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





TRANSFORMED MOMS:MOMS TRANSFORMED

Romans 12:1-2 "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."

Thursday, October 30, 2008

NO MORE NIGHT: WE'RE ON THE WINNING TEAM

There are no cars on our normally busy road as I write this. I can hear a plane in the distance as it's either preparing to land or just taking off from the Philadelphia airport. Fireworks sound from all directions! The Philadelphia Phillies have just won the 2008 World Series!
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I love the atmosphere around winning teams! Our family has been around our fair share of them over the years from the Indiana Hoosiers to the Nebraska Cornhuskers to the Dallas Cowboys to the... You can get all of that info on Steve's blog.
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Steve and I did not have tickets to the World Series but we live close enough that Monday night we jumped in the car to go experience the history! It was rainy and it was cold. We got a few good snaps with the digital camera through the rain right after game 5 started. We pulled up to the parking lot that was barricaded off. We saw many policemen standing around in their slickers. Little did we know that history would be made in a different way Monday night - the first rain delay postponement of a game in a World Series!
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Last night was sweet for the Phillies! Again, I say, I love the atmosphere around winning teams!



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If you are a child of GOD, you are on THE winning team!

If your family are all christians, you are doubly blessed!

How does GOD do family to make it winning? Well, the ONLY way we win is because of JESUS and what HE did for us is a three round punch: He lived a perfect life, died a terrible death, and rose from the grave...all for us...HE LIVES!

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Last night in our HOW GOD DOES FAMILY class, we used the idea of a GPS (Global Positioning System) to get our minds focused on honoring the differences within our families, reviewing the G & P from the last two weeks and focusing on the S tonight.
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  • G - Genogram (gender, birth order, background experiences)

  • P - Personality

  • S - Spirit led lives and Spiritual gifts

SPIRIT LED LIVES: With minimal observation, it is evident that babies come out of the womb with their own personalities. Over the years there have been many efforts to look at these differences of temperament. However they divide up, the important thing is that each person begin to seek understanding of himself or herself and the other members of the family. Pray that the Holy Spirit will work powerfully through your weaknesses!

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2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says, “But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

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Matthew 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

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I have seen the SPIRIT of the LIVING GOD change people's evident weaknesses into strength through His power:

  • Unforgiving to Forgiving
  • Unemotional to Compassionate
  • Domineering to Submissive
  • Self Sufficient to Spirit Led
  • Sarcastic to Graceful Speech
  • Undisciplined to Disciplined
  • Unproductive to Service Oriented
  • Exaggerator to truthful
  • Unstable to GOD centered
  • Stingy to Giver
  • Procrastinator to Planner
  • Indecisive to Decisive
  • Fearful to Faithful
  • Worrier to Prayer Warrior
  • Moody to Even-Keeled
  • Negative to Positive
  • Unsociable to Sociable
  • Critical to Encouraging
  • Revengeful to Blessing

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We then talked about SPIRITUAL GIFTS:
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS are given by GOD to each person who becomes a christian. These gifts become the things that the child of GOD gets joy out of doing within the body of Christ. Once each of us understand our own uniqueness within the church family, the easier it is to find our niche. We filled out a little 100 question "inventory" last night to help us determine what might be each of our Spiritual Gifts.
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  • Missionary
  • Evangelist
  • Prophet
  • Teacher
  • Exhorter
  • Shepherd
  • Mercy Shower
  • Server
  • Giver
  • Administration

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Over the years, I have taken multiple inventories that are designed to help a person see their Spiritual giftedness. My top 5, strong gifts, are always the same. This time they were in a little different order, but it's easy for me to see why at this time in my life:


  1. Teacher
  2. Shepherd
  3. Exhorter
  4. Prophet (forth teller - not foreteller)
  5. Administrator

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Whatever your Spiritual giftedness, I want to encourage you to find your place within the family of Christ and joyfully use it for His glory. It's TRANSFORMING!!!

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You can access Steve's blog here to find out more about Winning Team Associations: http://www.cochrist.org/index.php/stevesblog/

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