Your Passion And Purpose In Life

 A passion for life comes from fulfilling your purpose in life. Because God is your Creator, seek Him to find your purpose and passion in life. Because most of us do not seek God nor His purpose for our lives, we become bored, tired, dishearten, depressed, self-destructive, double-minded, and aimless when going about our daily activities.

We can only have a life-long passion for life by seeking God’s purpose in our lives and making ourselves available for that purpose. 

2 Timothy 2:21″If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use.” 

If we are not fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives, a life-long passion for life is impossible. If we choose not to make ourselves available for God’s use, we end up wallowing in sin, dishonor, purposelessness, self-destruction, and eventually eternal death separated from God forever.

We must remember that as God looks at us the body of Christ, he look at us as one. Why, because we are one body, born of one spirit. When God sees us, he sees many members parts of the body, but he see one body. He sees the body of Christ. He sees the body of anointing. We must understand itis not about God seeing all your individual needs. In fact if you read your Bible and Study, you will see you have no individual destiny outside of cooperate destiny. If you do not understand where you play in the big roll, you will not understand your individual roll. Because individual destiny is inside of cooperate destiny. 

We all must work together as a church to win the world to Christ. As you work in the cooperate anointing, you will soon realize and see that God has been directing you to your purpose in life. You destiny, through the gifts that he has given you. 

Do not ever think you are not important to God. He made you and placed you here on this earth to do his work. You are very special to him.

Just seek God, and he will grow your gifts, purpose and destiny. He will show you the direction he wants you to go.

Devotion Written or Posted By: Pastor Pat Aman  Book “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals”

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

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Blessing, Love and Prayers, 

Pastor Pat

Who Has Built Your House?

Author: Pat Aman

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Psalm 127:1

There are at least three lessons in this text.

First, no project can succeed unless it is the Lord’s will. God is workingout his plan for his creation and it does not matter how hard we strive to go our own way, we will not succeed unless our way is God’s way.

Second, what God intends to build will get built. No force in heaven or on earth can stop God from doing what he has planned. His success is guaranteed.

Third, God will work with us to accomplish his will. He needs no human hands. The One who spoke worlds into existence can surely build a house on his own. But by his grace he has purposed to do some of his work through human laborers. We are not cast adrift into the world to live lives of meaningless mediocrity. We were created to follow hard after God, carrying out his will and working in his kingdom.

While we labor we do so with the assurances found in Psalm 127:1. As the people of God, we strive to walk according to his ways, avoiding irrelevant, unproductive tasks that do not conform to his will while pursuing wholeheartedly the work he has called us to do. And as we labor for him we know that our labor is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58). God will complete what he has begun and the fruit of our work will span eternity.

Written or Posted By: 

Pastor Pat Aman  

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Devotionals” &”Christian Faith Publishers”

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

God is opening so many new doors this year. I stand amaze in His goodness, love, mercy and grace.

This is the reason I took some private time to pray and study. But, mostly to just sit in God’s presence and listen.

I did not let the noise around me, keep the fire burning wind of the Holy Spirit from engulfing me with a fresh anointing, a new Vision.

I thank God for pouring a new oil over me. I allowed Him to renew me, so I could accept and understand the anointing oil being poured into me.

All I can say to each of you would be, steal away into the arms of your Father God. He is waiting to hug you. To shield you. To share with you.

Are you ready?

Blessings, Love and Prayers,
Pastor Pat Aman

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew‬ ‭11:28-30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The poem below was shared with me on November 7th, 2010, by a dear friend and sister, Kaye Carr.
She is in Heaven now, and I do miss her so very much.

I think we should, as Kaye said to me, “Pat, I think this world would be a better place to live, if everyone would follow the advice of this poem.”

Slow Me Down Lord
Author: ~ Wilfred A. Peterson~

Slow me down, Lord!
Ease the pounding of my heart
By the quieting of my mind.
Steady my harried pace
With a vision of the eternal reach of time.

Give me,
Amidst the confusions of my day,
The calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tensions of my nerves
With the soothing music
Of the singing streams
That live in my memory.

Help me to know
The healing power of sleep,
Teach me the art
Of taking minute vacations
Of slowing down
To look at a flower;
To chat with an old friend
Or make a new one;
To pat a stray dog;
To watch a spider build a web;
To smile at a child;
Or to read a few lines from a good book.

Remind me each day that
the race is not always to the swift;
That there is more to life
than increasing its speed.

Let me look upward
Into the branches of the towering oak
And know that it grew great and strong
Because it grew slowly and well.

Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to send my roots deep
Into the soil of life’s enduring values
That I may grow toward the stars
Of my greater destiny.

