Transformed Moms: EVERLASTING GOD...YOU NEVER LET GO...DO WE????

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

Thursday, April 30, 2009

EVERLASTING GOD...YOU NEVER LET GO...DO WE????

TRANSFORMING THURSDAY

Do you have an addiction that takes the life right out of you? The everlasting life?

Alcohol?
Drugs?
Food?
Gambling?
Games?
Nicotine?
Porn?
Shopping?
TV?
Victim mentality?
Woe is me mentality?
Work?
Worry?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, then maybe your name is C.W. Halts!

Maybe you're feeling:

C ontrolled
W orthless
H urt
A ngry
L onely
T ired
S tressed

Last night Steve taught I Thessalonians in our Wednesday night Bible Class. It was in someways a continuation of his Sunday sermon, which I shared with you on Monday. I told him later there was enough information in that 35 minute class to go for a whole quarter...a whole semester.

He asked us: What is the will of God in your life? Specifically, how do I please God? How can I reject God?

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Just read 1 Thessalonians! I learned too much last night to write here. Yet, two words summarize what a person must begin doing to get on the road to being addiction free: SERVICE / GRATITUDE.
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Let's get our eyes off of ourselves and find ways to serve and count our blessings...daily.... Did you hear that? Serve and count daily!!!! Count blessings, NOT records of wrongs done! While your serving and being grateful, read 1 Thessalonians and Romans 12 and Ephesians 4. Also, be sure to add Hebrews 12:1-4 that we continually go back to on this blog. Pray that those scriptures abide deep in your heart. Then, begin to see your life transform away from the name C.W. Halts:

Controlled to in control
Worthless to special
Hurt to comforted
Angry to content
Lonely to connected
Tired to energized
Stressed to relaxed

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That's what happens when we stay plugged in to the Everlasting Light of the World... it's TRANSFORMING! In order to be the LIGHT OF THE WORLD in a dark world, we must stay plugged in to the everlasting source of power...
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If you're unplugged, who did the unplugging?

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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