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Happy Mother’s Day, everyone. Wow.
David [00:00:18]:
Here we are again. Today we come together to celebrate the strength, the love, and the unwavering devotion that mothers bring into our lives. And mothers, here’s something I want you to know. Your care shapes our hearts. Your wisdom guides generations. And your love reflects a beauty that words can hardly capture. Praise God. We thank you for every sacrifice, for every prayer, every encouraging word, and every quiet moment of support.
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You are deeply appreciated today and always. I pray today that you be filled with joy, honor, and feel the same love that you so freely give to others. Praise God. Happy Mother’s Day. Now, here are a few facts I thought I’d share with you that you may know about Mother’s Day or you may not. The first one is the official flower of Mother’s Day is the carnation. So if you haven’t got mom any flowers yet, you know, carnations are the official flower. So you can go pick those out and.
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And give them to your mom. The second thing about Mother’s Day is Mother’s Day is one of the biggest, busiest days of the year. For restaurants, of course, everyone takes mom out for her favorite meal on Mother’s Day. Third thing is there are more phone calls made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year. If you’re going to be a good child, a good son, a good daughter, you call mom, right? She doesn’t call you, you call her. The fourth thing is this. Along with Easter and Christmas, Sunday, Mother’s Day is one of the most attended church services of the year. Moms know how to get us out there to church, don’t they? Praise God.
David [00:02:37]:
Today I want us just to take some time to honor one of God’s most powerful expressions of his his love reflected here on the earth. A mother. From the beginning, God entrusted women with the sacred role of nurturing life in us, of shaping destiny, of reflecting God’s heart in the home and beyond. You see, motherhood is not just biological. Motherhood is multi dimensional. It’s spiritual, it’s influential, and it’s eternal. I don’t know if you thought about that, mom, but you’re having eternal impact. You see, mothers are connected to their children in ways we can’t fully understand.
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Motherhood is spiritual. Mothers know things without being told. I know my mom has called me at times and goes, what’s going on? Where are you? What do you need? How Can I pray for you? She just knows. She just knows. God has connected her to me during that time when I was in the womb, her womb, we were connected in ways that only God can do, and he does that with every child. Motherhood is influential, you know, for about 18. Well, I won’t. I won’t even put a cap on it, because my mom is still influential in my life.
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And hearing what she says and what she knows. Motherhood, mothers, you are influencing children and all those around you, all the days of your life here on the earth. And motherhood is eternal. What you’re doing has eternal impact. What you’re doing for God by birthing and bringing to life children. It’s all about what God has planned for us throughout eternity. So, mom, what you’re doing, even when you’re tired and we’re out and you’re wondering what you’re doing is important. And it’s having impact in ways you can’t imagine.
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So today I want us to look at five things about moms, about motherhood, about mothers that we know to be true. And the first one is this. A mother’s strength is God given. Proverbs 31, 25, 30. I just thought of something funny. I can hear my mom now. Yeah. If it wasn’t for God’s strength, I don’t know how I would have survived four boys.
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Proverbs 31, 25, 30. I’m reading this from the new living translation. It says this. She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future when she speaks. Her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness. She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. Her children stand and bless her, and her husband praises her. There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but, mom, you surpass them all.
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Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last. But a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. Hallelujah. My brothers and I were very blessed to grow up in a family of godly mothers. Godly women. Our grandmothers lived what they taught us. They walked it out before us. They prayed for us.
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They prayed with us. They reminded us to thank God every day for his goodness. And then, our aunts on both sides of my mom, sisters and my dad’s sisters, our aunts modeled what our grandmothers lived before us. And they echoed it word for word and taught it to us also. And then our mother. Our mother. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I’m gonna talk more about her in a moment.
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But, guys, what I Just read in Proverbs 31 is true. And all these women that I know, all the mothers that I know, the godly mothers that I know, model this, reflect this. A godly mother doesn’t draw her strength alone from the strength from her strength alone, but she draws it from the strength of the Lord. Philippians 4:13 in the Amplified classic says it this way. I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me. I am ready for anything and equal to anything through him who infuses inner strength into me. I am self sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency. Wow, what a powerful verse for moms with four boys to corral.
