05/10/2026
What I am posting here is long. It is my Mothers Day Sermon. If you are a Mom I believe it will be a blessing to you if you will take the time to read it. Enjoy and Happy Mothers Day:
"The Blessing of a Godly Mother"
There are some blessings in life you don’t fully recognize until you look back and see what carried you.
One of those blessings is a godly mother.
Not just a mother who provided…
Not just a mother who cared…
But a mother who brought God into the home.
Proverbs 31:28 (NKJV) says,
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her.”
It does not say they recognize it immediately — it says they rise up and call her blessed. That means there comes a moment when what she planted becomes visible. Because a godly mother is not just raising children — she is shaping lives through faith.
I want to talk about something bigger than sentiment today. I want to talk about covenant — the blessing that flows through the life of a woman who has decided to anchor herself and her household in the Word of God.
The enemy has worked overtime in this generation to diminish the role of mothers, to devalue the woman who pours herself into raising children in the fear of the Lord. But I am here to tell you there is no title on this earth higher than a mother who raises her children in the covenant of God. There is no boardroom more strategic than the kitchen table where a mother opens the Word. And there is no investment more powerful than the seed of faith a mother sows into the spirit of a child.
The enemy knows what a praying mother can produce — and that is exactly why he fights so hard against it.
Let's Begin by Looking at The Seed of a Faithful Mother
We will begin in Second Timothy. Paul is writing to his spiritual son Timothy - a young man he trusts to carry the gospel forward. As he writes, he traces the faith in Timothy back to his mother.
Let's look at 2 Timothy 1:5 (NKJV),
"When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also."
The faith Paul is counting on to carry the gospel forward started with a grandmother and a mother. We do not know a lot about Lois and Eunice. The Bible does not record their sermons or their miracles. What it tells us is that they had genuine faith and they passed it on.
Faith can be transferred through influence.
Romans 10:17 (NKJV) says,
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
What is heard consistently… becomes believed.
What is believed… becomes lived.
A godly mother may not stand behind a pulpit, but she builds a platform in her home.
Every time she says, “God will make a way…”
“We’re going to trust the Lord…”
“This is what the Word says…”
She is planting faith.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7 (NKJV) says,
6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Faith is not occasional — it is daily.
Faith is not visiting the home — faith is living there.
So What Does This Reveal About God
God is generational.
Psalm 103:17 (NKJV) says,
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children's children,
God does not think in moments - He thinks in generations.
When God blesses you, He is also looking at what will come through you.
That means a mother walking with God is affecting more than today.
So What Does This Mean For Us
The seeds of faith matter.
Some of you are here because someone prayed.
Some of you are standing because someone believed.
Some of you know the Word because someone taught you.
And many times — that someone was a mother.
Galatians 6:9 (NKJV) says,
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
A godly mother may not always see immediate results…
But she is sowing toward a harvest.
And that leads us to this truth…
A godly mother plants faith… but she also learns how to trust God when she cannot control everything.
Because there comes a point in every parent’s life where control ends — and faith must stand.
To all the Mothers I would say, you may not see what God is doing in your children right now.
You may be praying over a prodigal, confessing the Word over someone who does not look like they are receiving the Word at all. But do not stop. Isaiah 55:11 is still true —
Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV),
"So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."
Every scripture you have ever spoken over your children is still alive. Every prayer is still working. The Word does not expire and it does not lose its power because the fruit is not yet visible. The seed is in the ground and the harvest is coming.
This Means A Godly Mother Must Learn To Trust God Beyond Her Control
Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV) says,
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
There are moments a mother realizes:
“I cannot fix this.”
“I cannot force this.”
“I cannot be everywhere.”
But I can trust God.
Let's look at Hannah and See What Happens When a Mother Prays
Let's go to First Samuel chapter one. Hannah was barren and in that culture, barrenness carried social stigma and spiritual accusation. Her husband's other wife Peninnah made fun of her year after year until Hannah wept and could not eat. But then Hannah got up from the table and went into the temple. What she did there is one of the most remarkable acts of faith in all of Scripture.
1 Samuel 1:10–11 (NLT),
10 Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the LORD.
11 And she made this vow: “O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime....”
Hannah is not pretending everything is fine. She is coming to God with the full weight of her pain. And from that place of raw, broken, honest prayer — she makes a covenant vow. She is not just asking. She is sowing. She is entering a covenant transaction with God:
Lord, if You give me this child, I will give him back to You. That is a first fruits principle. She is giving God the first and best of what she has not yet even received. That is faith.
