Happy Holidays!!! ✝️❤️😊
Beloved, laughter is good for our mental status. I hope all of you can reflect back on many jubilant moments you laughed so hard that when you think about the occasion that was so hilarious it still makes you laugh.
But you know, not all laughter is the same. Occasionally it’s sarcastic. When I started my online CHOF Ministry there were many who laughed at me in unbelief and as we approach 12 years many are still laughing at me even as they try to duplicate or pick certain components to install in their chosen spiritual foundational delivery. There also were many that made fun of and laughed at my albums and at First Lady Donece’s Houston Travels travel business. NO SUPPORT FROM MANY!!! BUT MUCH LAUGHTER “AT” by many – and minimal laughter with.
But you know some of these same people that laughed or are laughing at you and won’t support you have the nerve or bold enough to come to you and ask you to support their need or cause and have the audacity to get upset with you when you repudiate them. “HELLO WALLS!!!!!!!!” Somebody out there Know what I’m talking about this morning!!! 😊
Beloved, ninety-year-old Sarah laughed in incredulity when she was told she would give birth to a son. She knew that after a certain age, women simply don’t get pregnant. The idea must have sounded like a joke. Abraham doesn’t get off lightly – he laughed earlier when God told him Sarah would have a son (*1).
This story should convict many cynical people because it actually ties into their lack of faith or jealously. I sometimes see old feuds, a paucity of evolution in our churches or ministries, and incurable illnesses as “just the way things are.” But the question that we should all always apply is God’s question: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Ephesians 3:20 (NLT) reminds us that God “is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
When God fulfilled His promise and a son was born to Abraham and Sarah, they named him Isaac, which means, “he laughs” (*2). Their laughter now had a positive tone. I’m sure there were many that laughed at Joseph and Mary when they found out about the immaculate conception.
It says in Psalm 126:3 (NLT): “Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us! What joy!”
May God give all of us that kind of joy when we recognize that He keeps His promises regardless of what we may humanly think or believe.
Let Us Pray:
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of laughter. Help us to look at situations and opportunities the way You view them. Give us faith in Your promises and fill us with jubilation.
In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen and Aaamen.
Beloved, life is very short. It comes and goes like an unannounced gust of wind. None of us know the hour or day when that gust of wind will enter our earthly room and blow out our candle. So, reach out and touch the ones that need your agape, dissolve the divisions among you, continue to encourage one another, be united in the same mind, the same reasoning and continue to build one another up.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! Have a blessed Sunday and a Spiritual Christmas. ✝️❤️😊
CHOF Ministry Bible Reference:
*1. Genesis 17:16-17
*2. see Genesis 17:19
