WEBVTT 00:00:00.970 --> 00:00:07.710 Hey man, what, there's a, I put my finger on 00:00:07.710 --> 00:00:11.210 it this morning, but there's a sweet presence 00:00:11.210 --> 00:00:17.250 of the Lord in the house today. Hey man, I just 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:20.969 feel the Lord near us today. Hey man, could you 00:00:20.969 --> 00:00:23.989 just take a moment and just, in your own way, 00:00:24.089 --> 00:00:27.870 lift a hand, close your eyes, however, just honor 00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:30.329 the Lord. Recognize Him in His house today, would 00:00:30.329 --> 00:00:34.350 you? Just take a minute in your own way. You 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:38.210 know what he means to you. And you just recognize 00:00:38.210 --> 00:00:40.369 him. Lord, I recognize your presence in this 00:00:40.369 --> 00:00:45.170 house today. Such a sweet, sweet presence here 00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:47.530 today, Lord. Your anointing is in this house. 00:00:49.049 --> 00:00:51.310 We love you and we thank you today, Lord, so, 00:00:51.490 --> 00:00:55.929 so much for your goodness. So much for your nearness 00:00:55.929 --> 00:01:03.679 today. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. As 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:08.420 it is my custom, I've made it so over the years. 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.379 In pastoring, you realize some days are lighter, 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:18.620 some days are heavier, some days are hard, some 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:22.079 days are easy for people to be at church and 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:27.000 in church. And for several today, I'm sure today... 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.459 is a hard and difficult day for you. So first 00:01:32.459 --> 00:01:35.859 of all, let me just honor you by getting up, 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.719 getting ready, getting out, and getting to the 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.540 house of the Lord today. I know it took great 00:01:41.540 --> 00:01:43.920 effort. It took some resolve and strength for 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.879 you to do that simply because of what today is. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.239 And so I thank you for being in the house of 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.200 the Lord here on Mother's Day. And with that, 00:01:57.659 --> 00:02:04.420 I want to honor you if your mother has already 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:07.019 deceased and already gone on, no longer with 00:02:07.019 --> 00:02:12.060 you. I want to honor you today. We want to show 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:16.819 you how much we respect you and know that each 00:02:16.819 --> 00:02:20.759 of us will stand in that place one day. If the 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:25.759 Lord tarries at some point, we will all... be 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.500 feeling the emotions that you're battling today. 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.319 But I want to honor you as you're here this morning. 00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:35.819 And yesterday I read something that just really 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:40.280 struck my heart, so I sent the word out. And 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.360 you'll notice these white roses. A white rose 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.659 is for each of you if your mother is deceased. 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.319 When you leave today, just make your way forward 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.689 and take one of these with you. That's one way 00:02:54.689 --> 00:02:56.789 we want to honor you. But also you'll see a candle. 00:02:58.150 --> 00:03:03.789 That's the front. No, it's a candle of honor. 00:03:03.849 --> 00:03:09.370 I want a light today, this white candle. I read 00:03:09.370 --> 00:03:12.189 something yesterday that stirred my heart. And 00:03:12.189 --> 00:03:19.069 in doing so, I began to think about the light 00:03:19.069 --> 00:03:24.870 of motherhood. And whether they're present or 00:03:24.870 --> 00:03:35.250 not, the light still burns. It still burns. It 00:03:35.250 --> 00:03:39.830 doesn't go out. And so for you today, I just 00:03:39.830 --> 00:03:43.509 want to let that light represent. We're going 00:03:43.509 --> 00:03:45.650 to light. Sister Erica, if you don't mind, light 00:03:45.650 --> 00:03:50.060 this candle. And as she gets this lit. What I 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:52.819 want you to do is if your mother is deceased, 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.419 I want you to stand and let us honor you with 00:03:57.419 --> 00:03:59.479 a moment of silence. If you don't feel comfortable 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.860 standing, you just remain seated. And we're going 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:05.800 to honor you with a moment of silence in this 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.139 house today. And we're going to pray the Lord 00:04:08.139 --> 00:04:12.939 touch you and bless you and comfort you today, 00:04:13.099 --> 00:04:16.819 of all days today. So if you would, if you... 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.000 I don't mind if your mother's deceased. Would 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.779 you stand and let us honor you today? Thank you 00:04:22.779 --> 00:04:24.620 so much. I know it's hard. I know it's hard. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.240 Let's bow our heads together this morning in 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.500 this moment of silence. And while you silently 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:56.689 wait a moment, whisper a prayer. Father God, 00:04:56.790 --> 00:05:00.370 for each one who's feeling this absence in their 00:05:00.370 --> 00:05:03.850 heart today, I pray your comfort, your peace 00:05:03.850 --> 00:05:07.230 that passes all understanding overwhelm them 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:12.709 this morning. And Lord, as this candle of representation 00:05:12.709 --> 00:05:15.709 of the light that's standing all across this 00:05:15.709 --> 00:05:20.529 room, the light of motherhood, Lord, we know 00:05:20.529 --> 00:05:22.410 that you are the light of the world and we are 00:05:22.410 --> 00:05:24.910 in this world because of your abundant grace. 