1 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,200 I know that today couldn't be a challenging day, right? 2 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:24,040 As mothers, you know, some people have lost their mothers 3 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,880 and they no longer have their mothers with them today. 4 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:33,120 Maybe some of you have been, you know, separated from your 5 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,760 mother's because of situations, trauma, dysfunction in your 6 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,440 life. So there's many emotions I think 7 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:46,760 that can happen on Mother's Day and also Father's Day because of 8 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,280 different things that has happened in our life. 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:55,120 But I do want to say that no matter what has happened, that 10 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:01,920 God is a restorer and he is a Redeemer and he can redeem any 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,720 broken relationship, He can redeem your heart. 12 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,360 If your mother is no longer here, He can comfort you and he 13 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:16,640 can be the one to help navigate you each and every year when you 14 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:22,360 encounter again, when the world celebrates mothers, Amen. 15 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,480 So we know that there are many different emotions. 16 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:32,720 And, you know, with that understanding, we understand 17 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,480 that not everybody feels that it's a Happiest Mother's Day, 18 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,080 but that's the way it should be. Amen. 19 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,640 It should be a happy Mother's Day because of the fact that 20 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,760 none of us would be here without a mother. 21 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,240 So be thankful that you are even brought into the earth. 22 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,000 Amen. That you were brought into the 23 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:05,400 earth so that then God could use you to be a mother to others, a 24 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,520 mother to others. And that's kind of what we're 25 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:14,000 going to talk about today, that maybe you don't have a great 26 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 example of a mother. Maybe you again have been 27 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 traumatized, rejected by a mother. 28 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,800 You know that is not God's design and was never God's 29 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,200 heart. But because of the fall of 30 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,920 humanity, we know that we have to pick up the pieces of sin and 31 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:34,760 what is remained in the earth, right? 32 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,560 And with that that comes different scenarios and 33 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,880 different situations. But again, if we we can allow 34 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,720 some other women or other mothers to begin to speak into 35 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,200 our life and bring the nurturing side of what the mother was 36 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,200 supposed to bring into your life. 37 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:02,400 And not just nurture, but many other things that a woman can 38 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,720 bring forth. Amen. 39 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:11,280 And my scripture is because this year the Lord laid it on my 40 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,920 heart to speak to our women in this house to be Deborah's, and 41 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,680 for Deborah's to arise in the earth. 42 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,560 And we know the the story of Deborah. 43 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,120 If you don't, you can find that in the book of Judges, Chapter 4 44 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,600 and Chapter 5. But God used Deborah as a woman 45 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:41,120 to help deliver a nation. And he she was many things, not 46 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,040 just a woman. She was a judge. 47 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,960 She was a prophet. She was a psalmist and an 48 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:56,320 intercessor. She was a deliverer, but she was 49 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:05,120 also what Judges 5:00 and 7:00 called a mother to Israel, and 50 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,360 it said this. It says the pheasantry ceased 51 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:15,440 and they ceased in Israel until I, Deborah arose until I arose a 52 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:21,839 mother in Israel. So what does that mean? 53 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:28,360 That she was a mother in Israel or a mother to Israel during 54 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,680 that time? What does that mean? 55 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,560 So we see this woman that God wanted to use to give strategic 56 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:45,160 military plans to be able to help overcome in that nation 57 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:50,080 once again as those people were rebellious once again and the 58 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,040 people were being oppressed by the Canaanites and they were 59 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,600 suffering. And here God rose up Deborah at 60 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:05,080 as she was just doing what she was doing as a judge but she he 61 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,640 specifically gave Deborah a plan to be able to help the nation, 62 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,160 to help the nation. So it wasn't just about her. 63 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,720 It was about her being able to help. 64 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,640 Be a blessing to a nation or bring deliverance to a nation or 65 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:35,560 be able to speak into a nation of what God wanted his 66 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,480 ordinances and the things that he needed to say to the nation 67 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:47,240 and to bring them back to him. And so here she is as a mother 68 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:53,160 of Israel, right. And it says here that she was a 69 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,920 judge for over 20 years. But I like as I was reading 70 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:03,160 through this and this stood out to me today is that it said her 71 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:10,040 heart was with the the leaders of Israel and the volunteers. 72 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,800 Her heart was with the leaders of Israel and the volunteers. 