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  • “Worthless Unfulfilled Promises”

    9 232019 Worthless Unfulfilled PromisesHappy Monday Everyone!!! 😀

    Beloved, one of the things that really irritate me is worthless unfulfilled promises. Many times, in life we get caught up in our fast-paced daily lives that we occasionally don’t recognize the promises we make to other people. Here are some classics: *if you need anything let me know, *I’ll call you, or *you’ll get the next open position. We need to be careful when making idle promises. In other words, presenting hope that’s not worth the words coming out our mouth, unkept possibilities that only frustrate the hopeful. Many people are defenseless to these promises.
     
    Children look up to adults and we teach them to listen to their parents, teachers, etc., so when we break a promise to a child it’s hard for them to understand. If we aren’t careful our words become worthless. The same goes for our elderly. Many of them are alone or lonely, they depend on others a lot, and when someone makes a promise of running an errand or a much-promised visit that never materializes, then depression can easily set in. The same goes for an employee who is depending on the increase. The employee does all they’ve been asked, and the supervisor promises the employee a raise or an elevated position that never materializes. We need to be more reliable and mindful of what we’re saying. The Bible is full of God’s promises that we can depend on. They’re rooted in His unchanging character and love for us. We should be Christlike and become more aware of worthless unfulfilled promises that could hurt or disturb others that depend on us.
     
    Beloved, the last time I checked we serve an on-time God and His Word has never failed us. 😀
     
    Let Us Pray:
    Dear Heavenly Father, this morning I ask that You help us to be more aware of the promises we make to You and others. Help us to deliver on them just like Your promises in the Bible that never fail us.
    In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.
     
    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 be permitted to enter our room and blow out our earthly light. So today, reach out and touch someone and tell them you love them, BECAUSE TELLING THEM LATER JUST MIGHT BE TOO LATE – I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
     
    Have a brilliant Monday and a boundless joyful week. 😀

  • “Fitting In”

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    Our spiritual topic this morning is entitled: “Fitting In”,and this morning’s verse is Isaiah 44:2. This morning’s verse is coming out of the New Living Translation Bible and it reads this way: The Lord who made you and helps you says: “Do not be afraid . . . my chosen one.”

     
    I’d been out late the night before, just as I was every Saturday night hanging out with my Transformer buddies. I was Just twenty something years old, and I was running from God as fast as I could. But suddenly, strangely, I felt compelled to attend the church my grandfather once pastored and the church my family has attended for many decades. I put on a pair of casual slacks, a shirt and tie, and some very worn dressed shoes and drove across town.

    I don’t recall the sermon the pastor preached that day, but I can’t forget how delighted my mother was to see me. With her arm under my arm, she introduced me to everyone she saw, many of them I already knew, after all I grew up in the neighborhood. “This is my oldest son!!!” She proudly declared. Her joy became a picture of God’s love that has stuck with me all these decades.
     
    Beloved, the imagery of God as a loving Father occurs throughout the Bible. In Isaiah 44, the prophet interrupts a series of warnings to proclaim God’s message of family love. “Dear Israel, my chosen one,” he says in verses 2-3: “I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children,” Isaiah noted how the response of those descendants would demonstrate family pride. Verse 5 says: “Some will proudly claim, ‘I belong to the Lord,’” he wrote. “Some will write the Lord’s name on their hands.”
     
    Disobedient Israel belonged to God, just as I belonged to my mother. Nothing I could do would ever make her lose her love for me. That Sunday I was given a glimpse of our heavenly Father’s love for us.
     
    Prayer:
    Dear Heavenly Father, we all come from families that are broken in one way or another. Thank You for loving us in that brokenness and for showing us what real love looks like.
     
    Beloved, God’s love for us offers us the sense of fitting in and an identity we all crave.
     
    CHOF Ministry is here to help you feed your spiritual cravings.
    Have a Blessed Sunday Everyone. 😀

  • “CHOF Ministry Sunday Morning Devotion”

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    I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.” (Psalm 122:1))

    Proverbs 14:26
    Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.

    You know, no one should be able to teach your child or children like you can. No babysitter, Sunday school teacher, aunt, uncle or in-law should not have the authority to instruct you child or children. This is an extraordinary privilege God has provided.

    Beloved, God is everyone’s Father. Just think about all the emotions He must deal with all day every day. There isn’t an emotion on earth He hasn’t dealt with. There are many parents who are separated from their child or children. If you think it’s something new, well, think again because it’s not. God was separated from His child also. Is someone mistreating, or leading your child or children? They ridiculed and bullied God’s child. Is someone taking advantage (using) of your child? The Son of God was set up by false testimony and betrayed by a greedy follower.

