Father God, I Am Yours And You Know Me
Author: Pat AH Aman

(Psalm 139: 1-24) says, ” O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar of. You comprehend my path and my lying down. And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue. but behold, O Lord, You know it all together. You have hedged me behind and before. And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain it. I cannot go for Your Spirit. I cannot go from your presence. If I ascend into heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even Your hand shall lead me. And Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me.” Even the night shall be light about me. Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You. but the night shines as the day, the darkness and the light are both alike You. For You formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret. And skillfully wrought in lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written. The days fashioned for me. When as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men. For they speak against You wickedly. Your enemies take You name in vain. Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

Now let us look at this scripture again. David is calling out to God. He is shouting from the depths of his heart. He is not worrying about what others or even God is going to say to him. He is just crying out. God help me! God rescue me! He is talking one on one with his Heavenly Father.

None of us enjoys going through difficulties. Trials are part of life for the Fathers God’s children as well as all persons who have not excepted salvation.

But, as Father God’s children we have learn to put our trust in Father God during times of difficulty, we continue to see the hand of God and additional growth in our walk with Him. His infinite wisdom and love for us is shown even during the hard times.

We need to do as David. We need trust in the Lord. Trust is the belief in and reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety of a person or thing. To trust in the Lord is to believe Him, (that is, to take Him at His word) and to believe absolutely that what He says is true.

Trust in the Lord and not in yourself. Trust in the Lord and not your wealth for financial security. Trust in the Lord and not in your physical strength of your nation’s military prowess for protection. Trust in the Lord and not in political power or connections. Trust in the Lord and not in things you have built.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
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Feasting In His Presence
Author: Pat Aman

When I hear the song In The Presence of Jehovah I feel as if I am being escorted into the very throne room of God; it touches something inside me in a supernatural way. The words express the simple truth, that we can find healing for whatever our need when we get alone with God.

Because God fashioned us, He knows what will minister to our particular need. Without question, He gave this song to the writers that it might tell of Him and His grace.

There is not a need in our life that Father God cannot handle for us.

Father God watches over us, feeds us and is our personal friend. He is Jehovah-Rohi, our Shepherd.

Everyday Father God waits for us to enter into His Presence. Please do not miss a day feasting on the Bread of Life

Names of God
Abba: Father
Alpha and Omega: The Beginning and End
Attiyq Youm: The Ancient of Days
Christos: The Anointed One
El Chuwl: The God Who Gave You Birth
El Deah: The God of Knowledge
El Elyon: The God Most High
El Olam: The Everlasting God
El Roi: The God Who Sees
El Shaddai: God Almighty
Elohim: The Creator
Jehovah (Yahweh): The Self-Existent One
Jehovah-Bore: The LORD Creator
Jehovah-Jireh: The LORD Our Provider
Jehovah-Nissi: The LORD Our Banner
Jehovah-Rapha: The LORD Our Healer
Jehovah-Rohi: The LORD Our Shepherd
Jehovah-Sabbaoth: The LORD of Hosts
Jehovah-Shalom: The LORD is Peace
Jehovah-Shammah: The LORD is There
Jehovah-Tsidkenu: The LORD Our Righteousness

In The Presence Of Jehovah

In and out of situations
That tug-a-war at me
All day long I struggle
For answers that I need
But then I come into His presence
And all my questions become clear
And for that sacred moment
No doubts can interfere
In the presence of Jehovah
God Almighty, Prince of peace
Troubles vanish, hearts are mended
In the presence of the King
Through His love the Lord provided
A place for us to rest
A place to find the answers
In the hour of distress
Now there is never any reason
For you to give up in despair
Just slip away and breathe His name
He will surely meet you there
In the presence of Jehovah
God Almighty, Prince of peace
Troubles vanish, hearts are mended
In the presence of the King
In the presence of Jehovah
God Almighty, Prince of peace
Troubles vanish, hearts are mended
In the presence of the King
In the presence of the King

Songwriters: Geron Davis, Geron La Ray Davis, Becky Davis
For non-commercial use….

