Thank God For Mothers

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May 13, 2007  A.D.
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Thank God For Mothers

Pastor Landis Fisher and the official staff of Straight Gate Ministries would like to say to all mothers everywhere; Happy Mother’s Day! We pray God’s most excellent blessing upon mothers and request His unfailing grace and power on your lives homes and families. As a tribute to our mothers and to the motherhood of ministry in our new location in the Broadway Plaza Mall Chapel, Pastor Fisher has prepared a special topical message for this occasion and will return next week to our ongoing study through the gospel of Mark in the latter portion of the eleventh chapter. But for this excellent occasion we call “Mother’s Day” as we consider what God has done in making it so that by our mothers we are born into His world and let us contemplate a few of the glorious aspects of motherhood which are taught in the Bible. So, open your bibles and listen in, as we pray along with our teacher during a message he has titled: “Thank God For Mothers”.

Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 51:1 – 6  (KJV)
Isa 51:1  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isa 51:2  Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
Isa 51:3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isa 51:4  Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Isa 51:5  My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Isa 51:6  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
New Testament Scripture Reading: 1 Timothy 2:9 – 15  (NASB)
1 Tim 2:9  Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments;
1 Tim 2:10  but rather by means of good works, as befits women making a claim to godliness.
1 Tim 2:11  Let a woman quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.
1 Tim 2:12  But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
1 Tim 2:13  For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.
1 Tim 2:14  And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression.
1 Tim 2:15  But women shall be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.
Transforming Power Statements:
#1) Being a mother is a magnificent anatomical privilege that God granted to women so that all people would hold motherhood in high esteem and so that the woman’s role in the scheme of life would be intimate and tender displaying the feminine beauties of God in contrast to the masculine characteristics displayed through the creation of man.

#2) God’s design of female anatomy is one of His greatest works for mankind, in that He fashioned it so as to allow His Son Jesus to be able to take on humanity being separated from the blood of Adam so that He could be Son of Man and also Son of God without any conflict of nature nor divinity, and so that the crux of salvation is concerning our relationship with the Son Who alone is the savior of all who trust in Him.

#3) So for this special day and for the women whom we celebrate who are responsible for our first birth let us thank God for them and what they have meant to Him and for what they have meant to us and ask His continued blessing and protection on the beauty of what God has done through Motherhood to improve the world.