00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:28.589 Lord, we've all been brought into this world 00:05:28.589 --> 00:05:34.449 through labor and pain and sorrow. So let this 00:05:34.449 --> 00:05:38.430 light burn ever so brightly as we honor those 00:05:38.430 --> 00:05:41.250 here today pushing their way through this day. 00:05:41.589 --> 00:05:44.230 I pray your grace and your peace and let joy 00:05:44.230 --> 00:05:48.930 find its way to their heart today as they remember 00:05:48.930 --> 00:05:54.470 a flicker of the light of their mother. In Christ's 00:05:54.470 --> 00:05:57.040 name, in the church's name. Amen. You can be 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:05.040 seated. I originally had planned to go ahead 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:10.279 and do the drawing for those baskets, the flowers, 00:06:10.379 --> 00:06:13.980 but we'll do that right before we dismiss this 00:06:13.980 --> 00:06:18.779 morning. I just kind of feel like we need to 00:06:18.779 --> 00:06:22.500 move on ahead and do what little I'm going to 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:28.160 do today. I don't want to keep you long. I really 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.459 mean that sincerely this morning. So if you'll 00:06:30.459 --> 00:06:34.120 pray for me, we'll be expedient today. But I 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.300 do feel like the Lord has given me something 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:40.819 to share with you. Amen? Proverbs chapter 1. 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:48.980 The book of wisdom, if you would. Instruction 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:54.649 for daily living. Verse 8 reads, My son, hear 00:06:54.649 --> 00:06:57.410 the instruction of thy father and forsake not 00:06:57.410 --> 00:07:03.550 the law of thy mother. For they shall be an ornament 00:07:03.550 --> 00:07:07.769 of grace under thy head and chains about thy 00:07:07.769 --> 00:07:12.490 neck. I want to preach to you on a thought. What's 00:07:12.490 --> 00:07:16.310 a mother supposed to do? What's a mother supposed 00:07:16.310 --> 00:07:20.269 to do? Father, I love you and thank you for your 00:07:20.269 --> 00:07:22.490 abundant grace as we approach your throne one 00:07:22.490 --> 00:07:27.459 more time. Lord, help me this morning be expedient, 00:07:27.459 --> 00:07:34.579 Lord. Speak what would glorify you and lift up 00:07:34.579 --> 00:07:40.699 the assembly today to encourage. Lord, I'll praise 00:07:40.699 --> 00:07:48.660 you for it in Christ's name. Amen and amen. The 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:51.860 psalmist said in 30 and verse 5, The last portion 00:07:51.860 --> 00:07:54.000 of that verse, he says, weeping may endure for 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:59.579 a night, but joy comes in the morning. There 00:07:59.579 --> 00:08:01.300 was a mother putting her little four -year -old 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:06.079 son to bed the night before his birthday. And 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.399 she asked him how old he would be when he woke 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:17.379 up in the morning. And he said, a handful. When 00:08:17.379 --> 00:08:27.319 I read that, I thought, hmm. A handful. Some 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.160 of you may be in here. We're mainly directing 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.820 this toward mothers and to be mothers and the 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:38.220 role of motherhood and womanhood this morning, 00:08:38.299 --> 00:08:41.240 but it'll apply to all of us because sometimes 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.820 life does feel like it's a handful, whether you're 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:46.740 a mother or a father or just getting out of the 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:50.399 bed. Sometimes life feels like it's a handful. 00:08:52.460 --> 00:08:55.000 And when life becomes a handful, sometimes you 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.919 wonder, now what am I supposed to do? What am 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.980 I going to do now? What's next? I can only imagine 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:06.100 the nights that Sister Kathy put our three to 00:09:06.100 --> 00:09:09.480 bed when they'd finally wind down. And I'm so 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.940 thankful today that my entire posterity is in 00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:20.000 the house this morning. All, yeah. Got the whole 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:25.669 bunch here today. So I've often wondered, especially 00:09:25.669 --> 00:09:29.190 dealing with what she had to deal with, ADHD, 00:09:29.710 --> 00:09:35.490 wide open, smart mouth teenage daughters, and 00:09:35.490 --> 00:09:40.730 on and on it goes. And so I've thought many times, 00:09:40.929 --> 00:09:45.809 she's had to have thought that because I wasn't 00:09:45.809 --> 00:09:50.950 necessarily the same temperament I am now then. 00:09:53.549 --> 00:09:59.070 I have learned to be very domestic. It took her 00:09:59.070 --> 00:10:01.629 years to train me. I'm not the most domestic 00:10:01.629 --> 00:10:04.470 type, you know what I'm saying? So I've wondered 00:10:04.470 --> 00:10:08.710 at times what goes through a mother's mind when 00:10:08.710 --> 00:10:14.049 it's been a long, hard day. Maybe a public job, 00:10:14.230 --> 00:10:17.570 maybe a career and child raising and husband 00:10:17.570 --> 00:10:22.409 rearing and housekeeping and all of that, right? 00:10:22.970 --> 00:10:26.230 Have you ever thought to yourself, now what am 00:10:26.230 --> 00:10:33.769 I supposed to do? Life can seem very overwhelming. 00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:38.789 It can catch up to you very quickly. A mother 00:10:38.789 --> 00:10:41.090 who had a dozen children was asked one time, 00:10:41.149 --> 00:10:43.750 did she have a favorite? Which one did she love 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:47.269 the most? And her answer was, the one that is 00:10:47.269 --> 00:10:51.389 sick until it gets well. And the one that is 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:55.169 gone until they're back home. That's the one 00:10:55.169 --> 00:10:58.490 she loves the most. Amen. You can't divvy up 00:10:58.490 --> 00:11:00.429 a mother's love. Now a father's love, ours is 00:11:00.429 --> 00:11:07.169 a little different. We pick favorites. I knew 00:11:07.169 --> 00:11:12.090 that was coming. I knew that was coming. We have 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:14.149 favorites. Normally it's the one that tends to 00:11:14.149 --> 00:11:24.120 be the most like us. It was true in our home. 00:11:24.940 --> 00:11:28.120 A father only becomes concerned when a child 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:33.600 breaks a bone or is really bleeding bad. But 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.019 a mother's heart is injured when the knee is 00:11:37.019 --> 00:11:43.340 skint or over the tiniest of boo -boos. So when 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:48.820 life is all in an uproar, when we're upside down, 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.580 not really knowing what to do, when the weeping 00:11:51.580 --> 00:11:55.559 has endured through the night, and we're waiting 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.379 and longing for the dawning, for the joy to come 00:11:58.379 --> 00:12:01.679 in the morning, what are you supposed to do? 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.059 There are many, many examples throughout Scripture 00:12:06.059 --> 00:12:10.080 that give us great insight from the sense of 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.659 motherhood and... just from the heart of womanhood 00:12:13.659 --> 00:12:16.659 on how we are to react and respond, from various 00:12:16.659 --> 00:12:20.700 encounters throughout Scripture that God has 00:12:20.700 --> 00:12:23.200 shown up and proven himself mighty and strong. 