73 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:23,280 And the reason why God could use Deborah is because she had her 74 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:29,440 heart involved with the leaders. She had her heart involved with 75 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:38,640 the volunteers and a mother most the time is led by what her 76 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:45,000 heart, her heart and the reason why she was able to judge 77 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,840 correctly and be a prophetic voice in that time and bring 78 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,760 deliverance to the nation is because year after year as she 79 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,840 judged the people rightly according to God's ordinances 80 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:04,600 for 20 years, day in and day out at the gates as she was judging 81 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,520 what was she doing. She was winning the hearts of 82 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:15,640 the people. She was actually sharing her 83 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,600 heart with the people and the people were sharing their heart 84 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,720 with her and the leaders could trust her. 85 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,520 They could trust her. And if she was going to say to 86 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:36,880 barrack, let's go do this, get 10,000 men so that we can go and 87 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:43,120 start to win this battle, listen and he said I'm not going to go 88 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,480 unless you go with me. I believe it's because he 89 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:55,440 trusted her, he trusted her. He saw through many years of her 90 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,760 heart towards the leaders, of her heart towards the people, 91 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:04,720 and he could trust that whatever she said will happen. 92 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:09,800 But I don't want to go unless you, Deborah, go with me. 93 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:19,800 And if we could see the importance of a mother, the 94 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,280 anointing of a mother or what we would like to call as well, a 95 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:32,320 mother's heart and what God created within woman, then we 96 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,320 would see that there's some powerful things that women carry 97 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:47,040 and can give birth to. Not just in the natural, but 98 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:55,240 women can be a part of what God needs to birth in this realm. 99 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:07,800 And I believe just as God rose Deborah up in that hour to help 100 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:13,080 deliver people, I believe that he needs a modern day Deborah 101 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:19,040 right now in the hour that we are living in the chaos that we 102 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,960 are seeing. When mothers have quit nurturing 103 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,760 to the fact that they can destroy their own children in 104 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:34,280 their womb, there has been a vacuum of what God created a 105 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:40,280 woman to be able to bear that nurturing that only. 106 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,920 And when that nurture is gone, we see the result of what man 107 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:52,040 has become, not just man. I'm saying mankind, what mankind 108 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,280 has become, because there's been enough vacuum of this nurture 109 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,600 that hasn't been there for humanity. 110 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:04,840 Who would have thought years ago we would start hearing of how 111 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,280 mothers would wake up and drown their babies, and mothers would, 112 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:15,360 you know, run their cars off in a in a pond with their babies 113 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,600 strapped in the car seats. Something has been twisted 114 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:26,400 within the mother in this hour that we're living so much so 115 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:33,040 that we don't even see a Society of women that are able to help 116 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,520 nurture young people to know who they are. 117 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:42,000 They are confused with their identity. 118 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,640 Well, when my daughter had two brothers and wanted to wear 119 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:55,040 underwear like her brothers that had Ninja Turtles on them at 120 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:03,360 three years old and four years old as a mother, as a mother, I 121 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:09,920 said no, honey, these are underwear and they're for boys. 122 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:22,520 But because women have even lost their minds actually that are 123 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:29,560 not telling their children how to become what God created them 124 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:38,040 to be, as even a species, we have quit nurturing what God has 125 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:52,720 given us to nurture. So a woman can bring forth 126 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,400 powerful things, and God designed her that way. 127 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:08,240 I love what Doctor Miles Monroe said about a woman. 128 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:17,160 A woman is a life giver. The third aspect of the female's 129 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,840 dominion role is that she is a life giver. 130 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,160 But the woman's dominion role of life giving is not limited to 131 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:31,440 just delivering a human child. The woman is an incubator 132 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:40,320 because her very nature reflects her inclination to develop and 133 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,920 to give new life to things. Her incubational ability 134 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:55,400 permeates all areas of her life, all areas of her life. 135 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:02,080 She has a physical womb, but she also has an emotional womb, a 136 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:07,160 mental and an instinctual womb, a spiritual womb. 137 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,800 And it is not only a matter of receiving, but it's also being 138 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:18,000 able to form what she has received, which makes the woman 139 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,480 an incubator. I can say it like this. 140 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,160 And he said it very well, and I'm going to read it in a 141 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,680 minute. You put something in a woman's 142 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:34,240 hand and there's going to be something that can be created 143 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:41,560 from it because that's what God's original design was for a 144 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:50,920 woman, for a woman, and what makes mothers powerful, what 145 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,520 makes mothers powerful? He says. 146 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,320 This doctor Miles, remember, whatever you give a woman, 147 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,720 whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply it. 148 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,840 If you give her sperm, she's going to give you a baby. 149 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,400 If you give her a house, she's gonna give you a home. 150 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,800 If you give her groceries, she's gonna give you a meal. 151 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,880 If you give her a smile, she is gonna give you her heart. 