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Our mom walked out this verse every day of her life. And if she were here with me right now, she’d be going, oh yeah, it had to be God’s strength, because I couldn’t have done it on my own. When days are long and demands are high, God clothes her with strength she didn’t know she had. A mom’s strength shows up in ways that we don’t even think about sometimes. Perseverance. When she’s tired, she just keeps going. Faith. When things are uncertain, she’s not sure what’s going to happen next.
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God has us. He’s made a way. Courage. Moms are courageous. When their family needs covering, they’re there to cover them, surround them and wrap them in love and understanding. A mother’s strength may not be loud, but it is unshakable because her strength flows from the strength of God, of Jesus Christ, the anointed One she is equipped to nurture. Second thing is this. A mother’s faith shapes generations.
David [00:10:16]:
That is so true. 2nd Timothy 1:5 in the new living translation, Paul said this to Timothy. I remember your genuine faith. For you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. Paul recognized something powerful in Timothy. Faith is intergenerational and transferable. Faith is intergenerational and transferable.
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And what I mentioned a moment ago about my grandmothers, my aunts, my mom, they would all come together sometimes and pray for the children in the family. But they all understood that they were impacting us in a way that those seeds of faith would bear fruit in us. A mother prays, she worships. And her prayer and worship, her consistency, are seeds that are planted in the hearts of her children. Long after words are forgotten, faith remains, faith sustains. Faith gets us through. Mom, thank you for your faith and your example of faith that you extend to us. My.
David [00:12:06]:
More My mom had a morning routine as we were all growing up. Once she got things up, we got. She got us fed and dad got off to work and. And especially during the summer, this was true. She would go, okay, boys, I’m going to do my time with the Lord. And we knew what that meant. For the next hour. We didn’t bother her.
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We didn’t ask her anything. We didn’t go knocking on her bedroom door. That was her time. And she would go in and read the Word and journal and make notes. She would pray and then journal what she heard from God. And she would spend time worshiping. When she got through, she’d come out of the. She’d open the bedroom door and come out of there singing and just worshiping and praising God.
David [00:12:54]:
Wow. Timothy’s grandmother Lois planted seeds of faith in his mother, Eunice. And then his grandmother and his mother, Eunice planted seeds of faith in him. Those seeds of faith bore fruit in Timothy and empowered him to go with Paul to preach the gospel to the world. They empowered him to say yes to the call of God on his life, and he became an influential minister in the birth of the church. Generational influence. Powerful and it’s needed. We don’t see that as much today because of the culture we live in, the world we live in.
David [00:13:57]:
We get so spread out and separated that we have lost some of that generational influence in our lives, that intergenerational impartation. But we see this throughout Scripture, and you’re going to know these examples I’m giving you. But Abraham influenced Isaac, and Isaac influenced Jacob, and Jacob influenced Joseph and his 11 brothers, and the list goes on and on. You may not always see the fruit immediately come forth, but what you sow in faith in God will never return. Void. Keep sowing. Keep praying. Keep believing.
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The harvest of faith will come. The harvest of faith will come. Mom, you’re impacting the generations to come. The third thing here is a mother’s love reflects God’s comfort. I see a 6613, and this is from the new King James Version. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. And the Lord is speaking to Israel here. But God compares his comfort to that of a mother, and that speaks something profound to us.
David [00:15:50]:
A mother’s love is one of the closest earthly reflections of the heart of God. When she holds you, whether as a baby, as a young child, as an adult, God brings his healing virtue. When she listens to you, God reassures. I remember as I was growing up, I’M the oldest of the four boys, so our house was rather noisy, But I like talking to my mom. And so what I learned was every night when she was fixing supper there in the kitchen, my brothers would be off playing somewhere. And so I would go and hop up on the counter, the edge of the counter, and sit there and talk to her as she was going. And if I was sharing something that I really wanted her to get, she’d start to come by and I’d suffer and go, mom. And I would put my hands on her face and go, listen.
