Transformed Moms: WHAT IF HIS PEOPLE PRAYED FERVENTLY

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

Monday, February 16, 2009

WHAT IF HIS PEOPLE PRAYED FERVENTLY

MEDITATION MONDAY

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What a lot there is to meditate on!!! Yesterday, I easily took the three themes of three lessons I heard and connected them with a fourth that I saw:
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Bible Class: "Do NOT be afraid...only believe!"
Sermon: "Our God will fight for us!"
Life Group: "Let Jesus wash your feet!"
An army of christians praying for 4 people whose lives are hanging in the balance...3 of those people you can keep updated on via the links on the right...the fourth is John Baldwin, a deacon at the Tabernacle, NJ church of Christ who is in critical condition with diabetes complications and sepsis. Saturday, the hospital became packed as friends and family came to stand vigil he was then moved by ambulance to a hospital in Camden.

I hear it was the same on Saturday in Amarillo, TX as friends and family stood vigil for Connor and then the determination was made to fly him to Children's Medical Center in Dallas.

Lauren and Marie wait for their surgeries as family and friends continue to minister to them and their daddies and mommies.

Saturday afternoon a website was posted for Connor. Within 24 hours over 2,000 had accessed it. Here are some of the prayers for Connor that I have read online, in the last 24 hours. These happen to have been prayed in another part of the world:

Dear God Please help Conner to feel better. In Jesus name A-men (Silas) age 5
Dear God Please be with Conner todayHelp the fever to drop and help him to feel better and in Jesus name Please help him to healIn Jesus name A-men (Kinley) age 10
Dear GodPlease help conner to get better. help conner to be able to do things again like play outside and do all the things that he likes to do.In Jesus nameAmen (Alex) age 9
This one was said very slowly: Dear Godplease help Connor to feel much much much better and to be safe and for him to have a good lifein Jesus name a-men (Isaac) age 6
Dear heavenly father,I want to bring before your throne a young man who is feeling sick. His name is Connor Deal. Lord, You created him and knit him together in his mother's womb. You know every hair on his head. He is in the hospital with bi-lateral mrsa pneumonia and ards. Lord you know more than all the doctors in the world. We ask for your healing to be upon Connor. If it is your will, would you please heal this boy?Lord we trust you and know that you are the God of mercy and love. May you surround this young man with your love and care. For those who are caring for him may you give them compassion, tenderness and wisdom beyond their years of study.Please heal his body of the pneumonia and free his lungs to breath clearly. May Connor recover from this sickness and be even stronger than before.Lord, I want to pray for his parents right now as it is tough thing to see your child sick or suffering from illness. Please fill them with faith, courage and trust in you. Please wrap your arms around them and comfort them during this time.May this trial bring them closer to you. May you strengthen their marriage and fill them with hope and peace that only comes from you.Father, would you also encourage the members of Amarillo South to know how to shower this family with love, comfort and support in just the right ways.? Help them to know from your spirit what they should do even without being asked.Lord help them to know that they are not alone and that there are friends and family around the world that are standing with them.Lord you are so wonderful and I praise your name right now. Lord you can see the tears that are in my eyes right now as my family has been touched by Connor and by your goodness.As we bring this young man before your thrown we ask for your healing touch to be upon him.In the name of your wonderful Son Jesus A-men (Jeff Cash...missionary, Uganda)

Here is our message for these four families:

Do not be afraid...only believe!
Our God will fight for you!
Let Jesus serve you through His family!

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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