Transformed Moms: BORN AGAIN: FROM LIES TO TRUTH!

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, September 9, 2009

BORN AGAIN: FROM LIES TO TRUTH!

DAY ONE - Consider this:

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The LORD detests lying lips,

but He delights in women who are truthful.

Proverbs 12:22

Deborah says that lying comes in 4 forms. Three of those are the focus of Day One and the fourth one is the focus of Day Two. God detests lying! I am sure that is why Deborah has listed lying as our target for Days One and Two. "Detests" is a strong word! Years ago one of my friends made up a little jingle to scripture. Although, I cannot sing you the tune here, the words remain embedded in my brain:

Revelation, Revelation,

21:8! 21:8!

If you lie, you fry!

You're a sinner!

Whew! Don't be too harsh on my friend until you read Revelation 21:8 which says,

"But the cowardly,

the unbelieving,

the vile,

the murderers,

the sexually immoral,

those who practice magic arts,

the idolaters

and

all liars-

their place will be in the fiery lake

of burning sulfur.

This is the second death."

Deborah includes deception, half-truths, and exaggerating all in the catagory of lying. What's a woman to do? Deborah's book and workbook help us to see the need to change our habits:

from deception to truth

from half-truths to truth

from exaggerating to truth

David put it this way:

Psalms 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O LORD,

teach me your paths;

guide me in your TRUTH

and teach me,

for you are God my Savior.

Psalms 26:2-4 Test me, O LORD, and try me,

examine my heart and my mind;

for Your love is ever before me,

and I walk continually in Your TRUTH.

I do not sit with deceitful men...

Psalms 40:11 Do not withhold Your mercy from me,

O LORD;

may Your love

and Your TRUTH

always protect me.

Psalms 51:6 Surely You desire TRUTH

in the inner parts;

You teach me wisdom

in the inmost place.

Psalms 86:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,

and I will walk in Your TRUTH;

give me an undivided heart,

that I may fear Your name.

Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of TRUTH;

I have set my heart on Your laws.

Want to be like Jesus?

John 1:14

The Word became flesh

and made His dwelling among us.

We have seen His glory,

the glory of the One and Only,

who came from the Father,

FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.

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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