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
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Is Father God Listening?
Author: Pat Pat AH Aman

Prayer is the means by which we take our perplexities to the Father God. But do you get the feeling that some people have Father 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 Father 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. We think Father God may have made a mistake. In other words we are saying, “Father 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 Father God, that is not a problem to Him. Thanks to the Holy Spirit everybody is equal before our Father God in prayer. The Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, in our improper understanding, and conveys from our hearts to Father God’s heart what is really there, that which is impossible for us to put into words anyway!”

Friends, Father 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.

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs‬ 22:6

“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.” 1 Timothy‬ 5:17

A little extra:

It has been so good to hear people of all colors, races and creed say yes, ma’am, no ma’am, bless you and thank you.

I maybe old fashion, but, I require it of our girls, even today.

You never get to old to show respect to your elders.

As a matter of fact, I said thank you sir, to a guy who was in in teens that held a door open for me. You would have thought I had given him a bag of gold with the big smile on his face.Respect is respect.

Age does not matter.

Respect is a expression of love and honor.

If we show respect, we will receive respects.

We must not only teach our children manners, but, they must see us showing good manners.

Children will do as they see.

So, do your children see are hear you calling out to God in Prayer?

I thank Father God every day for all my life, but the last five months before mama had her HomeGoing, my sister Ruby and I had the privilege to hear our mama praying after we got her to bed.

We would hear her praying over the monitor we had in her room. She continually called out to Father God for hear children, grandchildren, friends, church and so many more times ending in a prayer of thanksgiving.

What a glorious memory.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
© Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….

Watch Out For Those Women Preachers
Author: Pastor Ken Smith…

What Does The Bible Say About Women Preachers/Evangelist?

“As for me, Pat, I just laughed when a friend and I was discussing Women Preachers.

So, what does the Bible ready say on the subject? Right off the bat I thought,”why am I as so many women still dealing with this in today’s world?”

I have made a copy of post below for you each to read, study your Bible and let God show you. What better post to share, it was written by a man.

“As for me Pat, I was called at the age of 10 years old to evangelism. I never questioned the call on my life. I have been preaching ever since that day.

God calls us all to be His disciples and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.

So, I as many men and women will continue to shout to the world about the grace, mercy and salvation that Jesus Christ gave to me.”

How about you?

(Nehemiah 8:10)
“The Joy Of The Lord, Is Your Strength.”
(Proverbs 17:22)
“A Merry Heart Does Good, Like Medicine, But A Broken Spirit Dries The Bones.”

Women Ministers
Written By: Pastor Keith A. Smith
Assemblies of God

1. There is not one Scripture in the Bible that forbids women
   from preaching, but on the contrary, there are many verses that encourage both men and women to preach the Gospel.
2. The Bible teaches that God is not a respecter of persons, and He will use any and all who will yield to Him, regardless of race, age, or sex.
   Galatians 3:28 – “…neither male nor female…for ye are all one
   in Christ Jesus.”
   Acts 10:34 – “…God is no respecter of persons….”
   Moses said in Numbers 11:29, “Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put His spirit upon them!”

The crying need of the hour is for more laborers. It is a trick of the enemy to try to down rate thousands of our faithful laborers just because they were born females.

3. The Great Commission, Mark 16:15, “Preach the Gospel,” is to ALL believers, and to all the church of Jesus Christ. The command to “preach the Gospel” is to both male and female.
4. It is an undeniable fact that God has called and anointed thousands of women to preach the Gospel. The Full Gospel organizations have hundreds of licensed and ordained women who are preaching, teaching, evangelizing, pastoring, and doing mission work with the signs following their
   ministry. God is using them for the salvation of the lost, deliverance from sin, gifts of the Spirit, and infilling of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible says, “Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.” And may we be reminded of the Scripture in Acts 5:39, “If it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against
God.”

When someone says, “God does not call women to preach,” it is like saying that God does not baptize with the Holy Spirit today. We know better, because we have witnessed and experienced it with our own ears and eyes.

I would be afraid to condemn women preachers, lest I would be found to be fighting against God, and to be committing the vile sin of attributing the works of the Holy Spirit to the devil.

5. Women preachers are a fulfillment of Bible Prophecy and another sign of Christ’s soon return to earth.
   Joel 2:28
   28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. –
   Acts 2:17-18
   17” ‘In the last days, God says,
   I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
   Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
   your young men will see visions,
   your old men will dream dreams.
   18Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
6. The Bible declares that women will prophesy: 1 Cor. 11:5, “For every woman that prayed or prophesied….”

