Mothers Day

Heres a few facts about Mother’s

day was started by a lady named Anna Jarvin about 107 years ago Woodrow Wilson Signed a bill in 1914 recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.

the carnation is the original Mother’s day flower

Nearly 25% of all flowers purchased in the US on yearly basis are purchased for Mother’s Day

3rd largest card day in the US. 39,000,000 cards will be given to mothers today

2nd largest gift giving day

its celebrated around the world

the word for mother in a majority of the world’s languages also happens to begin with the letter “m”

Honor the Mothers

think it would be in order if we said

thanks to our mothers and grandmothers

will all the mom’s and grandmothers stand to your feet

and let us say how much we honor appreciate you today

don't know what in the world we would do without

When Husband Goes to Bed Vs Wife:

Extra time woman without children

Women who never have children enjoy the equivalent of an extra 3 months a year in leisure time,

says Susan Lang, author of Women without children

If that figure seems high, remember that the average mother spends 3.5 more hours a week doing house than woman without children, plus 11 hours a week on child-related activities.

This adds up to an additional 754 hours of work every year. The equivalent of 3 months of 12 hour, 5-day work week.

What we are doing today is honoring the 5th commandment:

Ephesians 6:1–3 ESV

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

A) The Greek word for children (tekna) refers to young children living at home

Wuest’s Word Studies in the Greek New Testament Chapter Six

“Obey” is hupakouō (ὑπακουω), the simple verb meaning “to hear,” the prefixed preposition, “under,” the compound verb meaning, “to hear under,” that is, “to hear under” authority. It speaks of the one hearing as being under the authority of some one else.

Wuest’s Word Studies in the Greek New Testament Chapter Six

Thus, the verb comes to mean, “to hearken to a command, to obey, to be obedient to, submit to.” The verb is in the present imperative, which construction commands habitual, constant obedience here.

“In the Lord” defines the quality and parameter of the obedience.

This is not an absolute command; when a parent tells a child to do something unbiblical, immoral, or unethical, the word of God supersedes the will of the parent. But aside from those extremes, children are to obey their mothers and fathers.

Ephesians Children and Parents / 6:1–4

Obeying and honoring are different. To obey means to do what another says to do; to honor means to respect and love. Children are to obey while under their parents’ care, but they must honor their parents for life.

This is one of God’s top ten in how we are to love others. Love our parents by honoring them.

honor your parents and you will live

long if you honor your parents

indicating if you don't it won't go well

with you and you will shorten your life

How do you honor our mother? I want to give you a few ways to honor your mom.

1) Love her unconditionally

love her when she's young and she has much to give

love her when she’s old and has little to give

2) secondly hug her affectionately

there's a bumper sticker out there that says “have you hugged your kid today?” I think we ought to make one and put it on teenagers doors and say “have you hugged your mom today?”

Tell her that you love her

3) Understand her sympathetically

they wear so many hats

they cook they clean they judge

they make peace

they referee

their sounding boards

their accountants they do so much and

we need to appreciate the great job that mothers

do for us every single day of their life

4) Take her out to eat and listen to her

not just on mothers day but the other 365 days of the year

let her share some of her favorite memories even if she’s told them before.

Make them feel valuable

make them feel that what they have to say is important

because they listen to you attentively all your life

you've talked to them about your greatest problems and your greatest challenges and

maybe now they are in a season when they need you to listen attentively

5) remind her that she is still needed

the enemy loves to whisper you're not necessary

life is over nobody has time for you

you're just a hindrance

you're just a inconvenience to everybody

that's a lie!

when she can't work she still is needed because she can pray

show her that’s shes need by asking for her wisdom through life’s twist and turns.

The Bible constantly associates youth with folly and age with wisdom and tells us that those who have lived longer lives have generally accumulated greater wisdom.

It honors our moms when we seek their help.

the older that someone gets the more we need to show and remember and honor and let them know constantly how valuable and how much we love them

6) Give your life to Jesus Christ

what mothers need most is to know that their children love

and honor God

one of the greatest things that you can honor your mother with is giving your life to God and serving Him

Chuck Norris honored his mother on her 100th birthday this last week.

My mother has prayed for me all my life, through thick and thin. When I was born, I almost died from complications. When nearly losing my soul to Hollywood a few decades ago, she was back home praying for my success and salvation. She even prayed for me to find a woman to change my life, and it worked.

Chuck Norris Facts:

Once a cobra bit chuck norris leg. after five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died

when the boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for chuck norris

chuck norris can slam a revolving door

chuck norris makes onions cry

death had a near chuck norris experience

when chuck norris does a puchup, he’s pushing the earth down

chuck norris once kicked a horse in the chin, its descendants are known as giraffes