~Daily Devotion 1st~

Matthew 6:33 (King James Version)

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Well, as of 1:36 am, June 2nd, 2009, eastern standard time the hit count on God's Site was 0000999643. I give all praise an honor to God for allowing me to do His Work.

I think since I sent the note out to the private devotional group, Braveheart Group and my Facebook group, people are actually hitting it more so it will reach the one million mark within the next 24 hours.

But what really amazes me is how God has let me use the computer to touch so many lives.

If you divide the count into the days and years, the site has received over 300 hits a day since 2002. Now I know that a lot are the same people who go to the site to read the devotion each day, but then it also includes new people who go to search engines and are looking for a Word, or a Ray of Hope, and God leads them to Coffee With Pat.

But still, folks, Coffee With Pat (God's Site) has touched lives almost One Million Times. That is more people than I could have touched by preaching Revivals, Crusades and many other ways in that short time.

See, God has used the Internet to do His Work. Praise God! Friends, if you are a willing vessel, God will use you to share the Gospel. You may not have a church to go preach in every Sunday, or even have people to promotion you, but you won't need those things if you are sold out to God, and want to do His work, He will make a way for you to do it, so do not give up. God will make a way for you. You will not need anyone but God to help you, because you will have the favor of God upon you.

I praise God for His favor on the Coffee With Pat Ministry, and I give Him all the glory and honor for what He has allowed me to do through the internet.

I started Coffee With Pat in 1996 sending out personal devotions to a chosen few people. In a short time people would send me their e-mail addresses, asking me to add them to the list to receive the devotions, because someone who was on the devotion list had told them about the daily devotions.

Soon, I told my husband that I needed some other way to get God's Word out to the public, so he informed me that our internet carrier had a personal web-site builder, and he felt I needed to check it out, and so I did, and that is how I soon had a Devotional Site.

That was in 2002. I played around with the site builder and built my first web site. As our service provider changed, I again built a site later with Earthlink, and boy, did the devotional site really take off, because the internet provider put it on the search engines, so this is when it really became a full time ministry job.

It became so big that it outgrew the Earthlink personal web builder, and friends of mine in Louisiana mentioned that I really needed to get a Web-Host Service Provider.

I thought that would be too expensive, so I just kept on a few weeks with my Earthlink site, which was not big enough to handle the response. I prayed over this situation and then my friends from Louisiana, Bob and Carol Weaver, called me and said, God had laid on their heart to pay for my beginning service, and boy was I excited. But soon after they set me up with the new Web-Host I realized I knew nothing about building a real web-site, and so I e-mailed the Web-host, that they had set me up with, and asked them what I needed to do, because now I have a host, and do not know what to do with it.

See, Earthlink web builder was so easy. It was just fill in the blank, easy add pictures, and anyone could do that, even me.

But now I realized that I had something bigger than me here, and I needed personal help. I needed a divine intervention.

Anyway, Brent from Webnet77 said he would give me the e-mail, name and address of a wonderful lady, Dot McEntire. He told me she may be able to give me some pointers because she builds web-sites.

Anyway, to go on with this story, I contacted Dot, and told her what I needed, and that I had found out fast I knew nothing about building a real web-site. The next words out of her mouth were, "do not worry, God has told me to build you a site as a love offering and gift to God and you."

Friends, this lady did not know me from a hole in a wall. We had never met. See what God will do when you are willing, and let Him take care of your problems. He will make a way in the wilderness for you,

if you let Him!

Well, folks, in 2006, Dot built what you see now each day, The Coffee With Pat Web-Site, with devotions for everyone, and even a Recipe Site and Pet Site, all build by Dot McEntire.

She also built my friend, Missionary Rose Boyd's Site as a love offering to God. You may visit Operation Teaching Tools at:

http://operationteachingtools.org.

Friends, all I do is add the pictures and words to the devotions. Dot McEntire continues to do all the graphics.

Now, if you received the devotionals via e-mail, I have people whom send me stationary they make for me all along. I thank Lynne Melby, who sends me graphics, and her friend, and now mine, Meme's Graphics, who designs the stationary pages that make your devotions look good.

Praise God, because of the good looking graphics, maybe you do not notice my bad grammar so much. LOL

Friends, the entire Glory goes to God. He has been so good to Joe and myself. He has allowed and helped us to expand the Ministry. He bought people into our lives to help us share His Word with the World.

So today, give your life and your situations to God, and watch Him do a great work in your lives. He is a God of Miracles.

Blessings, Love and Prayers,

Pastor Pat

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