When the priest Eli blessed her, something shifted.
The Bible says she went away and ate and her face was no longer sad. She had not yet conceived. The promise had not yet arrived. But she had released it into the hands of God - and faith had taken hold.
God remembered Hannah. She conceived and bore Samuel. And when the child was weaned, she brought him to the temple and gave him back, exactly as she had promised. And then - because this is who God is - He multiplied her harvest.
She sowed one and reaped six. You cannot out-give God.
But here is what I need you to understand. Samuel became the prophet who anointed the first two kings of Israel, who stood in the gap when the word of the Lord was rare in the land, who anointed David — and David was in the lineage of Jesus Christ. When Hannah made that covenant vow in the temple with tears running down her face, she had no idea what she was releasing into the earth.
God took that prayer and used it to shape the destiny of a nation. There is no force on earth more powerful than a mother on her knees.
A Word for Single Mothers
Before we go any further, I want to stop and speak directly to the single mothers in this room — and to those who have been raised by one.
Hannah's story has something particular to say to you. In her most desperate season, Hannah was essentially carrying the weight alone. Her husband Elkanah loved her deeply, but he was powerless to help her. He even said, "Am I not better to you than ten sons?" — meaning he saw her pain and could not fix it. Hannah had to go to God by herself. She had to stand in the temple and make a covenant that no one else could make for her. The prayer was hers. The vow was hers. The faith was hers.
Single mothers understand that. You know what it is to carry something that was never supposed to be carried alone — and you carry it anyway. You know what it is to be both father and mother at once, to stretch resources that were not designed to stretch that far, to hold the household together when the other half of the equation is absent.
And the enemy tries to use that reality to tell you a lie. He tries to tell you that your children are at a disadvantage. He tries to tell you that what is missing from your household defines what God can produce in it and he is wrong.
You are not doing half a job. You are doing the whole job. And God does not honor whole-effort with half-blessing. He sees every early morning, every late night, every sacrifice made in silence, every prayer prayed when there was nobody else in the house praying with you. He sees it. He records it. And He rewards it.
Hebrews 6:10 (Passion) says,
10 For God, the Faithful One, is not unfair. How can he forget the work you have done for him? He remembers the love you demonstrate as you continually serve his beloved ones for the glory of his name.
God has not forgotten one thing you have done in faith for your children. Not one prayer. Not one sacrifice. He is a covenant-keeping God, and your covenant is intact.
So single mom — be encouraged today. You are not at a disadvantage. You are under a double covering. And the harvest that is coming out of your household is going to make the enemy regret every lie he told you about what you could not produce alone.
So How Does This Affect Your Life
There comes a moment where a mother shifts from raising to trusting.
She has taught.
She has corrected.
She has prayed.
Now she must stand in faith.
Hebrews 11:11 (NKJV) says,
“By faith Sarah… received strength… because she judged Him faithful who had promised.”
That phrase matters:
“She judged Him faithful.”
Faith decides God can be trusted even when results are not visible yet.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NLT) says,
24 God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.
I cannot preach Mother's Day without spending time with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Because the faith she walked in, the obedience she chose, changed the course of human history.
She is young - likely fourteen to sixteen years old, legally engaged to Joseph.
Into that life, an angel appears and tells her she will conceive and bear the Son of the Most High, whose kingdom will have no end. After asking one sincere question about how it could happen, she opens her mouth and says in Luke 1:38 (NKJV),
"Then Mary said, 'Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.' And the angel departed from her."
Let it be to me according to your word. In that moment a young girl from Nazareth said, whatever God has spoken, I receive it. Whatever it costs me personally, whatever I cannot explain to my family or community — let it be according to Your Word. That is not passive acceptance. That is aggressive, covenant faith. She is not saying, I have no choice. She is saying, I choose this. I choose the Word. And because one young woman said yes — the Son of God entered the world.
Mary's journey did not stop at the birth of Jesus. She was at the wedding in Cana when Jesus turned water to wine — and it was her faith that released it.
When the wine ran out she brought the problem to Jesus, and when He responded in a way that seemed like a refusal, she did not accept it as a closed door.
She turned to the servants and said, Whatever He says to you, do it. She was still speaking the language of covenant. And the water became wine.
