Weekly Sermons

Robbing Mama                     Proverbs 28:24

 

THINGS I LEARNED FROM MY MOTHER

 

How do you rob mama?

 

One way to rob someone is when you take something that is someone else’s

 

The other way to rob someone is when you don’t give somebody something you _________________ them

 

 

What we owe our moms:

 

1.         H______________________________

 

Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.                Exodus 20:12 The 5^th Commandment

 

God’s plan-

 

And David said to Saul: “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’? “Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, “I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.”           1 Samuel 24:10

 

 

2.         O_____________________________ in the Lord

 

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”   Ephesians 6:1

 

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless it’s mother. There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its own filthiness. Proverbs 30:11-12

 

1 Kings 15:13                                    Judges 14:3

 

 

 

 

There is much work to be done and many people to be loved. There’s no way we can do this on our own. Moms have to be strengthened by grace to make the necessary sacrifices and to do the mundane, routine things that move the gospel forward. Few celebrities are going to invite you onto their shows to shower you with gifts for praying with your kids, organizing a baby shower for a single mom, visiting a missionary, sending letters to your lawmaking representatives, or discipling the teen girls in your church.

 

Only Jesus knows how many faith-full women have labored in His Great Commission behind the scenes in these ways. And He knows how many missional mothers He will raise up to serve Him with all the nurturing strength He provides. I hope you are encouraged, dear reader, that Jesus is building up His body through the work of women who are mobilizing missionaries, teaching the Bible, extending hospitality, reaching out to the suffering, and doing a host of other good works.

 

The world says that you are just a mom and that your mothering ministry is not newsworthy. The world says your work is mundane, but every mothering and discipling moment in your life is actually unique – unprecedented in history and never to be repeated. Your work in evangelism and discipleship done through the power of the Spirit gives Jesus praise that echoes in eternity. And this moves Heaven to rejoice!  

 

-Gloria Furman, Missional Motherhood, pages 197-198