C H O F Ministry

Tag: Death

  • “Living or Dead – No One’s Exempt”

    Bishop Houston's Full Purple Shirt Living or Dead - No One’s Exempt
    Praise the Lord Beloved. What a beautiful Sunday. I thank God for allowing us another opportunity to collectively serve Him. 😀

    This Morning’s Focal Bible Scripture is Romans 14:7-12.

    You’ll find in the New Testament the word Lord is the most recurrently used designation for Jesus Christ. Although we seldom use this term in our daily lives, we’re all quite accustomed with another word: “boss or supervisor”. That is basically what Lord means—one possessing authority, power, and control. The Word of God describes Jesus as the head of the church, the ruler over all creation, and the Lord of lords and King of kings. *(1)

    The territory of Christ’s authority covers everything that happens in heaven and on the earth. NO ONE—not even those who reject the reality that He exist can be free of His rule. NO ONE is outside His range of authority. Although Satan tries to give us a run for our money by making every effort to convince us that liberty is found in doing what we want, but true freedom is attained and developed only through submission to Christ’s loving lordship.

    Beloved, even death’s proclamation won’t exempt anyone from the authority of God’s Son. He’s Lord of both the living and the dead. Everyone must decide to either yield or rebel against Him, but the only opportunity they have to make this choice is while they’re still living. After death, they’ll accept Christ’s lordship through accountability to Him.

    Beloved, if we haven’t conformed to Jesus in life, we’ll be forced to kneel in the judgment.
    Amen? – 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 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 very blessed Sunday Everyone. 😀

    CHOF Ministry’s Cross Reference Scriptures
    *1. (Col. 1:15-18; Rev. 3:14; 17:14)

  • “Be Honest with Ourselves”

    Tuesday 4 16 2019 Let Us Pray Bible Verse Be Honest with Ourselves
    Praise the Lord Beloved. 😀 Happy Tuesday to Everyone. 😀

     
    You know since connecting to Words of Jesus, nothing can separate me from the love of Christ!!! “NOTHING!!!!” He’s my life, contentment, and happiness!!! Yes, that would be my immediate answer to our morning’s Bible verse. From where I’ve been and what He’s brought me out of HOW COULD I LET ANYTHING OR ANYONE SEPARATE ME FROM HIM?
     
    Sounds nice, doesn’t it? 😀
     
    Well, let’s be honest with ourselves, sometimes we allow even less severe things than deprivation, harassment or risk separate us from His love and His Word. Even little troubles can at times stress us out and we shout to God, WHY OH WHY? We must admit we’re sometimes of little faith, and that’s part of being human. However, we must not allow hopelessness into the arena of our life. Just remember that the first Christians had to endure persecutions and were threatened by death and yet they wouldn’t let go of Christ. It’s understandable that at times we complain, feel sorry for ourselves and cry over our fate, but we must never separate (disconnect) from Him. Hold on to Him tightly and don’t let go. He’ll surely not let go of you. That’s because He loves you with an everlasting love. 😀
     
    “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 past through our window and blow out our lights here on earth.
     
    So today, reach out and let those you love know that you love them.
    BECAUSE TELLING THEM LATER JUST MIGHT BE, TOO LATE.”
     
    I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
    Have a blessed Tuesday Everyone.

  • “The Inevitable Choice”

    New Monday Morning Blog Hebrews 9 27 28
    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! 😀

    Happy Monday to you all!!!
     
    You know, there are many opportunities in life, especially for those who live in a relatively free country. Where we live, whom we marry, and what kind of career we pursue, all these are very much influenced by our requirements and choices. But there’s one event over which we have no control, and that’s our appointment with death.
     
    Adam and Eve, the very first human beings, actually did have a choice regarding life and death. In Gen. 2:17, God gave Adam the command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He said, “for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die”. But Adam and Eve did eat of the forbidden tree, and sin and death became a relentless companion of the human race from that day forward. In the genealogy of mankind, as recorded in Genesis 5, one phrase repeatedly drives this point home: “And He Died.”
     
