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.
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 pray
for a friend Susie Bartholow as she is in hospice. She is in very grave
condition and currently in hospice with advanced cancer. Hospice care is at her
home with her family. They all need as much support in spirit as we can bring.
- Pray that the tensions ease in the family. Pray also that the actions being worked out will assist in doing just that and more. Pray that tempers don’t flare and we don’t reach the breaking point. Pray that those who have suffered allergies and colds this past week get well once more.
- Pray for Elder Cal Jennings who is in ill health and a quandary regarding all that has been going on in this world.
- Please pray for another member, Theresa, who is having issues with all sorts of things, spiritual and physical, financial, and more. She has recently gotten out of sinus surgery and is still healing. Pray that her healing goes well and swiftly.
- Keep other friends, families, and even those around us in society in our thoughts and prayers that they be safe, secure, and well.
- Pray that the tensions ease in the family. Pray also that the actions being worked out will assist in doing just that and more. Pray that tempers don’t flare and we don’t reach the breaking point. Pray that those who have suffered allergies and colds this past week get well once more.
- Pray for Elder Cal Jennings who is in ill health and a quandary regarding all that has been going on in this world.
- Please pray for another member, Theresa, who is having issues with all sorts of things, spiritual and physical, financial, and more. She has recently gotten out of sinus surgery and is still healing. Pray that her healing goes well and swiftly.
- Keep other friends, families, and even those around us in society in our thoughts and prayers that they be safe, secure, and well.
- Keep the
ministry in your thoughts as well, that we may continue on even in times that
are bad.
- Brother
Wayne is still trudging through the processes of settling his father’s estate.
Keep him and his family in your prayers.
- Our families
and friends who have been in our hearts, keep them in your thoughts and prayers
that they be safe, healthy, and let them know they are always loved.
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 that You can remind us always what we should be thankful for. We bring
prayers for those who have been seriously ill. Help those who are working to
fight serious illnesses the ability to find solutions. 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.
Opening Song: Give Thanks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_7wUR2Wdg
Sermon: Good morning. This week we
are preparing for the celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States.
However, Thanksgiving is often given and shared in Scripture quite a bit more
often. Here is one such view.
Colossians 3:14-16 KJV – And above all these things put on charity, which is the
bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the
which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
In the celebration of Thanksgiving I often will post a poem as I have done for other celebrations. This year I am posting one I have shared previously. Here it would be again. It is a hope and prayer that we each have a blessed week.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
In the celebration of Thanksgiving I often will post a poem as I have done for other celebrations. This year I am posting one I have shared previously. Here it would be again. It is a hope and prayer that we each have a blessed week.
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: Amen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlHvTZq1E8
~Shalom~
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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.
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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