Both the Hebrew (Nebrah), and Greek (Prophet) used for prophetess means (female preacher). (See Young’s Concordance, Pg. 780.)

The word “Prophet” means a public expounder.

The word “Prophesy” means to speak forth, or flow forth. The
Bible says in 1 Cor. 14:3, “But he that prophesied speaketh unto MEN to edification, and exhortation and comfort.”

The dictionary says, prophesy is “to speak under divine inspiration…to preach.”
Therefore we learn from the original translation, from the Bible interpretation, and from the dictionary, that to prophesy means more than to tell the future, but it is to speak publicly about the past, present, or future. It is to preach under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

The Old and New Testament prophets and prophetesses were preachers of God’s Word.

Even if the words prophet and preacher could be separated, how could anyone prophesy to bring exhortation, comfort and edification to the church, if she were forbidden to speak in church and was to keep silent?

Would God inspire and anoint someone to do something that was
wrong and sinful??? * (There is a difference between a prophet, and the gift of prophecy.)

7. God called and used women preachers in the Old Testament.
   a. DEBORAH – Judges 4:4-5. Deborah was a Judge for both civil and criminal cases. The children of Israel came to her for judgment. She was the chief ruler of Israel for 40 years, giving orders to the Generals and all the army. She did the work of an evangelist, prophetess, Judge, and a preacher. God gave her authority over the mighty (Judges 5:13).
   Judges 4: 4 – 5
   4 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided.
   b. MIRIAM – Exodus 15:20; Numbers 12:1; Micah 6:4. She was a
   Prophetess and a Song Leader in Israel.
   c. HULDAH – 2 Kings 22:14. Five men went to Sister Huldah and
   communed with her. She spoke to a congregation of men concerning the book of the Law. A female preached to a man’s congregation, and her message was taken to the nation and produced a revival.
   d. MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ’S MOTHER – Isaiah 8:3. She was a
   prophetess.
8. God called and used women preachers in the New Testament.
   a. The first message of the Resurrection of Christ was spoken by women to a group of men.
   b. Anna – Luke 2:36-38. She must have prophesied in church, because she did not depart from the temple.
   c. Phillip had 4 daughters who prophesied. Acts 21:9.
   d. Priscilla assisted Paul in his revival meeting and even taught Apollos in the way of the Lord more perfectly.
   e. Phebe – Romans 16:1-2. Paul commended Phebe to the Church at Rome and requested that they assist her in her business. She was one ofPaul’s assistants in the work of the Lord and delivered the Book of Romans to the people from the hand of Paul.
9. There is no sound reason why a woman or man should not preach the Gospel. There is a desperate need in the church for more workers.

Laborers are few, and God will use any and all who will go for Him. Some say God will not use a woman to preach, because “The woman was deceived,” but remember Romans 5:12: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world.” It seems to indicate that Adam was just as guilty as Eve in the fall of man. If anyone should be kept from preaching because of sin, it would be Adam. But God does not forbid anyone from preaching, because of Adam’s or Eve’s sin.

10. 1 Cor. 14: 34-35
    34women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. 35If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. This Scripture does not say anything about women preachers.

If Paul intended this verse as a general rule to bar all women from speaking in church, then they cannot teach Sunday School, testify, pray, prophesy, sing, or even get saved, and this would contradict the rest of the Bible
(Acts 2:4; Acts 2:16-18).

Paul was rather dealing with a particular problem in the church.

Women were not educated as were the men in that day; therefore the women would talk back and forth to their husbands in church and ask questions concerning the sermon. Paul said, “If they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”

If they want to talk things over let them wait until they get home. This rule is still good for the church today, where people are talking and causing confusion in the church service. They should not speak in church. (Note: the back of the church either before or after services.)

If a woman cannot speak in church, then she cannot speak in prayer meeting, young people’s service, etc., for who can deny that Sunday School and Prayer meeting, and Youth work are parts of church? Christ’s Church is not a building, but rather it is found where two or three are gathered together in His name, whether at a street meeting, in a tent, a home, church, classroom or anywhere else.