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:27.159 There's every example possible, every example 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:33.220 possible, from fostering children to being step 00:12:33.220 --> 00:12:38.039 -parents, even to the point where you think of 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:41.779 one who maybe have... Maybe you're here, you've 00:12:41.779 --> 00:12:44.799 been adopted. Maybe you don't know and have never 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.940 discovered and never found out, but the wondering 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:51.279 is always there who your biological parents were 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.980 and what they were and how they are. You begin 00:12:53.980 --> 00:12:56.379 to think sometimes, how could this happen? How 00:12:56.379 --> 00:12:59.259 could this be? Do you know that there's actually 00:12:59.259 --> 00:13:04.559 a woman in the Bible who actually gave up a child? 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.419 Her name is Yoshabed, and her son's name was 00:13:07.419 --> 00:13:11.299 Moses. She actually gave him up. She wove a basket, 00:13:11.419 --> 00:13:14.299 put him in a basket, and set him out on the Nile 00:13:14.299 --> 00:13:20.059 River. It wasn't from not loving that child, 00:13:20.179 --> 00:13:26.720 but it was from loving him. Now, there's so many 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.899 different degrees of love that I know it baffles 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:34.299 our mind. And I know we've all seen the portrayals, 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:37.919 and we've seen... every kind of movie that could 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.539 be written about all kinds of things and how 00:13:40.539 --> 00:13:43.039 it works out in the long run, the whys, the ifs, 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.740 and the shouldas. But the Bible is very clear 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:49.779 on all these aspects of motherhood. You think 00:13:49.779 --> 00:13:53.639 about Yoshabed who sent him out and sent him 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:56.360 away, but then you think about the foster mother 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:00.840 who picked him up and how all of it seemingly, 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:05.120 not seemingly, it was in the plan of God. and 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.980 in the will of God. God moves in the mightiest 00:14:08.980 --> 00:14:11.860 of ways. And when you're scratching your head, 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:14.059 when you finally got them laid down, Gerald used 00:14:14.059 --> 00:14:16.519 to not go to sleep in the bed. He would actually, 00:14:16.620 --> 00:14:19.360 like the energized bunny, it was wherever he 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:23.059 unwound, you picked him up and put him in the 00:14:23.059 --> 00:14:27.679 bed. Wouldn't go around a couch, he'd go over 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:34.669 a couch. And you wonder, what am I supposed to 00:14:34.669 --> 00:14:36.350 do now when there's a little bit of peace and 00:14:36.350 --> 00:14:40.029 quiet? What do I do when situations arise and 00:14:40.029 --> 00:14:44.049 things change and culture has its way and we're 00:14:44.049 --> 00:14:48.909 left with the aftermath of life? What do we do 00:14:48.909 --> 00:14:52.009 while we are dealing with life? The Scripture, 00:14:52.190 --> 00:14:55.929 again, I say, gives all manner of example. There's 00:14:55.929 --> 00:14:59.909 even examples of single mothers in the Scripture, 00:15:00.210 --> 00:15:04.740 widowed mothers. Raising children. One of those 00:15:04.740 --> 00:15:11.480 is found in 2 Kings 4. There's this widow who 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.500 comes to the prophet. She's in a dilemma there. 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.620 The creditors are about to come and take her 00:15:17.620 --> 00:15:21.019 sons and put them to work in order to pay off 00:15:21.019 --> 00:15:25.779 the debt that she owed. And when you don't know 00:15:25.779 --> 00:15:27.440 what to do and when you're thinking, what am 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:32.309 I supposed to do now? She winds up. At the feet 00:15:32.309 --> 00:15:35.429 of the prophet. She winds herself down to the 00:15:35.429 --> 00:15:37.789 place where the voice and the word of God is 00:15:37.789 --> 00:15:41.690 to be heard. It's God's representation. The man 00:15:41.690 --> 00:15:44.149 that God is touching to speak through. She makes 00:15:44.149 --> 00:15:46.830 her way to the prophet. She puts her case before 00:15:46.830 --> 00:15:50.029 him. And then he asks her this question. What 00:15:50.029 --> 00:15:53.710 is it that you have in your house? And I love 00:15:53.710 --> 00:15:56.330 this widow woman's answer. She said nothing. 00:15:57.049 --> 00:15:59.570 First of all, she said, there's nothing in the 00:15:59.570 --> 00:16:02.929 house, but there's bound to be something. Don't 00:16:02.929 --> 00:16:06.330 overlook. Never despise small things because 00:16:06.330 --> 00:16:09.549 God is great, and things become great when God 00:16:09.549 --> 00:16:11.889 gets in it. There's nothing there, and it's like 00:16:11.889 --> 00:16:14.110 it's an afterthought. She thought, well, there 00:16:14.110 --> 00:16:16.649 is a little cruise of oil in there. I do have 00:16:16.649 --> 00:16:20.029 a little oil left over. And then God begins to 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:21.929 get into the situation. Well, here's what you're 00:16:21.929 --> 00:16:24.710 supposed to do. You're supposed to go home, and 00:16:24.710 --> 00:16:27.340 you're supposed to borrow every pot. in the community 00:16:27.340 --> 00:16:30.779 that anybody will lend you. If it'll hold liquid, 00:16:31.019 --> 00:16:33.399 I want you to get it. I want you to get in the 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.100 house with it, and I want you to close the door, 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:39.419 and then I want you to begin to pour and pour 00:16:39.419 --> 00:16:42.299 and pour, and you pour till you run out of pots 00:16:42.299 --> 00:16:45.000 because here's the guarantee, little is much 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.399 when God is in it and when God begin to anoint 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.039 the pouring up because it was a faith initiative. 00:16:51.379 --> 00:16:54.059 Listen, when you don't know what else to do, 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:55.899 believe God. When you don't know what else to 00:16:55.899 --> 00:16:58.600 do, else to do? Obey God. And she got that answer. 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:01.799 I want you to get in the house. It's never nothing. 