Last week we saw that an ordinary walking stick in the hands of God accomplished remarkable things. It had become the staff of God (Exodus 4:20).
Like that staff, ordinary people in the hands of God become remarkable agents of transformation.
Today I want to talk to the Moms of God.
12 Truths for the Mom of God
- You have been drafted into the Greatest Adventure in the history of the human race!
Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
Mark 16:20 (NIV)
2. There are no little people & no little places in God’s kingdom.
“These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)
3. There are no perfect people or places in the kingdom of God.
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Corinthians 3:5 (ESV)
4. Motherhood is discipleship and discipleship is cross-bearing.
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Luke 9:23 (NIV)
5. Dying is the pathway to living.
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 12:24 (NIV)
6. You are a child first.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Romans 8:16 (NIV)
7. Your child is handcrafted by the maker of the cosmos.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalm 139:14 (NIV)
8. You are not alone.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
9. You are the mother God chose for your child.
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Acts 17:26 (ESV)
10. All the days of your child’s life are already written.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:16 (NIV)
11. You are not alone.
Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the LORD, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the LORD Almighty.
Haggai 2:4 (NIV)
12. There is only one essential in life and motherhood.
but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:42 (CSB)
Tom Brown is the planting pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Wichita. Tom and his wife, Mandy, have worked together in ministry for 18 years and have four children. More about Pastor Tom Brown