The Lion Comforted Amidst the Lamb’s Fleece

Covenant of Hope Ministries Sunday Sermon_6_30_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:

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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: Father in heaven, we thank You for this day and for these who are here to share it with us. We pray for friends, enemies, and the unknown. Let us remember and pray for those who have been lost to this life. Let us pray for those who have been injured or have suffered illness, short or prolonged. Let us pray for ministries worldwide and for those who are suffering fear, famine, terror, or disaster. We ask all these prayers in Your Holy Name, the name of Your Son Jesus Christ our Savior, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, Amen and so it shall be.

Sermon: Today isn’t a sermon, it’s an observation. We often don’t think about one thing in this world. That one thing is peace. We say we want peace. We say we need peace. But, do we actually know how to achieve peace? To achieve that peace we have to realize unconditional love doesn’t mean we have to like what people do or say, or even think. What it means is to love because they ARE. Like we would be, they ARE, human. We’re not perfect. None of us are. That is what we forget. This is one of the things we have to search for in life. There are two locations in Isaiah that share this. Let’s take a look at the pair and then I will share a poem I wrote recently that takes this view into account.

Isaiah 11:6 KJV – The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

What does this speak of? It shows acceptance, love that is unconditional would accept any and all. Thus the fact that the wolf with the lamb, the leopard with the kid, the calk and lion and fatling, with a little child leading them.

Isaiah 65:25 KJV – The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

We see this same view but what gets added, the serpent shall have the meat of dust. None shall hurt, or destroy in His Holy Mountain. God’s Holy Mountain, sanctuary, the full view of unconditional love.

Well 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~

Rev. Laura A. Neff ~ The Rainbow Minister Facebook & Twitter & Google+ & Blogspot

Calvin Jennings ~ Elder Facebook & Twitter & Blogster

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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.