Transformed Moms: THE GREATEST GIFT A MOTHER CAN GIVE...IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING...

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, February 24, 2009

THE GREATEST GIFT A MOTHER CAN GIVE...IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING...

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I'm so grateful for christian parents who make the committment to live lives for Jesus.
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I'm so thankful for christian parents who give their children the knowledge of the LORD.
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When parents pass Jesus on to their children, they give the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving...
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I was blessed to be a part of a wedding this past weekend of two young adults from two different races who both have given their lives to Jesus. Their daddies and mommies prayed for them to marry christian mates. God answered their prayers.
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Here are Antwan and Chelsea the night before the wedding as Antwan sings for us "I'm a Hard Fightin' Soldier on the Battlefield". It was a wonderful evening of sharing from the heart...

As you look through the following wonderful pictures of Saturday's wedding of Antwan and Chelsea on Amelia Island, Florida...please know that you are looking at pictures of two families who dearly love the LORD and want to please Him and only Him...they are passing it on to children and to children's children...
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Beforehand, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean from the balcony above where the wedding would take place on the veranda.
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Steve and Antwan about five minutes before the ceremony begins.

Chelsea being escorted by her dad.

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Chelsea's dad gives Antwan his blessing.

Steve officiates a beautiful, God centered ceremony.

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Antwan's parents look on with the confidence that Chelsea is the answer to their prayers for a spiritual mate for their son.

Chelsea's parents sit with grandkids on their laps as they watch their youngest daughter vow to love, honor, and cherish the man who they have been praying for for so many years.

Then, there's the gift that just keeps on giving...Jesus living inside family and friends...

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Here are some of Chelsea's friends. The three in first picture are of Chelsea's York College friends who came to the wedding: Alanna from Colorado, Ashley from Texas, and Bryanna from Oregon. All three young women, who also come from three sets of parents who love the LORD, joined Chelsea while in college by putting tattooes on their feet that say: Romans 10:15 ("And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!")

The gift keeps giving and giving and giving... pass it on...

On Saturday, I posted about how Steve and I got to know Antwan and Chelsea in the first place. You may scroll down to that post below.

Thanks for stopping by today and remember to come back by as I continue to post for the first half of this year about Christ's Sermon on the Mount. We're on Be-Attitude 4 this week: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled."

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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