Transformed Moms: PEOPLE NEED THE LORD: LOVE THEM UNTIL THEY ASK YOU WHY

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

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

PEOPLE NEED THE LORD: LOVE THEM UNTIL THEY ASK YOU WHY

WOMEN IN THE WORD WEDNESDAY

You say that you want to be

MORE LIKE HIM?

You know that

PEOPLE NEED THE LORD?

Then, LOVE LIKE HIM!

Love like He loved in the Old Testament!

Then, LOVE LIKE HIM!

Love like He loved in the New Testament!

Then, LOVE LIKE HIM!

Love like He loves today!

LOVE PEOPLE UNTIL

THEY ASK YOU WHY!

OLD TESTAMENT: Psalms 136

GOD IS GOOD
1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
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GOD IS GOD

2 Give thanks to the God of gods,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

GOD IS THE CREATOR

4 To Him who alone does great wonders,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

5 To Him who made the heavens with skill,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

6 To Him who spread out the earth above the waters,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

7 To Him who made the great lights,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

8 The sun to rule by day,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

9 The moon and stars to rule by night,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

GOD IS THE MIGHTY DELIVERER

10 To Him who smote the Egyptians in their first-born,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

11 And brought Israel out from their midst,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

12 With a strong hand and an outstretched arm,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

13 To Him who divided the Red Sea asunder,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

14 And made Israel pass through the midst of it,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

15 But He overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

GOD IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND TEACHER

16 To Him who led His people through the wilderness,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

GOD IS THE MIGHTY DELIVERER

17 To Him who smote great kings,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

18 And slew mighty kings,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

20 And Og, king of Bashan,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

21 And gave their land as a heritage,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

22 Even a heritage to Israel His servant,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

23 Who remembered us in our low estate,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

24 And has rescued us from our adversaries,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

GOD IS THE BREAD OF LIFE

25 Who gives food to all flesh,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

GOD IS LOVE

26 Give thanks to the God of heaven,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

NEW TESTAMENT - Mark 12:28-32

"What commandment is the foremost of all?"

29 Jesus answered, "The foremost is,

'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord;

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

and with all your soul,

and with all your mind,

and with all your strength.'

31 "The second is this,

'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

There is no other commandment greater than these."

NEW TESTAMENT - I Corinthians 13

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Love is...

patient,
love is kind,
and is not jealous;
love does not brag
and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Love never fails

.NEW TESTAMENT: 1 John 4:7-18

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7 Beloved, let us love one another,

for love is from God;

and everyone who loves is born of God

and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God,

for God is love...

...if we love one another, God abides in us,

and His love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in Him

and He in us,

because He has given us of His Spirit...

...God is love,

and the one who abides in love abides in God,

and God abides in him.

By this, love is perfected with us,

that we may have confidence in the day of judgment;

because as He is,

so also are we in this world."

LOVE THEM UNTIL

THEY ASK YOU WHY!

Then,

you can tell your GOD STOPS...

your REMEMBRANCE STORIES!

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I read this comment yesterday on Terry Rush's blog:
"Jesus called us to love our neighbors, enemies, and those who persecute us. And He meant it, trouble is a lot of us listen to talk radio and our fears and we easily forget the Master's command."
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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