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  • “LOADING OUR BEST RESOURCES IN HEAVEN”

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    Focal Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24

     
    Praise the Lord Beloved. Happy Sunday. Let us all be thankful for this day.
     
    This Morning’s Focal Bible Scripture is Matthew 6:19-24
     
    Beloved, we should all be carefully loading our best resources in heaven. We shouldn’t be apprehensive about our physical needs, because they’re only temporal. Instead, we should pursue eternal things. Temporal things don’t last and can decay or pilfered here on earth. On the other hand, eternal things endure and will never be at risk from thieves or deterioration (*1).
     
    While the “heart” characterizes the whole person, the “eyes” signify our ability to distinguish truth (*2). So, if our spiritual eyes are healthy, we’ll be able to see reality and follow the correct path. If not, we’ll be morally and spiritually blind, incapable to see which resources are worth valuing and following.
     
    Beloved, what we value exposes who we are and leads to what we do (*3). And since we can only serve one master, it’s prudent to select God over monetary things. (*4). You see, the idea of “loading our best” resources in heaven shows that following God and valuing His kingdom is a series of choices that build conduct and charisma. Paul compared it to a construction project (*5). Some people use wood, hay, and straw as their building materials, others use gold, silver, and jewels.
     
    Beloved, when the fire of judgment strikes, it will be very clear which one will endure. Amen? – Aaamen. 😀
     
    Let Us Pray:
    Dear Heavenly Father, once again I thank You for Your valuable Word. Help us to carefully load our best resources in heaven and take our eyes off of the things that are temporal.
     
    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 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 an awesome Sunday Everyone.
    😀
     
    CHOF Ministry’s Cross Reference Scriptures
    *1. Matthew 6:19–20
    *2. Matthew 6: 22–23
    *3. Matthew 6: 21
    *4. Matthew 6:24 and Col. 3:5
    *5. 1 Cor. 3:10–15

  • “Hurt and Angry?”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved. Let us all say, “Thank You Lord for another Wednesday to be in Your presence”.

    You know Beloved, many of us have cried out to God and felt like He wasn’t listening, or He doesn’t care. Many of us have gotten angry at God. And I’ll be the first to say those are scary thoughts. Beloved God created everything. He sent Mount Everest protruding up from the Earth and ransacked channels in the depths of the Pacific. He made the billions of stars, and that gives us just a miniscule picture of His marvelous glory. Yet we dare to be mad at Him? It’s crazy that many of us at some time or another in our life have felt upset towards God. In our verse, this morning Jesus will reference from the Cross one of many cries by David. He was a man after God’s own heart, yet he makes a habit throughout the Psalms of asking God where He is. I believe this is God’s way of telling us that these feeling are only human.

    Beloved, we may get angry, but we need to remember He’s still God. We must always be respectful and must never sin in our anger. That’s what David does here at the end, he still glorifies God.

    Beloved, put off your anger and remember the God who created the Heavens and the Earth is the same God who loves you and wants the best for you. 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 blessed Wednesday Everyone. 😀

  • “Our Special Zone”

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    Our spiritual topic this morning is entitled: “Our Special Zone”, and this morning’s verse is Hebrews 4:15.

    This morning’s verse coming out of the Amplified Bible reads this way:
    (15) For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin.

    Beloved, we don’t have a high priest who’s unable to sympathize (identify) with our weaknesses.
    There was an industrial design graduate from a Singapore university who was challenged to come up with an innovative solution to a common problem using only ordinary objects. She created a vest to protect one’s personal space from being invaded while traveling on crowded public trains and buses. The vest was lime green and covered with long, flexible plastic spikes normally used to keep birds and cats away from plants.

    Jesus knew what it was like to lose His personal space in the disorder of crowds desperate to see and touch Him. In Luke 8:43-44 was a woman who had suffered from constant bleeding for 12 years and could find no cure but after touching the fringe of Jesus’ robe immediately, her bleeding stopped.

    In verse 45 Jesus asked: “Who touched me?” This isn’t as strange as it sounds. Verse 46 tells us Jesus felt power come out of Him. Beloved, that touch was different from those who simply pass by and brush him or accidentally touch Him.

    While we must admit that we do sometimes wish to keep our special zone and privacy, the only way we help a world of hurting people is to let them get close enough to be touched by the encouragement, comfort, and grace of Christ in us.

    Prayer:
    Dear Heavenly Father, I want to be near You and know You so that when I’m in contact with others they can see You through me. In Jesus’ mighty name I pray, Amen and Amen.

    * After each CHOF Bible Fellowship Sunday Morning teaching I present to you “CHOF Ministry’s Sunday Morning Reflection.” I will give you my brief observation of the CHOF Bible Fellowship Sunday Morning teaching.

    CHOF Ministry is here to help you feed your spiritual cravings.

    Have a Blessed Sunday Everyone.

  • “A Confident Message”

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    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! Welcome to Wednesday’s CHOF Bible Fellowship Bible Study.
    Our focal CHOF Bible Fellowship verse this morning comes from 1 Kings 17:1 (NLT)
     
    Our focal verse reads this way:
    (17) Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
     
    Beloved, we find King Ahab’s first thought after encountering the prophet Elijah may well have been: “WHAT!!! This dude got some kind of nerve!!! Just who does this dude think he is? Blasting onto the scene out of nowhere, Elijah challenged Israel’s evil king with a message that would soon disturb life throughout the whole region.
     
    To read the rest of today’s Morning Bible Study
    click the link below.
     

  • “God Changes Conditions

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    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! Happy Monday to you all. I hope you had a marvelous Sunday.

