Moms: A Winning Game Plan
Mother’s Day 2023
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NOW - we’ve come together this morning May 14th 2023... FOR - 2 primary reasons.
FIRST - to honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ…
AND UNDERSTAND B/S – Jesus is so deserving of our praise, our attention, our worship, our commitment…
our very lives... AMEN?!
AND - the second reason we have gathered today is to honor our moms.
YOU KNOW – moms are amazing…
I MEAN – when you really think about it, what they actually do is INSANE!
CHECK – this out…
BY - the time a child reaches the age of 18… a mom has added to her plate about 18,000 hours of child-generated work.
OKAY – that’s 750 days or 2 full years of her life, doing stuff for and with her kids… (that’s crazy…) Mom’s now you know why you are so tired…
OKAY – I want to pray us into our time of study this morning…
PRAYER
NOW – I do not think I need to tell you, that being a mom is one of the toughest jobs on the planet.
I MEAN – think about how motherhood begins...
By God growing a baby (another life) inside of you.
NOW - this week I went online looking for a list of some of things a woman’s undergoes and endures during the nine months of pregnancy, here are some I found...
• expanding belly, weight gain, enlarged uterus,
• morning sickness, backaches, body aches,
• bleeding gums are common, swollen feet
• feel warm and sweat a lot, constipation, dizziness
• leg cramps, nasal problems, fatigue, sleep problems
• heartburn and indigestion, hemorrhoids, itching
• nasal problems, stretch marks, skin changes
• varicose veins, urinating frequently and leaking
• belly button transforming from innie to outtie
AGAIN – these are just some of things that a mom endures for 39 weeks (273 +/- days)... Not to mention the actual act of giving birth to a 6-10 pound human being.
AND LISTEN – not only do moms not spend those 273 days whining and complaining...
BUT INSTEAD – they take baby bump pictures and they kind of glow...
April 26, 2016... “She didn’t she was pregnant”
WHEN – I called her she was getting ready to take her 5 kids to the dentist.
AND LISTEN – when God choose woman to be moms and give birth instead of men... it was a very wise choose.
No way a man could ever handle it.
AGAIN – being a mom is tough... not just with having a child, but it is also tough because being a mom a thwart with many challenges and much opposition...
That is why is so important for moms to have a game plan.
And this morning Mother’s Day 2023, I want to talk about several strategies that are part of a winning game plan.
NOW – these strategies are not rocket science and they not anything that you have never heard before...
BUT LISTEN – the reason you need to make them a part of your upfront and refer to often game plan is because when things get tough, and the challenges and opposition comes against you... they can be easy to forget.
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OKAY – let’s do this…
Six strategies that are part of a moms winning game plan.
AND LISTEN - even though this message is specifically for moms… It is still not time for everyone else to checkout,
FOR – at least 2 reasons;
#1 - You probably have a mom (raise your hands) or you know a mom (raise your hands), or you know someone else who has a mom who could use this winning game plan.
#2 - A second reason you shouldn’t check out, is because many of the strategies need to be part of everyone’s game plan for dealing the various challenges of life.
OKAY MOMS - take out a pen and write this stuff down.
BECAUSE - you’re going to need them.
Strategy number one, in Moms: a winning game plan is...
I. Let Go Of The Supermom Myth
Let go of what?
QUESTION - what is a supermom?
A supermom is a woman who has a full-time job, attends all her kids activities, is a fabulous cook, good housekeeper, always looks good, never misses a church service…
AND IS ALWAYS – sweet, kind, loving, patient, encouraging
and never loses her cool.
NOW – there is a name for these supermoms...
nonexistent.
UNDERSTAND MOMS - all those so-called supermoms that you meet at the P.T.O. or at the grocery store or at the office or who live next door or
Whose lives and families look so perfect on their FacadeBook… posts and pictures...
THAT WHEN - you look at you feel bummed out...
Can I tell you a secret… It’s not real
Perfect: mom/families/wives/husbands…
Simply do not exist.
