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The Lord is good. Mercy endures forever. The power of His name need be exalted.

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There's such a wonderful atmosphere in here this morning.

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The Spirit of God is moving. Hearts are exalting His name.

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Where He is lifted up, He comes near.

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Today is a special day. Go ahead and just reach and get your Bible and be turning with me to Proverbs 31.

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We'll get the offering before we leave. If I forget to do that before you leave, the pails will be here.

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Just don't forget to give the Lord what He is. Amen.

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There are rare occasions through the course of a year in service and worship.

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Not that the worship and our giving would be an interruption, but there are times that that's not the precedented thing to do at the moment.

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Amen. That's where we're at today.

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It's just not the precedented time and moment to receive of our worship and giving, but the worship in His Word.

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I feel like the Lord's really wanting to do something in here this morning.

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I feel like He's giving me a word to share that's particularly related to the ladies in the house and all the mothers in the house.

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His Word relates to us all. Amen.

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I feel as though the Lord's going to want to move in our altars today and touch in our lives.

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Church statisticians and everyone who claims to know what they're talking about say that you're not supposed to call people out,

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have people stand, do different things of that nature to draw attention to them.

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But this morning, I honor motherhood. I honor motherhood.

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There are many forms and facets of motherhood. Are you with me?

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And it's it's revealed through scripture. So I honor you today.

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And if if you're here this morning and your mother has already deceased and going on and not with you physically before you leave this morning,

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I want you to take one of these white roses with you. And I know it's a hard day. It's a difficult morning for a lot of folk.

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And so I thank you for being here. For some, it was a battle just to get up and get here on this day.

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So I thank you so much for being here this morning.

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And so please take one of those with you today as we honor you and where you're standing this morning.

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Amen. Proverbs, chapter thirty one.

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I try not to touch thirty one at Mother's Day, but I'm going to take the last three verses.

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Proverbs thirty one, if we're not careful when you get into Proverbs thirty one, you you can leave.

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You can leave a service hearing a message preached on Proverb thirty one.

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What meant to encourage you could just really you look at yourself and say, well, I can't measure up to that.

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I mean, Proverbs thirty one, but there's only one Proverbs thirty one.

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I'm just saying it's possible. Verse twenty nine reads.

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Many daughters have done virtuously. But you excel them all.

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Favor or charm is deceitful and beauty is vain.

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The woman that fear the Lord, she shall be praised.

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Give her of the fruit of her hands.

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Let her own works praise her in the gates.

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For just a little while, I want to talk to us on this thought above and beyond.

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I'm going to use some biblical examples this morning.

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And then we're going to move into a time of prayer.

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I'm going to try to be brief on my end for I really feel like the Lord wants to touch some hearts in this place today.

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I know it's a special Sunday. I know it's a holiday, if you will.

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But we have you have us together.

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We have opened up something in the heavens.

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And the dearness of the Lord is here.

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And he wants to touch lives before we leave here this morning.

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He's already done a work. He's already touched in hearts.

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But before we leave, I think the Lord has something great for you.

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Father, I love you and I thank you.

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I thank you for your word.

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Lord, I thank you for what I feel. I don't know which way.

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I feel like you're turning me inside out this morning.

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And as our attention is on you and your presence is so near in this house,

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I pray, Lord, that you would touch those that hear your word.

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Touch me this morning, Father, with a liberty that causes it to be easy to preach.

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Let that anointing flow stir that unction as I stir myself today.

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We praise you and we glorify you.

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In Christ's holy and mighty name.

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And the church said, Amen, you can be seated, but just be mindful of the presence of the Lord.

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If the Lord speaks to you this morning, male or female, we're going to concentrate on the mothers.

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But it doesn't matter. You're a child of God this morning.

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And his word applies to each of us. Amen.

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As we pause this morning, we're going to take a look at some very extraordinary mothers in the Bible.

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Mothers who went above and beyond.

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These women obeyed God's calling.

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They served. They sacrificed.

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They build a life of faith for their families.

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And there's so much that we can glean from the examples that we're going to give and so many more that we won't be able to touch on.

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But we can learn from their struggle.

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We can learn from the lives that they live, lives of faith.

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I looked up some surveys.

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What moms really want for Mother's Day.

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One particular surveyed over 2000 ladies.

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Fifty eight percent of them said they just really want free time.

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Some alone time.

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Another survey, 30 percent said they just wanted to sleep uninterrupted.

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Very close to that was a clean house that they didn't clean.

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Nowhere on the list and the surveys that I looked at in red had roses.