11. 1 Timothy 2:12 is not a blanket rule for all women of all churches. If it were, then the women could not speak at all, for the same verse that tells them not to teach also tells them to be silent.
    If all women had to keep silent in church, then that would be promoting disobedience to God, for they could not prophesy, pray, testify, sing, exhort, do personal work, or even get saved.
    Whenever an interpretation to a verse contradicts the rest of the teaching of the Bible, we know this interpretation is incorrect, for the Holy Spirit will never contradict His own Word.

This is the chief verse that is used to oppose women preaching and yet it says nothing about preaching, nor does it say anything about a public worship or church service. But, on the contrary, this verse is giving instructions to wives as to how they were to conduct themselves in regard to their husband. Paul says in 1 Cor. 14:35, “And if they will LEARN anything, let them ask their husbands at home.” Now he states in 1 Tim. 2:12 that the woman should learn in silence, and should not usurp authority over the man.

Paul is dealing with more of a home problem than a church problem.
This verse still applies to us today. It is wrong for a woman to usurp authority over her husband (in church, home, or any place else) as was the case in Paul’s day. She should not try to teach him or speak words that would cause discord and confusion, but should rather be silent and in subjection to her husband.

It is also to be understood that if anyone, whether man or woman, is usurping authority over the God-given leadership of the church, she or he is to be silent, and not to teach, or act in such a way that would create discord in the assembly.

12. Some have used Titus 1:6-7, “If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children…”, but there is a difference between a preacher and a bishop. For I was an Evangelist and now am a Pastor, but I am not a Bishop (Overseer), and most Pastors are not.
    If God called a single man with no children to be a Bishop, as Paul was, surely this verse is not opposed to it, nor would this scripture oppose a woman Bishop if she was called of God for the work, as was Deborah.

What this verse does teach is that a person who is to be a Bishop must not have two living companions, either husbands or wives.
The Bible often speaks of “man” when it refers to both men and and women inclusively. The word “mankind” also includes both men and women.

For an example of this word usage see 1 Cor. 13:1 – “Though I speak with the tongues of MEN and angels….” This word “MEN” includes women as well, for we do not have one language for men and another for women.

13. To condemn women preachers and women church workers is a serious offense, because God has stamped His approval on them by His Spirit over and over again, and who is man to fight against the Spirit of God?

To condemn women preachers and women church workers is in a sense to claim they are doing wrong and committing sin…and all those who support them and listen to them are having a part in that sin.

For anyone to do this, he must condemn approximately 99% of all the Spirit-filled believers and the vast majority of all of Christianity.
“Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons…”
(Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism).

Blessing, Love and Prayers,
Pastor Pat
Devotion posted By:
Reverend Patricia H. Aman, PhD
© 1996/2021″Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals”
Study Notes: The New King James Bible

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Devotional Author:
Pastor Ken Smith
Assemblies Of God

Being Thankful While Trying Too Find Your Tail.

Of all the devotions I have written, I get a request so often to repeat this one.

Maybe you must be feeling, you lost your tail?

I think during the last almost two years of disasters, riots, unrest, covid, jobs lost, craziness of the world and having to be stuck in our homes, we all have had to look for our tails.

We need to work together helping each other find our tails.

Isaiah 40:
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Are You Eeyore?
Author: Pat Aman
November 21,2003

Can you be thankful while trying to find your tail… This have been so busy, I think a couple of days I lost mine.

Have you ever felt like Eeyore. You know the little gray patched up donkey in the Winnie the Pooh series. They lived in a beautiful 100 acre woods Eeyore use to say, “Is my tail still on?” Then he would say, “let’s have a look, and he turned slowly round to the place where his tail had been a little while ago, and then, finding that he couldn’t catch it up, he turned round the other way, until he came back to where he was at first, and then he put his head down and looked between his front legs, and at last he said, with a long, sad sigh, “I believe you’re right, Pooh, it is still there.”

Sometimes I feel the same way, I feel I have lost my tail, and cannot find it. I think that we sometimes go to that 100 acre woods, a beautiful place, but it becomes our gloomy place just like Eeyore.

When you are in that gloomy place it is hard to give praise and thanks when we feel like Eeyore that we have lost our tail.

Even though Eeyore had great compassion for others, and was always trying to help people, he still at times felt, Oh, poor me.

See, he lost his love for life. He some how lost the sense of a positive attitude. His fire had gone out.