UNDERSTAND - the problem with trying to be a supermom is that it’s not realistic. It’s not healthy. It’s not possible.
BOTTOMLINE – moms what’s important is not to try to figure out how to be some ‘mythical’ super mom
BUT INSTEAD – try to figure out God’s call for your life.
LIKE... QUIT - trying to fit into someone else’s expectations,
AND...
• LISTEN - to what God wants you to do…
• BE - the person, God made you to be.
• BE - the mom, He created you up to be.
I THINK - the words of Solomon, the wisest person that ever lived, fit well here…. He said,
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, moms. Do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all that you do, and he will guide your paths. – Proverbs 3:5,6
NO - you don’t have to be a supermom.
Just be the mom that God made you to be.
Fear Him. Trust him. Seek His will for your life,
AND LISTEN - when you do, He promises to guide you into the right path.
The Strategies in Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Strategy #2...
II. Remember God Loves You
MOMS - you are loved by God…
NOW - Mother’s Day, for many of you, is a good day.
You’re happily married. You have children. You like your children; your children like you. Your mother is living, and you get along with her.
SO - Mother’s Day is a good day for you.
BUT - for a lot of others, Mother’s Day can be a hard day.
• Maybe you want to be a mom, but you can’t be for some reason
• Some moms feel guilty because ‘they feel’ they did not, or they are not... doing so good at this mom thing
• Others are flying solo and it’s getting harder all the time
• Some are stepmoms or foster moms, and it has not always been an easy road to travel.
AND - some of you have lost your mom, and whenever Mother’s Day rolls around it reminds you of that big loss, that big hole in your heart.
SO - for a lot of people, Mother’s Day is a hard day..
A kind of bitter sweet day...
AND - I want you to know that I understand and recognize this…
Now regardless of where you are in motherland, regardless of your life situation, every mom has hard days.
Being a mom is not easy.
I MEAN - there are days when you feel like you’ve blown it, that you’ve just stepped over the edge and made a terrible decision, or reacted in ways that you wish you could hit rewind on…
YES - there are days when you can just feel those waves of regret crashing over you…
OTHER DAYS - you may feel like a total failure.
There are times when you feel very lonely.
And I want you to know when those times come--as they will come to every mom--I want you to remember that you are loved by God.
UNDERSTAND - when you feel unlovable, when you feel like no one else ‘really’ loves you (not your husband, not your kids, not anyone), remember, that God (that your Father in heaven) never stops loving you.
MOMS – His love for you in reckless... and relentless!
AND – do you know what else, not only does God never stop loving you, but He never stops telling you that he loves you. I MEAN - from Genesis to Revelation moms can read about God’s... intense, unfailing, enduring, reckless love for them
AND – for everyone in this room or watching online.
CHECKOUT – these words in Jeremiah 31…
NOW - God’s people were going through some hard times…
AND LISTEN – if they were to rise above their difficulties...
In order to maintain their winning game plan.
They needed to be reminded of God’s love.
Thus says the LORD: “The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
the LORD appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built... Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. – Jeremiah 31:2,3
UNDERSTAND – you too, WILL find grace in the wilderness and survive the barren land…
When you remember that God loves you….
R/L - “God loves you!”
AND CHECKOUT - what God says in Isaiah 54:
For though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken. - Isaiah 54:10
UNDERSTAND - there’s nothing you can do that will ever shake his love off of you.
NOT – your mistakes, failures, shortcomings..
LISTEN MOMS – even when it seems like nothing is going your way... and no one seems to care.... never forget that can come between you and God’s love. NOTHING!
NOW - the Apostle Paul said it about as good as it could be said in Romans 8;. He said,
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rm 8:38,39
MOMS (and everyone else for that matter) - if you don’t get anything else out of my message today, get this:
You are loved by God.
AND – it is His love that will carry you through those hard and difficult days... if you let it.
What I a trying to say is that God is nuts, He’s crazy about you… He loves you big time!
If He had a wallet your picture would be in it – if He had a refrigerator you’d all over it…
HEY - I told you this stuff wasn’t rocket science..
