Transformed Moms: TESTIFY TO LOVE...RICHLY BUILT WITH KINDNESS...

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 15, 2010

TESTIFY TO LOVE...RICHLY BUILT WITH KINDNESS...

MEDITATION MONDAY
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Yesterday was a very special day for this transformed wife, mom, grandmother, and child of LOVE. We were blessed with a short few day visit from our oldest son, Jordan, his wife-Jacqueline, and our grandbaby-Chloe. Yesterday, my hubby led us in communion and the teaching of scripture and my son led the worship in song as Jacqueline, Chloe, and I joined in together. I felt as if I were in the throne room as we all sat at the feet of Jesus. Rich!

As our church family builds a new building, we've been spending a lot of time focusing on us as a church family, "the body of Christ", building ourselves up into "the spiritual building" that God intends for us to be. Yesterday Steve took us to 1 Corinthians 3:3-12. Here are a few things, in this scripture, that I would like us to meditate on today as we continue to look at living in "the heavenly realms":

if we're still experiencing jealousy and quarreling, then we are still worldly...
we should all be fellow laborers... some planting.... some watering... as God's fellow workers... "the Lord has assigned to each his task..."
we are also "God's field"... "God's building"...
we must be careful how we build... we must start with the foundation of Jesus Christ...
what are we laying on this foundation? Gold, silver, and costly stones? Wood, hay, and straw that will be burned up?

Today, as I think about the precious stones that are going into "my building" and the "building up of the body of Christ"... I have to say that I testify to LOVE! Scripture gives me this perspective:

"God is LOVE." 1 John 4:16
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and LOVE. But the greatest of these is LOVE." 1 Corinthians 13:13
"But because of His great LOVE for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:4-7

Did you notice the bold words in the Ephesians passage? God's LOVE expressed in kindness shows the riches of His grace!!! Yep! That's what 1 Corinthians 13:4 says, "LOVE IS KIND!" Now, that's rich! I testify to that!

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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