Acknowledge all mothers and pray over them.
“History shows almost all the greatest leaders that lived, indeed had mothers!”
PAUL REVERE’S MOTHER: "I don’t care where you think you have to go, young man. Midnight is past your curfew!"
MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY’S MOTHER: "I don’t mind you having a garden, Mary, but does it have to be growing under your bed?"
MONA LISA’S MOTHER: "After all that money your father and I spent on
braces, Mona, that’s the biggest smile you can give us?"
HUMPTY DUMPTY’S MOTHER: "Humpty, If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a hundred times not to sit on that wall. But would you listen to me? Noooo!"
COLUMBUS’ MOTHER: "I don’t care what you’ve discovered, Christopher. You still could have written!"
BABE RUTH’S MOTHER: "Babe, how many times have I told you -- quit
playing ball in the house! That’s the third broken window this week!"
MICHELANGELO’S MOTHER: "Mike, can’t you paint on walls like other
children? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?"
NAPOLEON’S MOTHER: "All right, Napoleon. If you aren’t hiding your report card inside your jacket, then take your hand out of there and prove it!"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S MOTHER: "Again with the stovepipe hat, Abe? Can’t you just wear a baseball cap like the other kids?"
BARNEY’S MOTHER: "I realize strained plums are your favorite, Barney, but you’re starting to look a little purple."
MARY’S MOTHER: "I’m not upset that your lamb followed you to school, Mary, but I would like to know how he got a better grade than you."
BATMAN’S MOTHER: "It’s a nice car, Bruce, but do you realize how much the insurance is going to be?"
GOLDILOCKS’ MOTHER: "I’ve got a bill here for a busted chair from the Bear family. You know anything about this, Goldie?"
LITTLE MISS MUFFET’S MOTHER: "Well, all I’ve got to say is if you don’t get off your tuffet and start cleaning your room, there’ll be a lot more spiders around here!"
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S MOTHER: "But, Albert, it’s your senior picture. Can’t you do something about your hair? Styling gel, mousse, something...?"
JONAH’S MOTHER: "That’s a nice story, but now tell me where you’ve
really been for the last three days."
SUPERMAN’S MOTHER: "Clark, your father and I have discussed it, and
we’ve decided you can have your own telephone line. Now will you quit
spending so much time in all those phone booths?"
THOMAS EDISON’S MOTHER: "Of course I’m proud that you invented the electric light bulb, Thomas. Now turn off that light and get to bed!"
Every lady has the seed of a mother inside, some feed and water it, some try to destroy it. It is not wrong for a lady to work, or do any number of things, but let’s not begin to think that those things are more valuable than motherhood. If you don’t have any children to mother, find some!
· Some ladies are parents but they do not have a “mother’s heart.”
· Some ladies have a “mother’s heart” but are not a parent.
[Isaiah 49:15] Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for a child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!
“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother-which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
[Romans 16:13] Greet Rufus, whom the Lord picked out to be his very own; and also his dear mother, who has been a mother to me.
What does it take to be a mother?
[1 Corinthians 13:4-7] Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud {5} or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. {6} It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. {7} Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Moms never give up!
[2 Kings 4:15-17] "Call her back again," Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, {16} "Next year at about this time you will be holding a son in your arms!" "No, my lord!" she protested. "Please don’t lie to me like that, O man of God." {17} But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
[2 Kings 4:25-30] As she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, "Look, the woman from Shunem is coming. {26} Run out to meet her and ask her, ’Is everything all right with you, with your husband, and with your child?’" "Yes," the woman told Gehazi, "everything is fine." {27} But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone. Something is troubling her deeply, and the LORD has not told me what it is." {28} Then she said, "It was you, my lord, who said I would have a son. And didn’t I tell you not to raise my hopes?" {29} Then Elisha said to Gehazi, "Get ready to travel; take my staff and go! Don’t talk to anyone along the way. Go quickly and lay the staff on the child’s face." {30} But the boy’s mother said, "As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I won’t go home unless you go with me." So Elisha returned with her.
This lady was persistent! She wouldn’t take no for an answer.
VIDEO: Canaanite Women from "Book of Matthew." (Matthew 15)
A fifteen-year-old boy came bounding into the house and found his mom in bed. He asked if she were sick or something. He was truly concerned. Mom replied that, as a matter of fact, she didn’t feel too well. The son replied, "Well, don’t worry a bit about dinner. I’ll be happy to carry you down to the stove."
I don’t think mom’s know the meaning of the word “quit.”
“If evolution works, how come mothers still have only two hands?”
Rose Kennedy: It was a family in need of much glue too. There were the murders of a president, her son; and of a presidential candidate, another son. There were the deaths in accident and war of two more of her nine children, the mental retardation of another, and a series of humiliating scandals. Yet, her children and grandchildren have continued successfully in politics and public service at the national and local levels, along with their spouses and families. "I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it."
My mom never gave up praying for me. She never gave up disciplining me. She also never gave up encouraging me. Above all, she never gave up loving me.
