This is “How to Honor Your Mother.” There is no one like mom. God knew what He was doing when He created that roll and placed her in our homes. He even attached a special promise to honoring our mothers. But how do we do that? In this message we’ll learn seven ways to give mom the honor she deserves … the honor God commanded us to give.
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Ephesians chapter 6 honor your father
and mother which is the first
commandment with promise watch this that
it may be well with you and you may live
long on the earth the reason that it
extends your life is we the parents
won’t kill you if you if you honor us if
you don’t there’s a real chance but
honor listen to this it’s a commandment
remember one of the top 10 commandments
is to honor your mother honor your
parents how you treat your parents
really does matter to God so much so
that he said it will be well with you if
you honor your parents and you will live
long if you honor your parents
indicating if you don’t it won’t go well
with you and you will shorten your life
it’s really a remarkable thing that
there are several stern warnings that
children who mistreat their parents and
dishonor by their lives and the way and
the things they do and the way they
treat their parents will suffer great
great consequences the question that I
would ask every parent is are you the
kind of daughter you would like to raise
are you the kind of son that you would
like to raise and the question is how do
you honor your mother I want to give you
this as such a simple message it won’t
take me long at all and so I want to
give you about seven quick things of how
to honor your mother
number one love your mother
unconditionally no matter what the way
that you honor your mother is to love
her unconditionally love her when she’s
young and love her when she’s old love
her when she has so much to give and she
keeps on giving and giving and giving to
you the best years of her life
everything that she has she gives to you
lays down her life for you love her
when she has something to give and when
she has nothing left to give you are
commanded to love her unconditionally
secondly hug her affectionately there’s
a bumper sticker that you see every once
in a while on cars that says have you
hugged your kid today I think we ought
to make one and put it on teenagers
doors and say have you hugged your mom
today because it’s amazing it’s amazing
how we can take for granted that our
mother knows that we love her but we are
to not only love our mother
unconditionally but we are to hug her
kiss her affectionately because they
need it tell her that you love her we
live in a different time than we did
when I was coming up we understood there
are certain things that you say to
mother and you don’t say to mother and
if you said something to mother that
wasn’t right then there were grave
consequences you just don’t get up and
tell your mother anything on your mind
the one time that I remember my father
striking me in the face with the open
hand and I’m not recommending you do
that but I’m just telling you it made a
great impression on me with when I was a
teenager and my mother got on my nerves
and did something st. Katie did
something that got on my nerves and I
just opened up and said something so
disrespectful to her and the neck I
don’t know where he came from the next
thing I remember is the side of my face
feeling numb and he had slapped me and
he said don’t you ever speak to your
mother who is my wife like that again or
I’ll take you out in the backyard and do
worse than what I did you can make fun
of that
Ballu know that but it caught me a
respect from my mother that I to this
day have never forgotten hug them
affectionately if you around your mother
just reach over and give her a hug right
now you’re not too cool for school just
reach over and give her a hug and say I
love you love her unconditionally hug
her affectionately number three
understand this is how you honor your
mother by understanding her
sympathetically you see women go through
a lot of changes mothers go through a
lot of changes they wear so many hats
they cook they clean they judge they
make peace they referee they are
sounding boards they’re accountants they
do so much and we need to appreciate the
great job that mothers do for us every
single day of their life and we need to
we need to understand them
sympathetically we need to have
something in our heart that is so
accommodating and so sympathetic and and
not just treat ugly after you’ve gotten
everything you can from them as they’re
getting older we are to be extremely
sympathetic understanding
sympathetically our mothers is a way
that you honor them number four
listen to her attentively husbands won’t
undivided attention children when
there’s something wrong
they won’t undivided attention from that
mother I love that story in the Old
Testament in second Kings four when
there was trouble with one of the kids
that was out in the field he said my
head my head and they think he had a
sunstroke is what some people believe
and the dad is working beside him and
the dad turns when a real massive
problem comes and says take him to his
mother I always thought that was funny
take him to his mother but when there is
a problem guess who we want to listen to
us attentively nothing because what do
you do in
your household when there’s trouble you
want to find mother and tell mother
don’t tell him don’t tell daddy he’ll
push it all he’ll just somebody could be
bleeding to death and he’ll keep
watching the basketball game if they put
a bandaid on it and don’t worry about it
been alright but mother is so attentive
mother is there she’s so concerned every
detail and in return we are to honor our
mother by listening to her attentively
someone said wisely when you’re old
enough to know the answers nobody asked
you any questions the older people get
the wiser they get they know more than
you know you little 20-something you
little 30-something that has one little
baby they raise four or five and you
think you know so much that you can’t
even hardly trust them to keep your
little darlin alive while you go to a
movie with your husband but please
listen to them they know what they’re
talking about and even if you don’t
agree with them make them feel valuable
make them feel that what they have to
say is important because they listen to
you attentively from the time you cried
all your life you’ve talked to them
about your greatest problems and your
