Mother’s Day 2026

May 10th 2026

Series: Mother’s Day 2026

Sermon Title: Seen, Known, & Loved by God

Topic: God sees you. God knows you. God loves you. Key Passages: John 4, Ruth 1–4, 1 Samuel 1

Topic: Mothers, Women,

Sermon Blurb: In today’s message, we will look at how every woman in every season is fully noticed and deeply cherished by the Lord.

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Sermon:

Campus Pastor –

Happy Mother’s Day Family Church!!!!

Welcome to Family Church… whether you are in person or watching online…

Let’s do this….

        If you are with your mother, grandmother, spiritual mother, and so forth…

        Why don’t you just get up right now and give them a hug and say I LOVE YOU!!!!

        Come on, church!!!

Celebrate salvation/rededications/baptisms last week.

Celebrate new disciples and disciple-makers.

PAUSE

Today, we will honor mothers.

We celebrate women.

We give thanks for nurturing, strength, and sacrifice.

But we also acknowledge that this day carries many emotions.

I know in a room of this size, there are women who feel:

Joyful

Exhausted

Overlooked

Grieving

Hopeful

Lonely

Full

Empty

And no matter what you are feeling today.

Here is our hope today.

You will walk away today KNOWING:

You are seen.

You are known.

You are loved.

Not vaguely.

Not generally.

But personally.

And today, we’re going to look at three women in Scripture who remind us of that.

        And since I am not a woman, I would like to invite up 3 ladies today who are going to share the message with us.

        Would you welcome Lady 1

        Lady 2

        Lady 3

Lady 1-  PART 1: WOMEN ARE SEEN BY GOD The Woman at the Well (John 4)

Good morning everyone,

        SHORT INTRO INTO WHO YOU ARE

Today, we would like to begin by talking about how we are SEEN by God.

        I know there are some of you who do not think God does not see or care about you.

        And today…it is our hope we can help change that perspective in your mind.

If you have your Bible with you, and we always hope you do, please open it to

John 4

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This passage is about Jesus talking with a woman by a well.

I would like to start with the point I hope you will see clearly today.

        Write this down:

        Jesus goes out of His way for the overlooked.

        (repeat)

Let’s see this truth in the Bible.

John 4:1-42 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—

2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

Pause there for a minute.

John 4 tells us Jesus “had to go through Samaria.”

“Had to” is a matter of perspective.

Jesus did not “have to” geographically.

Jesus did not “have to” culturally.

Jesus did not “have to” per societal standards.

In this day and age, Jewish people avoided Samaria.

        They went out of their way to avoid the people of Samaria.

        Because of their prejudice.

        But Jesus “had to” go there…

Let’s keep reading.

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”

8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.

How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Stop there…

Jesus walks straight into the place others avoided…

And do NOT MISS THIS…

He goes to meet ONE woman others ignored.

She wasn’t celebrated.

She was isolated.

She came to the well at noon.

The hottest part of the day.

Because, as you will see, she had a past…

And she didn’t want to hear the ladies' whispers.

But Jesus was already there.

He saw her.

Ladies, hear this today:

Jesus sees you.

Jesus sees:

The mom doing what seems like invisible work. 

The woman serving quietly

The one carrying silent pain

The one who feels forgotten

He sees you.

And I know a lot of people when they are hurting seem to think Jesus just wants to judge them…

        But ladies please hear me in this.

        It is what you are about to see come true in the Bible.

Write this down:

Being seen by Jesus leads to healing, not shame.

        (repeat)

Verse 10:

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink,

you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.

Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

Jesus speaks to her and offers living water.

Then He says:

“Go, call your husband…”

He gently touches her deepest wound.

He knows her story.

And He wants to help her find healing.

He wants to help her find a wholeness she has never felt.

This is what makes Jesus different from the world:

The world exposes you to shame you.

Jesus doesn’t expose you.

        Notice this is done in private.

        One on one.

Jesus reveals…

        Because Jesus wants to heal the pain we have hidden.

        Jesus sees our pain.

        He sees us.

This woman and Jesus continue in verses 17-38 to have a healing conversation.

        And then the whole town hears from this woman how Jesus SAW her and brought healing into her life…

And check this out…verse 39

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony

Let me end with this, ladies.

        This woman was SEEN by Jesus.

This woman allow Jesus to help her process her past hurts.

And she went on to help MANY in her town find healing through Jesus as well!

ADD A SHORT STORY FROM YOUR EXPIRENCE

Women…

You are seen by God.

LADY 2 -

PART 2: WOMEN ARE KNOWN BY GOD Ruth: God Is Writing a Bigger Story (Ruth 1–4)

Ladies,

        We would like to share another story with you to help you understand that you are known by God.

Move in your Bibles to the book of

Ruth

Ruth’s story begins in heartbreak.

She is widowed.

She moved to a foreign place.

She is a woman with no security.

She had no clear future.