In our lives we all at times may think, I am burned out, woe is me. We still truck along trying to do our best, but we have to continually put patches on our lives just to hold us together.

God speaks of this very thing in Revelation chapter two. He tells the church at Ephesus, that He knows all their good deeds, but He is getting a little disappointed in them, because they have lost their first love. “Him.”

Again, I myself sometimes feel tired, even though I keep getting up from being knock down, that my first love is getting depleted from my life. I need to get that fire back, the fire that helps build my faith up. Yes, that is when I need to get down on my knees and look up to God and find my tail.

God promises to give strength to the weary, and I tell you now, I have to stand on that promise.

So, if today, you are feeling like Eeyore, and you have lost your tail, and are sitting in your gloomy place look up to the Heavenly Father.

Yes, get back on your knees, and look up to God and say, “I think you are right God, I still have it together.”

And then begin singing, praising and thanking God and see your life turn around, as we become thankful instead of woe is me.

In others words, you may have to be like Eeyore, turn around, check things out, and see if you may have to let some things go that maybe clouding up your way. The way God wants you to go.

You may as Eeyore, have to get in a downward position on your knees, so God can show you that your tail is still on and your headed in just the way He wants you to go.

You just need to turn around and follow God with Thankfulness and Praise.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
© Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….

Nicodemus
Author: Pat Aman
11/15-1999/rev2021

In studying today, I thought of Nicodemus. And the devotion I wrote many years ago.
“I Wonder When Did Nicodemus Believe?

Isaiah 9:2 says, “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shines.”

At John 3:1-3 tells us that Nicodemus first came to Jesus under the cover of darkness, a questioner: “Who are you really? How can a man be born again?” Jesus answered his questions, and raised more. But John does not say that Nicodemus believed.

Perhaps he mulled the questions and answers over, for St. John 7: 50-52, tells us he defended Jesus when other Pharisees accused him: “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” But John still does not say he believed.

Then, unexpectedly, St. John 19: 39-40, shows Nicodemus performing an act of great faith. When Joseph of Arimathes took Jesus’ body down from the cross, Nicodemus came with expensive spices and helped anoint the body for burial. According to Hebrew law this made him unclean, he could not celebrate Passover. Further, it publicly identified him with Jesus when even the disciples had fled.

I wonder when Nicodemus decided to believe in Jesus, in a blinding moment, or by a slow process of growth?

John’s way of telling the story of Nicodemus shows me that when we first believe is not what really matters. What matters is that we, like Nicodemus, finally arrive at Jesus, to offer our wealth, our reputation, our entire being and our service.

I wonder, if Nicodemus had come to us by night, we would have like Jesus taken time to answer his questions? Even worse, would we might have just assumed that Nicodemus was was a good person, and he did not need Jesus, because he was already good?

How many people will be in Hell because we did not take the time to talk to them, but, we judge the good are bad situation of their lives incorrectly?

Judging people is a fault in this world today. People read the Facebook, papers and listen to every media outlet, and believe everything that is in it.

I feel that we do not need to judge someone until we walk in their shoes.

Maybe even meet with the person that we are judging and find the true facts about the story. Then we would learned the truth as well as find out that the person just like Nicodemus is doing greater things in the community that is helping people. But, that person needs your love, mercy, grace.

So, before you judge someone, remember God tell us that we should not judge our brother and sister, but lift them up in the Holy Love of God.

Remember one day you may fall, and it just may be the person you have judged and torn down, that will be there to lift you up.

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
© Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….

GOD WANTS YOU FREE
Author: Pat Aman

I believe every believer who loves God wants to be holy. But not every believer is actually living holy. Many times we have old habits we’ve never overcome, even though we’ve lived with them for years.

If you’ve struggled like this, even for years, I know you can be free. God wants you free, and the Scripture says the truth will make you free. If you continue in the Word of God, it will make you free and you can live holy.

Jesus said in His prayer to the Father “Sanctify them through the truth, the word of truth”( John 17:17)

I don’t care if what’s holding you back is the strongest addiction there is, God will and can set you free. All He needs is your choice, your quality decision that, “No matter what, this is it. I’m leaving bondage behind.”

God is faithful. He’s just waiting on the opportunity to help you. He is a merciful and loving Father. (Jeremiah 15:19) says, “Therefore thus saith the LORD, if thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth, let them return unto thee; but return not thus unto them.”