00:17:01.980 --> 00:17:04.799 You've always got something. Hallelujah. It may 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:07.140 seem insignificant. And what are you supposed 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:09.700 to do? You're supposed to respond and react by 00:17:09.700 --> 00:17:12.059 faith whenever you hear a word from the Lord. 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:14.460 Take it. Get in the house. Borrow everything 00:17:14.460 --> 00:17:17.420 you can borrow and begin to pour. And when you're 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:20.799 done pouring, sell everything that you need to 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.059 sell and live off the profit. Live off the rest. 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.190 Why? Because God will not forsake you. Listen, 00:17:27.329 --> 00:17:29.789 they say, you may be a single mom in the house 00:17:29.789 --> 00:17:31.829 today, but if you're going to trust God, you're 00:17:31.829 --> 00:17:34.390 going to obey God. It may be nothing to you, 00:17:34.410 --> 00:17:36.890 but little is much when God is in it. And when 00:17:36.890 --> 00:17:40.009 God takes over, he'll multiply whatever you need, 00:17:40.170 --> 00:17:42.190 and the smallest amount will go the furthest, 00:17:42.289 --> 00:17:44.569 and it'll blow your mind. When you're looking 00:17:44.569 --> 00:17:46.630 at the checkbook, and you're looking at the balance, 00:17:46.730 --> 00:17:48.549 or you're looking at your phone balance, and 00:17:48.549 --> 00:17:50.609 you don't know what you're going to do now, I'll 00:17:50.609 --> 00:17:52.809 tell you what to do. You just keep on trusting 00:17:52.809 --> 00:17:55.789 God. They endure for the night. Nowhere does 00:17:55.789 --> 00:17:58.150 it ever say you won't weep. Nowhere does the 00:17:58.150 --> 00:18:00.630 Bible ever say you won't have trouble. Nowhere 00:18:00.630 --> 00:18:04.089 does it ever tell you that when you ask God into 00:18:04.089 --> 00:18:06.910 your life and accept Christ to be your Lord and 00:18:06.910 --> 00:18:08.670 Savior, you're never going to have another problem. 00:18:08.829 --> 00:18:11.849 Matter of fact, the guarantee is just the opposite. 00:18:12.029 --> 00:18:15.130 Amen. Because in this life you shall have trouble 00:18:15.130 --> 00:18:17.690 and you shall have tribulation. But you've got 00:18:17.690 --> 00:18:20.869 something because the Lord said be of good cheer. 00:18:21.190 --> 00:18:24.440 Amen. Because he has overcome. the world. Amen. 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:27.000 Even though trouble and trial come your way, 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.660 even though weeping does endure through the night, 00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:33.200 joy is coming. It'll sunshine one day. When you 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.359 wake up and it's raining, just keep on trusting 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.000 God. The sun is going to shine. Why? Because 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.240 it's a promise from God. Amen. Weeping may endure 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:44.079 through the night, but joy cometh in the morning. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:46.180 And if you'll read earlier, it talks about the 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:48.740 favor of God and being over the life and the 00:18:48.740 --> 00:18:50.980 blessed life. What are you supposed to do? You 00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:53.500 keep on trusting God. When you don't see any 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:56.059 other way, you just keep trusting God and letting 00:18:56.059 --> 00:18:59.839 God have his way in your life. Little is much 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:04.839 when God is in it. I think Abraham Lincoln said 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.299 it well. He said, no one who's poor, no one is 00:19:07.299 --> 00:19:12.660 poor who has a godly mother. No one is poor who 00:19:12.660 --> 00:19:16.549 has a godly mother. That's a pretty good quote 00:19:16.549 --> 00:19:19.950 if I've ever heard one. No one is poor who has 00:19:19.950 --> 00:19:22.690 a godly mother. Why? The old songwriter said, 00:19:22.750 --> 00:19:25.329 rich in faith and hope and love beyond compare, 00:19:25.529 --> 00:19:28.890 more than my share. Amen? Because of the love 00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:31.670 of God. I believe God actually honors the heart 00:19:31.670 --> 00:19:33.890 and the prayers of mamas when he don't listen 00:19:33.890 --> 00:19:42.420 to us daddies. Why? Because mama's praying over 00:19:42.420 --> 00:19:44.700 the boo -boo. Dad, we don't even intervene until 00:19:44.700 --> 00:19:49.220 bones sticking out through skin or stitches are 00:19:49.220 --> 00:19:53.000 required. And it really depends on how big and 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:54.900 wide and deep the cut is before we even start 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:56.640 to pray. Well, they'll take care of that. That'd 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.099 be all right. That was our motto growing up. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.099 It ain't bleeding that bad. You'll be okay. Go 00:20:03.099 --> 00:20:12.869 on. A little as much when God is in it. And the 00:20:12.869 --> 00:20:14.789 second thing you might need to understand is 00:20:14.789 --> 00:20:19.150 you need to trust God in every situation. You 00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:21.089 need to trust God in every situation because 00:20:21.089 --> 00:20:24.049 as I've said, Scripture covers almost every situation 00:20:24.049 --> 00:20:30.509 of life. For us fathers, Scripture covers it. 00:20:31.150 --> 00:20:33.809 Mom, if you need a promise from the Lord, get 00:20:33.809 --> 00:20:36.089 in His Word. If you need help from the Lord, 00:20:36.190 --> 00:20:39.039 get in His Word because you're not alone. You're 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:40.799 not the only one that's standing where you're 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.160 standing today. Somebody else has been there. 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.019 Someone else has already endured the endurance 00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:48.220 race of what you're having to deal with and what 00:20:48.220 --> 00:20:50.420 you're going through, and God has already given 00:20:50.420 --> 00:20:52.720 an answer of what you're supposed to do. So you 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.339 trust God. If you were to go back and do a little 00:20:55.339 --> 00:20:57.980 bit of questioning, Sarah would tell you that 00:20:57.980 --> 00:21:01.180 nothing is too hard for the Lord. If you remember 00:21:01.180 --> 00:21:04.500 the story of Sarah, she was barren, and that 00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:07.019 was a shame of her day and her culture not to 00:21:07.019 --> 00:21:08.940 be able to bring four children. into the world, 00:21:09.019 --> 00:21:11.819 and it went on, and then all of a sudden, she's 00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:15.960 eavesdropping on a conversation, and she hears 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.140 her husband receive a word from the Lord, the 00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:20.740 promise that she's going to have a child, and 00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:23.059 he's going to be a father, and she begins to 00:21:23.059 --> 00:21:25.660 snicker and laugh behind the tent door because 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:28.220 she knew her age, and she knew she was past and 00:21:28.220 --> 00:21:30.960 beyond. She's not a young girl anymore. Come 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.940 on, somebody. She's done past the age of childbearing, 00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:36.859 and she actually even laughed more for Abraham. 