     
    You know Beloved, God takes His time developing us. You see, a small or slow beginning is just the introduction to a marvelous climax at the end!!! You’ll find that many of God’s work of genius were developed in small, slow incomprehensible conditions.Take for instance Moses. Moses was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. He was trained in leadership while shoveling sheep manure on the backside of the desert. Now granted his discipline was developed in the royal courts of Pharaoh’s house, but his disposition was shaped through failure and a desert kingdom with no one to lead but flies, gnats and sheep.
     
    Beloved, who would have thought, looking at Moses’ church of goat deacons and gnats for choir members, that later he would lead the greatest movement in the history of the Old Testament theology?
     
    So, Beloved, you or anyone else can’t tell what’s in you by looking at you. God is in the love, blessings and salvation business!!! God is establishing patience, character, and concentration in the school of “nothing seems to be happening.” Just because God promises to move in your life and anoints you to do a particular function doesn’t mean that your foundation will be immediately built, nor does it mean because you may have turned down ministry or slow to develop correct morals doesn’t mean God won’t create and develop a spiritual foundation that’s fit just for you. 😀
     
    Have a blessed Monday and an awesome rest of your week.

  • “Our Heavenly Protection”

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    Our Walk With Me Focal Scripture for today is Ephesians 6:17.

    Beloved, under Nehemiah’s supervision, the Israelite workers were rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. But, when they were half-way finished, they heard that their enemies were plotting to attack Jerusalem. This news demoralized the workers who were already very tired.

    Nehemiah had to do something. So, he prayed, then he posted many guards in strategic places, then he allowed his workers to have weapons. Nehemiah 4:17-18 (AMP) says: (17) Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens loaded themselves so that everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other. (18) Every builder had his sword secured at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet [to summon the troops] stood at my side.

    Beloved, all of us that are building God’s kingdom need to arm ourselves against the attack of our spiritual enemy “Satan.

    If you feel that working for God doesn’t matter, I want you to know and remember that it’s a promise that whatever you do for Jesus will last for eternity. If you’re afraid you’ve sinned so much that you feel you won’t be use by God, I want you to know, you’ve been forgiven by the power of Jesus’ blood.

    Beloved, God’s Word is our heavenly protection.

    To God Be The Glory

  • “How’s Your Friday”

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    Praise the Lord and Happy “Good” Friday Everyone. 😀
     
    Back in 1995 there was a movie called “Friday”. I’m sure many of you have seen it. The movie is centered around Craig Jones (Ice Cube) who had a bad Friday. He got fired for stealing cardboard boxes, his rent was due, had a domineering girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), who he really didn’t like and his best friend, Smokey (Chris Tucker), owes the local drug dealer some money and this is all before noon. And as the day went on, his day didn’t get any better as he encountered many things.
     
    His day didn’t get better until Friday night after he won a fight against the neighborhood bully.
     
    Beloved, this morning I want to ask you three questions. My first question is: on this day over 2,000 years ago as Jesus hung on the cross, do you think any of the people that was present call that day a “good” day? The high priest Caiaphas and the Pharisees has just got rid of a popular, powerful important preacher.
     
    But, they had no idea about the true value or worth of the man they just crucified. Pontius Pilate, was an uncompromising Roman governor, and he unenthusiastically allowed Jesus to be crucified to pacify the mob and their leaders demanding Jesus’ life. Beloved, Pilate turned Jesus over to the execution squad, who looked at it as just another death sentence to be carried out along with two others that day. That was until the centurion realized they’d killed the Son of God!!!
     
    My second question is: do you think the disciples call it a “good” day? Well if any of the disciples did call it “good,” it was only after encountering the risen Christ.
     
    And my third question is: do you think Jesus would have called that Friday “good”? You see, the scene at Gethsemane the night before was agonizing!!! Jesus begged His Father to spare Him from His awful mission.
     
    But, perhaps later, when He returned to heaven to be with God, he finally said, “Yes, Father, that was a good day.”
     
    Beloved, the term “Good Friday” first occurred in the fourth century. Some think it was originally called “God’s Friday.” But today, we can call it “good” if we appreciate the fact that Jesus’ trial, punishment, and death brought our salvation. These truths are seen through the spiritual spectacles of faith. So, in that sense it truly is “Good Friday”!!!
     
    But like Craig, many of us have started out some Fridays that were not good.
    But by the end of the weekend, we realize Friday turned out to be not so bad after all.
     
    Beloved, our resurrected Savior’s Friday started out bad but turned out Good. John 19:30 says: Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
     
    Have a blessed Good Friday and an Awesome Resurrection Weekend!!! 😀

  • “A Fresh Start”

    Praise the Lord Beloved!!! 😃
    Happy Wednesday to you.

    Beloved, have you ever wanted to wipe your slate clean and start over?

    I know that can seem impossible, especially when you’re dealing with a difficult situation or the repercussions of bad choices. Well let me tell you, even if circumstances appear insurmountable, impossible, or irreversible, Jesus Christ can give you a fresh start.

    You know when the Lord said a person must be born again to see the kingdom of God, in the third chapter of John, Nicodemus wondered how it was possible to go back in time for a second chance. But what Jesus was talking about is a new spiritual beginning, not a physical one. He goes on to explain later in that conversation that a new birth comes through believing in Him for salvation.

    Beloved, receiving Christ occurs in a single moment but living by faith involves regularly turning from sin to live in obedience to Him. So, whether you’re coming to Jesus for salvation or approaching Him once more for cleansing from sin, He’s faithful to grant forgiveness and the chance to begin again.

    “To God Be the Glory”

  • “The Greatest Attorney”

    Beloved, God is your Heavenly Lawyer. He’ll protect and secure you against the opponent’s contention. Accept and hold on to His help, support, and eternal fortified strength today.

    Beloved, it’s an awesome feeling when we have a great attorney that has never lost a case representing us.

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  • From The Pulpit with Bishop, Dr. W. F. Houston, Jr. Returns

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