“If thou return…” As a believer, that’s what God’s asking you to do. To draw nigh unto Him and He’ll draw nigh unto you with every deliverance, every blessing, every prosperity that you need. If you’re a person who’s moved away from God, He’s asking you to return. If you’ve never been saved, He’s asking you to come to Him and make Jesus your Lord and Savior.

“The precious from the vile…” He wants us to learn to separate in our lives the precious things that are His from the vile things of this world. God won’t force you to do that. He doesn’t require you to live a life separated unto Him because He wants to be a dictator. NO That’s not God’s way at all.

God wants you to do what He says and walk in His ways because they produce freedom. They produce the best for you. You can’t walk in the ways of the world and be free. God loves you. He wants you to be able to wake up every morning happy, full of joy, with your needs met, your family around you, and no trouble on any side. And He wants you to be free of all those things you’ve struggles with for years.

Accept Father God’s love, salvation, and grace.

How Can I Pray Without Ceasing, If I Cannot Walk In My Prayer?
Author: Pat Aman

But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction, 13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another. 14 We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 15 See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. 16 Rejoice always; 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thessalonians 5:12-19

We should aim is to be fruitful people of love whose lives are nourishing for others; we want to be durable in that and not wither when the heat comes; and we want to be eternally significant or prosperous. That’s our goal, because when we are fruitful like that in the midst of the drought of hardship, God will get the glory. But the key to that kind of fruitfulness, we have seen in Psalm 1 is meditation on the Word of God day and night. We must be a Word-saturated people.

“Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.”Psalms‬ ‭1:1-3‬ ‭

So, can you truly kneel in Prayer and say the Lord’s Prayer?

Can I Truly Say The “Lord’s Prayer”
Author: M.W. Gass

I cannot say Our, if I live in a watertight spiritual compartment; if I think a special place in heaven is reserved for my denomination.

I cannot say Father, if I do not demonstrate the relationship in my daily life.

I cannot say which art in heaven, if I am so occupied with the earth that I am laying up no treasure there.

I cannot say hallowed be Thy Name, if I, who am called by His name, am not holy.

I cannot say Thy kingdom come, if I am not doing all in my power to hasten its coming.

I cannot say Thy will be done, if I am questioning, resentful of, or disobedient to His will for me.

I cannot say on earth as it is in heaven, if I am not prepared to devote my life here to His service.

I cannot say give us this day our daily bread, if I am living on past experience, or if I am an under-the-counter shopper.

I cannot say forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us, if I harbor a grudge against anyone.

I cannot say lead us not into temptation, if I deliberately place myself, or remain, in a position where I am likely to be tempted.

I cannot say deliver us from evil, if I am not prepared to fight it in the spiritual realm with the weapon of prayer.

And if I cannot say this prayer honestly, knowing it will cost everything. Me totally giving my entire bring to God, then I cannot say “Amen”, unless I can honestly say, “No matter the cost to me, this is my prayer.”

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
© Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……….

Should We Obey The Government?
Romans 13:13

After the devotional before this one I have had several questions from people from Canada, California to North Carolina.

I had to pray and seek God’s direction on this very question stated above.
So, here is my heart beliefs.

This could actually be a six weeks study I soon realized. So, I just stated my own heart and belief. But, none of us will truly know the truth until we stand before Father God ourselves on our knees for our own actions. But, Father God knows our hearts.

Yes, absolutely we should not break the law. But, we should also should follow Fathers God’s commandments and the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Being a follower of Christ certainly doesn’t mean we should always go along with everything a government tells us to do. There are times we must “obey God rather than men”

“And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭5:27-29‬ ‭

My husband and I have been vaccinated, because we studied on the vaccines, prayed about the vaccines, and listen to what the Holy Spirit told us to do and and directed us. We chose to be vaccinated because Joe’ travels and I have had over 17 surgeries.

And yes, we wear a mask in stores and places because of our heart beliefs.

But, we will not judge and cannot judge what others feel they must do. We just do what is right for our family.

Our church lets people decide to wear a mask. They do not hold judgment on anyone’s personal beliefs. Only God can do that….

But, our church uses the arm bands system. You wear the color you chose for your family.

