Good afternoon, welcome to Covenant of Hope Ministries. My name is Rev.
Laura A. Neff, the Rainbow Minister. The choice for Rainbow has to do with the
fact that the rainbow symbolizes a promise made and one that can and will be
kept. I made, long ago, a promise to God that I would do all I could to keep
that faith within me. We are normally posted on Sundays for sermons and
Wednesdays for studies. You can find these posted in the following locations.
Note: I will continue with the short number of verses for the time being due to health and other reasons.I
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 he is very sick and
spends most of his time in bed these days.
- Please also pray for a friend of his and for his financial situation.
- Pray for swift healing for my friend Deborah’s husband who had a very
scary incident and needed surgery.
- Pray for my sister's son who just had surgery on his elbow so that he
might heal swiftly. Please also pray for her brother-in-law who was in a
horrific motorcycle accident. He has broken vertebrae, and the very good
potential for paralysis. I haven’t heard any updates. I will keep you informed.
- Please pray that someone, somewhere can find out what is wrong with me.
I have been very sick this week.
- Pray for another sister, that her traumatic situation, which has
affected most of the family, would be resolved to the better for all of us.
- Pray for another friend, Thomas, as his father passed away a few weeks
ago.
- Keep praying that Brother Wayne Bartosh manages to finish the trudge
through the legal issues in the wake of his father's death.
- A friend of mine, Beth, is having many problems and is moving in with
her mother for a while. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
- Please pray for my friend Theresa’s sister who is in stage four cancer
and has taken a turn for the worse.
- 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.
- 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 blessings brought and for those yet to come. We pray
for those lost and those who mourn. We pray for patience and courage for those
we love and care about, and ourselves as well. We pray for peace to reach out
from the heart and be heard, felt, and understood. We pray that Your grace and
love would fill the hearts of the many in this world. We pray all this in Your
Holy Name through the Savior Jesus Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit,
Amen and so it shall be.
Sermon: Again today I am bringing you a verse and a poem. This week and those both prior and yet to come have been a test for many of us. It is challenges like these that we need to bring peace toward and His love as well.
John 41:10 NASB – Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
God My Father, Jesus My Reward
God my Father I will love,
With all my heart and soul;
And with my Lord above,
My mind and body whole.
God my Father is a gift,
Given in so many ways;
In the prayers that lift,
And the words He says.
God my father is here,
Guiding my path today;
Happy speaking in my ear,
Always comfort to say.
He gave the gift of Life,
Through Jesus long ago;
And even in worldly strife,
This truth we would know.
Jesus is the great reward,
Through his blood we win.
Held in God's high regard,
To wash us all from sin.
God my Father I will love,
With all my heart and soul;
And with my Lord above,
My mind and body whole.
God my Father is a gift,
Given in so many ways;
In the prayers that lift,
And the words He says.
God my father is here,
Guiding my path today;
Happy speaking in my ear,
Always comfort to say.
He gave the gift of Life,
Through Jesus long ago;
And even in worldly strife,
This truth we would know.
Jesus is the great reward,
Through his blood we win.
Held in God's high regard,
To wash us all from sin.
© Rev. Laura A. Neff ~2009
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~
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
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.
This mission statement speaks of the rainbow in the darkness. Every
time I would have a seriously traumatic thing happen in my life I would wake in
the middle of the night. When I do I see a rainbow at the end of my bed, or
even through the window behind my head. I’ll see that rainbow in a dark room
even during the day. It will hover in the shadows and reassure me that God is
with me.
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