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There were a few to three percent wanted a night out.

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Chocolate was nowhere to be found.

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But it's the simplest things that mother wants.

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Sleep. Above and beyond.

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This mother, this wife, this woman that's mentioned in Proverbs 31.

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When you begin to look at early in the chapter and read through, she's she has this glowing resume.

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I mean, when you read her story, you wonder if she does sleep.

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All the stuff that this woman does, there's no way there's time to sleep.

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She keeps the house. She works. She has a business.

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She tends to cheer and she loves her husband, takes care of him and does all that stuff.

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That's a mouthful in it.

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This Proverb 31 woman has gone above and beyond.

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And she gives an example.

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But like I said earlier, if you look and read that example, if you're not careful, the enemy will jump up on your left shoulder

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and begin to whisper in your left ear why God's trying to speak into your right ear.

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But he begins to shout in your ear, well, that ain't you.

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Right. You stumped your toe over the mess in the floor trying to get to the children last night.

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You had to feed them cereal. Didn't have time to fix gravy and biscuits.

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I heard somebody had a good breakfast this morning.

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Boys of the house got up, cooked mama breakfast.

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Good job, gentlemen.

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But if we're not careful, the enemy can cause us to feel diminished because we feel as though

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we cannot live up to the measure of this Proverbs 31 woman.

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In almost 30 years of ministry, this is the first time I've even taken partially my text for Mother's Day problems,

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Proverbs 31.

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Simply because of that, because we're not careful, we can relay some of these expectations.

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That may not be achievable.

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And we can leave feeling worse than when we came in, but I'm going to talk to you about some ladies today

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who simply just built their faith the best that they could.

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And there's 10 of them, and I know we're not going to touch all 10 of them, but there are 10 on this list

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that I have for you today, and there's only one Proverb 31 lady.

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But there's 10 other examples of women who did the very best they could, and they lived out their faith,

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and God honored them, and God had favor on their life, and God blessed them, and He raised them up,

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and He met them in their hour and their time of need.

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Even so, as this Proverb 31 lady, their faith is exemplary to us today, each and every one of us.

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The first mother that we would look at would be Sarah, the mother who waited.

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You know Sarah's story, married to Abraham, and how God promised her that she would have a child,

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as He would promise Abraham that He would have seed and a posterity to follow after him,

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and how that she would overhear the comments of the fire, and she would be hiding in the tent,

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and she would chuckle and laugh because she had already waited 15 years, and then 10 years later

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she gets another in this 15-year period, she gets another promise, just keep on waiting.

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Mama, can I tell you, sometimes you gotta wait longer than you really deserve to wait, amen?

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You gotta wait longer than you want to wait, but there is virtue in the waiting, there is favor in the waiting.

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God's hand will meet you in the waiting. When you're waiting and it feels like it's been too long, just keep on waiting.

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Sarah overheard as Abraham received a confirmation, she chuckled and she laughed to herself

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because she knew her age and she knew Abraham's age, are you with me?

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And she knew it was going to be more difficult for Abraham than it was going to be for her own self,

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and then 10 years later, I'm telling you, God moved in a mighty way, and she brings a son into this world,

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and she said, the Lord has caused me to laugh, and it's going to cause everyone to hear about this, to laugh,

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and they're going to chuckle, and I'm just going to go ahead and name this boy Isaac, which means son of my laughter.

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I'm here to tell you, there's some things that you've been waiting for, there's some things that you've been waiting on,

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and don't give up your waiting because God is in the tarrying, and he's going to reaffirm and reaffirm

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as many times as he has to, to let you know his word is good for you, and his promise is good for you,

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so you just keep on waiting. You may laugh in your heart, you may laugh in your mind,

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but you just keep on laughing because one of these days, God is going to have the last laugh in your life.

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Son of my laughter, everybody's going to get a kick out of this.

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Couldn't you see you sitting in the city gate and Abraham's friends come by?

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Way to go, Abe. 99-year-old son, didn't they have it in you?

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Everybody's getting a kick out of that. I'm telling you, when God gets finished with you,

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I said when God gets finished with you, everybody else is just going to have to get the last laugh

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because God knows your patience while you're enduring. I didn't say she waited well,

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I didn't say her patience was virtuous, I said she waited. She had to have confirmation halfway through,

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a little over, she had to have another affirming word from God to stir her faith and to keep her faith going,

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and if that's where you are this morning, that's quite alright because God knows what you need when you need it

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and where to get it to you at. And if you need affirmation this morning to keep on waiting

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because it hadn't happened, here it is this morning. Wait on the Lord, wait patiently on the Lord.

