God Knew You Before Birth: A Mother's Call

``There is a future. There is tomorrow. There is a future for you as a mother and a grandmother all the days of your life. There is a future for your family. There is. God knows that. The more you can link that with God's design of your children and your grandchildren, the easier this will be. There is a future for this church. Let me just assure you that for forty two years or forty three years, Brenda and I have smiled at the future of encounter. And look how God has blessed us. Look at this wonderful place that we can meet here. This is a gift from God. [01:44:04] (44 seconds)  #FutureIsGift

You are a leader. People are going to listen to you. You've got leadership in you, and all of your children that in this room, when you're a mother, you know that your children have this potential. I believe God puts leadership gifts on all of his children. This one in particular that we're looking at this morning, this mother said, you are a leader. Don't go mucking around and getting drunk with too much wine because then you might not have good judgment, might not know how to respond to situations and upset people or affect people by giving things wrong advice because you're hungover in the daytime. [01:30:46] (43 seconds)  #SoberLeadership

And for each of us as mothers, each of us women, each of each of the men here this morning, gentlemen, all of those watching me online, do you smile at your future? That is my question. That is my challenge. And in a few moments, I'll open the altar because if you don't, and you've got into a cycle of thinking there is no hope, there's no point to life, there's always debt, The kids are always arguing. There's always some sort of trouble going on. If that's where your view is, then I would like the opportunity to be able to pray with you along with the ministry team this morning because I would love something to be gleaned in the spirit from this message. Church, could you stand with me just while I pray, please? [01:46:01] (52 seconds)  #ChooseHopeToday

You see, Paul did not have the advantage of the Old Testament prophets who were brought up under the Jewish law with the Jewish teachings, the tabernacles, everything there. Paul did not. He persecuted the Christians. He he was he terrorized them, and yet, god knew him also before he was born, and god revealed his son to him. And does not matter. This is a message for all of us watching online where you've come from, whether you've been brought up in the church or a Christian home or any of those things, God will find a point to reveal to you himself. He is fair, and he is just, and Paul is always to me an example of that. [01:26:38] (51 seconds)  #GodRevealsAll

But isn't this part of the thing as mothers that we desire for our kids? We desire that they will have good, wholesome relationships with friends and with marriage. We desire that they use their godly leadership gifts to look out for the poor, to look out for the needy, to constantly be looking out for other people and using using their gifts to make other people's lives better, that the leadership gift is not polluted by by being not in your right mind because you've gone and got drunk and carried on like that. These are these are things that we all aspire, and here it is sitting right here in Proverbs chapter 31. She's quite a mother. [01:32:12] (52 seconds)  #RaiseKindLeaders

So here we go. Watch your relationships. Watch how you're drinking and conducting yourself. You're a leader. Don't you get drunk. And she goes on to say, so that you can fairly judge situations and people, so that you can speak for the poor, so that you can speak for those who have not got a voice of their own, so that you can lift up the those that are in poverty. You can do good in this world if you listen to what I'm saying. My goodness. I thought, I don't know if I've been quite that brave to even speak to any of my children like that. [01:31:29] (43 seconds)  #SpeakForTheVoiceless

God has not only wonderfully made us, he has wonderfully made the scriptures, and he's wonderfully made for each of us women a guideline of what will ensure that our children get the best from us as mothers, strength and dignity, the way things were done, not complaining about housework and trying to make your husband do it all the time. None of those things are more subtle ways of doing that than bringing it out in front of the children, let me tell you. You must have that peaceful, harmonious household. She smiles at the future no matter what. And my challenge here is I'm just bringing this to a close. There is a future. There is tomorrow. [01:43:17] (51 seconds)  #WisdomForMothers

There were some things that I decided, and Brent and I decided, that we would never say to our children when we were growing up. We would if they asked us for things, it would be a negotiated thing so that I did I either wanted them to have it or I didn't. We never said we can't afford it. We don't have any money. We don't have enough money. Those were things we completely eliminated. We smiled at the future. We smiled, and the children smiled at the future, and the grandchildren do the same. [01:40:34] (33 seconds)  #ModelHopeNotFear