C H O F Ministry

Tag: CHOF Q & A

  • “THERE IS SO MUCH IMMORALITY IN THE WORLD – WHY?”

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    Here Is Today’s Question

    Glogus Utilly asked:

    Bishop Houston, our world is filled with so much violence and many crooked people. I want to believe God exist, but it is hard for me to be a believer when there is so much immoral behavior and twisted minds. Can you explain to me why is God letting this happen if He exist?
    (Glogus Utilly)

    Thank you for your question Glogus Utilly.

    Answer:

    You know, this is a tough and awkward question that I’m sure many people are wanting an answer for. Well, the most unpretentious way to look at this question is to inspect God’s nature and His desire for the creative human.

    So, let’s look at God’s reason.
    God loves us and wants us to love Him back. So, how could we love Him back unless we have the liberty to not love?

    Sure, God could have created us to be like machines who don’t do anything but say, “I love you. I love you. I love you.” But that would be forceful and not real love or in other the words the love God has created.

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    Love is an action word

    Glogus love is an action word so that makes love a choice. So, if you have a choice you must be able to choose not to love and that in itself is the nature of immoral behavior and twisted minds. You see, a malicious mind chooses not to love. So, when God gave us the freedom to choose, He gave us not only our greatest blessing, but He also gave us our greatest curse because we can choose to do right or choose to do wrong.

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    So, the reason there’s so much unrest, immorality and many twisted minds in the world isn’t because of God, but because God gave us the freedom to choose. 

    Now the possibility for love outweighs the existence of depravity because unrest, immorality, and twisted minds will only exist for a short time, but love is going to go on forever. All of the misery, sadness, and death that we see in the world today are a result that man/women have selected by making wrong choices.

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    Glogus, God could have taken our freedom, but He didn’t. I hope you’ll use your freedom to become a believer and choose God.

    Thank you for your question Glogus Utilly.

  • “A Contaminated Relationship”

    Contaminated Relationship
    Here Is Today’s Question
    Agatha H. asked:
    Bishop Houston, my name is Agatha H. I am in a relationship with a man that won’t stop smoking drugs (weed is his drug of choice) and he comes home at all times of the morning. I love him, but I am tired. What should I do about this contaminated relationship?

    Thank you for your question Agatha H.
    Today’s Bible scripture reverences are from the
    New Living Translation Bible versions”.

    Answer:
    Well Agatha, at times it’s easy for us to overlook how much God loves us and how much value we have in Him. When we lose sight of the greatness God has put on the inside of us, we can begin to make choices based on a poor self-image. Those decisions cause many Christians to end up in bad relationships. That’s because they lose their focus on protecting the special gifts God placed on the inside of them.

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    So, as a believer you should look to God. Your desire should be to please Him. You see, the morals of someone who has taken their eyes off Jesus will be different. The problem with trying to please people who aren’t serving God is you’ll eventually violate your conscience and become unhappy. Now, I have some good news for you. The good news is that God definitely has better relationships available for you if you’ll trust Him!!!​

    I’m encouraging you, if you feel that you’re in an unhealthy relationship, please don’t stay in it!!! Now, if you need more assistance go to your pastor or another godly adult who will counsel you and your friend.

    Agatha, God will help you move from a destructive relationship into a strong, healthy one that fits your desire!!!

    I’m standing with you as you seek God in your relationship. I encourage you to spend time thinking, meditating and praying over these scriptures I am about to give you. They relate to your friendship and relationship with God.

    Psalm 37:4-5 (NLT)
    “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.”
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    Psalm 119:63 (NLT)
    “I am a friend to anyone who fears you— anyone who obeys your commandments.”

     Proverbs 3:3-6 (NLT)
    “ Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”

    Proverbs 17:17 (NLT)
    “A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.”

    Proverbs 18:24  (NLT)
    “There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.”

     Proverbs 27:6 (NLT)
    “Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy.”

    Proverbs 27:17 (NLT)
    “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

    James 4:4 (NLT)
    “You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.”

    Thank you for your question Agatha H.