Transformed Moms: YOUR LOVE IS AMAZING... FIRM BENEATH MY FEET...

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, January 25, 2010

YOUR LOVE IS AMAZING... FIRM BENEATH MY FEET...

MEDITATION MONDAY

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Here it is the last full week of January. I entered the new year on this blog encouraging us to FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS. Our weekly themes, to date, have been

HOLY
FIX YOUR EYES ON JESUS
IN CHRIST ALONE, and now
YOUR LOVE IS AMAZING!

Our memory verse for the month has encouraged us to:

realize that we have a great cloud of witnesses who can testify that God truly is who He says He is
get rid of the things that get in the way of our living for Jesus
get rid of sin in our lives
persevere on God's path that is marked out for us
fix our eyes on Jesus (and attitude and endurance)
think about the reward
keep thinking about Jesus
think about how He endured the ridicule and the people who did the ridiculing
let all of the above encourage us

This past summer, Carl and Smitty Brecheen were the adult speakers at our VBS. Over the years, every time I hear this man from Texas, I take away many gold nuggets for my life. He's older now... just turned 80... and... very wise. Something hit me hard this last time that I heard him as he sat on his stool in the front of the auditorium teaching us. He said, "God is love and all the rest follows." Think about it...

What would joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control look like if they were not centered around love being foundational?

So, this week, as we continue to FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS or CONSIDER HIM, let's focus on His love. Our theme song sings, "...your love is steady, unchanging... a mountain firm beneath my feet...". That reminds me of another song, "Jesus, You're My Firm Foundation... I know I can stand secure. Jesus, You're My Firm Foundation... I put my hope in Your Holy Word, I put my hope in Your Holy Word..."

Our two preaching ministers, my husband Steve and Dan Cooper, are trading off speaking on Sundays about Building the Church. Since we are in a building program right now, with our new builiding to be completed by the end of the year, they are encouraging us to focus on building up ourselves - The Body Of Christ. Steve's sermon yesterday was on Our Firm Foundation. This is a subject that I would like to pursue further in another week, but for today I'll ask you the question that Steve asked us to ask ourselves: "What is my foundation?"

self?
significant other and self?
people?
things?
pleasures?
philosophy?
religion? (observances, moral codes)

He challenged us to consider these verses,

1 Corinthians 3:10-12

"...each one should be careful

how he builds.

For no one can lay any foundation

other than the one already laid,

which is Jesus Christ."

If God is love and Jesus is God, then

love in all things should be foundational.

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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