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He's going to hear your cry, He's going to hear your plea, He's going to move and He's going to answer.

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If He's made a promise to you, rest assured the whole world will laugh in the face of the enemy

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because God brings it to pass. I think she went above and beyond.

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Extraordinary faith, a faith that has to be renewed, refreshed, and from time to time restored.

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So if you're sitting here this morning thinking, well I haven't waited too well, I haven't waited too diligently,

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I haven't waited too patiently, that's alright, neither did Sarah, and it didn't hinder God's promise in her life,

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Hallelujah, and it won't hinder God's promise in your life either. If He's made it, He's going to be good for it

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because He's not a man that He should lie, He's God, God of righteousness and God of truth,

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and He'll keep His word to every generation.

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Next, this is one of my favorite scriptures. It's an odd choice, but it's Hagar.

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Hagar is one of my favorite stories of motherhood in the scripture.

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Hagar was a little slave girl. Motherhood was forced upon Hagar.

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Hagar lived a bitter life. She lived a hard life. She lived a life of turmoil.

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Her mistress was out to get her. Always. She lived a difficult time.

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She lived a difficult task, but I'm here to tell you, God knows the road that you travel.

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Hallelujah, and Hagar was a woman who waited with endurance. Sometimes you have to endure.

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Oh, nowhere in scripture does the Bible say it's going to be a rosy pathway.

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You may have to walk on the thorns, but it may not be the petals of the rose.

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You may have to make your way through the thorns, and this is where Hagar is,

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and Hagar doesn't even know who this God is that everybody in the tent is supposed to be worshipping.

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She has to have her own encounter with Jehovah God, and Hagar had her encounter.

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Oh, as she runs away, she's at plight. She's trying to make her escape, and then God sees her,

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and God sends her back into her trouble, sends her right back into the war zone.

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Somebody in here may be trying to escape the war zone of life that is around you,

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and you may think you've gotten away until God said, turn around and go back in there.

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Oh, isn't it wonderful to know that God has purpose for you in the middle of your war zone?

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I know we don't understand it. Oh, God, why can't I get out of here?

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God, why can't you deliver me? Why do I have to keep on putting up with this mistreatment?

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Why, why, why? Because God's got to work for you. God's got to promise for you.

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God had sent her for Hagar in the middle of her trouble. You must endure.

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God sent her right back into the middle of her dilemma.

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Then when she brings this child into the world, you think it'd get better? No, it only got worse.

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It got worse for Hagar. Her mistreatment grew.

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And then one day she's driven away, put out, run off. Hello.

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She's ran off after enduring all that she endured. She's driven out.

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They're in a desert land. Her young son is crying from thirst so that she wouldn't have to listen to it.

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She put him off a distance under the shade and tried to get away from the cries of her only son.

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And then God speaks to her out of heaven.

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Hagar, I hear you, honey. I hear you. I hear you cry.

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And that boy of yours is going to be something great. I'm not going to let him die in this wilderness.

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You've been faithful, Hagar. You've endured, Hagar. You've been mistreated, Hagar.

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They've talked about you. They scorned you. They worked you like a dog and they've run you out.

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But I am the God who sees you. And that would be what Hagar says.

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This place shall be called El Rohe because he is the God who sees my Lord.

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But that's not the greatest point of her story. It is there that she says, I will turn and see the God who has seen me.

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What are you saying, preacher? I'm saying Hagar had an encounter in a wilderness place.

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She had an encounter with God who had made a promise to her. She endured.

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You may have to endure, mama. You may have to endure some heartache, hardship.

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You may have to endure some things that you don't want to endure, but you just keep on keeping on.

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Why, pastor? Why should I? Because God sees you. He sees your dilemma.

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He sees your hurt. He sees your mistreatment. And he's already spoken a word to you.

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And he will fulfill the word that he has spoken into your life.

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So hang on, Hagar's. Endure.

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Next, above and beyond. That's above and beyond, if there ever was.

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The next lady we look at is Rebecca, the mother who believed.

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Think about Rebecca. She had great faith in her obedience to God.

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When Isaac's servant told her of the man who wanted to marry her, Genesis 25 tells us Rebecca became pregnant.

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She could feel these babies inside her womb wrestling.

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She's going to bring twins into this world. Isaac's going to be blessed.

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But yet in this going on inside her, she cries out to God and says, God, what's going on?

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What's happening to me? What's going on with what's inside me?

