How to Honor Your Mother

Welcome

Can we give a warm welcome to everyone here. Can I please have all the beautiful mothers including my wife please stand up.

HISTORY

The origin of Mother’s Day took place in the early 1900s. A woman named Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official holiday honoring mothers in 1905, the year her own mother died. The first larger-scale celebration of the holiday was in 1908, when Jarvis held a public memorial for her mother in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia.

Over the next few years, Jarvis pushed to have the holiday officially recognized, and it was celebrated increasingly in more and more states around the U.S. Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation making Mother’s Day an official holiday, to take place the second Sunday of May.

Anna Jarvis put Mother’s Day on the calendar as a day dedicated to expressing love and gratitude to mothers, acknowledging the sacrifices women make for their children. That’s why she was determined to keep “Mother’s” a singular possessive, as marked by the apostrophe before “s.” Each family should celebrate its own mother, so that individual women across the country could feel the love, even in the midst of a broad celebration of motherhood.

FACTS

1. 122 million calls are made on the 2nd Sunday of May for Mother’s Day

2. 3rd highest selling holiday for flowers and plants after Christmas & Hannukah

3. Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants (2018 87 million adults plans to go to a restaurant for Mother’s Day)

4. 3rd largest card selling 139 millions cards will be given to mothers today

5. As of 2014 there were 43.5 million moms in the States. Women between ages of 15-50, collectively mothered 95.8 million children.

I don’t know about you but wow, I was so amazed and astonished by some of those facts and statistics. Can we please give a round of applause for the 43+ million mothers who’ve given birth to their children to bless and honor their faithfulness in what they do.

Ephesians 6:1–3 LEB

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “in order that it may be well with you, and you may live a long time on the earth.”

Honor is a commandment. 1 of the top 10 commandments is to honor your mother and honor your parents. We are commanded, its not something to do but to fulfill to honor your mother. How you treat your parents matters to God because its 2 parts:

1. It’ll be well with you

2. You will live long

There are several warnings to children who do not honor their parents that it will not be well with you and you will shorten your life. You as children will suffer great consequences if we do not listen to this important command.

We need to ask ourselves.

Am I the kind of son or daughter who I would like to raise?

HOW TO HONOR YOUR MOTHER:

Love Your Mother unconditionally

Love her when shes young & when shes old

Love her when she has something to give (keeps on giving the best years of her life, lays down her life for you) & when she has nothing left to give (You are commanded to love her unconditionally)

Example:

Hug Your Mom affectionately (Often)

Hug and kiss her affectionate because they need it (Bumper Sticker that says have you hug your children today, compare to mother)

Make sure she knows that you (Definition Care) Tell her YOU LOVE HER

Make sure you say something to mother that is right. Make sure you are careful with the words you say to your mother because there can be consequences for what you say to your mother.

Story: My uncle punched me in my face once, I was in tears and my Uncle said don’t you ever tell your mother. It taught me to respect my mother that I now understand, I always hug my mom when I see her. We always joke around and I hug and bump into her laughing like were best friends.

Understand her sympathetically

Women go through alot of changes (Wear a lot of hats cook, clean, referee siblings, accounting, make peace, work hard, selfless) We need to appreciate the great job they do for us every single day of their lives

We need to understand them sympathetically (Be extremely sympathetically)

We need to have something in our hearts to be accommodating as their getting older to understand them as they get older is we honor them. Maybe they’re not able to do what they used to but they’ve give everything they can for us.

Example: My mom worked so hard and always did whatever it took to take care of me, my siblings, my cousins and my friends. She was sympathetic to the needs of kids who didn’t have food or a place to stay, our home was the safe haven. She never looked for a handout or something to be reciprocated back.

Listen to her attentively

Husbands/Wives want undivided attention from the Mother

Guess who we want to listen to us attentively? What do we want to do them attentively?

