Mothers of Faith Whom God Uses
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Summary
This Mother's Day service opens with a call from Psalm 2 to serve the Lord with reverent joy and to "kiss the Son" - to draw near to Jesus and keep a living, personal touch with Him. The pastor honors the mothers present, including the church's oldest mother, and frames the whole gathering as worship offered to Christ.
A guest evangelist preaches on Deborah from the book of Judges. She was neither a soldier nor a strategist, but she knew God and kept a pure heart, so she carried His authority and could speak in His name. When she sent Barak against Sisera's nine hundred iron chariots with only foot soldiers, the plan looked like madness, yet God Himself sent the rain that bogged and drowned the chariots. The point: God raises up ordinary, available people who walk in His word, and He still works miracles that do not fit our reasoning, as one healing testimony illustrated.
The closing message turns to mothers in Scripture - Eve the mother of all living, Moses' mother who entrusted her child to God, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee who brought her sons to Jesus and asked a blessing over their future. Mothers are called to see their children's God-given destiny, to bring them to Christ while they are young, to receive a word from God for them, and to keep covering them in prayer. The service ends by blessing every mother and every future mother in the church.
Key Points
- Draw near to Jesus personally - "kiss the Son" and keep a living, daily touch with Him (Psalm 2).
- A pure heart lets you see and hear God and gives authority to speak in His name (Matthew 5:8).
- God uses ordinary, willing people, not only the qualified - faith is what counts when the odds look impossible.
- Real faith trusts the miracle even when it cannot see how God will do it, as Deborah did.
- Living faith is handed down at home, in daily prayer and the Word, not only in Sunday school.
- Mothers are called to see their children's destiny, bring them to Christ early, and cover them in prayer.
- Offer yourself to God: use me as You will, and free my life of everything false.
Devotional
Deborah was no general and no strategist, yet because she kept a pure heart and knew her God she could speak His word and see the miracle before it arrived. The same Lord who sent the rain to drown an army still raises up ordinary, willing people today. Ask Him to make your heart clean, then hand Him your life: use me as You please, and free me of everything false. Like a faithful mother, learn to see God's purpose over those you love, and keep bringing them to Jesus in prayer.
Kiss the Son - God wants every one of us to have a living, personal touch with Jesus.
Deborah did not know how the miracle would come, but she was certain that it would.
Bring your children to Jesus while they are small, and never stop covering them in prayer.
