Transformed Moms: What a FAMILY!!

It is GOD who BLESSES and TRANSFORMS...

This is a blog for women (not just moms) who:

(1) Desire to be transformed by JESUS' LOVE, HOLINESS, AND GRACE;

(2) Believe that GOD'S WORD is the true Spirit food for HIS HOLY SPIRIT who lives within us;

(3) Submit to GOD and walk this journey of life with HIM transforming us more and more into HIS likeness.

It's a blog about the POWER OF TRANSFORMED LIVES. Let's begin with yours and mine and pass it on... 1 + 1 + 1...

Since GOD's HOLY SPIRIT lives inside a christian, let's choose to be nurtured and transformed by feasting daily on HOLY SPIRIT food - GOD's WORD - The Holy Bible..

My regular posts stopped in 2013, with a major move and the chronic illness and eventual death of our oldest daughter. Yes, we grieve daily, yet I am determined to continue to let the LIGHT of my LORD and SAVIOR shine through me. I have tried to start posting again, over the last few years, but have not been consistent. So, I think the biggest blessing for you and me both will be to intersperse some new posts while revisiting some of the former posts. Let's begin with "Oh, the JOY!" as we head into living through Fall 2019; meeting back here 1-2 days a week.

If you need daily encouragement, you will find plenty by clicky on past posts. When reading earlier posts, you will see that I often posted daily, following this format: ...Sunday in the SON, Meditation Monday, GratiTuesday, Women in the WORD Wednesday, Transforming Thursday, Family Fellowship Friday, Ketchup & Mustard Saturday.

There's a whole lot here! Take your time to browse.

Please come back and visit each week. Welcome!

Because of JESUS, we can be family,

Patti

Friday, July 11, 2008

What a FAMILY!!

What a family! Bound together by years of memories...bound together by the blood of Jesus. Not too many people can claim of going to their family reunion surrounded by their physical family who is also their spiritual family....but that's what happens here...years of Sikes' getting together and bound together by our love for one another and our love for our LORD, Jesus Christ. What a heritage!!!!

Today I'll share some pictures that will give you an idea of the harvest of many years of MASTER-FULL parenting by Norban and Emma Sikes..

The Entire Norbon P. Sikes Clan -4 generations

who passed it on to Jack and Robbie Sikes...

Jack & Robbie Sikes clan (just a few of their 102)

who passed it on to Steve and Patti Sikes...this is why we long to be together...this is why we look forward to eternity together... even though Crystal, Caleb, Krista, and I are in the picture above...we are missing and have missed Steve, Jordan, Jessica, and Jacqueline throughout this wonderful reunion week....

Below find a few highlights:
1 & 2...Cole and Sara were baptized into Christ in a roaring mountain stream...

3. Mama Sikes could have been a concert violinist but instead let God work through her to be a MASTER-FULL MOM of 13, Grand-MOM of 45, and Great-GrandMOM of 30...

4. Papa and Mama Sikes (Jack and Robbie) celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the reunion: 12/30/1947 to 12/30/2007.

5. Robbie Lawless, (namesake of Mama Robbie), tenderly takes out 30 splinters out of her son Elijah's barefeet. Sister-in-law Nancy looks on with her kids. I'll talk more about Nancy and Robbie in another blog.

6. Cousins Mindy, Cassie, Crystal, and friend Sara spent alot of time catching up this week. Mindy's new adventure in motherhood is inspiring to the others.7. Caleb and Krista are having a great time this week - it's their first time as a married couple. Krista's pretty close to having all the names down!

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A Little History of this Blog:

A group of moms in Pitman, New Jersey began meeting every Tuesday morning in June 2008 to learn how to be Master-Full Moms. Although that class only lasted that summer, we have continued to have other classes for moms offered at the Pitman church of Christ. This blog will remain like an ongoing class. So, come back each day and join us as we discuss being God's women as we encourage transformation in each other.
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3 POINTERS TO NAVIGATE THIS BLOG:

1. Just below, you'll find a series of questions and answers about who Transformed Moms are.

2. Options for getting started...after those questions and answers... YOU COULD click on the June 2008 Archive, scroll down to the first post called MASTER-FULL MOMS and start from the beginning with our 14 day devotional challenge, or.... YOU COULD start with our summary of our original summer class and blog on the 8-31-08 post: SUMMER SUMMARY - SPIRITUAL, or... YOU COULD browse through the archive and click what looks interesting to you...and/or...
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3. You're invited to read recent posts and come back daily to join us as we are led by the Holy Spirit down the road to healing and / or transformation.

Thanks for joining us, Patti

2. WHAT DOES A MOM DO WHO HAS THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVING IN HER?

… those who live in accordance with the SPIRIT have their minds set on what the SPIRIT desires …life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to GOD. It does not submit to GOD’S law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please GOD. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the SPIRIT, if the SPIRIT OF GOD lives in you…Therefore, sisters, we have an obligation… by the SPIRIT you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live… Romans 8:5-13

6. MOM, DAUGHTER OF GOD, HOW DO YOU GET THE POWER TO LIVE AND NOT LOSE HEART?

For GOD, WHO said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made HIS light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of CHRIST.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from GOD and not from us.

We are:

· hard pressed on every side, but not crushed

· perplexed, but not in despair

· persecuted, but not abandoned

· struck down, but not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 4:5-12