152 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:31,800 If she multiplies and enlarges what is given to her, because we 153 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:37,920 can't help it, that's why we were designed and created. 154 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:47,520 And the bottom line is, is that it's not just for us being for 155 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,520 women, it is for us being for humanity. 156 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:58,480 Because a woman has something to give and bring forth to a man, 157 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,640 and a man can't do it without a woman. 158 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,640 And he also said this doctor, Miles Monroe. 159 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:19,520 He said this when purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. 160 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,920 And when man don't understand the purpose of a woman, of a 161 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:32,680 mother, abuse is inevitable. And that's why we see men that 162 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:38,760 can't sit up underneath a woman. We see men that abuse women. 163 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,640 You see what I'm saying? Because they don't understand 164 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:50,680 her purpose and what she has to bring forth and to give birth 165 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,600 to. Hallelujah. 166 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:04,440 So I'm kind of jumping all over here, but it's I'm just going as 167 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:13,520 the Holy Spirit is leaving. Leading me says this we have to 168 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:19,160 understand why woman was created. 169 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,360 And we said that we see this out of Genesis chapter 2 and verse 170 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,120 18. We're talking about mothers who 171 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,920 are women. Amen. 172 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,000 So it's all the same. But in Genesis chapter 2 and 173 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:41,200 verse 18 it says and the Lord God said it is not good that man 174 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:46,360 should be alone. I will make him a helper. 175 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:52,000 One translation says a help me comparable to him. 176 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,160 So it is not good for man to be alone. 177 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:04,200 God said that God knew that there was something missing from 178 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:10,720 man that only the woman could bring forth for his life. 179 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:21,079 It's going to take us understanding that women must 180 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:28,400 understand their position too, and what we were created for. 181 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:35,000 We were created for man. We were created for man. 182 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:41,560 We were created to be able to come alongside and run with a 183 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:47,720 vision that that man would have, and us help incubate it and 184 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:57,560 create it and bring it forth. And if you don't have a woman, 185 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,560 guess what have you ever heard? I know this this saying, those 186 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:07,360 church mothers. There's some church mothers. 187 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:11,800 Why? Because what a mother can bring 188 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,480 and what a woman can bring, you still need. 189 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:21,480 If you don't have a wife or a woman in your life, there's 190 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:31,320 something that we can help speak into man and help bring forth 191 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,800 giftings and talents within their life. 192 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:40,920 This is what we were designed for, and if we understand what a 193 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:46,560 man and a woman's role is, it would be easy for us to be able 194 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:52,280 to function and flow together, knowing that what he has. 195 00:18:52,280 --> 00:19:00,880 I'm there to help create and give birth to all the giftings, 196 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:05,880 all the talents. We as mothers are here to speak 197 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,440 forth those. That's why Deborah was the 198 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,720 mother of Israel, because she was able to bring forth wisdom 199 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:20,040 from herself and be able to pour it out into the people as she 200 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,160 was out and about with them on a daily basis. 201 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:28,840 She was able to speak into these people's lives and say, listen, 202 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,840 you can do this. Don't you see how God is 203 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,640 confusing you here? Come on, let's bring forth that 204 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,560 gift. Or let's bring forth that 205 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,000 talent. There is something about a 206 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,120 mother that can bring nurturing to an individual. 207 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:55,320 Nurturing to the gifts and the talents that only a woman can 208 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,080 bring. Hallelujah, Let's go to. 209 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:06,960 Genesis chapter 3, Genesis chapter 3 and verse 20. 210 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:13,720 It said Now the man called his wife's name Eve because she was 211 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:22,720 the mother of all the living. She was the mother of all the 212 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,680 living. As I said, a mother is a life 213 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,520 giver. She is actually a wellspring of 214 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:36,200 of life that is supposed to be able to pour out into people's 215 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:42,680 lives. Wisdom, direction, auction, 216 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:48,960 impartation. This is what we women are to do. 217 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,960 And we see that it begins to function if we're buried between 218 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,920 husband and wife. And then as you're married, as 219 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,960 husband and wives, then it's going to begin to function with 220 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,360 your children as you begin to give birth to children. 