LESSON FOR MOTHERS’ DAY
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
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TEXT:
Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife name Eve;
because she was the MOTHER of all living.
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER: that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Exo. 20:12
The foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Proverbs 10:1
Despise not thy Mother when she is old. Proverbs 23:22
As one whom his Mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. Isa. 66:13
As the Mother is so is the daughter. Eze. 16:44
Today, I ponder: WHAT IS A MOTHER? Our THOUGHT will be, MOTHERS, WHAT ARE YOU SOWING?
The greatest calling of God today is not for Presidents or Pastors, the greatest call is for Godly Mothers to arise to the high call, and raise children in the fear of God! There is no greater call than a committed Mother!
Mothers go UN-applauded and unappreciated, but God sees.
Mark 3: 35 For whosoever shall DO THE WILL OF GOD, the same shall be my brother, and my sister, and MOTHER.
We all have the opportunity of investing in others and becoming Mother and father to others.
Few women realize the awesome responsibly of having children.
Children are a gift from God, but what you do with the children is your gift back to God.
How sad? No sadder words of pen or tongue, than the words what might have been?
We need many Mothers in the church! There are many women, but there are few Godly mothers in this world?
I ponder, WHY? Why are there not many Godly mothers?
This lesson will approach the problem of women not seeing the need of a Godly example before their children.
Let us arise to the office and calling for Godly Mothers.
1. THINGS NEEDED TO ILLUSTRATE THIS LESSON.
A. 2-- 40 pound bags of potting soil. (Depends on how many Mothers you will have. This will prepare about 60 to 80 bags.)
B. 60 medium Zip Lock baggies. ( Before the service fill the 60 bags with dirt.) I gave the bags out several service after the special day.
You can accent your points by repetition.
C. 5 or 6 bags of seeds. (I do: Forget me nots, sun flower, corn, mustard. See below for the lesson),
D. Bottle of water.
E. 60 red plastic cups. The cup represents you, the vessel of God. Red represents the blood of Jesus.
The total cost for me was about $21.00 for 60 to 80 was around.
2. THE LESSON OF THE DIRT.
I had my bags of dirt hidden under a red table cloth on the altar.
Then call every Mother to the altar, I call every woman, because some have no children but are spiritual moms. I make them pick up their bag of dirt, and it is not given to them, they must apply the effort.
I then gave each one a bag of dirt, and have them return to the pew.
Often we have given a flower to every woman, today we shall give every woman a bag of dirt.
There is a great lesson here.
A. Discuss the potential of that dirt. The bag of dirt could help feed the family? It could be useless?
B. You could throw the dirt at others, but if you throw your dirt, you are the one loosing ground.
C. The only difference between a mole hill and a mountain is how much dirt you have.
D. Don’t let you dirt become dirt. Col. 3:18, Husbands love your wife and be not bitter against them.
E. Bad dirt? 1 Kings 22:52, parents willfully choose evil.
Each child is sort like this bag of dirt, there is a potential, but someone will have to invest time, effort, and patience to ever see the potential develop.
3. THE LESSON OF THE SEED.
I mix all the packets of seeds in one bowl.
Call the children to the altar, let them pick several seeds out of the bowl of seeds that are mixed together.
By randomly picking out the seeds, you don’t know what you are getting and this is true in life,
we don’t know many things, we do the best with what we have.
A. You can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed.
B. Sickly oaks from sickly acorns grow.
C. It is not the size of the seed, but the growth of the seed that matters.
D. I often ask God for 2 by 4’s, and gives me a seed and says grow it yourself. This is a wisdom process.
E. Gal. 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for what so ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...
Don’t expect strawberries in you plant corn?
1. Forget Me Not seeds... Deut. 4:9, 23 ...
life has a way of getting us so busy, we forget God
and His Law.
Many Mothers are forget by their children, yes they
are loved by them, just the kids get so busy in
life they forget the investments Momma made in them.
Many Mothers forget that you are building memories
today.
2. Sun Flower seeds... Neh. 8:10,
The Joy of the Lord is our strength, we need to be
full of joy and zeal of life.
You can teach depression, anger and bitterness to
your children, it is up to you.
The average child laughs 400 times a day,
the average adult 15, Why what steals the Momma’s
laughter?
3. Corn seed... John 12:24
The corn seed must go in a wet ground, and get dirty
and cold, and die to grow and reproduce.
To just eat makes fat, but is not necessarily growth.
4. Mustard seed... Mat 13:31,
faith may appear small, but it can grow and support
life.
4. WATER, ALL KNOW LIFE IS DEPENDENT ON WATER.
I have a gallon of water, I tell that life as we know it depends on water.
Water represents the essentials of life.
1 Sam. 26:11-12, while Saul slept, David took Saul’s cruise of water.
Saul had lost the anointing of God. We must guard our hearts and daily walk to keep the anointing flowing.
Rain often comes in small frequent doses.
But occasionally, it comes in a flood.
Sometimes, there are dry spells, but good growth has deep roots. Eph. 3:17.
We need to dig deep spiritual wells for water to sustain us.
5. VESSEL, RED CUP.( I use red plastic cups)
I have the ushers to pass a red cup to every woman.
I have written 2002 ??? on the side with a paint pen.
My thought:What you going to do in 2002?
A. Empty vessels have little use?
B. Heb. 9:22 without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
C. The value of the vessel is not within the vessel but the availability to be used and reused.
D. Isa. 64:8 God is the potter, we are the clay.
E. Jer. 18:4 God can use marred vessels, and remake us over and over.
F. The little cup must realize it’s value is in helping growth and bearing fruit.
G. A little cup can overflow a lot!
Will you allow your cup to hold the dirt?
