Transformed Moms: HOLD FAST!!!

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

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

HOLD FAST!!!

I arrived back home to my wonderful home in New Jersey tonight. I am so thankful. GOD has been faithful. August is our one year anniversary with the Pitman church of Christ...a little piece of heaven on earth...
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Last Thursday night, when it was bedtime and there was still alot to do to pack Jessica up, I got in our little red VW to drive over to the Taylor's home where we would all be sleeping. Jessica would follow me in her car and then I planned to come back to keep cleaning her duplex within the hour. As I turned on the VW, my favorite christian radio station, 95.1 in Bloomington, Indiana, "Spirit 95" was blaring. That station had ministered to me in many ways over several years and this would be no exception.
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There are sometimes in each of our lives that are much harder than others. I can say that my second time living in Bloomington from 2002-2007 were some of the hardest I've ever experienced in my christian walk - for a variety of reasons. Yet, most of the time I could get in our little red VW and Spirit 95 would blare out just the song that I needed to sustain me for that day. Our last year of living in Bloomington, there were four songs that stood out above all the others and every time I heard them I would experience a free flow of tears to my GOD. He remained good all the time!
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Last Thursday night as I started up the VW, the DJ announced the song that was about to play. I felt GOD's presence envelope me. It was as if He was saying, "one more time for the road, Patti...this is your last night in Bloomington...this is our song...you've done it...listen to the words one more time":
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HOLD FAST
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"To everyone who's hurting,
To those who've had enough...
To all the undeserving...
That should cover all of us...
Please do not let go! I promise there is hope!
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CHORUS:
Hold fast! Help is on the way!
Hold fast! He's come to save the day!
What I've learned in my life-
One thing greater than my strife-
Is His grasp!
So, hold fast!
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Will this season ever pass?
Can we stop this ride?
Will we see the sun at last?
Or, could this be our lot in life?
Please do not let go! I promise you there's hope!
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CHORUS:
Hold fast! Help is on the way!
Hold fast! He's come to save the day!
What I've learned in my life-
One thing greater than my strife-
Is His grasp!
So, hold fast!
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You may think you're all alone...
And there's no way that anyone could know
What you're going through.
But if you only hear one thing...
Just understand that we are all the same...
Searching for the Truth...
Truth of what we're soon to face
Unless someone comes to take our place
Is there anyone?
All we want is to be free...
Free from our captivity...
LORD...Here He comes!
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CHORUS:
Hold fast! Help is on the way!
Hold fast! He's come to save the day!
What I've learned in my life-
One thing greater than my strife-
Is His grasp!
So, hold fast!"
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May this song by Mercy Me (group that also sings I Can only Imagine) bless your life as much as it has mine. Here are 3 links:
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1. Song as background to pictures and scripture:
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e752ed6faca89c1d449e
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2. The story behind the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vom1-izwDvQ
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If you, your husband, or kids enjoy the spiritual analogies in movies like The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars, or Super Hero movies, then you might enjoy the song HOLD FAST to these pics here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHbS4QOPoA
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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