is true. Even harder to take is the fact that thousands of those lost that day were just that, lost. They will spend an eternity in hell. I think about the pictures that I saw on the news where the people on the floors above where the airplane hit the towers were hanging out of the windows trying to escape the intense heat from the fire that the airplane fuel ignited and I wondered if those people were going to be entering into a fire much hotter of which they can never escape……. We can’t say that God was mean for taking them this way knowing so many would go to hell, but the fact of the matter is that none of us knows which day will be our last. Friend, I urge you with all that is within me to ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and save you. We all need to be saved because we all have sinned. Rom 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” That sin has separated us from God and when we die in our sin then we are forever separated from Him but He has given us a gift to take instead. Rom 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” How and why did God give us this gift? Jn 3:16 “ For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God loved us from the beginning and He showed us His love by giving us His son. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” What right does this give you? Jn 1:12 “Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.” You see satan intends for us to be destroyed, he is like a thief that comes and steals from you, but God has a better plan. Jn 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Jesus is asking you now to let Him into your heart and allow Him to become the Lord of your life to save you from an eternity in hell. Rev 3:20 “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me.”

Make the decision today to accept Christ and if you already know Jesus as your personal Savior than please tell those around you about Him.

Looking to Him,

Amy Hosp



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

God is moving still today!

God is moving in our land!!! He is raising people from the dead. Go to youtube and type in man raised from the dead and see what God is doing!
Watch this video from a news program.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Why did Jesus fold the napkin?


I got this e-mail from my mom and I wanted to share it because it is really cool!!!

Why did Jesus fold the napkin?

Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection?
John 20:7 tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible tells us that the napkin was neatly folded and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.

Early that Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, "They have taken the Lord's body and I don't know where they have taken Him!"

Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple outran Peter and got there first. He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the napkin that had covered Jesus face was folded up and lying to one side.

 Is that important? Absolutely!

 Is that really significant? Yes!

In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about the Hebrew tradition of that day. The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every Jewish boy knew this tradition.

When the Servant set the dinner table for the Master, he made sure it was exactly the way the Master wanted it. The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the Master had finished eating. The Servant would not dare touch that table until the Master was finished.

If the Master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table. The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, "I'm finished".

If the Master got up from the table, and folded his napkin beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because....the folded napkin meant, "I'm coming back!"

He is coming back!

During this Holy season, I pray that you are blessed with peace and joy in the knowledge that He IS coming back someday. 




Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Moving again!

Wow.... the weather is really cold today. They are saying that it is going to be the worst Ice Storm in some years...... I don't know but we will see. I have been busy packing getting ready to move once again. I am moving back to Ft Worth Tx to be close to my friends and to my church and to have less rent. I have been in Frisco for the past year and while it has been good to be by my family I am ready to move back to Ft Worth, the land of chips and salsa and the land of good looking cowboys. Of course packing is a pain in the butt but it must be done. I love my new apartment although it is kinda small compared to what I have now but such is life. Well, back to packing.... more later.