“Learning To Fly In Weakness”

February 1st, lets see, Joe has a birthday on the 15th. He will be the same age as as me until October. I am from October to February older than Joe, but a few months out of the year I can say we are the same age. Okay, if you wondering, I was born in 1953, and Joe 1954. So now you know how young I am. Praise God, for every year. Joe and I married on June 18, 1977, so you can say we have gotten used to each other by now.

Ha Ha I was reading back over a devotion that I did in 2002. Since then I have gone through nine surgeries. Praise God, that I am here tonight, getting a chance to do e-mail devotions. Yes, it has been a hard and difficult time, but God has always been there to do His work in me. I have learned to trust in God with even a deeper meaning in my life. I have learn to fly in a different direction and have had a chance to grow in maturity and increase my faith and my abilities.

Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

When the eaglet is allowed to struggle for purpose, He does not struggle just so he will trust the mother. He struggles to learn to fly. God’s allowing us to struggle is for a purpose, as well, to bring about maturity, to enhance our testimony, and to increase our abilities.

Paul said, “For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:9,10) (I Corinthians 1: 27-29) says, “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. God chose the weak things of this world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him”

Any time you think life is unfair, look at the cross. It wasn’t fair for the perfect Son of God to be nailed at the age of thirty-three. It wasn’t fair for him to suffer pain, ridicule, guilt, loneliness and death. It seemed on that dark day the world had turned upside down, and God’s people were falling into despair. But three days later, Jesus Christ arose from the grave to live in triumph. He has promised, if we walk in faith, he will do the same for us. That’s the reason we can walk and not faint. That’s the reason we can smile even through tears. We know there will come a day when we shall rise up again with eagles… and fly! So remember, when you are at your lowest, weakest moment, that may be the time God uses you to make the greatest impact.

Like the eagle, when you are falling, this may be when you are about to learn to fly.

Joyfully, In The Master’s Service
Blessings, Prayers and Love,
Pastor Pat

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“Is God Listening?”

Prayer is the means by which we take our perplexities to the Father. But do you get the feeling that some people have God’s listening ear better than you do? I love the letter the little boy wrote to God in which he admitted he knew God heard prayers, but he wanted to know when God would be listening especially hard to prayers. In other words he was asking God is there a certain day that you handle prayer for different situations?

I think one of the problems we encounter in praying is that we are inclined to dictate to God what our preferences are. If we have already made up our minds, we may not hear Him when He speak!
As Mark 4: 23 -24 says, “If any man have ears to hear, let him hear…Take heed what ye hear.”
“Listen to what you hear,” He is saying, “You think there is a shortage of my messages, my answers to your prayers? Unplug your ears!”

Perhaps our biggest problem is not that we haven’t and don’t hear; if we will be honest we might have to confess that we aren’t always ready to listen! We may have heard but we just do not want to obey. The think God may have made a mistake. In other words we are saying, “God are you sure?”

Catherine Marshall in her classic Adventures in Prayer speaks of “The Prayer of Relinquishment.” She say, ” A demanding spirit, with self-will as its rudder, blocks prayer….Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, I come to see, is the pattern for us. Christ could have avoided the cross…. Christ used His free will to turn the decision over to His Father. He said, “Dear Father…all things are possible to you. Let me not have to drink this cup! Yet it is not what I want but what you want.’ She emphasizes that there is no resignation in Prayer of Relinquishment. This kind of praying doesn’t slam the door on hope. It’s called “the pliability of an obedient heart.”

Sometimes you as I also maybe faced with the problem, Lord, I just do not know how to pray about this problem.
Praise God, that is not a problem to God. Thanks to the Holy Spirit everybody is equal before God in prayer. The Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, in our improper understanding, and conveys from our hearts to God’s heart what is really there, that which is impossible for us to put into words anyway!”

Friends, God knows our needs before we ever bring them to Him. He is just waiting for us to see if we are ready to turn our life situations over to Him completely.

In other words, “Lord, here I am, I am yours, and I am willing to follow your ways for my life.

Sending to You and Your Family,
Blessings, Love and Prayers,
Pastor Pat Aman

Devotion Written March 30, 2011- By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2015 Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals”
Study Notes: The New King James Bible

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Sudden Quiet

Good Morning Everyone!

Have you ever read something and it just seemed routine, and you forgot about it shortly, and then later you read it, and wow, it popped off the page to you, and seemed so meaningful?

I mean we often are so busy, that things just don’t sink in, because our mind are going in so many different directions.

I often think this could be part of the problem not only with our relationships but with our spiritual life. We get wrapped up in everything except something that profits our soul.