Life Is Not A Crap Shoot

When seeking God’s will for your life have you ever gotten your Bible down and told God, now God, I am going to open my Bible to your scripture and the first scripture I read, I know will be what I am supposed to do. (Now, be honest, I do not want to have to pray for you. I know I am not the only one who has ever done that.)  But, when I  did let my Bible fall open to a page and started reading, it was not what I wanted to hear, so I tried it again. You know 2 out of 3 wins.

God has let me know real fast that He or His Word is not like shooting craps.

Sometimes I want to know more.  I want to be able to make the right decisions for my life.  I don’t want to go outside of the will of God and

find myself flailing about in the midst of consequences I actually bring upon myself.  I want more than anything to stay within the pathway He sets before me.  And while I want one thing, I have to accept the fact that what I want may not be the best choice for me or for others.

Ultimately, I want God’s best.  I take seriously the larger decisions in my life.  I think everything I do works together with God’s plan to build up His kingdom and grow me spiritually.  I have various folks in my life who influence my thinking; sometimes they just add to my confusion. Do I have an Amen to that last statement.

We sometimes allow things and people into our lives that God had not planned for us. When this happens, God does not change the landscape of our lives and put those things and people in His arrangement. He will try to straighten out the mess we have made when we let Him.  Key, when we let Him.

“For this world’s wisdom is foolishness with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their own craftiness.  And again, The Lord knows the thoughts and reasonings of the wise and recognizes how futile they are.”  1 Corinthians 3:19-20 

We try to reason everything out and the more we reason, the more we seek another’s counsel, the less we know and the more muddled our thoughts become.  That is when I retreat.  I actually stop talking to people about my quandary, my crossroad.  I sit quietly before the Lord and ask Him for His wisdom.  I rest until I have a clear answer.  That can be daunting.

Sometimes the answer seems totally out of sync with anything I’ve been advised.  I don’t know about you, but most times God leads me to act, not on logic, but on faith.  The leap may be frightening.  I tend to argue with God in these times, just like Moses saying he couldn’t speak before Pharaoh.  So God gives him Aaron to go along and help him.  

Sometimes I think all the things God used to make Pharaoh let Israel go, was to show Moses the power of God’s might.  I relate well to old Moses.  But that is because I take my eyes off God and put them on myself.  Moses was more concerned with his inadequacy than God’s adequacy.  Logic sees as far asone can see before the jump; faith sees God at the end of the jump.  

From that vantage point, we catapult with courage, knowing He provides a safe landing.

Devotion Written  By: Pat Aman    Unless otherwise stated, all content in this devotion is 1996/2010/2019 © “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” & “Christian Faith Publishing Company”

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

While I have been off FB, I have noticed where a lot of people were just looking at the picture and quote I post, and do not read the of devotions. 

We must read and study God’s infallible word. It builds us up in Faith and Wisdom. Just looking at a picture with a quote does not continually help us grow in God. It makes us feel good for a moment, then slowly fades away when we are facing attacks of satan. Maybe even facing a mountain. But, being able to speak God’s word constantly over our life and the mountains builds us up, and grows our faith. Then when we reach the top of the mountain, we realize God deserves all the praise and honor. 

Psalm 119: 1-17 

1.Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.

13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.

For Such a Time as This  Author: Pat Aman/1998

It is often easy for us to read too much into a situation. It is equally easy to miss God’s hand right in front of your face working in your, or my, life.  Being at peace with God, not struggling or chaffing against the yoke He has made for you will help make you more aware of the still small voice of the Spirit speaking to you, or me. 

Esther 4:13-17 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews. 14″For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” 15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.” 17 So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him. (NAS) 

Esther is Queen of the Empire.  She had been taken from the home of her Uncle Modecai as a young lady to the court of the King.  She had cried and lamented, and wondered why God had abandoned her.  Slowly, God must have shown her that she was not alone.  She found favor with the man in charge of preparing the ladies to meet the King. He orchestrated things for her, with God holding the strings to be sure. And then she finally met this heathen King, and found him to be interesting, if not charming. She was invited back, and ‘found favor with the King’. In other words, he fell in love with her, and she with him. It was probably the last thing that she expected. Then Haman’s wretched plan to destroy the nation of Israel was put into action, and Esther found herself paralyzed with confusion and fear. It was then that her Uncle once again came with a dose of reality to shake her from her inaction. We need friends like this, who are willing to get in our faces and rattle us when it needs to be done. Modecai saw the hand of God in the life of Esther when he uttered, “And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” God holds individuals and nations in His hands. He moves them carefully so that those who are watching can see His hand at work. 

