2A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 18, 2017
Enjoying life, living better with God
Do you know that God is interested in every area of your life?
The truth is He cares about every single thing that concerns you,
and He wants every bit of you to be whole and healthy.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (AMPC) says, “May the God of peace Him-
self sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane
things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may
your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and
found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Mes-
siah).” This verse shows us that we can be “wholly consecrated
to God,” and He wants our spirit, soul and body to “be preserved
sound and complete.”
Jesus came to heal you and make you whole. He died so your sins
could be forgiven and you could be made whole in your spirit, soul
and body (Isaiah 61:1-3; Luke 19:10; John 10:10).
God created us as tri-part beings: we are a spirit, we have a soul
and we live in a body. One function of our spirit is the conscience;
it’s the part of us that receives revelation from God. The soul is made
up of our mind, will and emotions, and our body is the “house” we
live in. It’s easy to think that God is only interested in spiritual
things, but all three parts of our being are important to Him.
We can be sound spiritually—born again and on our way to Heav-
en—but God wants more for us than that. Jesus didn’t come so we
could just make it through this life and get to Heaven. He wants us
to enjoy the journey, too!
I remember years ago when I was going to church regularly and
had received Christ as my Savior, but so much of my life was a
mess! I really loved God, but I didn’t love my life. I looked like
I had it all together on the outside, but there was a lot of pain and
dysfunction on the inside of me that people didn’t know about.
It was an amazing revelation when I saw in God’s Word that He
cares about how we think, talk, our fi nances, our relationships, and
that He has a plan and purpose for every single one of us. God
wants our lives to be good! It took time and a determined decision
on my part to study the Word and believe God’s promises were for
me, but I’m no longer a miserable Christian and can honestly say
today that I am much healthier and enjoy the life God has given me.
The best way to begin pursuing better health is by pursuing a
deeper relationship with Jesus, because if your spirit is not healthy
and right with God, then the other areas of your life can’t become
completely whole either.
Psalm 63:5 says, “My whole being shall be satisfi ed as with mar-
row and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.” I
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love that this says “my whole being shall be satisfi ed.” And
Psalm 63:8 gives us the key to complete satisfaction: “My whole
being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right
hand upholds me.” So if we want to be fully satisfi ed, we have to
follow hard after Jesus!
In any area of life, you’ll get out of it what you put into it. It’s
foolish to think you can have a close walk with God if you don’t
spend time with Him on a regular basis, or the only time you talk to
Him is when you’re in trouble. Being a victorious Christian is not
just a Sunday morning event. And God wants to have a personal,
intimate, ongoing relationship with you.
Romans 12:1 says to “make a decisive dedication of your bodies
[presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifi ce,
holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your
reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.” In
other words, we need to dedicate our entire being to God…to be
passionate for Him and seek Him with ALL of our heart.
As you pursue greater health, I want to encourage you to start by
dedicating (or rededicating) your entire life to Jesus. Spend time in
prayer each day, study the Bible and discover for yourself what it
means to have an intimate relationship with Jesus and be full of the
life of God.
Remember that life in Christ is a lifelong journey, and learning
to be completely dedicated to Him is a process. But as you make
progress little by little each day, your life will get more and more
exciting because following the plan God has for you is the only
way you will be satisfi ed in your whole being.
For more on this topic, order Joyce’s four-CD series Healthy Liv-
ing – Spirit, Soul & Body. You can also contact us to receive our
free magazine, Enjoying Everyday Life, by calling (800) 727-9673 or
visiting www.joycemeyer.org.
Joyce Meyer is a New York Times bestselling author and founder
of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc. She has authored nearly 100 books,
including Battlefi eld of the Mind and Seize the Day: Living on Pur-
pose and Making Every Day Count (Hachette). She hosts the Enjoy-
ing Everyday Life radio and TV programs, which air on hundreds of
stations worldwide. For more information, visit www.joycemeyer.org.
Please note: The views and opinions expressed throughout this
publication and/or website are those of the respective authors and
do not necessarily refl ect those of Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Death Notice
Danielle and Dylan Rowe welcomed Cottage Grove's fi rst
baby of 2017. A baby girl was born on Jan. 10 at PeaceHealth
Sacred Heart Medical Center-RiverBend.
Faye L. Muller, 79, of Creswell, Oregon passed
away on Jan. 10, 2017.
Jennifer and Graham Bowler welcomed a baby girl on Jan.
13 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center-RiverBend.
Vanessa and Venancio Hernandez welcomed a baby boy to
Cottage Grove on Jan. 13 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical
Center-RiverBend.
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Milo Chapman
1929 - 2017
Sarah Elizabeth Chapman
1931 - 2016
Milo Gene Chapman, age 87, of
Milwaukie, Oregon, passed away
Sunday aft ernoon, January 1,
2017. He was born at Saginaw,
Oregon on August 2, 1929 short-
ly aft er which his parents moved
their family of ten children to
Dorena, Oregon. Milo served as Student Body President at Cot-
tage Grove High School where he graduated in 1948. He served
in the United States Army as a cook during the Korean war in
Alabama and on Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. He married
Sarah Jenkins in 1953. Th ey remained married for 63 years until
Sarah died just fi ve and a half weeks before Milo on November
9, 2016. Milo and Sarah raised a family of four children. Milo
started and ran several businesses in Cottage Grove, Klamath
Falls and Newberg, Oregon over his career, the fi nal and most
successful was Dura-Craft where he manufactured and sold
dollhouses.
Milo was preceded in death by his beloved wife Sarah and
an infant daughter, Amy Louise. He is survived by his four re-
maining children Douglas, Kenneth, Julia and Jean Chapman,
his grandchildren Amy Saha, Charlie Th ompson, Julia and Kylee
Jacobsen and Kelly and Christian Chapman, his sister Fern Car-
penter and his brothers Ronald and Richard Chapman
Sarah Elizabeth Chapman, age 85, of Milwaukie, Oregon,
passed away Wednesday, November 9, 2016. She was born at
Cottage Grove, Oregon on February 18, 1931. She graduated
from Cottage Grove High School with her twin sister, Janet Du-
rest Mead in 1948. She then went on to be one of the fi rst three
women to earn a degree in Pharmacy from Oregon State Uni-
versity when she graduated in 1952. She truly loved her work
as a pharmacist and kept her license active through continuing
education until her mid-70’s.
Sarah married Milo in 1953. Th ey had fi ve children, losing
one to a crib death (SIDS) in 1957 and raising the four remaining
children in Cottage Grove, Klamath Falls and Newberg, Oregon.
Sarah was an avid reader, a lover of poetry and a strong advo-
cate for education. Sarah was preceded in death by her mother
and father, Ida and Wayne Jenkins and her infant daughter. She
is survived by her twin sister Janet Durest Mead, her brother
Howard Jenkins as well as the immediate children listed above
for Milo.
Th e family wished if any contribution be made on Milo and
Sarah’s behalf, it be to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
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