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God says, just be at ease, Rebecca, because there's two nations struggling inside of you.

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There's two nations in there. And here's what's going to happen before it's over and said and done with.

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The elder is going to serve the younger before it's all over and done with.

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So this struggle and this strife is not just going to be in the womb.

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But you see when Esau and Jacob are born, Esau is very red.

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And when he comes out, his brother Jacob has a hold of his heel.

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In other words, you're not getting out without me.

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Jacob's name means heel snatcher or or supplanter.

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He was going to be a mischievous young man.

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He was going to be a mama's boy. And Esau was going to be a daddy's boy.

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But still in Rebecca's mind, in her hearing, in her heart, she's heard what the Lord had spoke to her.

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What was going to happen one day.

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I used to give her a very difficult going about when she falls into the plot with her younger son, Jacob,

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when she falls into the plot with him.

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Now, notice it wasn't really Jacob's fault, nor was it Rebecca's fault.

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I think the blame has to go on Esau, who was impetuous when he came out of the wilderness and he was hungry.

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He thought he was starving to death.

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And he comes up on the camp of his brother, who's got some soup on the fire.

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And before he knows it, he's bartered away the birthright.

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You've got to understand the power that's in the birthright.

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The birthright is a double blessing.

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The one who carries the name of the family upon their shoulder and he traded away for a bowl of pea soup.

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And Jacob never forgot it.

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And when the time of blessing, when Isaac is about to leave this world and he calls his two sons in,

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Rebecca, the mother, falls into the plot with her son, Jacob, and sends him out to get the stuff that his father liked to eat.

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And she made him up some wool and hair sleeves on his arm because, oh, Isaac is so blind,

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he can't see in half-depth and can't hear, but he can feel, which was his son Esau.

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I used to give Rebecca a hard time for her part in the deception of Isaac

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until you realize probably what was in the heart of Rebecca.

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Jacob is supposed to be the leader.

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Esau is supposed to follow.

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And she has this war within herself with this deception.

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Now, my honest feeling is this.

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I really don't think God needed Rebecca to get involved.

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Hello.

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I really think that the God of glory would have worked it out in his own way.

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But you know, the love of a mama, and especially over a mama's boy.

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Hello.

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We got one.

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The girl's Italian.

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She favors him.

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Truth.

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Truth.

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God could have handled it without Rebecca getting involved.

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But Rebecca believed.

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She believed what God said about these two struggling within her.

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Mama, keep on believing whatever God has told you about the struggle that was within you.

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Sometimes it's a spiritual struggle over your sons and daughters.

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Sometimes it's a birthing of spiritual things in your life.

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And if God has spoken something to you over the struggle that's been going on inside of you,

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then you can just believe God for his word.

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He's going to see that it comes to pass.

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He's going to see that it's fulfilled.

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You don't have to get involved.

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Just believe.

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I didn't want you to think for a moment that you're getting permission to get involved in God's business.

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Just because Rebecca did.

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Because there was some hardship after that.

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Jacob had to flee for his life from his own brother.

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Right?

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But it would be in that fleeing that he would ultimately meet God.

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Rebecca, we've got six more to go.

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You still with me?

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You see why I didn't take the offer up now?

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Fourth, that goes above and beyond, is a woman by the name of Rachel.

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Rachel was the favorite over her sister Leah.

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Her father Laban deceived.

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So Leah's put in an awkward position.

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Leah is struggling for Jacob's love.

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Doing everything she can do.

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Naming her sons after each move as to what God would do and hopefully do and draw Jacob to her.

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Until she finally has a boy and they name him Judah.

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She's saying praise, she said I'm just going to forget about Jacob's love because I believe God loves me.

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And I'm just going to praise him.

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Because he's had favor on me.

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Rachel in turn is barren but ends up having two sons.

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Rachel is a woman who has the love that she requires but yet is still empty from what she desired.

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And to go above and beyond.

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To patiently wait.

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To endure.

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To endure some of the same treatment that Hagar had to endure.

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Rachel is spurned because of the favor and love that Jacob shows her.

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She brings the first son.

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His name is Joseph.

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Now just to show you how God blesses in spite of everything else and all those around you.

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You know the story little Joseph.

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You know the story of Joseph becoming second under Pharaoh in all of Egypt.

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But in the midst of that story and why Joseph is gone.

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Rachel has another son, Benanai.

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And in bringing Benanai into this world.

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She dies.

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In the last breath she names him Benanai and when Jacob comes into the tent and asks for his name.

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She called him Benanai and he grabs that boy up and says no.