00:21:37.349 --> 00:21:39.730 She did herself. He's old, too. How's this going 00:21:39.730 --> 00:21:41.930 to happen? And she kept it going, and she kept 00:21:41.930 --> 00:21:44.789 it in her heart. And a few years go by, 10 years 00:21:44.789 --> 00:21:47.450 go by, and still nothing. But then we get a reassurance 00:21:47.450 --> 00:21:49.750 of the promise. 15 more years goes by, and then 00:21:49.750 --> 00:21:52.769 all of a sudden, she's singing lullabies in the 00:21:52.769 --> 00:21:57.089 tent one night. Why? Because God is able to take 00:21:57.089 --> 00:22:00.849 care of any and every situation in your life. 00:22:01.250 --> 00:22:04.410 Nothing is impossible with God. What am I supposed 00:22:04.410 --> 00:22:06.930 to do now? This situation's impossible. Pastor, 00:22:07.309 --> 00:22:09.769 what am I supposed to do? He won't this or they 00:22:09.769 --> 00:22:12.230 can't that. What am I supposed to do? You just 00:22:12.230 --> 00:22:15.130 keep on trusting God because nothing is impossible 00:22:15.130 --> 00:22:19.109 to those who believe. Why? Because nothing is 00:22:19.109 --> 00:22:22.349 too hard for the Lord. And when you begin to 00:22:22.349 --> 00:22:25.509 read the Bible, is he still able to do the things 00:22:25.509 --> 00:22:28.170 that we read? Those are just fables. Those are 00:22:28.170 --> 00:22:31.349 just stories. No, these are eyewitness accounts 00:22:31.349 --> 00:22:34.930 to the glory and the power of God. I just wonder, 00:22:35.009 --> 00:22:36.670 is anybody in the house? house had an impossible 00:22:36.670 --> 00:22:39.829 situation and you prayed and God heard and God 00:22:39.829 --> 00:22:41.849 answered. Lift your hand up. It was impossible. 00:22:42.170 --> 00:22:44.809 Look around you. It's not impossible because 00:22:44.809 --> 00:22:47.809 nothing is too hard. For what am I supposed to 00:22:47.809 --> 00:22:50.529 do? You keep on trusting God in the middle of 00:22:50.529 --> 00:22:54.250 the impossibilities. Hagar, a woman who was taken, 00:22:54.369 --> 00:22:57.430 a woman out of her own will who had no choice, 00:22:57.589 --> 00:23:00.630 brings a child into this world. And when it comes 00:23:00.630 --> 00:23:03.410 time for the child to be blessed, she gets driven 00:23:03.410 --> 00:23:06.059 out of something that was not even her choice, 00:23:06.140 --> 00:23:09.619 a situation she didn't even require or request 00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:12.480 in her life. And now her and her son is driven 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.420 out and put in the wilderness, and he's about 00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:18.940 to die from heat stroke and thirst and starvation, 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.720 and she cannot bear watching her own child die. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.940 She puts him under a shade, and she walks a distance 00:23:25.940 --> 00:23:29.380 away, and she begins to cry. And talk to the 00:23:29.380 --> 00:23:32.180 Lord. And the Lord heard her. Oh, it's there 00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:34.799 where we see the name Jehovah -Rohi, which means 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.500 God sees. What am I supposed to do now? You may 00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:41.000 be crying off somewhere over something you can't 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.940 do anything about, a situation that you did not 00:23:43.940 --> 00:23:47.400 elicit in your life. It come on you. Oh, not 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:50.059 because you requested it, because the world and 00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:53.059 the enemy of your soul has saw fit to come against 00:23:53.059 --> 00:23:56.759 you. But know this, God sees you. He's watching 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.049 after you. He sees your tears, and he spoke in 00:24:00.049 --> 00:24:02.849 her situation, and not only did he speak, but 00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:06.230 he made her a promise, my God, concerning her 00:24:06.230 --> 00:24:12.650 son. What am I supposed to do? Sometimes all 00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:15.569 you can do is cry, but God sees every tear, mama. 00:24:18.269 --> 00:24:23.170 God sees every tear. Nothing will drive you to 00:24:23.170 --> 00:24:25.670 deeper tears and greater depths of sorrow and 00:24:25.670 --> 00:24:36.880 sobbing. Than your children. I just pray I hadn't 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:44.299 caused mine too much pain and grief. Hopefully 00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:51.859 there's been some joyful moments. Amen. I still 00:24:51.859 --> 00:24:53.640 think she loved me more than she did the other 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:58.319 three. The reason I think that is because she 00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:02.619 punished me more. You know, the father loveth 00:25:02.619 --> 00:25:06.180 the son that he chasteneth. Mama really loved 00:25:06.180 --> 00:25:18.839 me. She did. I just hope I didn't cause her too 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:20.779 much sorrow in my earlier years. I think I've 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:25.960 made up for that in the last 30, hopefully. You 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:27.819 just got to keep on trusting God. You know what 00:25:27.819 --> 00:25:30.019 Rahab would tell you? You know Rahab the harlot, 00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:34.680 right? The harlot who spared and hid the 12 spies 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:38.019 of the Israelites when they went in to spy out 00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:41.980 the land. They're in Jericho. She hides them. 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.359 Here's what Rahab would tell you to do. Your 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:50.099 past doesn't define your future. God will still 00:25:50.099 --> 00:25:57.849 use you. Let me tell you, you cannot allow the 00:25:57.849 --> 00:26:01.569 enemy to define your present by your past. God 00:26:01.569 --> 00:26:03.609 knows what you were. He's the one that come after 00:26:03.609 --> 00:26:06.769 you and found you. And he know exactly where 00:26:06.769 --> 00:26:10.529 you were at. Rahab, the harlot who hid the spies, 00:26:10.789 --> 00:26:14.390 do you realize she is in the lineage of the Son 00:26:14.390 --> 00:26:18.480 of God? Do you realize you can trace? Why? Because 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.900 God will still use you. God will use you. He'll 00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:25.039 save you. He'll pick you up. So, therefore, do 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:28.640 not allow your past to dominate your present. 