BUT – it is so awesome!
God loves you! “God loves me!”
You matter to God! “I matter to God!”
I pray that we never let those truths get old!
The Strategies for Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Remember God Loves You, and
III. Remember That God Sees
QUESTION - when you are in the trenches of being a mom. ESPECIALLY – those times when it is dark, tough and ugly…
DO - you ever feel like you are all alone?
LIKE – it’s just you against the world?
Do you ever feel; outgunned and outnumbered?
THIS MORNING – I want to give you a quick snapshot of a mom, who felt all alone in this thing called motherhood.
IN FACT – she is literally out in the desert alone with her son… Her name is Hagar and she is the first single mom on record, and she felt it was all up to her. BUT she was wrong
AND – so are you btw, if that is how you are feeling today
HER STORY – is found in Genesis 16… Let me give you a little background. Abraham and his wife Sarah have been promised a child by God.
BUT – the years kept clicking away, and they kept getting older and still no child appears.
SO – one day Sarah feeling that she will never be able to have a child tells Abraham to sleep with her maid servant Hagar.
“You know, the ole, I know what God said, but I prayed about it and here is how I can help.”
(praying to ourselves, our will)
NOW - in that culture this was a common practice to build ones family through a servant.
BUT LISTEN – even though it was a common practice and culturally acceptable, even though everyone else was doing it…even though it was a major re-occurring theme on the D.B.S. (desert broadcasting station) and C.N.N. (the camel network)... IT WAS – still wrong in God’s eyes,
BUT - Abraham (like so many today) gives into worldly wisdom and cultural norms... making them His standard for truth and for what is right and wrong, rather than God and His word.
AND UNDERSTAND – this pull to go with the culture will always be there... and listen that is why we need to always hold to Our number One core value
‘We Honor Biblical Authority’
BOTTOM LINE – Abraham messes up… He fails to trust God.
AND SO - he sleeps with Hagar and she bears him a child, named Ishmael. WELL – needless to say… this arrangement (2 woman – one man) turns out to be a source of major conflict. Sarah and Hagar do not get along at all.
I MEAN - everyday there was a constant barrage of verbal missiles and insults being launched…
UNTIL – one day when Sarah (having a higher rank) – treats Hagar so bad that she eventually takes her son and flees into the desert.
SO – there she is. A single mom, alone in a hostile world, with no hope for the future, or for her son…
OR – so she thought.
YOU SEE - God shows up as this single mom sits in that desert and He comforts her, He tells her that; she’ll be okay, that her son will be fine, that he will have a good future…
AND – then we read these words in Gen 16:13;
She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." Gen 16:13 (El-Roi)
MOMS – if you are going to having a winning game plan... You need to remember that you are not alone in this task. NO - this mission (of raising God’s children) is not up just to you…
AND – when times are tough, when you feel like fleeing out into the desert to get away from it all…
JUST REMEMBER – that God sees and God cares…
UNDERSTAND MGCC – there are many times in life, when you are going to ‘feel’ (because everything in your life and home seems to heading south) that God has forgotten you… BUT UNDERSTAND – He hasn’t…
IN FACT – He cannot and He will not!
NOW - I love these words found in Isaiah chapter 49.
We actually look at them a few week back when Jesus healed the leper.
God’s people were going through some really tough times… and they felt all alone….
SO – God reminds them (and us);
THAT - He sees,
THAT - He always knows what we are going through…
AND THAT – it is impossible for him to forget us/you…
Sing for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on them in their sorrow.
Yet Jerusalem says, "The LORD has deserted us; the Lord has forgotten us."
"Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for a child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! See, I have written your name on my hand. Ever before me is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins. - Isaiah 49:13-16
Moms, MGCC
God sees! God cares!
And that is a very good thing, AMEN?!
Strategies for Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Remember God Loves You,
• Remember That God Sees, and
IV. Seek God First
NOW – there are many reasons for seeking God first,
BUT – I just want to talk about 2 reasons for seeking God first today – that are essential for a winning game plan.