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His name is Benjamin.

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Because Benanai means son of my sorrow.

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In her sorrow and dying in childbirth.

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She brings him in and in that great sorrow with her last breath she said this is the son of my sorrow.

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But Jacob comes in and says no his name is Benjamin.

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He will not be cursed with sorrow but he is the son of my right hand.

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Hallelujah.

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I'm here to tell you.

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You've got to keep on trusting God and allow God to do some great things in your life.

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What you may see is sorrow.

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God may see his great value.

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Yoshabed.

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The mother of Moses which you don't find that out right up front.

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She's just identified as a Levi woman.

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Who has a son.

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It's after the decree Egypt is in fear of all the Israelites because they're growing bountifully.

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And they're afraid that if they ever decide to rise up they can overtake us.

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So Pharaoh calls the midwives of Egypt in.

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He says every male child that is born of the Hebrews cast them into the Nile.

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But even in Egypt there was some sense of conviction.

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My God that ought to help you.

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That ought to do something for you.

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Even in the Egypt of the world in which we live which Egypt represents sin and bondage.

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And we see the world and society and culture in which we are living in.

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Even in the Egypt of our day there's still some resolve of conviction.

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So they could do it.

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Moses is growing.

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His name isn't even Moses yet.

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His name isn't mentioned until after he's brought out of the Nile.

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So Yoshabin was a mother with a plan.

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And she worked out that plan.

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She wove that basket and sealed the inside with thatch so that it wouldn't leak.

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And then she cast him out on the Nile.

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Now isn't that the way we do when they get of age?

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Hello?

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I don't know about nowadays they're 35 and yet to be cast.

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Children, hear you pastor, grow up, be a man, be a woman and move out.

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I'm trying to help somebody.

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I'm trying to help you.

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Mama let them go.

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You can't tie your apron string to the basket when you send them and reel them back.

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Because it's faith that you release them in.

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It's trust in God that you release them in to the world.

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Trusting that you have done well enough.

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And you wonder and you wonder.

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But God is watching over them.

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He's watching over them.

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He watched over Moses of all people to find him.

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It was Pharaoh's own daughter who knew the decree of her Pharaoh

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and yet fell in with the plot to hide him.

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And just to show you how God works.

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She needed a nursemaid.

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She couldn't just take him into the palace.

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Find me a nursemaid.

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Moses' sister had been traveling down watching after him too.

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So she tells the daughter I know someone who will be great at the job.

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Yoshua Beth, his own mama, was able to nurse him and raise him

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because she had faith and trust in God enough to cast him out onto the Nile

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and let God take care of her.

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You can turn them loose mama.

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You can let them go and let God take care of them.

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They'll have to make their way in and out of the bull rush on their own.

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But the God of glory is watching over each of them.

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It's been said that the father only worries when a child breaks a bone.

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But a mother worries over the skin and the knee.

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Right?

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I've said it many a time, well you ain't bleeding that bad, go on.

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True story.

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You'll be alright.

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Too far from your heart to kill you.

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Go on.

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But that's not the treatment if mama gets there first.

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Or you can get them back out the door.

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What's wrong with them?

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Well, they are.

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Skin, knee, and they come in with a big honk, go on.

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Here you go.

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He'll grow back.

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It's the truth.

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Trust God.

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Well, you trust your husband or not.

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I look around and see some of the little bitty babies in there.

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I wonder, brethren, how much true alone time you get with them.

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They don't trust you, guys.

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As long as they're looking at you, you're fine.

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I've got to go to the store.

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Well, I'll just keep you.

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No, I'll just take a women.

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What mother in right mind ever says that?

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That's the one that's afraid to leave them home with daddy.

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I'll just take a women.

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They're kicking, screaming, snorting and all this.

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I'll just take a women.

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That means you don't trust me.

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But you can trust God.

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Go above and beyond and release them and let God take care of them.

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It's hard, it hurts, and it's painful, but let God.

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You've instilled God in them.

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They're going to have to be like a Hagar.

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They're going to have to have their own experience.

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They're going to have to see the God who sees them.

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Realize without him, they're lost.

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Without him, they are nothing.

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What do I do?

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You pray.

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That's what you do.

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You think you praying for them now?

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Where do you put them out on the now?

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Where do you put them out into the world?

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Where do you have to cut the string and let them go?

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You haven't even started to pray yet.

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There's no prayer like a mama's prayer when you don't know where they are or what they're doing.

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Samson's mama is the next one.

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Go above and beyond.

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Truly let God and trust God.

