God Is Good All the Time And All the Time God Is Good
Pastor Dan's Corner
Let God Have His Way
"Now May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.”
2 Thessalonians 16-17
Paul is reminding us God is on the throne and no other. He has a plan and is working in each of us.
A friend once said some days are diamonds, some are coal. Remember diamonds started as carbon, just like coal, in time under heat and pressure the carbon became a sparkling precious stone.
Sometimes we feel like our day, our week, maybe a year or so is nothing but coal.
Let God have His way and watch as that lump of coal, you, and me, becomes a sparkling precious diamond that reflects His light.
Blessings, Dan
Dan Patterson
Pastor 55-Live Senior Group
Applegate Christian Fellowship
https://www.applegatefellowship.org/
brothers and sisters
Just suppose for a moment that Russel Wilson or Tim Tebow was your brother. The son of your father and mother. For me I think I would be telling everyone.
I would be so proud to be linked to either of them in that way.
Both were excellent quarterbacks. Russ continues in football and Tim has chosen a path of spreading the "Good News". Both wonderful Godly men.
They not only are famous, but they help others in many ways. I would probably wear a shirt, a hat advertising the fact that we were brothers. I might even wear one of those sandwich boards and walk the streets of town.
We are sons and daughters of the most High. Almighty God is our Father.
Many folks spend countless hours researching their genealogy. If you take the time, if I am willing, we can trace our genealogy all the way back to the beginning. Back to Adam. We, you and me, are Gods creation. We have been made in their image.
Jesus is our brother.
Romans 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the son of God. (Daughters too). For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”
We have been adopted if we have asked Jesus Christ to be Lord of our life. When we do Jesus is our Brother. Let the world know that through the blood of Christ they have been redeemed if they will confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that He is Lord.
Put on the hat, wear the shirt, proclaim the Love of the Lord. Be proud of your Brother. He has given us new life. Keep looking up for we will be taken up in the twinkling of an eye.
Dan Patterson
Pastor of 55-Live Senior Group
Applegate Christian Fellowship https://www.applegatefellowship.org/
"How Do I Know If God Is Talking to Me?"
"How Do I Know If God Is Talking to Me?"
There are many verses that speak to hearing the voice of the Lord. When we think we hear His voice a wise man looks to James 3:13-18 to verify it is His voice.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
The brother of Jesus speaks of who is a wise man. He reminds us that there are two types of wisdom, one that is full of envy, strife and confusion and works evil. The other is first pure, peaceable, gentle, easily understood, full of mercy, and good fruit without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Where is your wisdom, mine too, where is our wisdom from?
Are we being kind to others, is our thought life where it should be?
Every day when we wake, we should seek to be wise men and women wise boys and girls. Seek wisdom from the Lord.
If we do and when we do, we will be a blessing to others and guess what? We will be Blessed also. Wisdom will be found when we seek the Lord in the quietness of our heart.
Blessings, Dan
Dan Patterson
Pastor of 55-Live Senior Group
Applegate Christian Fellowship
Testimony
sharon wesner
Slowly the Healing Began
I have not been attending 55-Live very long, actually only a few months.
Walking through the door that first time in a terribly deep depression, it
was all I could do to hold myself together.
I pasted a smile on my face to match everyone else's face, even though inside I was the proverbial emotional wreak, trying to pick up the pieces of what used to be my life and putting what used to be me back together again.
The atmosphere in the room was warm and inviting as I reconnected with folks I had not seen in at least twenty years. This was truly like coming home!
Week after week, as the Tuesdays passed, I was hugged and hugged some more. In my depression, I couldn't reach out to Jesus, but He was reaching out to me with those hugs.
Thus, in this precious warm inviting fellowship, with the beautiful praise and worship, the pain from my life's losses slowly began to dim, and slowly the healing began. I look around at us in our advanced years, and here we are for one another, a room full of Jobs, each with a lifetime of pain, tragedy, losses, some probably grasping onto Jesus, their lifeline, as I was.
It has occurred to me that as we sing our praises to our Lord and enjoy one another, we must never forget who might be walking through that door, the load they might be carrying and the pain we might have the privilege to ease. I can only thank all of you for what you have done to this hurting soul you didn't even know was in such pain.
So, this is my story, this is my song: praising my Savior all the day long.
Testimony
janice k feagin
Margy
Back in time when I was 53 years old, I had a group of gals, four of us playing music at the Solid Rock Coffee House after Friday night worship. Margy Porter happened to be there that night and afterward came up to talk to me. She asked me if I would be interested in playing guitar for her at the 55-Live meetings.
One thing you don’t know about us is that we have never been joiners outside of church. We didn’t do bowling leagues, didn’t join social clubs, didn’t go on retreats. My hubby worked swing shift for years, so we stayed up late and slept in. Getting up early to go to meeting would never have happened except…
Years ago, I made it a priority to go wherever the Lord led in my music ministry. The Lord had given me two verses that I still hold dear.
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.” 1 Peter 3:15
This verse means for me to be ready at any moment to bring worship. I can’t tell you the multitude of times I’ve had my guitar in the car not telling anyone I had it, but sometimes people would ask. I was ready.
The second verse has to do with how I used to compare myself to other worship leaders. Someone who didn’t need the music or chords, whereas I can’t remember any chords or words even of the songs I’ve written. So, if the lights go out, I’m literally dead in the water.
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” 1 Corinthians 1:27
So, I kind of reluctantly agreed to give it a shot.
And 24 years later I'm still at 55-Live leading worship.
God is good and all the time God is good!
Janice K Feagin
Precious truth
jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