221 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,640 But not only is it supposed to be just your birth children, we 222 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:14,720 should have spiritual children. We should have other people that 223 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,080 God has put within our paths or within our sphere, within our 224 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,040 realm. That we are able to begin to 225 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:29,840 pour into motherly advice or nurturing towards people that 226 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:34,720 don't have that nurture, that weren't nurtured properly. 227 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,680 They weren't nurtured properly. They could have been nurtured 228 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,720 into the wrong things. And what are you now? 229 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,640 You're there as a mother to help nurture them back into the the 230 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,560 things of God like Deborah did, to bring them back around to the 231 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:01,480 ordinances of God, to what God really created them to be. 232 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:06,240 What does nurture mean? It means to care for, to 233 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,720 encourage the growth or the development of. 234 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,480 So as a mother we are here to care for and encourage growth 235 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:23,440 within people's lives so that they can develop properly. 236 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,320 We know parent or mothers that have not properly taken care of 237 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,280 their children. Their developmental skills are 238 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:37,400 off, right? They've not nurtured them 239 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,520 properly. And now we have children that 240 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,280 their developmental skills are off because they haven't. 241 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,760 They weren't nurtured properly within those formidable years. 242 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,240 And so therefore, what are we having to do? 243 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:58,640 We all if we are growing into the godly women that God created 244 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,320 us to be, then we should be able to pour that out within other 245 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,160 people's lives. Amen. 246 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:12,160 And it says this to nurture or it means the process of caring 247 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,760 for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or 248 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:22,880 something physically, emotionally, and spiritually in 249 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:29,240 all three realms, right? We have, you know, testimonies. 250 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:34,440 You've had heard testimonies of teachers, maybe somebody in a, 251 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,160 you know, school that maybe their mother wasn't caring for 252 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,680 them, but they had a teacher that noticed they weren't being 253 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:48,400 cared for properly. We hear this all the time in in 254 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,960 in schools, right? They weren't being cared for. 255 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,800 They weren't being nourished. They weren't being bathed. 256 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,080 They weren't wearing clothes that were being washed. 257 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,360 Right? Come on, y'all in the teacher's 258 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,200 world. You know what I'm talking about. 259 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,560 And yet we'll see this teacher come and begin to get them new 260 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:15,040 clothes, make sure they bring in them extra food during the day. 261 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,760 What is that teacher doing? She is showing some nurturing 262 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:25,440 For a child. That is absence to help them 263 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:30,080 grow mentally and physically. And you know, if they're born 264 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,360 again, hopefully spiritually, but if not, and how many kids 265 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:40,680 grow up to remember, I remember this teacher that only reason 266 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,480 why I'm successful today is because when I was in the third 267 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:49,440 grade and my mom was out on meth and I was living in a dump, my 268 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:56,920 teacher nurtured me, mothered me, poured into me. 269 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:06,640 You see that power that we have? And it was, it's not just, you 270 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,440 know, females. It may have been a a boy that 271 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:17,880 needed a mother's love that he wasn't getting. 272 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,960 Do you see that? And so therefore, we as 273 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:29,760 believers now, we see that we can begin to take on this call 274 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,600 to make sure that as mothers and women that we raise up to do 275 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,520 that for others, not just our own children. 276 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,680 It's not just about you mothering your own children. 277 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:52,200 It's about speaking into the lives of others and help bring 278 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,600 forth things within their lives that they never saw were in 279 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,680 there. They never saw it was in there. 280 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,000 But because you saw it, or because you encouraged it, or 281 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,960 because you spoke and said some little phrase, they grab hold of 282 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:19,200 it and it gives birth within their lives so that they can 283 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,480 take hold of it. Hallelujah. 284 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:31,600 Now look at first Thessalonians chapter 2, First Thessalonians 285 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,800 chapter 2, verses 7:00 and 9:00. It says. 286 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,960 But we have proved to be gentle among you. 287 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,440 This is Paul now writing first Thessalonians. 288 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:48,360 OK, a man is writing this, and he says, But we proved to be 289 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:54,200 gentle among you as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her 290 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,800 own children. Having so fond and affection for 291 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,400 you, we are well pleased to impart to you not only the 292 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,040 gospel of God, but also our own lives. 293 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,040 They're not just imparting the word, they're imparting their 294 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,520 own lives. That means you got to start 295 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:21,800 getting intimate with people, not disconnected from people. 296 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:29,040 We are living in a society where there is a disconnect even in 297 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,240 our relationships, not just husbands and wives. 