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You can trust him.

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You can trust him.

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Samson's mother is the mother who followed the rules.

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She's never mentioned by name in the book of Judges.

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Some scholars believe in 1st Chronicles 4 she may be mentioned.

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Not known truly for sure.

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But in Judges 13, the angel of the Lord appeared unto her and said,

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You are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.

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Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink that you do not eat anything unclean.

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You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor.

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Because the boy is to be a Nazarite dedicated to God from the womb.

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He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hand of the Philistines.

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How do we know she followed the rules?

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Because Samson took the lead in leading Israel and defeating the Philistines.

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Until he revealed the source of his anointing.

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She followed the rules.

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What does that mean?

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If God has spoken some things into your life concerning your children.

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Go by the letter of what he is spoken to you.

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What if he's not spoken indefinitely as he did her?

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Get the word in the book of life and see what he has declared for you to speak into their life.

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And the direction that you are to lead them in and follow to the greatest detail.

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Samson's mother above and beyond follow the rules and Samson delivers Israel.

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We think about Naomi who goes above and beyond.

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Naomi is not known for her children.

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But in how she reacted to another's.

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She is the mother-in-law who went above and beyond.

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They leave Bethlehem for Moab.

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Bethlehem means house of bread.

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Moab is a place who wouldn't even offer the children of Israel bread when they were escaping Egypt.

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They were to have nothing to do with the Moabites.

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But her husband takes her and her two boys to Moab.

448
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:27,000
And within ten years her husband, both sons are dead.

449
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:38,000
She has two daughters-in-law who evidently they have a great relationship for they stay with her.

450
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Then one day Naomi gets news.

451
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,000
The news is there's bread in the house of bread.

452
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000
The news is the famine in Bethlehem is over.

453
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
You can go home.

454
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000
You can make your way home.

455
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
God is blessing your home again.

456
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000
And you can make your way home again.

457
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Somebody needs to hear this morning.

458
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
You can make your way home again.

459
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Hallelujah.

460
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
I said you can make your way home again.

461
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000
For God is moving.

462
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
God is blessing.

463
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
God is touching.

464
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000
And you can make your way home again.

465
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:23,000
She calls her daughter-in-law's to release them to their own land, their own family, their own country.

466
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
People they know and love.

467
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000
One turns and walks away, gives her a hug and a kiss and goes home.

468
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
But you know the story of Ruth.

469
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,000
It's Ruth who declares to Naomi, no, I'm going with you.

470
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Your home going to be my home.

471
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
Your people are going to be my people.

472
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Here's the kicker.

473
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000
Your God is going to be my God.

474
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
And where they bury you, that's where they're going to bury me.

475
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000
So Naomi makes her way back home.

476
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,000
She wants to change her name to Mara because she's all bitter.

477
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
But you can't make bitterness where God's blessing is.

478
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
And because God is going to smile upon her.

479
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Oh, she instructs Ruth to go through the kinsman's field.

480
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,000
I don't have time to preach all this.

481
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000
You got to go read about it.

482
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000
Read the Book of Ruth.

483
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
She makes her way through the fields of Boaz.

484
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000
And as she's in the field of Boaz, all of a sudden she catches the eye of Boaz.

485
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:23,000
And Boaz says, who is that little Moabite girl over there?

486
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Who is she?

487
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
That's Naomi's daughter-in-law.

488
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
She married?

489
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,000
No, he dead.

490
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:37,000
Good.

491
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
What am I supposed to do, Naomi?

492
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Twinkle your eyes, honey.

493
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Bat them lashes.

494
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Boaz is the eldest kinsman of my family.

495
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Oh, my Lord.

496
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
He's the only one that can redeem us out of our situation.

497
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,000
And not only did she bat her eyes, but Boaz saw it.

498
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000
He calls his servants and said, look, whatever aisle she's in,

499
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,000
leave a few handfuls on purpose.

500
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000
I want that girl blessed.

501
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,000
And she's cousin's daughter-in-law.

502
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
And I'm going to bless them.

503
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000
You bless her.

504
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000
And you bless the boy.

505
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
And that boy is called Jesse.

506
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
And Jesse is the only one he's got.

507
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,000
What's the story?

508
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000
The story is that as long as the short of it is,

509
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000
she marries him and they bring an old boy into the world

510
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000
named Obed.

511
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,000
And Obed has a boy named Jesse and Jesse has a boy named David.

512
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
And David has a descendant.

513
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
45 generations later, his name is Je-

514
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:56,520
Oh, you never go into Mother's Day thinking you're going to hit a flat back spin.