Ruth chapter 1 is full of loss.

        Maybe you are here today and you feel lost.

        You feel empty.

        You feel like there is no hope.

        Maybe your wrestling with your thoughts of hopelessness.

Hopelessness has a voice.

And some women know that voice all too well.

ADD A SHORT STORY FROM YOUR LIFE

However, Ladies, write this down and please never forget this.

God knows what you need, even when life feels hopeless.

I want to show you something interesting in Ruth’s story that I noticed…

        In Ruth 2, Ruth is in a field gleaning leftovers just to survive.

        She is picking up food scraps to survive.

        Her life does NOT look good.

But Ruth 2:3 it says this:

Ruth 2 3 So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.

Then let’s read the next 4 words out loud church.

As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

“As it turned out.”

        “As it turned out” is often how God works.

        God knew exactly what He was doing.

Ruth thought she was just surviving.

However…God was positioning her.

PAUSE

Women, you may feel like you’re just making it through…

But God knows where you are.

He knows what you need.

He knows what He’s doing.

Write this down:

God has plans even when you cannot see them.

        (repeat)

God could be working behind the scenes to mend a broken relationship.

        God may be growing your courage right now.

        God may be refining your child.

        God may be doing any number of things that you cannot see in this moment.

PAUSE

Ruth’s story ends with redemption.

Boaz becomes her redeemer.

And Ruth becomes part of the lineage of Jesus Christ.

Ruth… became the great-grandmother of king David.

One of the GREATEST kings in ALL of human history came from a woman who at one point was:

Widowed.

Homeless.

Destitute.

Hopeless.

She thought her life was over.

        But God was just beginning a new chapter.

God knows the whole story.

You may feel unknown…

But God sees you.

God knows you.

And God loves you more than you might realize.

Ladies,

        Life happens.

Even the BEST planners in this room…

Life will through us curve balls.

But in those moments…

We need to remind ourselves.

God has this.

God KNEW this was going to happen.

And God has a plan.

And we need to trust His plan.

        Because God’s plan is always better than ours.

LADY 3 –  PART 3: WOMEN ARE LOVED BY GOD Hannah: God Hears the Cry of the Heart (1 Samuel 1)

Ladies, we have one more story and truth today.

        God sees you.

        God knows you.

        And God loves you.

Please move in your Bibles to

1 Samuel 1

I would like to share with you a story about a woman named Hannah.

Hannah was a woman carrying deep pain.

She longed for a child, but could not conceive.

A struggle many women have today.

PAUSE

And in her culture, being unable to have children brought shame to the woman and her husband.

She was judged.

Mocked.

Empty.

Maybe this is you….

        You fell unworthy.

        Ashamed.

        Broken.

HOWEVER….While she felt that way, here is what you are about to see.

        Write this down:

God’s love is present in your waiting and weeping.

(Repeat)

In 1 Samuel 1:10 it says:

10 In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.

11 And she made a vow, saying, “Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me,

and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”

12 As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.

13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk

Hannah prays silently.

Her lips move, but no sound comes out.

Even the priest misjudges her.

But God does not.

God hears prayers no one else notices.

Tears are a language God understands fluently.

Ladies, I think this is something we can all agree we do a lot!!!!

        But…

        God understands our tears better than we even do…

PAUSE

Some women are waiting today.

Waiting for healing.

Waiting for answers.       

Waiting for restoration.

God’s love is not absent in the waiting.

ADD A SHORT EXAMPLE FROM YOUR LIFE HERE

See ladies…

        Write this down.

God’s love brings fruit in His time.

(repeat)

The Bible says:

15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled.

I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord.

16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”

17 Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”

18 She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.

19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah.

Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and

What church?

the Lord remembered her.

The Lord remembered her.

What a phrase.

And then…

20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

God never forgot.

In time, Hannah gives birth to Samuel.

Samuel, who would go on to be one of the GREATEST prophets ever.

Her pain turns into praise.

But the greatest gift wasn’t only a child…

It was the reminder that God’s love never left her.

Women, God’s love is not based on what you produce.

You are not loved because you are a mother.

You are loved because you are His.

Lady 1 –

Women…please know you are SEEN, KNOWN, LOVED

The woman at the well reminds us:

You are seen.

Ruth reminds us:

You are known.

Hannah reminds us:

You are loved.

And all three stories point to Jesus…

Jesus who sees the overlooked.

Jesus who knows the broken.

Jesus who loves everyone.

God sees what others miss

God knows what others don’t understand

God loves you more than you can imagine

You are not invisible.

You are not forgotten.

You are deeply cherished.

Campus Pastor:

What an amazing message!!!!

Before we pray for you all, we want to have a little fun and bless a few ladies here today.

3 Gifts –

Newest Mother

Oldest Mother

Mother with the most at one time...twins...triplets etc.

Ladies,

        As you exit , like usual, we have chocolates for you all!

Prayer:

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