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
(currently unable to bring video, but there are hopes for this to return.)
We have
email and Instant Messenger through Facebook available most Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
and Sundays 10AM to 2PM ET US. 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. We haven’t had new names for the prayer list, save one. Please bring any you might have. We haven’t had new names for the prayer list, save two or three. Please bring any you might have.
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. We haven’t had new names for the prayer list, save one. Please bring any you might have. We haven’t had new names for the prayer list, save two or three. Please bring any you might have.
Please pray for Pastor Eric from our Outreach Ministries. He is
having issues with his leg and needs funds to manage fixing the problem, pray
that the funds are made available for his health and strength.
Please pray for success for my youngest brother, that his
continued education be beneficial toward a great career.
Pray for my daughter as she prepares for graduation from
college.
Pray for my eldest son who is just beginning his collegiate
pursuits, that he would grow in his learning and understanding.
Pray for Elder Cal he is still having issues with pain and breathing and spiritual
nourishment be increased. He also has had some technical issues, but does have
his Iphone so he can receive messages. He also has had some other technical
issues with his normal computer. May God provide him wellness, a method toward
better communication, and bring that flicker of hope into a bright and roaring
flame.
Pray for our member Wayne, who has been absent for a while but
is back to work on his faith and connecting with us once more.
This is one that Rev. Lisa Tyler brought us: Robert is a quadraplegic man in hospital with blood pressure and fever problems. God knows who all our other prayers are for.
Pray for friends Karen, Christie, her son Calvin, Art, Heather,
Chris and his family, Jackie and her father, Debby, Tom, Teresa, Hope, during
the start of the year for their issues of many forms.
Pray for Fran who is suffering a lot of pain and other issues.
Pray for Karen’s granddaughter Cyndal.
Pray for Marie’s Aunt Connie.
Pray for my friend Grace as she has had pretty bad migraines.
Pray also that her stepson would make the right decisions. They are having a
hard time, may we have praise from the LORD.
Pray for my friend Laura who hasn’t been feeling well, and was
in the hospital.
Pray that good news follows a phone call made Thursday. Pray
that the Lord will find a way for my family to reach the ability to solutions
that are necessary for health, shelter, and more. Praise the LORD more than
half of those issues have been solved. There are family members who continue to
need prayer. Claim that God knows and will be there. Give praise that a
solution has been found for a serious test I must have, praise You, Jesus for
the gift of answers for that. The cost is now a very good possibility.
Pray that pain, which all who we love and care about may suffer,
would ease, no matter the type of pain it would be.
Continue your prayers for the continued success for little
Phoebe Faire. She is doing very well. Praise the Lord.
Pray for our outreach ministries, and all on their separate
prayer lists, no matter where in this world they would be.
Pray for all the members of Covenant of Hope Ministries and all
those who they reach out to. May each of the members find grace and peace in
His love.
Pray for our leaders, local, state, federal and around the
world. That they make good decisions for the many.
May the LORD allow us to claim His truth and His healing hands.
May we listen and hear and understand what those things we listen to and hear
as well.
Prayer: Father in heaven, we
thank You for this day and for these who are here to share it with us. We are
thankful for our friends, no matter where in this world they would be. We are
thankful for health, faith, love, and understanding. There are many to pray
for, and You know all the names. We thank You for listening to each prayer. We
pray for our soldiers, that they be safe, and our leaders, that they keep all
of us safe, no matter what reason there might be. We pray all these things in
Your Holy Name through our Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Amen
Opening Song:
Sermon: The very first thing you see in
the title: To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah,
Maschil, A Song of loves which could
also be a Song of instructions. That
provides interesting insight on the words in the verses chosen. Psalm 45:1-3 KJV – My
heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made
touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory
and thy majesty.
The first
thing about this verse is that there is an intriguing change. The words is
inditing a good matter could also be considered boileth, or bubbleth up. This is found in the first verse of the
chapter, how interesting that inditing could be changed to boiling or bubbling
up. It gives us a different point of view.
Psalm 45:4 KJV – And in thy majesty ride prosperously because
of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
terrible things,
The first
thing we’re going to talk about is the fact that we have yet another word
change. The words ride prosperously
could also be read as prosper thou, ride
thou. Here we see how both speak of prospering. They ride in prosperity.
When we ride in prosperity, you are able to find a way through the hard times
and prosper. The words live long and prosper are familiar to some, but,
truthfully, they come straight from Scripture. Live long and prosper, riding in
prosperity.
Psalm 45:5-6 KJV – Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the
king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom
is a right sceptre.
Note the
verses here speak of how God takes care of enemies, moving them out of the way
for His chosen people. After this it speaks of living strength of God’s
creation, earth, the creatures of earth, and man. You see, without God’s
strength, we would hardly be here. He has strength of heart, as he let Adam and
Eve live so that we could learn, and always learn something new. That’s the
gift of tomorrow.
Psalm 93:2 KJV – Thy throne is established of old: thou art
from everlasting.
Everlasting,
means forever, sharing that nothing will change His love for us, even with our
faults, is forever. It shares a different, yet identical view of our main
verses. Let’s see what else would be included in the voice of Psalms.
Isaiah 9:6,7 KJV - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son
is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the
Prince of Peace.
Well
then, this is very familiar, isn’t it? Jesus tells us the same in the New
Testament. God also proclaims it, even in different words with the same
message.
Hebrews 1:8 KJV – But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O
God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righesousness is the sceptre of thy
kingdom.
A sceptre
of righteousness, this shares what the Psalm also relays to us. It gives us a
view of the truth that is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 45:7 KJV – Thou loves righeousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
There is
one change in this verse it is God to
O God this too is intriguing, O God,
thy God, that is what the change manages. God is His own, and ours as well.
That is something that we often don’t think of, God’s love is his as well as
ours. That’s an interesting view of this verse, and of Scripture as a whole.
Let’s continue to see what our next verses share in relation to this verse.
Psalm 33:5 KJV – The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on
high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Matthew 3:15 KJV – And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now:
for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered
him.
Hebrews 1:9 KJV – Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath annointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows.
The oil
of gladness comes from loving through righteousness. Isn’t it nice to know that
God loves us through righteousness? Sure, we have our falls, but that’s why God
and Jesus through the Holy Spirit give us a hand up. That hand up is
righteousness.
Isaiah 61:1 KJV – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind
up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to them that are bound.
Look at
what God shares. He shares that he can open the jails, bring joy and happiness
to the meek, counseling the brokenhearted, and give freedom to those who are
imprisoned, not just in buildings, but inside themselves. There are those in
this world who put their hearts, their spirits, their souls in a prison of
their own. It is a terrible place to live, just as it is terrible to live in
the one with bars, gates, and no ability to get free, due to chains and handcuffs,
which were used, and are used to this day.
John 20:17 KJV – Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended
to my Father:but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
My God
and your God, notice, Jesus said touch me
not and then shared the words that would give us hope, ascension to the
Father, and proving that not only is God the Father of Jesus, He is the Father
for each of us. Jesus is more than a messenger, He is the proclamation of the
freedom of mankind from the curse of the apple, the loss of hope forever was
within that apple and the temptation managed through the serpent, Satan, and
into the heart of Eve who then gave it to Adam. And so, our torment began.
Jesus took that torment, and sacrificed His very lifeblood, the Spirit within
Him to ensure that Satan could have no hold on those who believe. This
definitely links to our Psalm this week, and gives us so very much. 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)
~Shalom~
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of Hope Ministries
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