Moms desire the best
A mother was concerned about her only son going off to college. She wrote the following letter to the college president:
"Dear Sir: My son has been accepted for admission to your college and soon he will be leaving me. I am writing to ask that you give your personal attention to the selection of his roommate. I want to be sure that his roommate is not the kind of person who uses foul language, or tells off-color jokes, smokes, drinks, or chases after girls. I hope you will understand why I am appealing to you directly. You see, this is the first time my son will be away from home, except for his three years in the Marine Corps."
--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 376.
[Matthew 20:20-21] Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. {21} "What is your request?" he asked. She replied, "In your Kingdom, will you let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one at your right and the other at your left?"
My mom always desired the best for me. Where I went to school, who I played with, what I ate, even who I would marry one day…she prayed for her since I was born!
Mother-in-law always desires the best for us. She helps us (dry-cleaning, groceries, gifts of encouragement, filling in for Super Church) so that we can be more involved with ministry.
Teaches the faith
[Proverbs 22:6] Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.
[2 Timothy 1:5] I know that you sincerely trust the Lord, for you have the faith of your mother, Eunice, and your grandmother, Lois.
[2 Tim 3:14-15] But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. {15} You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.
Eunice, his mother, and Lois, his grandmother, poured their life and faith into Timothy, and he became one of the greatest ministers that ever lived!
[Acts 16:1-2] Paul and Silas went first to Derbe and then on to Lystra. There they met Timothy, a young disciple whose mother was a Jewish believer, but whose father was a Greek. {2} Timothy was well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium,
Paul asked Timothy to join him.
[Philippians 2:20-22] I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. {21} All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. {22} But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his father, he has helped me in preaching the Good News.
Timothy was sent to Corinth, Philippi & Macedonia as a spokesperson for Paul. He was left in Berea after Paul had to flee for his life. He was imprisoned. Paul sent him to pastor a large cutting edge church in Ephesus. He assisted Paul to some extent writing the following books of the Bible: 2 Corinthians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, and Philemon.
I remember so many time my mom listening to my frustrations and pointing me to God. She helped me overcome my doubts. She constantly encouraged me to live a pure and Godly life.
If we want to change our nation, begin by enlisting the mothers. ~Sir Winston Churchill
When all is said, it is the mother, and the mother only, who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. The successful mother, the mother who does her part in rearing and training aright the boys and girls who are to be the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community, and occupies, if she would only realize it, a more honorable as well as a more important position than any man in it. The mother is the one supreme asset of the national life. She is more important, by far, than the successful statesman, or businessman, or artist, or scientist. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Loves unconditionally
I’ve seen many young girls mother their siblings. Why do you think they always carry around dolls? They have that seed inside, but many decide to kill it as time goes on.
Why do mom’s love their babies? They smell. They invaded their belly. They cry. They don’t sleep well. Etc. Because they are a part of them! Why does God love us? Because we are a part of Him!
[1 Corinthians 13:7] Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Why do you love your child?
A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
[1 Kings 3:26] Then the woman who really was the mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, "Oh no, my lord! Give her the child--please do not kill him!" But the other woman said, "All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!"
Many times my mom stood up for me, protected me, and loved me even when no one else would. She would always try to identify with my pain, even if I brought it upon myself.
About 6:00 A.M. on a Wednesday morning James Lawson of Running Springs, California (in the San Bernardino mountains) left home to apply for a job. About an hour later his thirty-six-year-old wife Patsy left for her fifth grade teaching job down the mountain in Riverside--accompanied by her two children, five-year-old Susan and two-year-old Gerald--to be dropped off at the baby-sitter’s. Unfortunately, they never got that far. Eight and a half hours later the man found his wife and daughter dead in their wrecked car, upside down in a cold mountain stream. His two-year-old son was just barely alive in the forty-eight-degree water. But in that death the character of a mother was revealed in a most dramatic and heart-rending way. For when the father scrambled down the cliff to what he was sure were the cries of his dying wife, he found her locked in death, holding her little boy’s head just above water in the submerged car. For eight and a half hours Patsy Lawson had held her beloved toddler afloat and had finally died, her body almost frozen in death in that position of self-giving love, holding her baby up to breathe. She died that another might live. That’s the essence of a mother’s love.
--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 375.
From "Bold Love" page 5 by Max Lucado. http://www.maxlucado.com/pdf/boldlove.pdf
December 7, 1988. Susanna Petroysan went to her sister in laws house, Katrine, to try on a dress. The floor opened and then fell 5 stories into the basement of a 9-story apartment. Gayaney was thirsty. Susanna found a 24 ounce jar of blackberry jam, it was gone by the second day. She was waiting to die, and she would fall asleep, but her daughter would wake her. She heard of an artic explorer. She cut herself. Without that blood her daughter would have died.
There are many things in life that a lady can become. I believe that the highest calling is for a lady to develop that seed and be a mother. Regardless of being a parent, have a mother’s heart. If you don’t have children, find some that need a mother and be that mother to them.
In the story before a loving parent cut her hand and bled so that her child could have life. Jesus cut his hand, and bled so that we can have eternal life.