QUESTION – do you think that moms have a lot of things to worry and be anxious about?
I asked some moms this week, what kind of things they worry or have concerns about in regard to their kids…
• Peer pressure, safety
• Mental health
• Will they have the same freedoms we did
• Questioning if God even exists
• Being able to support themselves and be high functioning adults
• Making wise choices
• The world they are growing up in... morals seems to be a thing of the past
• Whether I am doing enough... spiritually, educationally, emotionally
• Losing their innocence in an increasingly worsening world
• Marrying the right person
• Not being influenced by the lies of the world
• The dangers of social media
UNDERSTAND IF – you are going to have a successful game plan, you need to overcome worry BECAUSE worry will mess you up (in a hurry).
Maybe….. worry is messing you up right now.
QUESTION
Are you concerned about something right now?
LIKE IS – there something that even though it is out of your control you still can’t get it out of your mind…
NOW – the bible offers some pretty powerful strategies in regard to worry and anxiety…
The first one I want us to look at is from Jesus…
OKAY - picture the scene, hundreds perhaps thousands are gathered.
All kinds of people, with all kinds of concerns…
• Roman occupation
• Taxation
• Paying their bills
• Having enough food
I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?
Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
“And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. – Matthew 6:25-33
Jesus says make what?
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else and live righteously
AND – then what will happen?
and He will give you everything you need
THEREFORE – there is no need for you to do, what?
To worry…
BUT – here’s the deal it is only when we seek God first above all else, and make he Kingdom of God our primary concern that we can actually do that.
YOU SEE – and here is how I picture it...
It’s only then that you are close enough to Hm, to actually be able to give Him your worries
The second reason for seeking God first, is because God is what you really need…
Angela Thomas Guffey wrote the following in the Focus on the Family magazine ….
Mothering requires everything.
But eventually, everything given plus little replenished equals desperately empty.
I held the empty cup of my soul out to my husband and begged him to fill it. I held out my cup to a bigger house and a minivan. But only Jesus could fill my soul.
I tried my children and my girlfriends, but again, they could not fill the place designed by God for Himself…
The goal of mothering is to be a woman of God to your children, a woman of God intimately connected to her Savior. AND - woman of God can love and give from the overflowing cup God has filled.
Strategies for Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Remember God Loves You,
• Remember That God Sees
• Seek God First, and
The next strategy for a mom’s winning game plan is actually... is something we need to do for our moms, and that is to...
V. Show Moms Appreciation
YEAH - appreciation-- we all want it. AND - we all need it.
IN FACT - we all have to have it in order to survive emotionally. LIKE - it’s the way God wired this thing up.
In Proverbs 12:25 it says, “Anxious hearts are very heavy, but a word of encouragement does wonders.”
A word of encouragement does what? does wonders…
That’s true.
Mark Twain said it this way: “I can live off one good compliment for a week.”
George Adam: “Encouragement is oxygen to the soul”
Japanese proverb: One kind word can warm up 3 winter months”
Scudder Parker; People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be – not what you nag them to be.
‘A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than a whole book of praise after success. – Mike Kovak
Catch me doing something good… - Dan Lapwing
I would like to declare the rest of May 2023 as… Encourage one another and Catch Me Doing Something Good Month…
Beginning right now… (Phones text)
Like every day… encourage at least one person for the next 18 days.
YES - a word of encouragement does wonders…
AGAIN - it’s just the way we’re made….
YET - many moms wonder every day,
“Does my family appreciate me?”
Husbands, kids,
One of the greatest gifts you can give your mom (or the mother of your children, your wife) is a gift of sincere, genuine, personal, continual ‘not just on the 2nd Sunday in May’ appreciation.
LISTEN – encouragement is the gas in the tank for the journey of motherhood.
THEREFORE – if you want your mother to have a winning game plan, make sure you are pumping high octane encouragement into her tank on a regular basis…
NOW LET ME – give you an example of the power of high octane encouragement.
