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The YAH Club is for all members age 55 and above. Life Fellowship Church values our senior members! We respect and cherish your life experiences and the insights you have gained over the years. We seek to honor God by providing opportunities for our senior adults to grow spiritually, fellowship with one another, and reach lost senior adults in our community. We invite you to come be a part of this vibrant and active ministry!

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.
-- Psalm 71:18

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green proclaiming, ‘The Lord is upright; He is our Rock, and in Him there is no wickedness'. --Ps. 92: 12-15

Walking for Him and for Health

Studies have proven that walking as few as 2,000 more steps and cutting just 100 calories per day can keep you from gaining weight and start a habit of good health.

Walking at a moderate pace for 30-60 minutes a day burns stored fat and builds muscle to speed up your metabolism. This cuts the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, and stroke. When walking your pet or alone, use the time to talk with Jesus and improve your spiritual and emotional health at the same time.

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Enjoy the articles on this page of interest to senior adults!

Scams Aimed at Seniors

Financial schemes consistently pursue the body of Christ and especially senior adults. While the wolves may slightly change their sheep’s clothing, certain themes always emerge. Seniors must be alert to protect themselves from these “can’t miss” investment schemes. Almost every scheme aimed at seniors promises high returns without risk and contain some of the following components:

Offshore activities include hedge funds, money funds, products, precious metals, or precious stones that exist outside the United States . Some pyramid schemes contain an offshore component in order to make it difficult or impossible to verify the facts of the activity or keep it from being scrutinized.
“Insider deals,” “secret information,” “getting in on the ground floor,” and “no one else knows about this” are phrases that should cause you to pause. These phrases mean that the opportunity will not withstand scrutiny, is not proven, or has no track record of success—all of which spell high risk. If you cannot afford to lose it all, do not invest it in “insider deals.”
Any time you are being paid fixed interest rates that are substantially above market rates , your investment is at risk. Why? The borrowers who ultimately must pay you the premium interest rate cannot borrow at lower rates because their credit is high risk. Many “church” loan funds have experienced scandal and investors have lost all or a portion of their funds because the funds were invested in speculative real estate transactions unrelated to church lending or unsecured loans without corresponding loan loss reserves. Church loan funds are a wonderful way to build the kingdom, but make sure the fund you invest in is sound.

“He who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished” (Proverbs 28:20b). Protect yourself from “can’t miss” investment opportunities and promises of high returns without risk.

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CREATIVE PRAYER CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

by Dr. Richard D. Dobbins, Minister and Psychologist

S ome people have a very narrow definition of prayer. For them, it is an exercise in one-way communication. They do all the talking; God does all listening.

They give God His orders for the day. And when God does not do what they want Him to do, when they want Him to do it, they get very discouraged with life...and sometimes angry with God. Such immature believers seem to think that God exists to do their will.

But although God does encourage us to make our requests known to Him, Jesus tells us that many of the things for which we pray would come to us even if we did not ask for them (see Matthew 6:31-33). In the closing part of that passage, Jesus challenges us to seek first the kingdom of God.

We want to take a look at creative prayer from several angles: What is creative prayer? Creative prayer can make you a new creation; creative prayer can change the way you see your past; creative prayer can heal wounded relationships; and creative prayer can help you solve your problems.

What Is Creative Prayer?
In Matthew 6:33, Jesus says we are to “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” What Jesus is talking about here can be called “creative prayer.” He is asking you and me to recognize the supremacy of the unseen over the seen—of spirit over matter. Science has taught us to respect the power of the unseen. The material secrets of the universe are hidden in the invisible forces of nature. For example, take a look at the atom. Once it was thought to be the smallest indivisible particle, but modern science has exploded the atom. We have found out that not only can it be divided, but there is a whole universe of power there.

Likewise, the supernatural is unseen, but it is not magic. Creative prayer is tapping into the unseen power of God. It is God performing His will at levels of understanding beyond our comprehension. Hebrews 11:3 says, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” By what power did God create the universe? By the Logos. By eternal life.

This is the same power that comes to us when we are born again. Through creative prayer you can become aware of spiritual activity in your thought processes. You can develop the ability to know the difference between those urges, fantasies, and ideas originating from eternal life and those originating from sin. Developing this skill of discernment is basic to creative prayer.

Creative Prayer Can Make You a New Creation
We never pray a more creative prayer than when we ask God for Christ’s sake to forgive us our sins and enable us to be born again. In John 3 Jesus refers to being born again. He says just as we are born physically, we must be born spiritually. Until we are born spiritually, we have no way of perceiving or understanding the kingdom of God.