298 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,520 Major disconnect there. But I'm just talking about with 299 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,480 our children, there's a disconnect. 300 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,120 With our our Co workers, there's a disconnect where nobody wants 301 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,960 to get involved with other people's lives. 302 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,040 But to truly nurture, as we see Deborah did, to truly be a 303 00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:03,240 mother, she had to get into people's business and begin to 304 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720 say hold up here like those church mothers. 305 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,760 What you think you coming up in the church wearing a skirt, 306 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:13,080 looking like a hoochie Mama, let's be mothers. 307 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:22,120 That is inappropriate. Come on, those church mothers 308 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:25,960 didn't mind saying that. And some of us need to start 309 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,320 saying it again, 'cause I'm starting to see it. 310 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,600 And why? Why is it to condemn? 311 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:43,880 No, it's to nurture and mother and say, sweetheart, we're not 312 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:51,680 at the beach and you want to let this be a precious gift to your 313 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,880 husband one day, not everybody that can see it. 314 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:05,760 Come on, we can say things in love and nurturing to people, 315 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,720 right? How about all these boys that 316 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,560 just want to flirt with every woman I woke up to and you need 317 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,080 to quit what you're doing right now? 318 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,560 That's enough. You're not going to come up here 319 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,040 and flirt with every girl in this church. 320 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,760 Get on down the road. I've said it. 321 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,640 Come on, Will. You have to do these things. 322 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:40,240 You have to do these things because you love people and you 323 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,720 love holiness and you love godliness and you love what God 324 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,360 loves and you hate what God hates. 325 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,560 And because the church. And because we have kept our 326 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:59,800 mouth shut for so long, because we don't want to offend. 327 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:08,880 When he says my word will offend, but you can say it in a 328 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,040 loving manner. And one day they may not know it 329 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,160 now, but one day they'll come back and thank you and had that 330 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,880 a many a times. Thank you. 331 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,920 Thank you for loving me enough to tell me I shouldn't be doing 332 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,040 that. You mothered me. 333 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:31,160 You nurtured me when my own mother wouldn't, And she would 334 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,160 let me leave the house looking like that. 335 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,560 See what I'm saying? So anyway, Paul's speaking here 336 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:48,600 in First Thessalonians, and this is Paul saying that he said that 337 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:54,960 he proved among them to be as a nursing mother that tenderly 338 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,480 cares for their own children. He's he used that reference 339 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,920 there as a nursing mother because there's something that 340 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:09,720 can bring nourishment and nurturing to an individual. 341 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,800 And it's not just for women. As I said, a man should be able 342 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:22,360 to bring nurture and mentorship and speak into other people's 343 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,240 lives. But the reason why he said it 344 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,800 like this is because there was an intimacy, you know, most of 345 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,440 the time a nursing mother that's kind of intimate between the 346 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,960 child and the mother, right? Not in a negative sexual way, 347 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,400 but that's an intimate time of them building a bond. 348 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:52,280 And he's using a reference there that we came to you in this kind 349 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:58,400 of nourishing, nursing way, to an intimate way to build a bond 350 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:03,320 with you and and and a fond affection with you. 351 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,480 And it says, And we were well pleased to impart it to you, not 352 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:13,720 just the gospel, but our own lives, our heart, our heart. 353 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,360 And then he goes on to say, because you have become very 354 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,600 dear to us. For you recall, brethren, our 355 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,360 labor and our hardship, how working night and day, so as not 356 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,600 to be a burden to anyone of you, we proclaim to you the gospel of 357 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,600 God. So for us to be able to again, I 358 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,720 believe one way we can be a witness to other people is to 359 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,880 bring forth a tender, nurturing side of ourselves. 360 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,320 That we can get intimate with people and then begin to help 361 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,120 nourish and build them up. And then begin to what? 362 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,680 Speak into their lives and bring an impartation of godliness or 363 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,640 the word? Maybe they're not born again, 364 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,240 but yet you work with somebody that you have chosen. 