greatest challenges and now they are in
a season maybe when they need you to
listen attentively number five help her
cheerfully mothers are the greatest
helpers in the world they do things that
money cannot pay people to do they pick
up things out of the bathroom floor that
no one else would ever come near they
are amazing because of that don’t act
like she’s a bother don’t act like that
when they ask you for something that
it’s an inconvenience but help her
cheerfully love her unconditionally hug
her often affectionately
and understand her sympathetically I
remember hearing the story from Darlene
Bishop and it’s cute I found it online
again and listen to this she said that
she got up and she had this speech she’s
a profound speaker and she had to preach
at their church that morning it was it
was her Sunday the preach her husband
was not there so she had to get those
two babies dressed and she got him
dressed and she said she used to dress
them in pageant dresses he’s from
Kentucky in and they just went all out
every Sunday and she you know the
pageant dresses anybody know one with
the big old bow and the pageant dress
like in a beauty pageant
you know all the sparkles and the hair
is just right and everything the little
shoes and she said I mean I had them
dressed out to the tee and she said that
she got both the girls dressed and then
of course as Mother’s know then you get
yourself dressed somehow and you pray to
God they don’t spill anything on
themselves while you’re getting yourself
dressed and somehow she got out the door
and she had just enough time to get
there before church started and run in
and and and she said as they pulled up
the youngest daughter the two and a half
year old spoke up and said mommy you
forgot to put my panties on and and she
said that was the most rambunctious
little girl you’ve ever seen said she
would run all over she lifts her dress
up she’d do cartwheels if she had a
chance and she said I knew there was no
way that child was going to sit still in
that service so she turns to the older
sister and she says take your panties
off and give to your younger sister and
the older sister is going crazy mama
don’t make me do that and she said I you
have never seen a child sit so still in
a service she said she was like a
mannequin that older daughter she never
moved these are the kinds of issues that
mothers have to help with all the time
that men are too dumb to ever handle
come on a man they try so hard to do
everything for everybody and we need to
help our mothers here’s a big word
cheerfully don’t act like you’re doing
them a big favor because you’re giving
them some money or helping them
financially or fan took care of you all
your life and this is how you honor your
mother number six
remember her gratefully little things
mean a lot to mom just to call what are
you doing
how are you what’s going on you’re going
shopping you want to go shopping we’re
going shopping you want to go with us
we’ve got a ballgame we’ve got a soccer
game you want to come we’ve got this
we’ve got that you remember her
gratefully just to call just to call
from the grandkids to the grandmother
just to call to say you matter just the
call just a you’re important enough from
me to reach out to you you’ve given so
much to me you see it makes her feel she
wants to feel like somebody appreciates
her somebody loves her she gave you the
best years of her life and the way that
you honor her is by gratefully
remembering her and giving those phone
calls giving those invitations you’ll
never ever forget and you let her know
gratefully you remember how well she
taught you how well she trained you how
much she loved you how excellent she
cared for you just a call just an invite
just a friendly gesture always something
that we’re gratefully remembering our
mother is the way that we honor her
number seven we must
mind her how much she is needed
constantly you see it hurts a mom to
feel she’s no longer needed there’s
nothing that the enemy would love more
to tell the mom and she get moved into
her golden years is maybe the husband
the dad has passed away the her husband
has passed away the enemy loves to
whisper you’re not necessary your life
is over
nobody has time for you you’re just a
hindrance you’re just a inconvenience to
everybody that’s a lie and we have to
constantly remind our mothers how much
they’re needed constantly when she can’t
work
she still is needed because she can pray
it thrilled her when you call and ask
for the recipe and it’s never gonna
taste as good as she can make it because
she don’t know the recipe she’s just
picking stuff up and throwing it in but
if thrills her that you think enough to
ask her and it sounds almost to some of
you unimportant but I’m telling you the
older that someone gets the more we need
to show and remember and honor and let
them know constantly how valuable and
how much we love them what mothers need
most is to know that their children love
and honor God in 1820 there was a man by
the name of Peter richly who had perhaps
the strangest survival story ever told
that we have in human record Peter
richly got on a ship in 1822 sail from
England to Australia along the journey
across the ocean the ship encountered a
problem and it began to think
it went all the way under and everyone
perished but a man by the name of Peter
richly while he was floating in the
water a second ship happened to come
along they saw something in the water
they went over and sure enough he was
rescued the next day they encountered a
storm and the second ship sank but there
happened to be a third ship and Peter
richly was rescued by the third ship but
something happened along the journey and
the third ship this is a historical
record you can check out what I’m
telling you it’s sunk but there came a
fourth ship and it found that one man in
the water now my thing is I might would
check him out and wonder if he’s
thinking these ships but he wasn’t he
hadn’t it was just a freak thing the
fourth ship bailed him out of the water
and rescued him come on you gonna help
me preach but while they’re on their
journey to Australia the fourth ship
sinks and a fifth ship comes along and
bails him out of the water but the fifth
ship sunk and the thick ship came along
it was called the City of Leeds
that’s the name of the ship the City of
Leeds l.e.d.s the crew pulled him out of
the water gave him warm clothes fed him
meal he told them his unbelievable story
and as he finally got over that trip and