The older people get, the wiser they get. My mom knew way more than I did when I was a young 20something year old who knew everything. She knew what she was talking about

Make her feel valuable because they listened to you attentively. She listened to me in my greatest times of trial, so its time

Help her “Cheerfully”

Mothers are the greatest helpers in the World

They do things no one else wants to do money could not pay for (cleaning the toilets)

Don’t act like its an inconvenience to help

You can tell if someone wants to be around you or help you or not

“Bless their Heart” = Never say that about your mother. It is my HONOR to help my mom Ex: going grocery shopping with my mom, having lunch with her. Putting down our phones and just sharing a laugh. Talking cheerfully and letting mom know you repeated that story already

My Mom has always blessed me cheerfully. She would sit and wait for me when I was doing my physicals for police departments when I was looking to be a police officer. She would catch the bus for years at 3-4 am about 50 miles away one way to leave the car behind for my brother and I so we had a ride. She would give my friends rides when they didn’t have one. She would feed those when they were hungry and even stay with us. I remember my friends always saying I love my mom.

Don’t act like your doing them a favor when your giving them money or helping them. They took care of you all your life, this is how you honor your Mother.

Remember her All the time gratefully

Little things mean alot to mom. Just a call what are you doing, how you doing? You want to go shopping? You want to sleep over.

You remember her gratefully (Just a call your important enough to reach out, you’ve given so much to me)

It makes her feel appreciated/loved her

she gave you the best years of your (Honor her by gratefully remembering her)

Let her know how well she taught you, how much she trained you, how much she cared for you

Just a friendly gesture, an invite for BBQ

Remind her how much she is needed constantly

It hurts a mom to feel she is no longer needed

The enemy wants her to know when shes alone “Your not necessary, no one has time for you, your an inconvenience”

We must remind her how much shes needed, even when she cant work but she’s needed because she can pray

Calling mom recipe to the gravy or her yoshida sauce for chicken (I dont even know the ingredients I ask her what is this, what is that)

Must tell them how valuable them

Greatest gift is to honor God

Nothing would honor them more than to give your life to Jesus Christ

This is a true story I wanted to share.

Historical Record

The story begins in 1820 with a man named Peter Richley. Peter was on a ship when it sank and then he was rescued. But the second ship sank, too. Again, Peter was rescued. Then the third ship sank. He was rescued a third time. Peter was on a fourth ship, which soon sank, and he was rescued again. He boarded a fifth ship, which sank as well. It might have been laughable had it not been so serious. While floating on the high seas, Peter was confident that somehow God didn’t want him to die. Another ship came to his rescue. This was an ocean liner, traveling from England to Australia — the same route as Peter’s other ships. A doctor aboard the ship examined Peter and determined him to be fit, but then asked a favor. There was a woman aboard the ship. She’d been looking for her son who disappeared years earlier. Now, she was dying. She knew everyone else aboard the ship, except for Peter, the only newcomer. So the doctor wondered if Peter couldn’t pretend to be the woman’s son. Peter agreed. After all, he’d been saved five times. So Peter went with the doctor to a cabin. There on the bed was a frail woman, suffering from a high fever. “Please God,” she prayed. “Let me see my son before I die. I must see my son!” Peter began to sob. There on the bed was the lifeline that had helped keep him from drowning those five times. For on that bed was his mother — Sarah Richley — who’d prayed for 10 years to see her son. Peter embraced the sick woman. “I’m here mom!” he said. “I’m here. It’s me!” Within days, Sarah’s fever subsided and she woke up to see the answer to her prayers seated on her bed.

Power of prayer of a Godly Mother.

The greatest way to honor your Mother today is to give your life to Jesus. Bible says when one sinner repents heaven rejoices. A mother is rejoicing in heaven today because their son or daughter today is taking that leap of Faith to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It is the Greatest way to Honor Your Mother and Honor God.

Jesus said on the cross, John take care of my Mother. Even in Jesus’s greatest moment of suffering he thought of others. He honored his mother.

Bible says if you deny me I will deny you in Heaven. If you didn’t get to know me, You will not enter into his Kingdom. I want to give you the oppurtunity to recieve today the greatest gift your mother could ask of you is to recieve Jesus.