365 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,320 I'm going to nurture this person because she needs some love. 366 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,760 You see what I'm saying? I'm going to start speaking in 367 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,920 and start giving birth to some things in this person because 368 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,000 she is ungodly at my work. She da da da da da da da. 369 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:32,200 But I'm going to begin to be a mother and bring some things out 370 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,920 of this person to be able to bring birth to her so that she 371 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:43,040 can actually receive from the Kingdom of God and get born 372 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,120 again. Because I'm willing to get 373 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,720 intimate with people I'm willing to nurture and get into a place 374 00:33:53,240 --> 00:34:02,800 of nurturing Hallelujah. Look at Second Timothy chapter 375 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,080 one and verse 5. Again, this is Paul speaking, 376 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,239 and I thought this was interesting as I was studying 377 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,639 this out, because I see here that Paul was very in tune with 378 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:22,480 the nurturing aspect and what it would take to have that 379 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:28,760 impartation into other people's lives, because again, he was 380 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,440 very aware. Here he says in verse five. 381 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,639 It says. For I am mindful of the sincere 382 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:40,880 faith within you which first dwelt within your grandmother, 383 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:48,280 Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I am sure that it is in you 384 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,360 as well. So he recognized faith within 385 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,440 Timothy's grandmother and mother. 386 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,000 Well, why do you think Paul recognized that? 387 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,400 Because he was intimate with them. 388 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,480 He spent time with them. But not only that, I'm sure that 389 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,280 grandmother had much to say to Paul. 390 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:18,840 No doubt. No doubt, if they spent time 391 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:24,720 together, that grandmother was going to speak into the gift 392 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:29,640 that Paul was. And I guarantee you he was 393 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,320 encouraged. He was strengthened in his his 394 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,840 gift and his calling to continue his race. 395 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,400 Come on. I guarantee you. 396 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,880 Guarantee you that. Eunice. 397 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,120 Is it Eunice? Yeah, Lois. 398 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:57,440 Lois spoke into Paul's life and was a mother to him and brought. 399 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,520 I mean, if anybody needed some nurturing, it was Paul who was 400 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,880 beaten How many times, left to die? 401 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,880 How many times? Come on, Paul needs some 402 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:18,040 nurturing, and he was able to get that nurturing from Lois and 403 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:23,080 Eunice. It wasn't just about faith. 404 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:30,920 It was about being a part of someone's life and helping pull 405 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:39,800 out what is within them and nurture the things that God has 406 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,160 put within their hearts and within their lives. 407 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:50,080 Amen. And having, of course, a mother 408 00:36:50,080 --> 00:37:00,000 is gonna have more of a instinctual, you know, keenness. 409 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:07,560 Mothers have that instinct that just know some things about 410 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,200 their children. You know the way they cry. 411 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,120 You know that cry is for a poopy diaper. 412 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,920 You know that cry is for a hungry bottle. 413 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,160 You know that cry is for, come on, a sleepy cry. 414 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,600 There's some things that God put within us instinctually to be 415 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:34,800 able to recognize what people may need in the moment of what 416 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,040 they're going through in their life. 417 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:46,840 And for us as mothers today, God is calling for us to rise up and 418 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,440 begin to see that there are there is a vacuum in our nation 419 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:58,560 of godly mothers, of godly women, and of lives that need to 420 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:04,360 be nurtured, lives that need to be nurtured. 421 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,760 They need to be cared for. Amen. 422 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:17,920 And so he, it wants to be able to use us, Hallelujah. 423 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:23,840 He wants to be able to use us as mothers, to speak within 424 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:29,200 people's lives, as women of God. But not only that, again, to be 425 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:37,640 able to speak and carry forth things that men need, that men 426 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:45,920 need, that men need, you know, men can be very prideful. 427 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,360 And I've heard him say I don't need a woman. 428 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,840 No, you do need one. Because to say that you don't, 429 00:38:53,920 --> 00:39:00,800 you're saying that you know better than God, 'cause God said 430 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,560 it's not good for man to be alone. 431 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,520 God said that. So for you to say that is pride. 432 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,560 It's lifting your thought up above God's thought. 433 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:24,080 That's pride, OK? And so men, you need godly 434 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,680 women. And I think because there's been 435 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:33,720 such abuse across the board with men towards women and women 436 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:39,960 towards men, there's been such abuse even in godly circles, 437 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:52,040 that we've put up a wall. And I'm saying today is the day 438 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:56,960 that the wall needs to come down, because there are some 439 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:01,840 things that men need that US women can only give birth to. 440 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:12,800 He said that you needed a helper. 441 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:18,320 You needed a helper. And so therefore you need our 442 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,080 help. Say I need your help. 443 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:30,080 Oh man, say I need your help. You know when we can actually 444 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,560 say that things can actually begin to turn around in your 445 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,520 marriages? When we realize we're not here 446 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:49,880 to compete or usurp, but we're here to come alongside and to 447 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,800 help accomplish the task at hand. 448 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,640 To help accomplish the task at hand, We're not here for any 449 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:05,800 other reason, but to help accomplish what it is that we 450 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,040 need to do as a unit. If we're married, right? 