515
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,720
You're talking about above and beyond.

516
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:05,440
Trust faith and trust in God.

517
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:11,080
Oh, Hannah, y'all got time?

518
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,080
What time is it?

519
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,080
Oh, it's just 12 o'clock.

520
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,600
You good.

521
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:25,600
Hannah, the mother who kept her promise.

522
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:34,160
We got Hannah's in this room.

523
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:39,600
Hannah was buried.

524
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,840
Hannah prayed.

525
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,840
They went to church every time that church was in order for their day.

526
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,880
They didn't miss every year.

527
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,620
They went.

528
00:43:52,620 --> 00:44:01,520
They sacrificed, they offered, they worshiped, and they praised.

529
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,920
She's so caught up in prayer.

530
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,280
She'd been fasting.

531
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,880
She's praying but no words are coming out.

532
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:19,240
She's weaving and the priest sees her.

533
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:26,600
Little did Eli know that his help was about to show up.

534
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:34,120
He sure couldn't trust Hoth9 Phinus.

535
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,520
He rebukes her and scolds her, calls her drunken.

536
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,880
I'm not drunk, I'm just praying.

537
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,440
My God, wouldn't it do us to pray until we couldn't stand under the power again?

538
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:53,080
Wouldn't it do us good to get in fasting mode and pray until somebody thinks we've lost

539
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:59,400
our mind?

540
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,000
Hannah gets her promise.

541
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:10,320
Hannah brings this young man by the name of Samuel into the world.

542
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:16,240
When he's brought into this world, she made God a promise.

543
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:23,960
If you give me one, I'll give him back to you to serve you all the days of his life

544
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:29,840
if you'll just bless me.

545
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,600
She shows back up in front of old Eli.

546
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:42,000
You hear the boy right here just rubbing it in his face.

547
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:48,720
He's forsaking God, going through the motions of high priest.

548
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,960
You know the story.

549
00:45:50,960 --> 00:46:00,720
She kept her promise when he was of age and brought him and left him at the house of God.

550
00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:08,320
You understand why the symbolism is behind our child dedication, right?

551
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:13,000
Because of the precious, precious gifts that we are blessed with, we dedicate them back

552
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,120
into the Lord.

553
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,920
That's what it's about.

554
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:26,480
Telling God we're grateful and we acknowledge his blessings.

555
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:32,720
He would be laying in that place at the house of God.

556
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:38,040
As a young man, he would hear a voice in the night and awaken.

557
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,840
He would run to the priest.

558
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:41,840
You called Eli.

559
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,840
I didn't call you, boy.

560
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,760
Go lay down.

561
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,240
Second time he runs in, you called Eli.

562
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:52,720
Boy, don't bother me again.

563
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:55,320
Go back to bed.

564
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:01,040
He comes running a third time for he hears his name called.

565
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:10,720
Finally, the old priest realizes it's the voice of God.

566
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:14,920
I'm going to keep your promise.

567
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:25,080
Keep your promises because you never know when the voice of God is going to reach you.

568
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:55,040
Elizabeth, mother who believed for miracles.

569
00:47:55,040 --> 00:48:01,160
It would be Zacharias who would have the problem in believing.

570
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,400
Elizabeth believed.

571
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:18,040
It would be she who would birth the last Old Testament prophet, John the Baptist.

572
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:24,760
It would be she that would be touched by the Holy Ghost upon receiving the salutation from

573
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:36,280
her cousin Mary that she too was with child.

574
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,280
Believe for miracles.

575
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:47,280
As I dare say, some of the situations that we find ourselves in will take nothing short

576
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:56,560
than the miraculous power of God to deliver them.

577
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:02,440
I'm telling you, I feel the Lord in his house.

578
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,960
The last but not the least would be Mary herself.

579
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,520
It would be young Mary who would be called blessed.

580
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,440
It would be young Mary who would sing her song.

581
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:26,680
But it would also be Mary who would give us the greatest instruction that any mother has

582
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,040
ever given.

583
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:40,960
Whatsoever he sayeth unto you, do it.

584
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:48,280
There's no greater instruction than can be received.

585
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:55,120
Then whatever the master speaks to you, just do it.

586
00:49:55,120 --> 00:50:00,120
Stand all over this house.

587
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:05,120
Oh, Jesus.

588
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:23,280
I've rehearsed in my mind this moment all week as to how I'll go about the close of

589
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:28,600
this service.

590
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,000
It is Mother's Day.