Esther 5:1-3 Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on herroyal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace in front of the king’s rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite the entrance to the palace. 2 And it happened when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which was in his hand. So Esther came near and touched the top of the scepter. 3 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you, Queen Esther? And what is your request? Even to half of thekingdom it will be given to you.” (NAS) 

It is not unthinkable that Esther had not seen the King for some time. She may have even wondered if she had fallen out of favor with him. To enter the Throne Room unbidden was to literally invite death. Esther had asked for prayer and fasting to prepare for the moment when the doors to the Throne Room opened and she walked through the door. She knelt as soon as she was clear of the doorway and waited for the response from the King.When the King extended the scepter, he had spared her life.  His response was very tender. He may have felt badly that he had not shown her enough attention lately with all the duties of running the kingdom. He was willing to grant her request up to half of his kingdom. This would have literally made this woman his equal. To say that she had found favor with the king would be to say that the Atlantic Ocean is a lot of water. 

The rest of the story is a set of twisting ironies that end up with Haman hung on the gallows he had built for Mordecai. Mordecai was remembered by the King who was trying to be bored to sleep by having the King’s Chronicles read to him. Esther’s nationality had remained unknown to both the King and Haman, until the telling moment when Haman was undone in his own jealousy while expecting to be promoted in political power. But the hand of God is seen over and over again as the exiled nation of Israel is saved when there was no human recourse. I have seen in Biblical stories, my own life and even the news, how God allows all other resources to be exhausted, that then He quietly steps in to direct the course of a individual or a nation. In those times, only He can lay claim to the honor and glory of the moment. 

Are you struggling today? Caught in between a rock and a hard place? Stop, take a breath and look around.  Look for the hand of God leading you and orchestrating the events around you.  Who knows, but that you have been lead to right where you are, for such a time as this. 

Blessings, Love, and Prayers, 

Pat 

(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.”

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman  Book © 1996/2019 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” & “Christian Faith Publishing Company-Meadsville, Pennsylvania 

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

“I Will Make Music With My Soul”

Author: Pat Aman

So many churches seem to have the biggest concern over music. Churches have fallen apart over the music. 

I think we sometimes forget that satan was in charge of the music in Heaven. And he had taken what should be praises to God, and destroyed many churches.

First, I want to say, “until we as children of God learn to have an intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father, in worship, praise, prayer and Bible study, we will never be able to worship God fully, whatever the type of music we have in our church services.”

As children of Our Heavenly Father, we better learn to give honor and praise to Him now on earth. See, when we get to Heaven, we will be praising Him day and night,for out all eternity. 

(Psalm 108: 1- 5)1.My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul. 2. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. 3. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;  I will sing of you among the peoples.  4. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 5. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.

Worship the Lord, means to ascribe worth to something or someone thought speech and conduct. Worship addresses God directly, expressing reverence for His nature, character attributes, and power, and grateful praise for all He is and does.

To Praise the Lord means to speak well of God with exuberance andenthusiasm to others and/or to Him because of what He has done. “Praise the Lord!” (Hebrew Hallelujah!) is a command to extol God’s virtues and exalt His because of His mighty acts. A praise gathering is a celebration of God’s mighty power and purpose.

Worship the Lord with all your heart and mind. Rehearse His attributesconsciously. Recount that how  who God is affects you and is changing you. Avoid worshiping mindlessly or by rote or becoming passive in worship. Give yourself your whole heart. Employ singing, both with the spirit and with the understanding, using speaking, bowing, kneeling, dancing, corporate applause and instrumental music to enhance expression of worship.

Praise God with a loud and enthusiastic voice. Clap your hands and shout joyfully to the Lord. Participate in processions of praise. Speak and sing praise to God. Involve such physical expressions as raising hands,dancing, applause, and kneeling.

Discipline yourself to praise God for every benefit He provides. Bedisciplined to corporate praise. Be careful to submit to leadership in praise services, not letting praise degenerate into fleshly enthusiasm.

The psalmists calls for constant verbal expression of heartfelt gratitude to God for all of His benefits and gifts to man.

Give thanks to God, first of all, for who He is. Give thanks to God for all that He has given you. Give thanks to God for His loving-kindness and mercy. Give thanks to God for His protection. Give thanks to God for His guidance. Give thanks to God for His mighty act. Give thanks to God than His purposes will prevail.

Then we must Proclaim God goodness. As one of their major themes, the psalmists call God’s people to declare openly His goodness, loving-kindness, and mercy to them and to the nations.

Proclaim God’s love, mercy, and forgiveness to all of Israel. Proclaim God’s truth and justice in all the nations. Proclaim His righteousness.

Proclaim His mighty acts. Proclaim His salvation, day after day.

In other words we daily need to Praise God for all that He has done and will continue to do for us. We must not just praise Him in the good times, but praise Him in the bad times. 

