Transformed Moms: BLESSED BE YOUR NAME... WORTHY OF ESP......

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 3, 2011

BLESSED BE YOUR NAME... WORTHY OF ESP......

MEDITATION MONDAY

After a time of prayerfully considering our new blog theme(s) for 2011, I was in a conversation with my husband, Steve, one day in November. He said that he was meditating on his theme for 2011 and had decided on SURRENDER. I paused and smiled. Once again, I could see the Holy Spirit at work. I had determined that a year long focus on the BLESSED LIFE, as articulated for us by Jesus in Matthew 5, 6, & 7, and lived out by His LIFE on earth, would be our blog theme for 2011. According to that scripture, what is the first step to this kind of life?

SURRENDER!

HUMILITY!

BEING POOR IN SPIRIT!

Each New Year, it's a little harder for me to make New Year's Resolutions because I look back at all those that I have broken in the past. It's discouraging! Oh, the challenges are many... time, focus, roadblocks, rationalization, lack of surrender...

Steve's sermon yesterday served to get me thinking more along the lines of SURRENDER. This is a topic that is probably not too popular in the USA. We're used to winning... being the best in so many things... Steve said the "most famous surrender in all of history" is the surrender of Jesus Christ... God became a baby... grew up as a child... a teen... became a man... and bottom line is that HE WAS BORN TO DIE! Does that make any earthly sense?

Steve used two words to describe the paradox: ENDURANCE! SURRENDER!

On one hand, Jesus asks us to keep pressing on. Don't give up! Endure!
Yet, on the other hand, Jesus says: Stop! Give it up! Surrender!

He took us to Philippians, where He showed us the concept more clearly:

ENDURANCE:

GOD endured! Philippians 1:6
Paul endured! Philippians 1:13-25
Christians are to endure! Philippians 1:27-30

SURRENDER:

GOD surrendered! Philippians 2:5-11
Paul surrendered! Philippians 1:13-25
Christians are to surrender! Phillipians 2

I had already posted a memory verse for the month on 1-1-11. Yet, after reading through Philippians and listening to Steve, I changed it to more completely follow our theme for the month: BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT!
Philippians 2:5-11
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He HUMBLED Himself and became OBEDIENT TO DEATH- even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
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He is worthy of our E.S.P.!
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E-ndurance!
S-urrender!
P-oor spirit!
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~BLESSED~
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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