Suppose for a minute we could clear our mind of the clutter. Suppose we shut off the problems filling our heads and worrying us, suppose we shut off the thinking about things we need to do, suppose we shut off thinking about others, or how upset we are or what they did, or what they should have done. Suppose we held up a mental stop sign and said Quiet everyone… I’m cleaning house. Sudden quiet.

Now… I can take time to listen for God.
Nothing else.
Just Him.

If we did this each morning, even for a brief time we would see immediate results in the way we deal with life, others, and most certainly it would give God time to impart peace into our spirit. And hope, and inspiration. And.. reassurance.

What if you made this your goal this week? Just a quiet time with God every day. Where you raised a stop sign and quieted everything in the world, but meditation upon God. And listen for that precious still small voice. Oh how we need this my friend.

Think about it, don’t you need refreshing in your spirit? Don’t you need fresh hope? Don’t you need encouragement? Well what are you waiting for? Don’t neglect the One who loves you more than anyone else does, and has the answers to all you need. Take time for God!

Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart Wait, I say, on the Lord! Psalm 27:14

Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage, and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait and hope for and expect the Lord.

But those who wait for the Lord — who expect, look for and hope in Him — shall change and RENEW their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up (close to God) as eagles (mount up to the sun); they shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint or become tired. Isaiah 40:31

Remember your source of strength is Christ, you cannot run the race of life successfully without a close, enduring, daily, ongoing vital relationship with Him.

With our God we shall do valiantly!

Blessings, Love and Prayers, Pastor Pat Aman
Also, please know that:

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with Joy. Philippians 1: 3-4

I end each message with “My Blessings, Love & Prayers,” I truly mean that, and I pray for each of you every morning and evening.

Written By:  Pat Aman

June, 2009
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Life or Death

Proverbs 6: 2

You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth.

Matthew 12: 35-37

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

Proverbs 19:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Mark 11:24

Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

John 14:13-14 “And whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

1 John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

We wonder why we live in sickness? Why life seems to be so negative? Why people stop coming around us? Why we seem lonely?

I could go on and on, but I want to say the answer could be our own actions and our mouth.

As Christians we should act as Christians. We should believe the Bible the Word of God. We should believe that what God says, He will do.

But, we are sometimes so negative. We speak negative. We act negative. And we do not stand on God’s promises.

I know that people have gone to the altar for prayer for healing and God healed them, and then they turn around and open their mouth and stop their healing.

Just little things, like, well I prayed but my back still hurts.

How about getting up in the morning and saying out loud, I am healed. My back does not hurt. My head does not hurt. My stomach does not hurt. My finances are wonderful. My car works great. My family is all saved.

Church you are not naming and claiming. You are just believing that God will do what He says He will do.

The disciples asked Jesus, how show we pray? And Jesus answered them with the perfect prayer, the prayer of His heart. The prayer that God is showing us how He wants us to live.

Matthew 6:9-13

9 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Did you notice verse 10? He wants us to have things on earth as they are in Heaven. But, we have turned our world and our lives upside down.

I found out in my own life that if I keep my mouth shut, I am better off. If I cannot speak positive to my circumstances, I just need not to speak at all.

God hears our prayers. God wants us healed. God wants us happy, but we let satan throw all kind of things at on us. We even are so fast to open our mouths and to give satan a  ideas for him to use against us.

God is the only one who knows our thoughts heart and desires. But, satan cannot read ours minds or hear our thoughts. He only hears what we speak.

So, if we are constantly  speaking negative, well guess what? Yes, negative things come into our lives.

Stop blaming God if your life is going down hill. Oh, I can hear you already, but Pastor Pat, nothing happens to us that God does not allow.

Well, I will ask you this. If you are sick, did God are you not take care of your body? If you are broke and have no money, did God or you spend money on unnecessary things, and not save and put money back in a special fund, so you will have it in hard times? If your family is not saved, what example did you show them with your own life and actions?

And we must remember they as well as us are free agents. We have choices and God will not go against the choices they make or we make. But, He will be there to pick us up if we repeat and come back to Him.

It is time we get back to prayer and bible study. I am not talking about the habit of just doing it, but, really and sincerely seeking God.

When we do our lives and our families lives will turn around.

Blessings, Love and Prayers, Pastor Pat Aman
Also, please know that:

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with Joy. Philippians 1: 3-4

I end each message with “My Blessings, Love & Prayers,” I truly mean that, and I pray for each of you every morning and evening.

You can always tell when people get serious about situations in their lives. They not only pray but it is time to fast.  