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.660 God knows what you were when he found you and 00:26:31.660 --> 00:26:34.180 the reason that you come to him. What do I do 00:26:34.180 --> 00:26:36.660 now? You don't go back the way that he brought 00:26:36.660 --> 00:26:39.200 you from. You keep walking away from it in the 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:41.619 fullness of hope. You lift up your head in the 00:26:41.619 --> 00:26:43.960 respect that God has given you because of his 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.440 grace that is abundant. in and over your life. 00:26:46.539 --> 00:26:49.160 That's what you're supposed to do. Keep on going. 00:26:52.779 --> 00:27:04.480 You remember Hannah, the story of Hannah. Hannah 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:10.980 would tell you God still answers prayer. What 00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:14.660 are you supposed to do? Keep on praying. Keep 00:27:14.660 --> 00:27:20.519 on praying. Our invitation is to pray and to 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:24.640 cease not. I've had people ask the question, 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.579 well, what do you do when you pray for people 00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:28.480 and they don't get healed or this don't happen? 00:27:28.539 --> 00:27:31.880 I said, well, the healing part's not my responsibility. 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:40.500 That one's not on me. Mine is to pray. Mine, 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:45.940 your responsibility is to keep on praying. Amen? 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:48.160 I've said it this way, and I'll say it this way 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.940 again. If you don't have anything else to pray 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:51.640 for, pray for me. I need the prayer, and you 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.500 need the practice. So just keep on practicing 00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:59.680 prayer. Hannah would tell you, God answers prayer. 00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:02.279 No matter what others see, no matter what their 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:04.799 perspective of your situation is, that does not 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.700 matter. It matters what God sees and what God 00:28:07.700 --> 00:28:14.230 does. He will still, Ruth. She'd tell you it's 00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:17.490 not over until God says it's over. What am I 00:28:17.490 --> 00:28:21.089 supposed to do? You just keep going. Keep on 00:28:21.089 --> 00:28:24.809 going. What am I supposed to do? She receives 00:28:24.809 --> 00:28:29.390 the release from her mother -in -law. You can 00:28:29.390 --> 00:28:33.670 go back home. You're released. You are a widow. 00:28:34.349 --> 00:28:39.329 I'm so old now. You'd be my age by the time I 00:28:39.329 --> 00:28:42.289 got a son old enough for you. Mary, so you just 00:28:42.289 --> 00:28:46.529 go on home. But Ruth would tell you this, make 00:28:46.529 --> 00:28:52.549 your stance with God. She said, no, can't do 00:28:52.549 --> 00:28:57.549 that, Naomi. I'm going where you're going. Your 00:28:57.549 --> 00:28:59.869 home's going to be my home. And let me just go 00:28:59.869 --> 00:29:02.549 one step further. Your God is going to be my 00:29:02.549 --> 00:29:05.329 God. And where they bury you, that's where they're 00:29:05.329 --> 00:29:07.799 going to bury me. I'm putting my hope and my 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:09.680 confidence and my trust in God. What are you 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.000 supposed to do when you don't know what to do? 00:29:12.099 --> 00:29:14.640 You put your trust in God because God, believe 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:22.220 it or not, is still in control. Esther, if she 00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:24.279 had any advice, wouldn't ask what were you supposed 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:26.380 to do. She'd say, keep trusting God. He'll show 00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:34.140 up right on time. He won't be late. I'm glad 00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:40.000 he doesn't tell time the way I tell time. He's 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.700 on time. In our culture, early is on time, on 00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:57.420 time is late. But God is just on time. He shows 00:29:57.420 --> 00:30:01.240 up when you need him. And if anybody knew it. 00:30:02.369 --> 00:30:05.490 Esther would have that testimony. God showed 00:30:05.490 --> 00:30:09.309 up right on time. That woman in Matthew with 00:30:09.309 --> 00:30:11.809 the issue of blood, she would tell you, if you 00:30:11.809 --> 00:30:13.569 don't know what else to do, if you're broke, 00:30:13.630 --> 00:30:16.569 you're busted, you spent everything you had to 00:30:16.569 --> 00:30:18.869 try to get better, do better, and be better, 00:30:18.910 --> 00:30:23.210 and it's still worse. She'd tell you, if you'll 00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:28.710 show up, you'll show out. What are you supposed 00:30:28.710 --> 00:30:34.309 to do? Keep showing up. Showing up where? Showing 00:30:34.309 --> 00:30:36.470 up at prayer time. Showing up at worship time. 00:30:36.869 --> 00:30:39.529 Showing up at church time. Showing up where you're 00:30:39.529 --> 00:30:43.809 going to meet and encounter God. Keep showing 00:30:43.809 --> 00:30:49.069 up. That's what you do. I've spent all. She had 00:30:49.069 --> 00:30:53.230 nothing left. Not a thing, not a cent to her 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:55.529 name, but she said, if I can just touch the hem 00:30:55.529 --> 00:30:59.869 of his garment, if I can just touch him, if I 00:30:59.869 --> 00:31:03.410 can just get close enough. I know I'll be made 00:31:03.410 --> 00:31:06.730 whole. I know it. You need to get that resolve 00:31:06.730 --> 00:31:08.930 in your heart today. What do you do? You keep 00:31:08.930 --> 00:31:12.529 showing up. Because I assure you, if you show 00:31:12.529 --> 00:31:15.630 up, he'll show out. It'll be miraculous, and 00:31:15.630 --> 00:31:17.369 you won't even realize the miracle has taken 00:31:17.369 --> 00:31:21.210 place until you look back and say, huh, I don't 00:31:21.210 --> 00:31:23.670 know how I made it. You made it because the hand 00:31:23.670 --> 00:31:27.049 of God is on your life, over your life, in your 00:31:27.049 --> 00:31:30.009 life. Aren't you glad that the hand of God removes 00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:32.329 you from your past and he puts you in a present 00:31:32.329 --> 00:31:34.750 and he provides you with a future hope that goes 00:31:34.750 --> 00:31:42.529 beyond your own imagination? God never fails. 