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Tag: Satan

  • “Probing For Spiritual Answers”

    Praise The Lord Beloved!!! ✝️❤️😊
     
    This morning’s question was:
    Bishop Houston when I was at home, my parents made us go to church. In my twenties, I slowed down, attending church. I’m in my mid-thirties married with children, and I want to go to church more consistently, but my spouse won’t let me go. Can you give me some advice?
     
    Thank you for your question. And sure, I’ll assist you with some suggestions. 😊
    Answer:
    First, let me say, your aspiration to be a committed member of a local church is excellent. It’s a part of our new-found spiritual life in Christ that gives us the yearning to serve the Lord.
     
    But complications can occur in a home where one spouse chooses to serve God enthusiastically, and the other doesn’t. It’s always complicated when there’s no agreement on an issue of significance to one spouse or the other. The impulse may be to give up and quit.
     
    But quitting isn’t the answer. That’s just what Satan wants. He realizes your family could become one of his harshest adversaries, and he’ll try to demolish it rather than let that transpire. Contemplating separation, divorce, or abandoning your family in any way isn’t a choice for the believer who chooses to do God’s will. So, don’t battle with your spouse. Battle your real enemy. Begin envisioning your family working for the Lord together in a powerful way and stand on the verse I use for my house – Joshua 24:15, “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
     
    Now, that doesn’t mean for you to lay down the old holier than thou or religious attitude. Just communicate it. In other words, show it. Your family is designed to be incorporated in the call God has for your life and the job you believe He wants you to do. God doesn’t break up families for the work of the ministry. Marriage and family life were God’s concept, and He wants us to respect our marriage vows and take care of our families (*1).
     
    As long as your spouse wants to stay with you, it’s your opportunity to easily walk in the love of God and show by your illustration how fantastic it is to be a Christian (*2). Find all the scriptures on love and meditate on them. Keep in mind 1 Corinthians 13:8 “love never fails.” In other words, you have to create the charisma and spiritual characteristic that parallels the feature “to walk in love.” It’s a huge task, but in Jesus, it can be accomplished!!! CHOF & BWFHJr Ministry is, praying for you, believing, and celebrating with you. Amen? Aaamen. ✝️❤️😊
     
    Probing For Spiritual Answers Cross-Reference Verses
    *1. Malachi 2:16, 1 Timothy 5:8
    *2. 1 Corinthians 7:12-14

  • “Probing For Spiritual Answers”

    This Week Probing For Spiritual Answers Question Why hasn’t God destroyed Satan

    Praise The Lord Beloved!!! ✝️❤️😊

    This Morning’s Question is: Bishop Houston, Satan has been a problem for humanity since the beginning of time. Why hasn’t God destroyed him?

    Answer: This is a fantastic question. 😊

    Beloved, God is the architect of life. He is in life. In Him, no mortality or obscurity exists.

    See, when God designed Lucifer, He created him perpetually. God designed him to live forever, not to die or terminate his existence, but to live eternally. Ezekiel 28 delivers a great illustration of how Lucifer was created perfect, and then iniquity was found in him (*1).

    When Lucifer transgressed in rebellion against God, he was thrown out from the existence of God to live the rest of his life in eternal separation from God. Beloved, Satan cannot die, be killed, and his life cannot be terminated, because God created him as an infinite being. Satan will live eternally in agony, detached from God.

    Now many don’t know this critical fact but should be made aware. We must understand that man is also an eternal being, created by God to live eternally. Humans are designed in God’s persona as three-part beings. The three parts of a human-being are called THE SPIRIT, THE SOUL, and THE BODY (*2). The spirit is a person’s most profound being, the part that gives him life. The soul is his selection center; this is where we make determinations; it’s where our reasoning, feeling, and knowledge functions. The body is the biological house in which God lives.

    Beloved, as spirit beings, we will live eternally. Adam’s sin in the Garden sentenced all human beings to physical and spiritual death. It is essential to know right here that Spiritual death does not mean a spirit ceases to exist. It means a soul is removed from God. The good news is that we do not have to stay separated from God!!! Because God loves us, He made it viable for us to be reconnected to Him via the disposal of virtuous blood. He arranged a body and His one and only Son, Jesus, who became the martyr for the sin of humanity. Jesus’ death reimbursed the fine for Adam’s sin so that we could live in the spiritual life and have a relationship with God. Amen? Aaamen. ✝️❤️😊

    Probing For Spiritual Answers Cross-Reference Verses:
    *1. Isaiah 14:12-15
    *2. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 & Hebrews 4:12

  • “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)