Transformed Moms: YOU ARE GOD ALONE...IMPRESS THIS ON YOUR CHILDREN...

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, May 17, 2010

YOU ARE GOD ALONE...IMPRESS THIS ON YOUR CHILDREN...

We are now in the third week of memorizing Deuteronomy 6:4-9. This week our focus is on verse 7. What is it that Moses told the people thousands of years ago to impress on their children?

4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. .

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. . .

Once again, I am amazed at how the sermon I hear each Sunday morning is so connected with whatever we are talking about on this blog. I'm praising God for that again today! Steve's sermon focused on THERE IS A GOD!!!

In our scripture memory this week, Moses is stressing about how important it is to teach our children about God and His commands. He just stated how foundational and important it is to LOVE GOD. The previous chapter (Deuteronomy 5) is one of the lists of the 10 commandments in the Old Testament that Moses is referring to. The first commandment?

Deuteronomy 5:7

"You shall have

no other gods before Me."

MEDITATION OF THE DAY: How can I impress on my children, to love God and put Him first, if I have other gods that I put before Him... spend more time and money for... think about more... am involved with more...????

We forget that all around the world there are people bowing down to god's of wood, metal, stone... Steve told a story of being in Indonesia in 2007, when he was speaking at the World Missions Seminar. He wanted to take a picture of some of the local people he had met. He jwould continue to look at their pics and pray for them. He talked to some people in a shop, then decided to go back to visit with them and take their picture. He returned to what seemed to be an empty store. As he made his way toward the back of the store, looking for the shopkeepers, he found them kneeling and praying to their idol. He could see that their god was not his God!

Steve reminded us that our nation is also full of many god's... idols. Maybe not as many people in the USA bow down to graven images like those of eastern cultures... or do we? ... money... trophies... recreational vehicles... balls... games... tv... and then, of course, there's celebraties, relationships, the job, academia... We are a nation full of idols!!!

How hopeless is that? Idolizing gods of wood, metal, stone, sinfulness... Steve wanted to give us hope! He wanted us to know that...

THERE IS A GOD!

HE IS ALIVE!

So, we sang the song and then...

Steve's lesson focused on

Acts 17:16-21.

It's setting was in Athens, Greece. It was a city with a very similar problem. Paul reminded the people about God, the Great I AM:

There is a supreme being!
He is the giver of life and breath!
He is sovereign... determining the times and boundaries of the lives of mankind...
He created us for a purpose!
God is near! (Immanuel means "God with us!")
Repent!
Judgment is coming!

The Outcome? Acts 17:32-33

Let's continue to impress on our children and grandchildren that our God is living, breathing, active, involved, and completely FAITHFUL LOVE.

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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