Until we are born again, that part of us capable of responding to eternal life is dead. Eternal life is an invisible power that emanates from Jesus, to which the unregenerate are insensitive. When we are born again, it is regenerated and we are able to respond to eternal life. That is, we can become sensitive to the urges, fantasies, and ideas that Jesus would stimulate in us. Second Corinthians 3:17 says that as we see the image of Christ reflected through the Scriptures we are changed from glory to glory into His same image. Ephesians 4:23 refers to this as “putting off the old man and putting on the new.”

Creative Prayer Can Change the Way You See Your Past
Many people begin their Christian life with unpleasant memories from their past. Often these memories leave painfully deep marks. Although these memories are rooted in the facts of your personal history, through creative prayer God can help you change the way you choose to feel and think about those facts. Friend, you do not have to be a prisoner of your past. God has a new way for you to see your old hurts.
The story of Joseph in the Bible is a good example of the way God can change the way you see your past (see Genesis 37,39-45). His brothers were envious of him and wanted to kill him. They sold him into slavery in Egypt, where he suffered
imprisonment but eventually was brought into a position of power under Pharaoh. It would be hard to believe that, when he was sold into slavery, he had a lot of love for his brothers. And it would be hard to believe that, when he was in prison, he really felt life was being fair to him.

You do not live with the facts of your history any more than Joseph did. You live with the story you tell yourself about the facts of your history. And that story can change from time to time. It can start out a bitter story and wind up being a better story. Creative prayer can change the way you see your past. It can give you a creative, redemptive way for interpreting hurting, bitter facts from your past.

Creative Prayer Can Heal Wounded Relationships
Genesis 32 gives us the beautiful story of how God healed Jacob of the ill feelings he had toward Esau. Jacob had fled Laban’s house with Rachel and knew he was going to have a reunion with Esau. The last time they had been together, Esau had sworn to kill him, and Jacob could not believe that Esau had changed his mind. So he was accusing his brother of harboring murder in his heart. All that night, Jacob wrestled with an angel, who touched his thigh, marked him, and changed his name to Israel. And the next morning when he crossed the brook Jabot and met his brother Esau, Esau threw his arms around Jacob’s neck and kissed him.

Remember bridges are built from two sides. Through the years God had helped Esau change the way he saw Jacob. But Jacob still saw Esau the same way. God can help you heal the wounded relationships in your family. He does not want to add to your pain, but if you and the other members of your family will let Him, God will give you different ways of looking at each other. He will bring healing to your wounded relationships.

Creative Prayer Can Help Solve Your Problems
Creative prayer can help you discover and define new options for solving the problems confronting you. It can help you define new options for decisions you have to make. As you meditate in prayer, learn to focus your thoughts on the matters requiring some judgment or decision from you. Ask God to help you define options for dealing with these matters. Then, in prayer, take each option and anticipate what the consequences would be in 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years if you chose that option. Pray out the consequences of each option in this same way.

Then you bring yourself back to a place I call spiritual neutrality. Spiritual neutrality is the willingness before God to take any of these options which He indicates to be His will for you. Tell God you are willing to do that. And ask Him, over time, to give you a divine attraction for the one that represents His will for you. When you finally discover it, the option that represents His will will be so wise and practical it will make you wonder why you could not see it sooner.

My friend, are you on talking terms with God? Is prayer for you more than just a matter of giving God His orders for the day? Is God making the supernatural practical in your life? He wants to. Creative prayer can make you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Creative prayer can change the way you see your past. Creative prayer can heal your wounded relationships. Creative prayer can help you solve your problems.

I pray that God will come alongside you right now and help you open your heart to Him. He can give you the courage to trust Him day by day and bring you into His highest and best for you from this day forward!

Improve Your Strength, Balance, Flexibility and Endurance

For older adults and seniors who want to stay healthy and independent, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommend four types of exercises:

Strength exercises build older adult muscles and increase your metabolism, which helps to keep your weight and blood sugar in check.

Balance exercises build leg muscles, and this helps to prevent falls. According to the NIH, U.S. hospitals have 300,000 admissions for broken hips each year, many of them seniors, and falling is often the cause of those fractures.

If you are an older adult, balance exercises will help you avoid problems ar you get older.

And if you are a senior, balance exercises can help you stay independent by helping you avoid the disabilities that could result from falling.

Stretching exercises can give you more freedom of movement, which will allow you to be more active during your senior years.

Stretching exercises alone will not improve your endurance or strength.

Endurance exercises are any activity—walking, jogging, swimming, biking, even raking leaves—that increases your heart rate and breathing for an extended period of time. Build up your endurance gradually, starting with as little as 5 minutes of endurance activities at a time.

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