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Listen to me. Look at me. And I would just hold her face. It got to be a thing. But I wanted her undivided attention. When she listens, God reassures you. And when she embraces you, hugs you, that’s like God’s restoring power, restoring life and you, restoring strength in you, refreshing you, revitalizing you. Many times, a hug from mom is all I needed.
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I didn’t need words. I didn’t need the explanation. I just needed her comfort. You see, there is a power in a mother’s presence. She carries the anointing of God on her and in her to reflect his love to you. Wow. A mother’s love reflects God’s comfort. The fourth thing we see as we look at this is a mother’s value is beyond measure.
David [00:18:23]:
I don’t know if you’ve thought about this, but the Lord said in Proverbs 31:10, in the New Living translation, who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies. We know that a part of the role of a husband’s wife was to care for the family, for the children. And so a virtuous and capable wife, that could say a virtuous and capable mother, she is more precious than rubies. In a world that often overlooks or undervalues being a mother, God places the highest worth on it. Her work may not always be seen, applauded and rewarded, but heaven records every act of love, every sacrifice, and every prayer. Wow. Mothers are pouring us into in ways we can’t see or imagine. Corrie Ten Boom said this about mothers.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. Wow. Think about that. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. You’re giving as you’re pouring into your children. As your mother poured into you. She was giving of herself. She was donating what she had to you.
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Just like we know about seed, time and harvest. Every seed planted bears fruit and a harvest Comes back from it. I love that quote by Sister Corey there. It’s not duration, it’s donation. That could be true for mothers. It could be true for all of us. I know as a child of my mother’s, I want to give myself to others in a way that honors her, That honors her and what she’s done and provided for me. The fifth thing we see is, mom, your seeds of influence are echoing through eternity.
David [00:21:16]:
Echoing through eternity. I remember growing up when I was about 13, 14, our family moved to Tennessee. We had been to Tennessee before, but we moved up here. But I remember my brothers and I would find get out on the edge of a rock, cliff or something overlooking a valley, and we would yell and see who could create the most echoes. We would yell something out and it come rolling back to us across from the other side of that valley. Your seeds of influence, mom, are echoing through eternity to every biological, spiritual, adoptive, or mentoring mother. And there are all those dimensions of motherhood. Biological, spiritual, mother, adoptive mother, a mentoring mother.
David [00:22:17]:
Your life matters more than you know. By being a mother, you are partnering with God to see his children come forth. By being a mother, you are building a legacy that will live beyond you. Yeah, I think about it. My brothers, I, my cousins, we still talk about our grandmothers, our aunts. Wow. Their legacy is living on, in and through us. By being a mother, you were shaping destiny.
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You are helping God shape the heart of those that you influence. By being a mother, you are impacting eternity. Wow. Impacting eternity. You’re having an eternal impact. Do not let the enemy or anybody else tell you, oh, you’re just a mother. You’re not doing that much. You are having an eternal impact in the lives of those you touch.
David [00:23:49]:
And so today, again, I want to say thank you. Thank you, moms. Thank you, mother, for all you give to us. Here. In a few months, my mom will be 90 years old. Wow. 90 years. She’s seen so much, been so many places, done so much.
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And I’m thinking the other day, okay, how do we celebrate 90 years? And she’s still blowing and going. She lives there in a really great assisted living place, and she’s on the independent side. Sometimes I’ll call her and go, hey, mom, what you doing? She goes, oh, some of the old people upstairs need help. So I’m going up there today. I go, yeah, you just keep that mindset, mom. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God, Moms.
David [00:24:56]:
You have more power and influence than you realize. Keep using it for God’s glory. Let’s bow our heads in prayer. Father, we thank you for every mother here today, for every mother we’ve had in our life. And Father God, we pray for strength for our mothers honor. Father God, we pray for peace that passes understanding. And I pray that all of our mothers are able to see the fruit of their labor and know that their work has not been in vain, that they’ve accomplished what you’ve called them to, Lord, and they will continue to be blessed by, enjoy and benefit from the fruit of their labors throughout eternity. And we thank you for it.
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Father thank you for our mothers Jesus name. Amen. Pastor Kanye is coming with an encouraging word right now. God bless you. Have a great week. It.
