Good afternoon, welcome to Covenant of
Hope Ministries. My name is Elder Cal Jennings. We are normally posted on
Sundays for sermons and Wednesdays for studies. You can find these posted in
the following locations.
- Please pray for a friend Susie Bartholow as she is in hospice.
She is in very grave condition with cancer. Hospice care is in her home with
her family. Keep them all in your thoughts and prayers.
- Please pray for a
friend of ours, Lucy, whose liver is failing. She is going to be on medication
but may need a transplant. Pray that the first option works and she returns to
health.
- Pray for Elder
Cal and his friend Lucy so they might gain the ability to be closer for visits
in their developing faith and more in each other.
- Pray for our
members Theresa and Wayne who had a very rough year last year. May some of
their trials and tribulations end soon.
- Pray for those
near and far who have been suffering in battles that do not have to be. Pray
that peace can be found amidst the fear and anger, frustration and more. May
hope blossom and bring that peace once more.
- Pray for our
friends and our enemies, may they all find that the gift of God’s Son, Jesus,
holds the hope and faith everyone seeks.
- Keep hope alive
in our prayers no matter the pain or strife we might suffer.
- May God bless
every one of us as we continue on.
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 looking forward to. We bring many 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 those we
love and care about. We pray for patience and courage for those family and
friends we each would have, 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: Put Your Hand in the Hand
~ Ocean
Sermon: We all have problems.
Every single one of us. Some of our problems are more serious than the problems
of others, but, to us our problems are just as important. God didn’t tell us
that life would be without problems if we followed Him. He just told us to take
heart and trust that He would get us through those problems.
Psalm
27:14 New International Version (NIV)
14 Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 King James Version (KJV)
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
“Be strong and take heart.” No, this isn’t referring to the ancient Mayan and Aztec practice of cutting someone open and taking their heart. This is referring to definition 4 of the King James Version Dictionary.
4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, and pleasure &c.
Take courage. Be of good courage. Trust in the Lord for all of your needs. Sure, we may have troubles, but when you trust in the Lord, your needs will be filled. You don’t have to worry about whether or not things will work out. You just do what you can, and trust that things will work out. That doesn’t mean just sit back and do nothing, and everything will be dropped in your lap all the time. Sometimes we have to work on changing ourselves, or changing situations in our lives that are causing the problems.
Psalm 31:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
When you take heart and trust in the Lord, he will strengthen your heart. The more you trust, the stronger your faith will become, and the stronger your heart of faith will be. The more faith you have, the easier it will be for you to take heart.
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 King James Version (KJV)
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
“Be strong and take heart.” No, this isn’t referring to the ancient Mayan and Aztec practice of cutting someone open and taking their heart. This is referring to definition 4 of the King James Version Dictionary.
4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, and pleasure &c.
Take courage. Be of good courage. Trust in the Lord for all of your needs. Sure, we may have troubles, but when you trust in the Lord, your needs will be filled. You don’t have to worry about whether or not things will work out. You just do what you can, and trust that things will work out. That doesn’t mean just sit back and do nothing, and everything will be dropped in your lap all the time. Sometimes we have to work on changing ourselves, or changing situations in our lives that are causing the problems.
Psalm 31:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
When you take heart and trust in the Lord, he will strengthen your heart. The more you trust, the stronger your faith will become, and the stronger your heart of faith will be. The more faith you have, the easier it will be for you to take heart.
God turns those things around.
John 16:33 King James Version (KJV)
John 16:33 King James Version (KJV)
23 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me
ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world.
One thing that you should know about maintaining
your faith, and being able to maintain it during something important that is
occurring is to watch the company who surrounds you. If you have a bunch of
doubting Thomas’s around you, you’re going to have trouble maintaining your
faith. Rev. Joel Osteen presented this passage concerning it.
Mark
5:21-43 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus
raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked. “Who touched my clothes?”
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked. “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his
disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done
it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his
feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing [a] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t
be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter,
James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue
leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He
went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing?” The child is not
dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s
father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the
child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (Which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).
42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years
old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to
let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
Footnote
a. Mark 5:36 Or Ignoring
a. Mark 5:36 Or Ignoring
As Joel Osteen said, you can’t have people around
you mocking you and putting you down when you are trying to do something
important like heal someone or raise someone from the dead. Even Jesus sent
everyone but Peter, James, John, and the child’s mother out of the room before
he attempted to raise her from the dead.
Sometimes people are just agitators and/or
detractors. You don’t need those people around you when you are doing something
that important. If you’re praying FOR someone, it’s good to get them to
understand that there is no reason to doubt as well. The more doubt there is,
the more trouble you are going to have praying with the pureness of heart that
is needed for God to answer your requests. You need everyone involved to be on
board with you or the boat is likely to capsize. That is why Jesus told us
these things about praying.
Mark 11:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Matthew 21:21-22 King James Version (KJV)
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig trees, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mark 11:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Matthew 21:21-22 King James Version (KJV)
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig trees, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Yes, you have to believe if you want to receive what
you ask for. Let me repeat that. You HAVE to believe if you want to receive
what you ask for. Believe that you have received it, and it shall be done.
Jesus also said that we don’t need to be too specific in what we prayed for
because the Father already knows our needs. That is what Jesus taught us in the
Lord’s Prayer. Just ask and your needs regarding something be filled and God
will fill them. Let God worry about HOW it’s going to happen. You just believe
it IS going to happen as you pray.
Now, let’s bow our heads and pray as Jesus taught
us, When he said in
Matthew 6:9-13
King James Version (KJV)
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 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.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 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.
Love, Hope, Peace, and Christ be with you,
Cal-el
Cal-el
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