6. LIGHT.
Mat. 5:14-16, all growth grows toward the light. You cannot separate light from the warmth.
Whatever develops from this dirt, the dirt, these seeds, the cup, will be totally
dependent on the womens’ actions.
We are count on you ladies, the church counts on you, the family counts on you.
The dirt can stay in the bag and mold?
You can lose your seeds?
You can let the cup stay empty?
You can let your seeds grow and never water them, and they will die?
You can care for them carefully and not transplant and go to the next level?
You can grow the seeds, and the plants you grow bear seeds and you could have the perpetual life cycle.
This does not depend on God this depends on you Mother’s and your efforts?
God is depending on women becoming Mothers.
We must see the spiritual side, you cannot reap if you don’t sow? Sow little reap little? 2 Cor. 9:6.
The reason the are not many fathers is because we can only see the dirt as dirt, and not the potential of the dirt.
7. SPIRITUAL DUTIES OF A MOTHER?
1. TO TEACH ... Deu. 6:7;
2. TO TRAIN ... Prov. 22:6;
3.TO PROVIDE ...2 Cor. 12:14;
4.TO CONTROL ...1 Tim. 3:4;
5. TO NURTURE ... Eph. 6:4;
6. TO LOVE... Tit. 2:4.
8. DANGER ZONE ... PROVOKING.
This next talks to Fathers but also applies to Mothers.
Eph. 6:4 ... provoke not your children to wrath...
Don’t tease and incite anger, or stir purposely ... this game will eventually backfire.
This lesson should be approached quickly and not dwell any great length of time in one area.
Perhaps this will become fodder for later lessons.
His servant,
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingerss@aol.com
Will you help me? Could you pass this on to others?
You might help a little pastor with a thought if you would pass this on to them.
I ponder some lessons my Mother taught me?
I PONDER THE VALUE OF A HUG?
By Wade Martin Hughes Sr.
The greatest office in this land, is not President, Pastor, nor TV Evangelist;
The greatest role to fulfill --- Is a Praying & HUGGING MOM.
I remember the tear in momma’s eye, the first day of school.
What a special hug she gave me as I boarded that school bus.
I remember the look of disappointment, when she caught me in a lie,
But she gave me a hug anyway.
I remember one Mothers’ Day I asked for some money back,
As I felt I spent too much for the 3 handkerchiefs and a fake pearl necklace.
She returned some money and there was a hug.
I recall that bicycle wreck, the kisses and the red mercurochrome, I remember the hug the most.
I recall the coughs, late at night, and the Vick’s vapor rub, but it was the hug that got me through the night.
Momma would sing & rock me, when the storms frightened me so bad,
It was not her singing that calmed me, it was momma’s hug.
One night a really bad verbal fight with my Dad,
She snuck around after dad was asleep, and there was a hug.
My senior year in high school, mom would awake me as her tears dropped on by bed.
She was asking God to prepare me for what was ahead. Then she silently-gave me a hug.
As I was the first, in our family ever to walk across the stage at the university with a degree,
Mom was there with a big smile and a hug.
The day I married Linda and the other lady moved in, there was mom in the line waiting to give us a hug.
When we lost the baby, mom was there with a hug.
I awoke from serious surgery, there was mom with tears in her eyes, but there was a hug.
Well, the last few months, she was not able to cook.
I would go and cook and the family would come, mom stood next to the stove, and there was her hug.
Hospital stays more frequent and longer in duration, but there was always a call for a hug.
Cancer robbing my momma of her strength, weaker and weaker daily she grew,
Her brown eyes would say, "Son, I need to give you a hug."
More she needed to give a hug, than my desperate need to receive??
As my dad finished her funeral, all 5 of us, my brothers and sister, to my Dad’s side,
We met by my momma’s casket. We shared what momma had taught us,
We all hugged and promised to meet at Jesus’ feet.
The Father’s Spirit rested my heart, and I felt something saying, There is a woman, walking on the streets of gold,
There was a woman going all over heaven hugging everybody,
I knew,--Momma made it HOME.
Recently, I stood by my momma’s grave, her blanket is dirt, her bedspread is the grass.
She rests on a hill overlooking the Kentucky State Capitol.
I said, Momma how I need your hug today.
My heart pondered: there are old forgotten people in the resthome waiting for my momma’s hug.
There is a child from a broken home, that smells like urine, for in fear last night he wet the bed.
He needs my momma’s hug.
There is a sin broken life crying on the altar,
I have my momma’s gift that she gave to me,
That I shall GIVE to my sons, for my momma taught me the value of a HUG.
The HUG never came from my Momma,
It comes from God, FOR GOD IS LOVE!
She just learned it’s value, AND IT IS WORTH MORE IF YOU GIVE IT AWAY.
A HUG-one size fits all.
And I give to YOU - A LESSON ON THE VALUE OF A HUG.
Could you find someone to INVEST A HUG ---? ?
A lesson I ponder, taught from menial daily living by my mom, DELORES MARGARET SUMNER HUGHES, a pastor’s wife for almost 50 years, with two sons in the ministry. I ponder the power of the hug, hope we learn.
Could you enlarge my hands and pass this to others? I give you a hug.
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.,
Pastor Faith Assembly of God, Smiths Grove, Kentucky.
Please pass this to another?
