Covenant Of Hope Ministries: Listen and Hear Him Knocking

Welcome to Covenant of Hope Ministries and our sermon or midweek study. You will normally see us posted on Sunday and Wednesday. I am Rev. Laura A. Neff. Our ministry was built on the truth of God’s love. It doesn’t conform to society’s wishes. This ministry shares the Word of God, the Spirit of Christ Jesus. Those who know me well will recognize that there are definitive differences in the creation of every sermon from this point forward. It is God’s will that has brought this to be. We wish only that God’s truth will be shared within His words as brought to us by the Spirit as it fills my heart, mind, and soul to be shared with my hands, but with His words alone.

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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 grows or changes every week. This is our current list.

- Please pray for Elder Cal Jennings who has been suffering greatly with his health. May the Lord bring his spirits up and help heal him.

- Please pray for relief in the trials and tribulations for Sister Theresa and myself as we have had a great many over the past year and more.

- Be thankful for each day we live as we do not know what tomorrow brings.

- Pray for our nations that the voice of God be heard through the Spirit.

- Pray for our friends and families that their tomorrows bring blessings and pray our own be the same.

- Pray for those suffering as a result of the terrors that have occurred just this past week around this world.

- Pray for our sick and wounded that they may heal.

Prayer: Father in heaven, our prayer today is to have the Spirit bring clarity to each of our decisions. We thank You for that gift and the many more You have brought us. May our fears be drawn out of us. May our pain and sorrow be eased. May peace be brought from our hearts and shared with others. May Your gifts of love shine through us toward others. We pray for the poor, the sick, the sorrowful, the wounded, and the frightened. We pray for the soldiers, the Samaritans, the children, and the rest. We pray in thanksgiving for every gift brought us. We pray that every tomorrow bring good things. For each of these we pray in Your Holy Name, through our Savior Jesus Christ, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, Amen and so it shall be.

Opening Song: God Knocking on Your Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHZmffF7rg

Sermon: Today we’re talking about listening and hearing. Last time, as you know, we spoke about seeing and believing as well as believing and we’ll see. Well, you also have to listen to hear the truth. There are several verses related to this. We’ll start here in the one Scroll that warns us we must do so in order to see God and Jesus in heaven.

Revelation 3:20 KJV – Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Well, if you hear the knock on the door that means you have to have been waiting for it, listening carefully. Some say the door is an actual door. However, it is a door in the heart that opens to Him. Sure, we have opened our heart to Him as Christians, but that’s only one of the steps to get to His table in heaven. You see, we listen when we first accept Christ. We hear when we realize His impact on our lives. That’s when we’ll realize and recognize when He is knocking and open the door. Let’s see what more we have.

Luke 12:36-37 KJV – And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

If we listen and hear, look what God will do. He’ll beckon you to His table to feast. If we knock he listens. Shouldn’t we do the same when He does the knocking? All we have to do is open our ears, not physically alone, but spiritually as well. Now we’ll see what John the Beloved shares when he listens and hears.

Revelation 14:13 KJV – And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Notice, if we hear His voice and follow His lead to do work in His name, those works are noticed and the door will stand open for us. That’s an important view. Many times in today’s world we see doors closing around us. Some ask why. Well, God’s just telling us we’re knocking on the wrong door. So, when you open the door to Him, and share what you find with others, He will then open the door for you. Now that’s something to think about as we pray in the prayer that Jesus taught us saying:

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)

Closing Song: Jesus Calling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBuvALWvmtk

~ Shalom ~

Rev. Laura A. Neff

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Our mission for Covenant of Hope Ministries is not to exploit fear, but to conquer it, and overcome all that is created through fear together as the bringers of the light of Jesus found in the midst of darkness.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Listen and Hear Him Knocking _ Know His Voice and Open the Door

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