God awaken me early this morning.  The story of David and Saul came into my spirit.  As I thought about the story, I realized the seriousness and affect of saying, gossiping, accusing, hoping, and speaking things on and  about the men and women God has called into His service.

A MERRY HEART OF LAUGHTER

Written By: Patricia Hunter Aman

As a Merry Heart of Laughter,

Can brighten a cloudy day.

It will fill your soul with springtime,

As radiate as a colorful bouquet.

It lifts our spirits to the sky,

And can mend the wounded heart.

It is just another gift from God,

A special grace that He imparts.

Laughter is good medicine,

That takes away our fears.

And can quickly replace,

A Childs sad face,

And dry up all their tears.

So give a little gift today,

Wrapped up with bows of laughter,

And one day it will be returned to you,

In ways you can’t image.

Blessing, Love and Prayers,

Pastor Pat

Witten By: Pastor Pat Aman

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Today is Sunday, a beautiful day.  Our family went to Church this morning.  Anna  went to Sunday School and Church, but the rest of us only made it to the Church service.  We had a wonderful service.  God touch the hearts of many today.  God can touch and work miracles if we just let Him.  I think sometimes we try to judge situations our selves and not let God lead us and tell us the true circumstances of things going on around us.  I learn many years ago, not to judge because I sure do not want people judging me.  One day I will have to stand before the great judge and that is enough for me.  Well anyway not sure where that came from, but I know God has a reason for me saying it.

I have prayed today about the Devotion for Monday.  The Lord has laid on my heart that I need to send out to you this prayer that I composed a few years ago.  It has ready blessed me and my family.  When I was learning about spiritual warfare and learning to pray as a spiritual warrior, God show me that I not only needed to pray but quote the word of God.   So here is the prayer.  I hope that it blesses you and your family as much as it has ours. 

Remember when you pray this prayer, read it out loud, so satan and his little imps can hear you.  God’s word defeats satan.  Jesus used God’s word in the wilderness, when satan was temping him.  Remember Jesus said, satan it is written. 

Well you have a good week and God Bless you.  Rev. Pat Aman

A Prayer for Spiritual Warfare

Composed by: Rev. Patricia Aman/1989

(Proverbs 4:20-22, 6:2, 18:4) The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Every word spoken becomes a living thing, to minister or to destroy.

(Roman 12:1) Heavenly Father, according to Your Word, I present my body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable in Your sight.

(Isaiah 43:26) And Lord you tell me to put you in remembrance and for us to talk together daily that I may ask and be forgiven of my sins. So I ask you to remember the promises you have for me, as I keep Your commandments and ask forgiveness of my sins.

(2 Timothy 1:7) And I thank you that I do not have a spirit of fear, but a sound mind in Jesus name.

(Colossians 1:9-11) I desire to be filled with the knowledge of Your will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that I walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all patience and long-suffering.

(Nehemiah 8:10) with joyfulness; for the Lord is my strength.

I thank you for the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, common sense and comprehension that you give me in all that I do today.

(Ephesians 6:14-17) Father, I gird my loins about with truth, I put on the breastplate of righteousness, and I shod my feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, I take the shield of faith, wherewith I shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And I take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

(Isaiah 58:8) And the Glory of the Lord is my rear guard.

(Isaiah 61:3) Father, I put on the garment of praise, and thank You for the armor You have provided for me to dress in this day. I am completely covered now in the name of Jesus, according to Your word.

(Matthew 16:18) Upon Jesus I have built my entire life, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

(Psalms 23:1) You are my shepherd, I shall not want.

(Philippians 4:13 and 19) I know I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and You shall supply all my needs, according to Your riches in Glory.

(2 Corinthians 10:5) I cast down all imaginations, and bring into captivity every evil thought.

(I Peter 5:7) I cast all my care on You, for You care for me.

(Isaiah 53:5) I thank You and praise You for walking in divine health and prosperity, because by Your stripes I am healed.

(Psalms 103:5) My soul does prosper in you, and You heal all my diseases.

(Psalms 107:20) As you have sent your word and gave me good health.

(Deuteronomy 8:1) All the commandments, which You have commanded me, I will do, so I may live, multiply, and possess those blessings that You have promised me.

(St. John 15:7) For Lord, You tell me that if I abide in You and Your word abides in me, I may ask what I will and it shall be.

(Jeremiah 1:12) Now Father, I have prayed according to Your Word, and you say You would watch over Your word to perform it. Now I stand on this promise, so rise up in me big today, for I am Yours, in the name of Jesus.

Amen and Amen

Written By: Pastor Pat Aman

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