591
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:43,120
And trust me, I understand the magnitude of all that contains.

592
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:52,960
The joy, the sadness, the pain.

593
00:50:52,960 --> 00:51:02,920
Those days when you feel inadequate, like you just don't measure up.

594
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:17,560
Well, with God on your side, you too can go above and beyond.

595
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,520
How, pastor?

596
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,640
It's not that you run a business like the Proverbs 31, Mother, but you may.

597
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:39,240
And if you do, I pray bountiful blessings upon your business.

598
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:44,960
You may be a hagar.

599
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:50,040
You've had to endure.

600
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:55,000
You may have even had to endure the shame that was put on you by someone else.

601
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,200
But it's not your shame.

602
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:05,840
My God, I feel the Holy Ghost.

603
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,640
Father, I love you this morning.

604
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:19,880
God, I pray you speak to hearts this morning.

605
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,200
I know you have spoken.

606
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,960
I know you have touched.

607
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,080
Because I've felt your anointing flow out of me today.

608
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:36,640
There's yearning hearts in this room.

609
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:44,320
Pain ridden.

610
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:45,320
Those feeling inadequate.

611
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:52,720
The enemy has laid a heavy weight on them.

612
00:52:52,720 --> 00:53:06,480
But you said, come unto me if you're heavy laden and I'll give you rest.

613
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:12,840
The survey said they just wanted to rest.

614
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:20,280
If you need a respite this morning, I want you to come and line up across this front.

615
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,760
Ladies first.

616
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:36,000
If you just need to feel a respite, a spiritual break that the load has just picked up just

617
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,160
for a moment, come on.

618
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:51,240
If the enemy sat on your shoulder and whispered all the things that you feel like you're not

619
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:59,680
and you're working diligently to do the best you can, come on.

620
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:04,320
The Lord wants to touch you this morning.

621
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:15,960
The Lord wants to move on you.

622
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:30,800
If you're here today, maybe your heart's desire is to be a mother and you've not been able

623
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:40,040
to become and your heart broken, come on.

624
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:46,720
If you're here today and you may be a Pharaoh's daughter, you've pulled one out.

625
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:56,240
She called him Moses, meaning she's pulled him out.

626
00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:59,920
Maybe you've pulled one out.

627
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:00,920
Your heart's heavy.

628
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,280
The burden is none the lighter.

629
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:09,640
The responsibility is as great.

630
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:20,600
This place, I feel Jesus.

631
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:26,920
I feel Jesus.

632
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,920
I feel Jesus.

633
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,920
Stretch your hands this way, would you?

634
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,600
In this place.

635
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:50,520
Father God, as your daughters of faith have stepped out this morning, add your grace as

636
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,920
they go above and beyond.

637
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:59,640
If you feel powerless this morning, you're not alone.

638
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:06,920
You are our grace and you are our strength this morning, Lord.

639
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:14,440
I feel as though they've run through the rapids on the Nile.

640
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,120
I feel as though they've been taken away.

641
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:24,880
I feel as though they've been taken away and I feel powerless.

642
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,880
Powerless.

643
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:40,760
But mighty God, mighty God within me, oh God, I trust you.

644
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,720
I trust you, Lord.

645
00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:46,720
I trust you, Lord.

646
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:48,320
Hallelujah.

647
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,120
I trust you, Lord.

648
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:54,960
I feel Jesus.

649
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,000
I trust you, Lord.

650
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:11,320
Oh, I feel Jesus, Father, in this place.

651
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,320
Hallelujah.

652
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:24,680
Soldiers, burn within me.

653
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:35,080
I feel Jesus in this place.

654
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,240
One more time.

655
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,240
I feel Jesus.

656
00:57:39,240 --> 00:58:00,000
Oh, I feel Jesus in this place.

657
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:11,360
And my soldiers, oh, burn within me.

658
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:19,000
I feel Jesus in this place.

659
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:29,080
Now, Father, over every heart, never mind in this room, I pray your blessings.

660
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:39,280
Every heavy heart, every broken spirit in this room, I pray you encourage and be the

661
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:45,960
lifter of their head.

662
00:58:45,960 --> 00:59:06,920
But today, with your peace that passes all understanding, in Jesus' name, amen and amen.

663
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:13,120
Could you give the Lord a good hand clap of praise?

664
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,440
Hallelujah.

665
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,680
Hallelujah.

666
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,640
Real quickly, you can be seated for just a few more minutes.

667
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:21,640
Just bear with me a few more minutes.

668
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:50,200
We've got some gifts to give away here this morning.