they were a few days from the harbor in
Sydney Australia the captain came to him
and he said sir would you do a favour
for us and he said you saved my life
I’ll do anything you asked me to do he
said when we started this journey many
weeks ago there was an old mother an old
woman who won the hearts of the crew she
loved on every one of us and she knew
every man on
Kru every person on the boat was just
the crew and she had a ticket going to
Australia but she became ill about a
week ago and she is so feverish and so
sick that she is dying she’s down to
nothing she hasn’t eaten anything she’s
burning up with a fever and we think
she’s so frail she won’t last even til
we make it to Australia would you
because the whole time that she’s been
ill and sick and delirious out of her
mind with fever she’s been praying Oh
God
Oh God I beg you let me see my son one
more time just let me live to see my son
I beg you
he said she goes in and out of almost a
coma but that’s the prayer whenever she
comes around and the heart and the crew
loves her so much but she knows all of
them but she won’t know who you are
because we picked you up in the ocean
would you pretend to be her son so she
can leave this world in peace he said of
course I will he walked in and the
captain kind of pushed him to the boat
look there was a silver haired frail
woman burning up with fever it was
obvious she was at the point of death
but under her breath she was praying old
God please let me see my son one more
time and suddenly when Peter richly
looked into the face of that woman he
broke and began to weep because it was
his mother Sarah richly who had not seen
him in ten years and she had made a
decision to somehow go see her son one
more time and I believe the only reason
that five ships sinking couldn’t take
him down the storm couldn’t destroy him
as we are to never underestimate the
power of a praying mother it will get
you too
store it if you through any crisis it
will get your family through any kind of
stormy weather they’re going through the
power of a praying mother I know in my
family when there’s trouble in our home
I run to my mother I pick up the phone
and I say pray for me pray for my family
pray for my children because we should
never underestimate the power of a
praying mother when she can’t work
anymore when she can’t give anymore
when she can’t serve anymore when she
can’t do things for you anymore she can
pray for you I’m going to tell you
something there’s power in the prayers
of a godly mother give God a big praise
if you know I’m preaching
and there’s things that should have
taken you out that should have taken you
down there’s no reason why you’re still
here today except God answered the
prayers of a praying mother and here you
are at free Chapel today and the
greatest way that you could honor God is
to give your heart and life to Jesus
Christ when Jesus hung on the cross he
honored his mother he said John take
care of my mother he modeled for us that
we are to honor our mother even in his
own pain he wouldn’t forget to honor his
mother
you can honor your mother and her
prayers by accepting her God and her
Savior Jesus Christ
but I’m going to give you an opportunity
to honor the Lord honor the prayers of a
praying mother today pastor pray for me
I don’t know that I’m ready to stand
before God I don’t know that I’m right
with God as a matter of fact I would
have to say deep in my heart I know that
I’m far from God and I know the only
thing that kept me alive the car wreck
might would have killed me the drugs
might would have destroyed me the party
that I went to I could have ended up in
a prison sale I probably should be there
but the only thing that kept me afloat
was the prayers of a praying mother
please pastor I want to receive her God
as my god
I want Jesus to be Lord of my life I
want to give him my life today pray for
me I won’t embarrass you
I won’t humiliate you but Jesus said he
would not come where he’s not invited
and if you don’t acknowledge him he will
not acknowledge you you must acknowledge
him and he will come
pastor pray for me I want Jesus in my
life I want to honor God today I want to
surrender to him pray for me that you
boldly lift your hand up right where
you’re standing I want to see it right
now there’s a hand there’s a hand
there’s a hand there’s a hand beautiful
raise it high and unashamed this is
awesome this is awesome right there in
that room where you are raised that hand
high it’s powerful suta for the hand see
hands this is always there for mothers
either here on earth are up in heaven
that are going to be shouting when the
service is done in about one minute all
right here’s what I want you to do if
you raise your hand if you’re just
standing around I want you to pray this
prayer out loud and know that these are
eternal words the Bible said he that
hath the son listen hath eternal life
the moment you accept Jesus you accept
eternal life pray this prayer everybody
say these words out loud
Lord Jesus I surrender my life
completely to you I believe in what you
did on the cross when you shed your
blood it cleanses me it forgives me it
heals me and it blesses me I have the
faith of my mother it’s now in me and I
will walk with Jesus the rest of my life
in Jesus name
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previously before coming to the drinks
area I literally had no help for myself
I’d not had no help for my son
I just um really thought that I was
going to end up just like my parents
either addicted to something giving up
on my son and him eventually being taken
from me and putting into the system
being pregnant I was homeless not sure
when I was going to eat shower and
sister contacted one of the program
leaders and got them to call me decided
to finally answer when they actually
took me in I feel something different
the people I’m surrounded by every
single day is the one that gives me that
hope that tells me that my son can
become something because of where I am
at right now I would say what Christ has
done and my life and becoming the mom
that I am is that he gave me the hope
that I can just keep fighting past all
the hurt and the pain that I was going
through and just become the mom that I
never had if it wasn’t for the Dream
Center I wouldn’t be sitting here I
wouldn’t be enjoying life I wouldn’t be
seeing my son grow up around people that
care for him and love him and the
business has done the lot for me and
changed my outlook on life
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