451 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,320 So we're not against each other, we're for each other, and we 452 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,800 actually are supposed to be a Co laborer. 453 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,600 We're Co laborers with Christ. But if we're married, we're Co 454 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:29,720 laborers with our spouse and we are to Co labor together to be 455 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:34,560 able to accomplish what it is that God has called you as a 456 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,680 married couple to do and be in the earth. 457 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:44,120 And so therefore to get that accomplished we can make it 458 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:50,560 happen. You give a woman $50 budget, 459 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,000 guess what she's going to do? She's going to milk every dime 460 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,280 of that $50.00, right? Every dime. 461 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:09,320 And we can make something happen with nothing, because that's 462 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:15,640 about what $50 is today. Nothing can buy you milk and 463 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,960 bread and eggs, and that's about it today. 464 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:23,480 Hallelujah. Anyway, we can make it happen, 465 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,000 but we can only make it happen when we are sold out to letting 466 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,400 God be our source. Letting God be our source. 467 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,520 It says here in Titus chapter 2 this I'm going to have two 468 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,120 scriptures and then we're closing. 469 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:50,040 In Titus chapter 2, verses 3 through 5, it says older women 470 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,760 likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious 471 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,240 gossips nor enslaved too much wine. 472 00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:02,200 Teaching what is good so that they may encourage the young 473 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:07,040 women to love their husbands, to love their children, and to be 474 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:12,720 sensible pure workers at home, kind being subject to their own 475 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:16,480 husbands so that the word of God would not be dishonored. 476 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:23,600 So here we see that these older women or the older mothers of 477 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:28,360 the church are supposed to, again, here's an example, to be 478 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:36,360 able to help nurture the younger ones up in the body, to be able 479 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,680 to do the things that they're supposed to do. 480 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:45,400 We're supposed to help nurture them in that, you know, maybe 481 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,960 your mother. And I'm going to tell you, it's 482 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,960 in the society that we're living together today. 483 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,400 Nobody knows how to cook hardly, right? 484 00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:03,880 But there used to be a day that moms knew how to cook until the 485 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,640 1950s, when TV trays came out or whatever. 486 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,720 What are those things? TV dinners. 487 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:11,600 Not trays. But you ate it on a tray. 488 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,280 Yeah, instead of the dining room table. 489 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:24,080 OK, so now we're living in a society that girls go to get 490 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,360 married and they have no clue how to cook because their 491 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:33,160 mothers did not teach them that skill, right? 492 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:38,400 They have no idea how to iron or sew a button on, you know, and 493 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,320 they've done away with home EC in this classes. 494 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:47,360 Can you believe, wonder why, 'cause they don't want anything 495 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,120 to do with, you know, whatever, it's all an agenda. 496 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:57,080 But anyway, so we have now a whole society. 497 00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,480 They don't know how to cook. They don't know how to sew a 498 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,200 button on. They don't know how to actually 499 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,520 change a diaper, raise up a child, anything, warm up a 500 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:12,080 bottle, right. If you did, if they did not have 501 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:17,160 a mother to help guide them in those things or nurture them in 502 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,240 those things. And so we see that it's so 503 00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:25,640 important that we as older women in the church, or not even 504 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,400 older, maybe you're a godly person that's been raised in the 505 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,000 church. You've been nurtured. 506 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,800 You've been loved. You know how to actually parent, 507 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,240 which half of the world doesn't know, right? 508 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,240 You know how to parent. You know, to tell your daughter 509 00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:46,000 at three years old, she's not wearing Ninja Turtle underwear. 510 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,600 She's going to wear little girl clothes because she's a girl. 511 00:45:53,800 --> 00:46:01,040 OK, so we see that this society, there is a vacuum here and we 512 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:08,240 need some church mothers to rise up and begin to start helping. 513 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:11,160 What about some of these single dads today? 514 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,120 Come on, there's plenty of single dads. 515 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,880 We have them even here in our church. 516 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:23,200 They need their children, need to see godly women and and be 517 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:28,680 able to speak into their life. OK? 518 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,520 So when you when, when that's taken, we've got to be able to 519 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,040 participate and get involved with people's lives and quit 520 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:42,720 living so fast in our society that we don't have time to be 521 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:47,680 able to nurture some relationships and nurture and 522 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,160 mother some things that need to be mothered. 523 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:53,480 Amen. So we see Titus is encouraging 524 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,640 these older women. This is your responsibility. 