1. Green band means I will hug or shake your hand.
2. Yellow band means I will talk to you but I prefer to stay six – ten feet away.
3. Red band means I am here. I will wave to you, but I prefer absolutely no contact. So, I chose to enter side doors and sit in section that is separated. I will also leave through those doors.

This is a very hard time for all of us right now. It is a hard position to even talk about.

I have read Romans 13:13 in 25+ versions of the Bible.

All I can say is each of us will be held accountable for our actions one day.

I think of the government of China. The Chinese government because of over population commanded a few years back all baby girls be killed at birth. They only wanted sons to live. A lot of Chinese women hid and tried to adopt their baby daughters out to people in the USA through Christians adoption agencies hidden in China.

So, this was a time I would not have followed government.

And I do not believe in abortion, so I cannot follow government agencies to help women kill their babies.

But, I will continue to pray for our government officials.

When the time is nearing for Jesus to return there will be people including government that will try to shut our voices and put us under government rule, just like China did in killing all baby girls.

There will be a time when our Bibles will be taken away and our buildings we assemble in be destroyed, burn down, even as the church is assembled together.

Millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust, in their homes and Synagogues, because they fought against communism. They were persecuted, slaughtered and killed.

So, I ask you to pray and then you must just listen to the Holy Spirit talking to you. You must follow your heart and know Father God will direct you.

I truly had hoped to give a more direct answer, that was asked to me today, but in the world today, things and people have changed.

Father God has never changed, but people have made new laws that are actually taking our rights away. Our voices away.

The Bible says that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8 NLT). God is not limited by your circumstances. He is limited by your unbelief..”

And yes, our family continues to wear mask, use hand sanitizer and spray our clothes and shoes with antibacterial spray before we get in the car after we leave a store.

But, that is our right to chose to do those things to protect others as well as ourselves.

And it is others rights to pray and be directed in the decision that is best for their family.

There are so many things we do not understand now and never will on this earth.

But, as God’s Word says, ““Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭13:8-13‬ ‭

Below are scriptures of concern to several people.

And each person requiring my thoughts love one another and respect one another.

“Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2021 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of
© Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976……..….

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Tonight I am going to share some healing scriptures with you. If you need healing in your body, mind, spirit and soul, prong these out and put all over your house. Write them on sticky notes, and stick them everywhere. Every time you see them, read the out loud, speaking your healing. Believe by faith and it shall be!

The Bible speaks often of the miraculous healing through the work of Jesus Christ and having faith in God during tough times. This remains true for us today who may live with various ailments and who have many struggles.

The Bible says that “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits” ( Proverbs 18:21 ). Of course, the “tongue” in this verse represents that which tongues produce: words.

Praying Scripture back to God is a wonderful way to focus on his promises and provision. You can pray these Bible Verses out-loud over your life, sickness, and your loved ones. In addition, here is a short prayer for healing that you can use: Father, help me to keep my focus on you when the pain and hurt are overwhelming. Help me to be faithful and to see the good and blessings that surround me. Please strengthen my mind, heart, and body, and heal me today. May the Holy Spirit guide me in peace and comfort today. In the Name of Jesus Amen.”

Blessings, Love and Prayers,
Pastor Pat🙏🏻

John 15:7 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Mark 10:52
And Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him on the road.

Luke 8:48
And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set free those who are oppressed,

Psalms 41:3 – The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psalms 147:3 – He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Matthew 10:1 – And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Proverbs 17:22 – A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Isaiah 41:10 – Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Jeremiah 17:14 – Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Jeremiah 33:6 – Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:23

But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
Luke 8:5

He healeth the broken in heart,
and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

James 5:14-15
And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Mark 10:5
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Matthew 10:8
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine:but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James5:16
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2Chronicles7:14
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:2

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:24

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 20:5
And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Luke 10:9
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Matthew 9:12
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Exodus15:26
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Luke 13:10-17
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved:
for thou art my praise.

Jeremiah 17:14
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Luke 4:18
He sent his word, and healed them,
and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalm 107:20
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind:
the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down:the Lord loveth the righteous.

“But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD”
Jeremiah 30:17

“You restored me to health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.” Isaiah 38:16-17

“Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.”
Jeremiah 33:6

“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.”
3 John 1:2

“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19

Bible Verses and study notes came from the Dakes Bible

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