Covenant
of Hope Ministries Wednesday Study_3_19_2014
Good
afternoon, and welcome to this Midweek Study for Covenant of Hope Ministries. I
am Elder Cal Jennings. You can find sermons posted on Sundays and studies on
Wednesday. Our locations are online only:
Our Main Video Feed: Covenant_of_Hope
We
have email (instant messenger if you need me) through Facebook every day. Look
for my name minus the title. These are now extremely variable. Our Elder Cal
Jennings is just as variable and can be found on several sites as noted by his
sermons. We’re still working this out between the two of us as to what will happen,
our Elder, Cal Jennings and I. I will inform you further regarding changes.
These changes were made due to health reasons. The sermon length has shortened
dramatically. We are unsure as to when there might be video presentations.
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.
- Please keep Elder Cal Jennings in your prayers as his health
doesn’t know where it wants to be. He has had issues with mobility,
concentration, and more. May the good Lord bring his mind, spirit, and body to
where he might share his love of the Spirit of God to others.
- Please pray for my friend Teresa’s sister who is in stage four
cancer. Keep Teresa and her daughter in prayer for many other things that have
been weighing down on their hearts, minds, and spirits.
- Please keep others known by any of us up in prayer for
whatever they might need.
- Please keep my friend Heather in prayer for patience and safe
haven.
- Please keep my whole family in prayer for the pain, suffering,
and chaos we are going through.
- Keep those affected by the plane crash last week, and that
they find answers in exactly the cause, and more.
- Pray that the adversity and the pain we have seen around the
world would be relieved, and swept away. May we find common ground in many
ways, even if we start with just one step.
- 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.
- There are many in our ministry who are searching for more in
regard to our presence with my health, and with the health of others. We pray
that there would be health found once more, and that we have answers to all and
for all.
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 the many gifts You would bring.
The spirit of faith, hope, and love all would be found in the patience of peace
as You have shared in Your Word. For this we are blessed and we thank You. We
pray for our friends, our families, and strangers whether well, ill, injured,
or in mourning. May Your love bring peace, health, and solace to each of them.
We ask all this in Your Holy Name through the Savior Jesus Christ, Amen and so
it shall be.
Opening
Song: Don’t
Give Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nq98aqRmy4
Sermon:
Today
I didn’t know if inspiration would hit. There have been many things that have
frustrated my spirit. Many of us suffer the frustration of the spirit. What is
the reason? We often want to solve everything at once when it may be possible
only in pieces, small, medium, or large. So patience comes into play. None in
this world could say they have infinite patience. In fact we often may lose our
patience far more than we should. We’ll start with a view of how patience is
better than frustration, anger, and more. Let’s take a look here in Ecclesiastes 7:8 KJV – Better
is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is
better than the proud in spirit.
Pride
is an ugly thing when taken to excess. It is better to have pride in our work,
but also be humble about that work. Yes, it sounds like that can’t be done. In
truth, you can have both, for a simple reason. You can be proud, filled with
gladness, that something you’ve worked hard on has proved fruitful, or
worthwhile. Then you share your humility, thus proving that patience is the way
to reach those goals, and surpass them. This is seen easily as to what can
happen if our patience is broken. But, the more you can hang on to even a
single thread of that patience, you will prove this verse to be true. Proverbs 14:29 KJV – He
that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit
exalteth folly.
What
does it say? Understanding takes patience, not anger or frustration and acting
upon the two. Don’t be fast at decisions, or actions because you can often end
up regretting just that. If you take and accumulate knowledge, then use the
time with that knowledge to gain understanding, you share the ultimate view of
patience. One cannot learn everything in a single sentence, word, or sitting.
It takes time to absorb the things you’ve worked with, heard, and so on.
Sometimes it isn’t more than a few minutes, others it takes a good night of
rest, and still more might take weeks, months, or years to understand. Emotions
and our use of them can often bring us understanding and wisdom, but that can span
hours, days, weeks, or more. I would not be the first to have things that
caused frustration even decades after the occurrence. Solutions wouldn’t come
at the time of the incident, and we often wonder if there would have been in
the first place. Jesus once said we shouldn’t worry about tomorrow, but
remember yesterday with fondness. If we focus on the good parts of yesterday,
we’ll have discovered the art of patience. If we focus on the bad, past or
present, we’ll carry a grudge, pain, or something else with us into the future
that is tomorrow. 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: Spirit
Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWEDBaFy0SI
~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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