00:31:45.509 --> 00:31:47.730 He'll never forsake you. He'll never leave you. 00:31:47.750 --> 00:31:49.750 He'll never let you down. Well, you don't know 00:31:49.750 --> 00:31:51.569 where I'm at. What am I supposed to do here? 00:31:53.789 --> 00:32:01.410 You just keep. You just keep moving. There's 00:32:01.410 --> 00:32:13.150 a story. It's called The Shunammite Woman. The 00:32:13.150 --> 00:32:16.089 prophet of God would go by on his way to minister, 00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:18.309 and he'd be going by, and they provided a place 00:32:18.309 --> 00:32:21.109 for him to stay. They built a little side room 00:32:21.109 --> 00:32:23.269 for the man of God. When he'd come through, he 00:32:23.269 --> 00:32:26.109 could stay. You do remember it. He walked most 00:32:26.109 --> 00:32:31.250 everywhere he went. So they fixed up a room for 00:32:31.250 --> 00:32:33.250 the man of God to come by, and when he was there 00:32:33.250 --> 00:32:36.569 to stay, when he's going back and forth to worship 00:32:36.569 --> 00:32:38.609 or whatever the business of the prophet was, 00:32:38.849 --> 00:32:43.170 the prophet noticed there was something missing. 00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:52.369 It's a wonderful encounter. It tells you how 00:32:52.369 --> 00:32:56.839 the heart, It tells you how deeply the heart 00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:02.920 can feel. This woman acknowledged the power of 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.940 God on this man's life. And one day he approaches 00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:12.299 her about what was absent. He noticed he didn't 00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:16.700 trip over toys. There was no crying and screaming 00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:20.859 and squealing and laughter going on. She didn't 00:33:20.859 --> 00:33:27.980 have any children. So he approaches her and begins 00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:36.059 to give her a word. Begin to speak a promise 00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:42.240 over her. I'm going to just show you the depth 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:47.900 of a mother's heart right here. And that exchange 00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:56.180 between this barren woman and the prophet. I'm 00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:59.480 going to paraphrase it for you. Be like me and 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:04.480 you having a conversation. When he said that 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:07.819 to her, she said, preacher, don't you be messing 00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:15.699 with me. Don't mess with my mind. Preacher, don't 00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:22.199 mess with my heart. That's not funny. That's 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:27.519 not a subject that I care to. Joke about. Hello? 00:34:29.820 --> 00:34:33.579 It's very serious to me because no one knows 00:34:33.579 --> 00:34:39.320 how desperately. So don't you mess with me. Wow. 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.840 A prophet of God. Whom the power of God had used 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.380 to perform miracles. Signs and wonders. And she 00:34:51.380 --> 00:34:54.380 says to him, don't mess with me. Don't play with 00:34:54.380 --> 00:35:02.639 my heart. Don't play with my emotions. But he 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:08.039 reaffirmed her. When the time is fulfilled, when 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:10.820 it all comes, the cycle of life comes around, 00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:18.559 you'll have a child. Sure enough, he comes back 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:22.739 through. She's got the son that he promised. 00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:31.780 Just to prove to you that bad things happen to 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:34.219 good people. And even though God's in something. 00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:37.059 Are you with me now? I'm about finished. I'm 00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:41.920 going to quit with this. He's out in the field 00:35:41.920 --> 00:36:09.849 working with his father. Huh? Ain't that what 00:36:09.849 --> 00:36:14.309 we do? We'll either send them, and if they can't 00:36:14.309 --> 00:36:21.909 walk, we'll carry them. Go see your mother. That's 00:36:21.909 --> 00:36:28.929 what we do. So he picks the boy up, takes him 00:36:28.929 --> 00:36:35.230 to his mama. Mama don't know what to do. She 00:36:35.230 --> 00:36:39.960 lays him on the anointed bed. There's something 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:41.820 about putting your youngins on the anointing. 00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:56.900 But things got worse. And he stops breathing. 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.460 What are you supposed to do when you don't know 00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:08.280 what to do? Keep on trusting? Do we trust now? 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.360 Well, she'd already said, don't mess with me, 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:17.019 man of God. Don't fool, don't, it's my heart. 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:28.039 She says, honey, get the donkey ready. Get me 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.000 one of the young men. I'm going to find that 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:36.500 preacher. He says, well, honey. It's not the 00:37:36.500 --> 00:37:39.099 Sabbath. It's not the new moon. Where are you 00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:44.420 going to find him? He don't have a cell. You 00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:46.760 can't text him on the backside of the desert. 00:37:48.980 --> 00:37:54.179 I'll find him, and I'm coming back. He coming 00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:58.940 with me. Those of you who know the story, you 00:37:58.940 --> 00:38:04.400 know she finally gets near him. Not even there 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:09.769 yet. The servant of the prophet said, hey, that 00:38:09.769 --> 00:38:12.329 looks like that. That looks like that Shunammite 00:38:12.329 --> 00:38:18.530 woman coming over the hill. That's who it was. 00:38:18.670 --> 00:38:21.989 And before she gets there, the greeting goes 00:38:21.989 --> 00:38:25.469 out. Is it well with thine husband? The only 00:38:25.469 --> 00:38:27.349 reason you run in the preacher downs, you got 00:38:27.349 --> 00:38:34.269 problems. Is it well with thine husband? It is 00:38:34.269 --> 00:38:38.400 well. I can't hardly talk about this story. That 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:41.880 tears me up. Is it well with thee? It is well. 00:38:42.739 --> 00:38:47.079 Is it well with thy son? Listen to the change. 