    Beloved, although we can no longer choose whether to live or die, there was one other man who could. His name was Jesus Christ. In the book of John, (John 10:17-18) He said, “I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me”. Jesus, the eternal Son of God and source of all life, chose to take on human flesh in order to die on the cross as an expense for the sins of mankind.
     
    Let me tell you Beloved, because Jesus chose death, man can now have life eternal by believing in Him. Our human bodies will one day die, but if we’ve trusted in Christ’s death as the payment for our sins, we’ll be resurrected as He was and enter heaven to be with Him forever. 😀
     
    Have a blessed Monday and a Marvelous Week Everyone. 😀

  • “The Best Is Yet To Come”

    Sunday Morning The Best is yet to come
    Sunday Morning!!!

    Praise the Lord Beloved.
    This is another day that the Lord has made;
    let us all rejoice and be glad in it.

    2 Timothy 1:10 (NCV)

    10 but it is now shown to us by the coming of our Savior Christ Jesus. He destroyed death, and through the Good News he showed us the way to have life that cannot be destroyed.

    Praise the Lord Beloved Happy Sunday to you. 😃

    Beloved, have you ever pondered what it will be like when your body dies and you go on to heaven? Well, according to the Word, when that time comes, this flesh and blood tent you live in will die, but you won’t feel a thing. You’ll just take off the cloak of your flesh, lay it down and go to a far better place.
    Believers who have died and come back say that they have no consciousness of loss in other words “no pain or knowledge gaps. Their minds stay undamaged, and they even have arms and legs, but they are spirit and not flesh. One lady said she couldn’t even tell she wasn’t in her body until she tried to grip something. Her hand would just go right through the material object. She was spirit and not flesh.

    According to the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:1 he says, “to be absent from the body is to be present with God.”

    So, when God calls you home, you’ll just abandon your fleshly body and go to be with Him forever.
    And you know what’s more fascinating is? God doesn’t even refer to our old, abandoned bodies as being dead. He says they’re just asleep. Why? Because He knows that just as sleep is temporary, so is the death of the body. He’s planned a day when our sleeping bodies will be awakened and raised up in glory just like Jesus’ was.

    Beloved, there’s coming a day when not only our spirits have victory over death, our physical bodies do too!!!

    Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Have a Blessed Sunday Everyone!!! 😀

     

  • “Stop The Violence!”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved.

    First my condolences go out to the family of Alton Sterling, Louisiana, Philando Castile, Minnesota and the 5 police officers slain last night in Dallas, Texas.
    Today my heart is broken because of all the irrational murdering of innocent men and women of color by those that have sworn an oath to serve and protect. I stand in peaceful solidarity with everyone that is worn-out mentally and spiritually by those we trust to serve and protect every human race. But violence plus violence only multiplies violence as we see now innocent police officers killed in Dallas, Texas.
    Beloved, we now live in a society that guns are everywhere. There’s no longer domestic tranquility. The government and judicial system has failed the general population. By acquitting and protecting police officers who kill innocent people, it has outraged many in our society and brought a heightened fear to many others. I personally am against gun violence and I know there are many great police officers in our cities, but until there’s a deep purging and removal of the corrupt servants of the law, enacting legislation to control the proliferation of guns, I feel the change will not come until the American population change its character about violence. Until that happens there will be more sadness, more innocent blood shed and more unnecessary funerals. So as I see it, it doesn’t look like it is going to get any better soon.
    May God help us all!!! – Bishop, Dr. W. F. Houston, Jr.

  • From The Pulpit With Bishop Houston

    He has risen!!!
    Happy Easter Everyone!!! 😀

    Beloved, have you ever considered some of the transformations that the
    resurrection of Jesus has made?

    I present to you:
    “There Will Be a Transformation!!!”
    God bless you.