In Proverbs 31 we read about a mom that is thriving as a wife and mother… She is know as ‘the Proverbs 31 Lady’
She is a wife, homemaker, a business woman, she gets up early, stays up late, she buys and sells land, she helps the poor and the needy, she speaks wise words, makes clothes for the family…
AND MANY TIMES – she is presented as the model of being a wife and motherhood…
AND – most of the time all she does is make women feel guilty…
IN FACT – I have a book on my shelf written by Marsha Drake called, ‘the proverbs 31 lady and Other impossible Dreams.’
BUT LISTEN – if you look closer at this Proverb, there are a few verses toward the end of the chapter…
THAT - (if they were not there)… well, in my humble opinion neither would the entire chapter..
OKAY – so here’s the fuel for the Prov 31 lady...
Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
– Proverbs 31:28-31
MAN - talk about putting fuel into someone’s tank….
HER CHILDREN – speak well of her… “my mom rocks! She’s awesome!” AND HER HUSBAND tells her…
‘you go girl, I don’t know how you do it, but you’re the best…’ AND – they even do it publicly at the city gates.
AND LISTEN – praising a loved one publicly is huge and extremely powerful.
Only one thing more powerful (but in a negative way) is putting down a loved one publicly).
Husbands, kids – does you want your mom/wife to have a winning game plan? THEN – start fueling up your moms (your wives tank) with high octane appreciation and praise.
I MEAN – seriously...
IMAGINE – what our homes, church and world would be like if we all did for each other what our God commands in Hebrews 10:24
Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.
AGAIN – let’s really, really, really, really, really, really, really do this for each other for the rest of May.
Hopefully it will become addicting!
OKAY - I want to just wrap up this point about showing appreciation with a tribute to moms that I came across from a book by Angela Guffy called “A Tender Mercy for a Mother’s Soul.”
It’s an awesome description of all the things that moms, do for their families.
This is for all the mothers who froze their bottoms off on metal bleachers at soccer games Friday night instead of watching them from cars, so that when their kids asked them, ‘Did you see my goal?’ they could say, ‘Of course, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world,’ and really mean it.
This is for all the mothers who sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up chunks of wieners and cherry soda that suddenly reappeared, saying, ‘It’s OK, honey, Mommy’s here.’ This is for all the mothers of Kosovo who fled the night and can’t find their children. This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they will never see, and the mothers who took those babies and made homes for them.
This is for the mothers of victims of school shootings, and the mothers of the murderers, for the mothers of the survivors and for the mothers who sat in front of their TVs in horror, hugging their child who just came home from school safely.
This is for the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes, and for all the mothers who don’t. This is for reading ‘Good Night, Moon,’ twice a night for a year and then reading it again, ‘Just one more time, Mom!’”
This is for all the mothers who mess up and who yell at their kids in the grocery store and stomp their feet like a tired two-year-old who wants ice ream before dinner.
This is for all the mothers who taught their daughters to tie their shoelaces before they started school and for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead. And this is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair, mouth stains on their blouses, and diapers in their purse.”
Moms, we appreciate you.
In just a moment I want to ask all the moms here to stand--young moms and grandmoms, stepmoms and single moms, expectant moms, adoptive moms and foster moms.
And if there is any other mom I have left out, I want you to stand in just a moment.
And dads, husbands, kids, I want us to cheer them and to affirm them and to express our appreciation to them like your favorite team just won the Super bowl…
So moms, would you stand, please? Moms, we love you; we appreciate you! We don’t say it enough. We don’t say it well enough, but we love you. Thank you, moms.
PRAYER…
Strategies for Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Remember God Loves You,
• Remember That God Sees
• Seek God First
• Show moms appreciation, and
VI Focus On The Ultimate Reward Of Motherhood.
NOW – there are all kind of rewards of motherhood; hugs, kisses, home made cards, letters phone calls…
BUT UNDERSTAND – though awesome, they are not the ultimate reward…
QUESTION – so what’s the ultimate reward in a moms winning game plan?