00:38:48.099 --> 00:38:56.099 It shall be well. When I get there, it shall 00:38:56.099 --> 00:39:04.559 be well. No concession there. No give up. It's 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:07.199 going to be all right. Oh, I need to tell somebody, 00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:11.260 it's going to be all right. What do you do when 00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:12.920 you don't know what to do? What are you supposed 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.880 to do? You keep confessing your faith. You keep 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:21.300 standing firmly on the promise of God. It shall 00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:33.239 be well. Why? Because it's not on you. What am 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:40.539 I supposed to do? Stand with me. I quit. What 00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:44.960 are you supposed to do? Lord, I love you today. 00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:54.360 When we don't know what to do. When we don't 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:57.840 know what to do. There are those in this room 00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:02.280 that do not know what to do. What are they supposed 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:04.159 to do with what they're looking at? What are 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:05.980 they supposed to do when the children act like 00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:08.960 heathens? What are they supposed to do? What 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.179 are we supposed to do, God, when they won't do 00:40:11.179 --> 00:40:16.079 what we've taught them to do? What are we supposed 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.059 to do when we've raised them according to your 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:22.960 word in the way that they should go? I know the 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:26.639 way's there, but they're not in it. What are 00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:35.710 we supposed to do? We keep trusting. You keep 00:40:35.710 --> 00:40:41.369 praying. That's what you do. Because it's not 00:40:41.369 --> 00:40:55.110 on you. When you're exhausted, physically, emotionally, 00:40:55.710 --> 00:40:59.690 spiritually, financially, in any way, emotionally. 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:06.079 Some of you are just here by the grace of God 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:09.340 because you don't know what you're supposed to 00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:15.460 do. If your trust is in God, let God take control. 00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:23.199 Join that Shunammite woman and say, it shall 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:32.969 be well. It shall be well. The end of that story 00:41:32.969 --> 00:41:36.170 is powerful. The prophet goes with her, finds 00:41:36.170 --> 00:41:40.329 the boy on his bed, shuts the door, stretches 00:41:40.329 --> 00:41:45.409 out on him, breathes life into him, and brings 00:41:45.409 --> 00:41:52.610 the boy and hands him to his mama. Look here, 00:41:52.650 --> 00:41:58.030 there's some things that you can't control, mama. 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.219 Dad, there's some things we can't control. You 00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:10.159 can't control the decisions they make when they 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.239 become accountable for themselves. Oh, I know 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.880 we'd like to just take a stick and make it right. 00:42:18.059 --> 00:42:22.780 But no, they are now accountable before a holy 00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:25.500 and righteous God by whom they will stand in 00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:28.780 front. So what am I supposed to do, preacher? 00:42:28.940 --> 00:42:33.090 You keep on praying. You keep speaking your faith 00:42:33.090 --> 00:42:42.190 over the promise. It shall be well. We've covered 00:42:42.190 --> 00:42:45.150 about every aspect of motherhood in whichever 00:42:45.150 --> 00:42:51.909 role that you may be playing. There's more to 00:42:51.909 --> 00:43:01.619 motherhood than giving birth. Father, I love 00:43:01.619 --> 00:43:10.260 you over this house, I pray. No greater joy for 00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:15.500 a mother today than a lost child. One in sin 00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:20.360 to give their heart back to the Lord today. If 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:25.880 you're here and you aren't serving Jesus as Lord, 00:43:26.099 --> 00:43:30.500 you're just doing whatever. The Lord knows and 00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:35.639 the Lord sees everything. Oh, it may be a secret 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.119 to others, but it's not a secret to the Lord. 00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:46.039 He sees. Remember, Hagar, Jehovah -Rohi, the 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:54.159 God who sees, he sees. If you want to accept 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:56.599 Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today and 00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.949 repent of your sin, And believe on him as your 00:44:01.949 --> 00:44:06.489 Lord. No greater joy in a mama's heart than that. 00:44:10.369 --> 00:44:12.449 Heads bowed all across the house. If anybody 00:44:12.449 --> 00:44:14.889 needs the Lord, raise your hand up. I want to 00:44:14.889 --> 00:44:18.110 accept Christ today, Pastor. I want to accept 00:44:18.110 --> 00:44:27.849 him in my heart and in my life. For every woman 00:44:27.849 --> 00:44:30.409 that's... functioning in the role of motherhood, 00:44:30.469 --> 00:44:32.349 I want you to just lift your hands up. I'm going 00:44:32.349 --> 00:44:35.889 to pray over you today, every single one of you. 00:44:39.690 --> 00:44:45.409 Father, we love you today. All across this room, 00:44:45.590 --> 00:44:53.469 all across this room today, we pray this morning 00:44:53.469 --> 00:44:59.719 for mothers and motherhood. Because I know in 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:03.099 their mind and their heart, they've posed the 00:45:03.099 --> 00:45:08.420 question, what am I supposed to do? I don't know 00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:14.579 what to do. So I trust in you, Lord. I'm going 00:45:14.579 --> 00:45:16.880 to keep praying. I'm going to keep asking God 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:20.239 to move and deliver. I'm going to keep pouring 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:24.480 out. Because it's you, God, that supplies all 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:30.380 of our need. I ask, Lord, that you would encourage 00:45:30.380 --> 00:45:35.760 them here today. Give strength, Lord. Give strength 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:40.280 this morning for the weary and for the tired, 00:45:40.420 --> 00:45:46.300 for the exhausted and for the frustrated, for 00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:50.219 the bewildered. I ask, Lord, that you just touch 00:45:50.219 --> 00:45:55.239 and move in hearts and lives. In Jesus' name. 00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.170 And everybody say it. Amen and amen. Give the 00:45:59.170 --> 00:45:59.769 Lord a good hand clap.