A Message from Mothers
A Message From Mothers | Mother’s Day
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” - Rudyard Kipling
“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” - St. Therese of Lisieux
“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” - Spanish Proverb
“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” - Unknown
You can trust God with your season & your story.
The following thoughts are trustworthy and true…
1. One life season doesn’t tell your whole life story. It takes all of our seasons to completeour whole story.
2. Your story is a part of a bigger story. Change your story and change a generation.
3. God is still writing your story. God is the most superlative of story writers.
Ruth 1:16-22 (NIV) 16 “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. 19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?” 20 “Don’t call me Naomi” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” 22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
3 Hard Season Pro-tips
• Hard Season Pro-tip #1: Who you are in a moment, God can transform in a minute. Don’t lose yourself in a hard season.
• Hard Season Pro-tip #2 Feel bitter, but don’t be a quitter.
• Hard Season Pro Tip #3 Respond to God’s pull back to Him. He will always put you in the right place at the right time!
Ruth 1:22 22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem [RIGHT PLACE] as the barley harvest was beginning [RIGHT TIME].
One life season doesn’t tell our whole life story. It takes all of our seasons to complete our whole story. You can trust God with your story.
Ruth 2:6-12 (NIV) 6 The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.” 8 So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. 9 Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”10 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?” 11 Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
All Skate Note:
• Your character isn’t forged in public wins, it’s forged in the shadow of hard seasons.
• Your reputation always beats you into a room.
• Your charisma may get in you in the room but it is your character that keeps you in the room.
Ruth 4:9-12 (NIV) 9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon [the sons]. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!” 11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home(Ruth) like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar (first non-Israelite women listed in the genealogy of Jesus) bore to Judah.”
Ruth 4:13-22 (NIV) 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” 16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 17 The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, 19 Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab, 20 Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, 21 Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed, 22 Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.
Your story is a part of a bigger story. Change your story and change a generation.
You can trust God with your season and your story!
God is still writing your story. God is the most superlative of story writers.
You can trust God with your season and your story!
God writes His story in our seasons.
• Rahab had a fighting season.
• Naomi had a bitter season.
• Ruth had a leaving season.
Each hard season has generational redemptive purposes. God is the most superlative of story writers!
Psalm 139:16 (Message) Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, the days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.
Psalm 139:16 (Amplified) 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were appointed for me, when as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape].
You can trust God with your season and your story.