I have learned that Praising God no matter what my circumstances has made a good situation better and a bad situation seem to go away, or at least has made it easier to bear.

So, I ask you the question, what is stopping you from Praising God?  

I love the song “I Exalt Thee.”  I have included the words below.

I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee

I exalt Thee, O Lord 

I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee

I exalt Thee, O Lord 

For Thou, O Lord, art high above all the earth. Thou art exalted far above all gods  For Thou, O Lord, art high above all the earth Thou art exalted far above all gods. 

And I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee

I exalt Thee, O Lord 

I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee

I exalt Thee, O Lord 

Written By: Pastor Pat Aman

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

Blessing, Love and Prayers,

Pastor Pat

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman  Book © 1996/2019 “Coffee With Pat and Christian Faith Publishing Company

Cannot be copied or reprinted without permission.

Be Kind and Compassionate…

Author: Pat Aman

“When you can truly forgive someone who has hurt you for no reason at all, God smiles.” Pastor Pat Aman

Have you ever been so surprisingly hurt by someone, that you had thoughts of getting even. This is not the way God would have it done.

(Romans 12: 17-18) “Do not repay anyone evil for evil,” “Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”

I have found out by personal experience that you can be hurt badly by someone out of the blue. They will just go off on you for no reason at all. And the sad thing is people who call themselves Christians are sometimes the first to judge their brother and sister in Christ. They will read or hear something and they quickly set their on judgmental opinion up without ever reaching out to find the truth out on what may have been said

or done to their fellow Christian. They just start gossiping without seeking the truth.

I have also found out that people who are like that, are people who are hurting inside. They have been hurt so bad, that they do not know how to love anyone,  just vent their hurt by hurting others.

It is sad when this happens. All we can do is pray for the person, that God will heal their hurt and attitudes.

Let us discuss the reason for not getting even. First of all just knowing that the Lord forbids our taking revenge should be sufficient to keep us from doing it. We want to obey our Lord, whether or not we understand all the reasons for His commands. In this matter, however, the Lord wants us both to obey and to know why.

God doesn’t want us to do evil. The fact that someone else does evil tous doesn’t change that. He wants us to “do what is right,” even if others do what is wrong.

As God sees it, and as we need to see it, the problem when we ‘get even” is that we are doing exactly that. The other person has sunk to a low level, and we are getting down there with him. If our enemy were destitute, would we want to lose our assets too and get even? If he were sick, would we want to lose our health and get even? Of course not. Then if he has done evil, why should we lose our integrity by getting even?

God says in effect, “Don’t get even; come up higher.” He wants us to be better people.

When we respond to God’s command and forsake revenge, we save both ourselves and others a lot of grief.

As Scripture says, “If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” (Galatians 5:15)

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Bounded By Strands 

Author: Pat Aman

Once again I want to take a very familiar passage and try to gain new insight by applying the passage to our lives today. Isn’t it awesome that
the bible was written thousands of years ago, yet remains so relevant for us today! Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and
forever. Amen. 

Lets look at the story of the rich young ruler from the perspective of both Christ calling for acceptance of Him as our Savior and mostly Christ
calling us to full devotion to Him. Mark 10:17 17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,”
he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Notice the attitude of the rich young ruler. He ran to Jesus. The ruler did not with arrogance call Jesus to him. Then the man fell on his knees. This is a clear sign of reverence for Christ. The title “Good” refers to God, as only God is good.
Lastly the man who had all the wealth anyone could possibly want acknowledges that he is lacking the most important wealth. That wealth is
the security of eternal life in heaven. He was sincerely seeking Christ.

But, as you know, Christ demands full devotion. Tells the man to sell all and follow Him. Christ knew that the man’s wealth was interfering with
full devotion to Christ. Sadly the man chose his earthly wealth over eternal wealth. Mark 10:25 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. I want to take the liberty here of stretching the Greek translation of camel to the word cable. I do this only to illustrate a point and certainly not to re-write the Bible. ; )

Picture in your mind a cable or rope. Notice how the cable is strands of small cords tightly bound together. Each overlapping the other to form a
large cable. A single simple strand could pass through the eye of a needle if all the excess ones were removed. 

My question to you is this. What is binding you today? What is keeping you from becoming a more fully devoted follower of Christ? What excess cords do you need to remove? Is your life like a cable with strands of past sins? Past hurts? Past broken relationships? Past sorrows or regrets? How about present worldly desires? Are these strands binding you? Are they strangling you to the point of not being able to pass through the eye of the needle to full devotion to Christ? 

Join me today and start unraveling the bondage of the past as well as present worldly desires. Pull away each piece and lay them at the cross. Let God take it. What an wonderful thought, giving it all to God. Who can better handle it than Him? 

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. 

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