Making a ‘positive Jesus surrendering difference’ in the life of your children.
YEAH - that’s the ultimate reward.
AND – it is the only reward that reaches out into eternity.
MOMS…
God has uniquely positioned you to be one of the most influential people in the life of your child.
Moms, you matter. You make a difference.
UNDERSTAND …
• Those long conversations in the car between all those activities--they make a difference.
• Those nighttime conversations when you are tired and ready to go to sleep, but they need to talk -- they make a difference.
• When you pack their lunches and put a little note in there for them to take to school-- it makes a difference.
• When you drop them off at school or pick them up after school you make a difference.
• When you sit in the bleachers, or stand on the sidelines or applaud in the auditorium, you make a difference.
• When you love them and believe them, you make a difference.
• When you – hold them when they hurt, encourage them when they are down, celebrate their victories, mourn their defeats - you make a difference,
• When you help them with their math problems even though you don’t have a clue yourself, you’re making a difference.
• When you allow them to experience the consequences of their wrong choices you make a difference….
• When you bring them to church week after week after week, you’re making a difference.
• When they see you put your relationship with God and His church first – you make a difference.
YES – making a ‘positive Jesus surrendering difference’ in your child’s life… is the ultimate reward, is the greatest joy
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. – 3 John 1:4
A pastor friend from Florida, wrote the following awhile back...
To secure our children’s faith is the most important role we have as parents. As a youth minister, I was amazed with the parents who went to great lengths to help their children succeed in baseball, band, gymnastics, dance and soccer.
No drive was too far, no cost was too extravagant. Yet these same parents would be cavalier regarding their children’s spiritual foundation. Church on Sunday was obviously a lower priority than those other things, and involvement in the church youth group was always seen as optional.
Jesus reminds us, “What does it profit if we gain the world and loose our soul?” Let me put it another way, what does it matter if your child plays first string, yet does not have Jesus first in his or her heart? - Alan Tison
AGAIN - this is the ultimate goal of being a mom…
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. – 3 John 4
MOMS – what I am trying to say is that you are making a difference with the countless things you do every day for your children. You’re making an investment in their lives that will reap huge dividends for generations to come. Why?
Because when God wants to do something great in the world he doesn’t send in an earthquake. He doesn’t stir up a tornado. He doesn’t erupt a volcano. He sends in a child.
BUT BEFORE - he sends in a child, he finds a woman to be a mom to that child.
When God needed a Moses, he found a Hebrew slave girl living by the banks of the Nile by the name of Jochebed to be his mother.
When God needed an Abraham Lincoln, he found a poor, illiterate Virginia farm girl by the name of Nancy Hanks to be his mother.
When God needed a Martin Luther King, Jr., he reached down and found the daughter of a poor, black preacher in Atlanta, Georgia by the name of Alberta Williams.
When God needed a Mother Theresa, he found a young impoverished, Albanian woman by the name of Nicole to be her mother.
When God needed a Savior for the world, he found a young, Jewish girl living on the backside of an empire to be the mother of the Son of God, the Savior of the world.
MOMS - God chooses women just like you--ordinary, average kinds of women, to do something very extraordinary… TO - touch and make a difference in the world through the lives of your kids…..
AND LISTEN - of all the women in the world, God chose you to be the mother of the children that you have.
YES - you’re the one.
You’re the mom, that your children need.
The all-knowing God - chose you to be the mom to the children that you have…
Those biological children, step children, adopted children, foster children...
Moms, always focus on the ultimate reward,
Be careful not to let all the other ‘good’ activities to distract you from the primary call that God has place on your life as a mom....
making a…
‘positive Jesus surrendering difference’
A difference that will last into eternity... and impact who knows how many lives.
It’s Mother’s Day 2023...
Strategies for Moms: a winning game plan is...
• Let go of the supermom myth
• Remember God Loves You
• Remember That God Sees
• Seek God First
• Show moms appreciation, and
• Focus On The Ultimate Reward Of Motherhood.
