Transformed Moms: EAST TO WEST...JESUS GIVES US A STORY TO TELL...

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, March 24, 2009

EAST TO WEST...JESUS GIVES US A STORY TO TELL...

Yesterday, I posted late in the day about the different "AHA MOMENTS" that many experienced as a result of the women's retreat at Cape May this weekend entitled TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED (a study of the be-attitudes). I am so grateful that Jesus gives us stories to tell via "Aha Moments" and "Personal Testimonies". If you have not had an opportunity to read the "Aha's!" that I posted yesterday, please take time to do so by scrolling down to the post below. You will be grateful that you did.

We ended the retreat by sharing our cardboard testimonies. It was powerful! Although we did not capture it on video. You can find the video that we watched beforehand at www.rhchurch.org or you can just google CARDBOARD TESTIMONIES and be inspired by many different shared videos.

I am grateful that IN CHRIST we have powerful stories to tell!

GIGATTAATTGIG!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Love your AHA moments and even the name of your retreat ministers to me -- I am too blessed to be stressed! Especially this week I needed to hear that!; March 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM
HisGirl(KC) said...: This morning I felt such peace as I prayed my way through the beatitudes. Lord make me selfless, mourning over my sin, seeking your will, satisfied by your word, empathetic not just sympathetic to those around me, extending salvation as I become of conduit of God's love, spiritual so I may see you, a smiling, suffering, servant, slave! Praise God - then and only then will the fruits of your spirit flourish in me not by MY will but by yours!; March 24, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Jen said...: Great post! Thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful day.; March 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Anonymous said...: I LOVE how there are AHA moments all over the place when we recognize God's work in our lives!!; March 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM

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