A Mother's Desires

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- Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln

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A Mother’s Desire

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What is a Mother?

Mothers are nurses, doctors, psychologists, counselors, chauffeurs, coaches, referees, teachers and so much more

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Mothers are developers of personalities, molders of vocabularies, & shapers of attitudes. Mothers are soft voices saying, "I love you." Mothers are a link to God, a child's first impression of God's love

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A Mother’s Desire

Godly Husband

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- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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A Mother’s Desire

From Her Children

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- Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother

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- …keepers at home…

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Her hands held you through the stages of life.

Her heart loves like God, unconditionally.

Her knees worn from the lifetime of prayers offered on her children’s behalf.

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I remember my mothers prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all of my life. – Abraham Lincoln

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A Mother’s Desire

For Her Children

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- Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

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But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able

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And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

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3 Desires of a Mother

Part of the Kingdom

Active in the Kingdom

Great in the Kingdom

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