    I’m sure there are many of you that are forced to watch while your child suffers?
    God watched His Son on the cross.

    Beloved, we’re God’s children, suffering in a world of immorality that inflicts destruction on our bodies, warps our minds, and severs our relationships. We have an awesome Father. He doesn’t shrug His shoulders and say, “Oh well, that’s life, nor does He say, “It sucks to be you.”  He didn’t go to all the trouble of introducing Himself to the world with the title of Father for nothing.

    God chose a relationship title you I can identify with. We can now understand His heart when one of us (His children) are in pain.

    So, whatever emotions you feel about your child or children, God feels about your child. Maybe more!!! I know that’s hard to believe, but God has known your child or children longer than you have. He hurt for your child/children before he/she was born. You’re not alone. When you shed tears, your Father is crying right by your side.

    God’s the Father of your child/children also. Just as you’ll do everything to help your child/children during his/her pain, so will God.

    Have a blessed Father’s Day.

  • “You Too Are Royal Heirs”

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    Praise the Lord, Beloved, and a Very happy Sunday to you all!!!

    Our morning passage comes from
    Romans 8:12-18 (NLT)
    and it reads this way:
    (12) Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. (13) For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. (14) For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

    (15) So, you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” (16) For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. (17) And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

    (18) Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

    On Saturday, there was a beautiful royal wedding. A young beautiful black woman became heir to a great royal family. No one saw this coming but God and the two people He joined together in Holy Matrimony.

    As a believer you too are an heir to royalty, and for many, they never saw it coming.

    Beloved, do you think of yourself as an heir? If not, you’re not alone. Many don’t give it a second thought when it come to considering the blessings that are ours when we accept Jesus Christ as Savior.

    And this may be because we don’t actually know what it means to be God’s heir. And it’s very difficult for us to begin to grasp the concept of what awaits us when we leave this earth or when that’ll be.

    Beloved, being an heir is generally connected with family ties, and the same is true of our connection to God. When we were born again, by His Spirit, we were approved to be His children and so now, we’re as heirs along with Christ.

    In Colossians 1:15, Jesus is called “the firstborn of all creation.” In the ancient world, the firstborn son had a place of importance in the family and was the primary heir of anything his father owned. In the same way, Jesus Christ holds the place of firstborn and is the heir of all creation.

    Now, what’s truly amazing is that He has sworn to share His inheritance with us. According to Revelations 2:26-27 it tells us when He returns in glory to take up His rightful place as King of Kings on earth, we’ll rule with Him, under His authority. Beloved, the Christian is filled with unjustifiable kindness from God. What we’re experiencing now of God’s grace is only a mustard seed.

    Comprehending all that Christ has done and will do for His followers should quickly encourage us to live for Him now. The Holy Spirit lives within us, permitting us to terminate our fleshly desires and become compliant with God even when it’s risky.

    Beloved, anytime we suffer here on earth for Christ’s sake, is trivial when we equate it to the glory that’s waiting for us.

    Have a blessed Sunday Everyone.

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  • “Angels Are Not Just for Children”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved. Happy Monday to you. 😀

    Beloved, in Hebrew 1: 14 it says: therefore, angels are only servants, spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.

    There are many of you like myself that has heard about our guardian angel when we were children. And, in those days, it always brought reassurance. You know, with monsters waiting behind the closet door and scary things crawling beneath the bed, it was good to know that someone was there to protect us when the light was out. 😀

    But, as the years passed, we grew out of our childhood fears. The imaginary creatures that had once seemed so real vanished from our minds, and it’s sad to say, for most of us, the angels did too. Beloved, angels are not just children stuff. They’re powerful spirits sent forth to minister for us who are heirs of salvation.

    The word salvation in Hebrews 1:14 is from the Greek word soteria, which means “deliverance, preservation, material, and temporal deliverance.” Now just think about that for a moment!!!

    Beloved, God has created an enormous number of magnificently powerful spiritual beings for the express purpose of protecting us and delivering us from the evils of this world.

    And let’s remember, according to Psalm 103:20, the Word of God is what puts those angels in action. So, when you’re in trouble Beloved, don’t get frightened and cry about how terrible things are. Speak the Word!!! Give your angels something to respond to. Then be patient and let them have time to work.
    Believe me, they’ll get their job done.

    Have a Blessed Monday Everyone. 😀