Covenant of Hope
Ministries Sunday Sermon_7_14_2013
Good
afternoon, and welcome to this Sunday Sermon for Covenant of Hope Ministries. I
am Rev. Laura A. Neff, and the ministry knows me as the Rainbow Minister. You
can find us posted on Sundays. These are our locations online only:
Our Main Video Feed: Covenant_of_Hope
We have
email and Instant Messenger through Facebook available most Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
and Sundays 10AM to 2PM ET US and these are now extremely variable. We’re still
working this out between the two of us as to what will happen, our Elder, Cal
Jennings and I. I will be informing you further in regard to changes being
made. These changes were made due to health reasons. There will be live
sermons, and the sermon length will be shortened dramatically, but we are
unsure as to when that might be.
Prayer List: We have many on our prayer list. Some wish to remain anonymous, and others only wish to have their first names mentioned. Our prayer list has grown from last week. This is our current prayer list for this week.
Prayer List: We have many on our prayer list. Some wish to remain anonymous, and others only wish to have their first names mentioned. Our prayer list has grown from last week. This is our current prayer list for this week.
- Continue your prayers for Phoebe Fair as she continues to do
well. There have been a few setbacks, including fevers.
- Pray for our member Sonya Poll who is two weeks from her due
date with twins. She is having
complications and needs all the prayers she can get.
- Pray for the victims of the plane crash in San Francisco this
past week.
- Remember those who have been lost either violently or
peacefully this week.
- Keep the ministry in your thoughts, each member, no matter
their location, their circumstances, because a group of friends, a ministry,
should support one another.
- Pray for my nephew who has been sick.
- Pray that my sister and her new husband have a wonderful life
together.
- Pray that there are more answers in regard to my health
situation.
- Pray that political heat will simmer down worldwide.
- Pray for baby Corbin who is struggling to survive. He has lived one hundred days so far, let us
pray he continues to beat the odds.
Prayer: Father in heaven, we
thank You for this day and for these who are here to share it with us. We thank
you for this day, those before this, and for those yet to come. We bring our
friends, our families, their friends and more up in prayer. Each of them with
their own circumstances, may those trials and tribulations have solutions. We
bring the injured, the missing, and the ones mourning the losses of family,
friends, or colleagues this week. We pray all this in Your Holy Name, the gift
of life through Jesus Christ and His gift of the Holy Spirit, Amen and so it
shall be.
Opening Song: Help Me Lord! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yL1LrFtx2w
Sermon: In all the years I have worked as
a minister, I have come up with many an interesting sermons thanks to His
inspiration. Today’s sermon is no different. This sermon is continuing where we
were in Psalm 48. Today we are exploring Psalm 48:3-6
KJV – God is known in her palaces for a
refuge.
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and
hasted away.
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
travail.
God is
our refuge. He is our haven, and this location, Zion, the palaces within, would
be that refuge. Yet, there is fear when it comes to what will happen on the way
to reaching that wonderous place given to us as we pursue the path toward it.
Let us look at the additions included in these four verses. We’ll start here in
II Samuel 10:6 KJV – And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the
children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen,
and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
Fear, something we all suffer. In the verses found in our Psalm we see that
fear, yet they marvelled at the palaces found in God’s house. Fear overcame
their senses. Why would anyone fear the ultimate refuge? That’s the question
that continues to be asked in the supporting verse here in II Samuel somewhat
confuses the situation. Why does it do so? It shows a different view of these
troubled kings. The smell of fear can be a terrible smell. So, what did these
children of Ammon do? They went and asked for help. Now, that’s something we
all do. The only difference is we ask God through Jesus and the gift of the
Holy Spirit, in place of others here on earth. It is something all of us must
learn, practice, learn more, and continue to practice. You see to learn, and
then to apply that learning, will lead us to wisdom. There are many in this
ministry, and beyond who are still learning, still practicing, and still
reaching toward wisdom. Now, that’s something to think about as we pray in the
prayer Jesus taught us saying: After this manner
therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13 KJV)
Closing Song: Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel
Armies)
~Shalom~
Covenant
of Hope Ministries
Scripture
Excerpts: The New Open Bible Study Edition:Copyright © 1990: Thomas Nelson
Publishers, Inc.
Scripture
Excerpts: Holy Bible: Copyright © 1982: E. E. Gaddy and Associates, Inc.
Scripture
Excerpts: Holy Bible: Copyright © circa 1890-1910: International Bible
Press,The John C. Winston Co.; Philadelphia, PA., USA
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Our mission for Covenant of Hope Ministries and
Poetic-Expressions is not to exploit fear, but to conquer it, and overcome all
that is created through fear together as the rainbow in the darkness.
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