525 00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,920 And how many older women, even today they're living the 526 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:05,040 American retired life and they don't want to do a thing, they 527 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,480 just want to help their own grandchildren or whatever. 528 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:12,600 I'm telling you, there are so many children that need your 529 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:17,920 nurture today and we need to quit being selfish. 530 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,080 And we need to start saying coming up and saying how can I 531 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:29,000 help pour into another Instead of sitting at my table or my 532 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:33,840 couch looking at the TV all day long living the American dream, 533 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,280 especially as believers, there is a whole group of people that 534 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:46,480 need to be loved and nurtured and mentored and trained. 535 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:53,440 Hallelujah. No, that's what we were created 536 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,720 for. That's good. 537 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,480 No, that's what we were designed for. 538 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,120 To not just give birth naturally to, but to help bring forth 539 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:10,040 spiritual babies. Spiritual babies. 540 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:24,360 I wanna close with Proverbs 31 and I only had uh one scripture, 541 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:30,720 but I feel led to just close and reading this and challenge you 542 00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:35,200 men to recognize the importance of having a woman within your 543 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:39,240 life to be able to speak things into you. 544 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,440 Proverbs. Oh, I'm on Psalms. 545 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,120 I'm like, where is it at? I'm in Psalms. 546 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:08,520 OK, Proverbs 31, verse 10, who can find a virtuous and capable 547 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,000 woman. I want to say not just a wife, 548 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,000 but a woman. A virtuous and capable woman. 549 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,200 She is more precious than Ruby's. 550 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:27,440 Her husband can trust her and she will greatly enrich his 551 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,760 life. She brings him good and not 552 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:35,480 harm. All the days of her life she 553 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,680 finds wool. Listen to this woman. 554 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:42,160 She finds wool and flax and busily spins it. 555 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,840 She's like a merchant ship bringing her food from afar. 556 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,160 She gets up before the crack of dawn to prepare breakfast for 557 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,920 her husband. I'm sure my husband wishes 558 00:49:53,920 --> 00:50:01,280 that's how virtuous I was, but I hadn't got there yet. 559 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,400 I did make him breakfast this weekend, though, and plan the 560 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,120 day's work for her servant girls. 561 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,360 She goes to inspect a field and buys it with her earnings. 562 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,240 She plants a vineyard. I mean, my goodness, she plants 563 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:22,920 a vineyard. She's energetic and strong and 564 00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,080 hard working. This is what we should be as 565 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,280 women of God, as mothers, as wives. 566 00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:34,600 This is the goal here. So we have to ask ourselves, in 567 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,480 reading this scripture, is there anything in this that is missing 568 00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:42,760 in my life? And the goal is, is that I'm 569 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,800 going to rise up as a Deborah. I'm going to rise up and begin 570 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:51,640 to start clothing my selves with Proverbs 31. 571 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:58,400 It says this She's energetic. She's strong, a hard worker. 572 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,080 She makes sure her dealings are profitable. 573 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,720 Her lamp burns late into the night. 574 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,720 Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting 575 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:10,920 fibers. She extends a helping hand even 576 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,040 to the poor, and opens her arms to the needy. 577 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,560 She has No Fear of winter for her household, for everyone has 578 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,920 warm clothes. She makes her own bedspread. 579 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,880 She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns. 580 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,760 Her husband is well known at the city gates, where he sits with 581 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,080 the other civic leaders. She makes belted linen garments 582 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,680 and sashes to sell to the merchants. 583 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:40,920 She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without 584 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:45,200 fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are 585 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:52,120 wise and she gives instructions with kindness. 586 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:57,440 She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers 587 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:02,800 nothing from laziness. Come on now. 588 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,400 Her children stand and bless her. 589 00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,520 Her husband praises her. There are many virtuous and 590 00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:17,000 capable women in the world, but you surpass them all. 591 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:22,800 Charm is deceitful, right? Deceptive beauty does not last. 592 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,080 But a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. 593 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:32,080 Reward her for all she has done and let her deeds publicly 594 00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:38,280 declare her. Praise this woman, put anything 595 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,000 in her hand, and it's going to happen. 596 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,040 As a mother, as a wife, as a woman. 597 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:53,160 We were created to incubate. We were created to give birth 598 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,480 to. We were created to help not just 599 00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:02,640 our own, but others. We were created as a wellspring 600 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:08,200 of life. That is what another is.