And she was standing at the foot of the cross when He died. She stood where there was no explanation adequate, no comfort adequate — and she did not run. She held on to the Word she had received in Nazareth more than thirty years before.
Every mother who has ever stood at the foot of something that broke her heart and chose to stay — chose to keep trusting when there was no visible evidence that morning was coming — you know something of what Mary carried. And the resurrection came after the cross. The morning always comes.
Let me tell you a story about Susanna Wesley who was born in London in 1669. She and her husband had nineteen children — ten of whom survived to adulthood. They were poor. Their home burned down twice. The second time, their son John was nearly left inside and was pulled from an upstairs window at the last minute. After that Susanna confessed and believed God had saved that child for a purpose.
She personally educated all ten children at home, starting each one on their fifth birthday with Genesis chapter one. She spent one hour a day, one on one, with each child — pressing Scripture deep into their minds and spirits. Ten children, ten hours a day of intentional, Word-centered investment into the next generation. That is not casual. That is covenant. And when the weight of the household became too much, she would sit down, pull her apron over her head, and pray. Just her and God, underneath that apron. Her children learned: when mama has her apron over her head, she is talking to God. Do not disturb her. They learned from watching their mother that prayer was not a public performance — it was the oxygen that kept the household alive.
Two of her sons were John Wesley and Charles Wesley. John founded the Methodist movement, preaching to crowds of forty thousand in open fields, riding sixty to seventy miles a day on horseback. Historians credit his ministry with sparking one of the greatest revivals in the English-speaking world. Charles wrote over six thousand hymns - including "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" which are still sung in churches around the world today. John Wesley consistently pointed back to his mother as the source. Susanna was his seminary. Her entire ministry was conducted inside one household with ten children underneath an apron — and the fruit of her faithfulness is still being sung in churches around the world.
You never know how far the seed will travel. You are not just raising a child. You are planting a seed that God will grow beyond anything your eyes will see in this lifetime.
Let's look at Proverbs 18:21 (MSG),
21 Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit - you choose.
Words are not empty.
Words shape thinking.
Words influence direction.
Words plant identity.
And a godly mother understands that what she says consistently will take root.
God is intentional about identity.
Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV) says,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."
God creates with purpose.
No life is accidental.
No child is without design.
A godly mother begins to agree with that truth.
She does not define her child by a moment - she speaks according to God’s design.
What Does That Mean for Daily Life
It means that there is a difference between correcting behavior and defining identity.
A godly mother corrects - but she does not tear down.
Ephesians 4:29 (Passion) says,
29 And never let ugly or hateful words come from your mouth, but instead let your words become beautiful gifts that encourage others; do this by speaking words of grace to help them.
That applies in the home.
Instead of labeling failure, she speaks potential.
Why?
Because faith speaks forward.
Romans 4:17 says,
“The God… who calls those things which do not exist as though they do.”
That is how God speaks - and a godly mother learns to speak the same way.
Why is your confession over your child so important? Because words stay longer than moments. People may forget events - but they remember what was spoken over them.
A godly mother is not just managing behavior - she is shaping identity.
A godly mother doesn’t just speak life - she becomes a covering of prayer over what she cannot see.
A godly mother plants faith.
A godly mother trusts God beyond her control.
A godly mother speaks identity.
And as she walks with God…
She becomes a covering of prayer over what she cannot see.
Because where that child is concerned there are places she cannot go, moments she cannot watch and decisions she cannot control.
But prayer reaches all those places.
James 5:16 (NKJV) says,
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
Prayer produces results.
It is not a last option - it is a powerful resource.
And you can be assured that God hears and answers prayer.
Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) says,
“Call to Me, and I will answer you…”
Prayer is not ignored.
Prayer connects us to God’s will and releases His power.
So Mom, what does this mean for you? It means that as a godly mother you may not be able to be everywhere - but your prayers can be.
You can pray over:
Decisions
Friendships
Protection
Future
Psalm 91:11 (NKJV) says,
“For He shall give His angels charge over you…”
Isaiah 54:17 (NKJV) says,
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper…”
These are not just verses to read - they are truths to declare.
Philippians 4:6–7 (NLT) says,
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Pray - and peace comes.
And this leads us to the final truth about godly Mom's for today…
A godly mother’s life becomes a legacy that continues long after she is gone.
A godly mother plants faith.
A godly mother trusts God beyond her control.
A godly mother speaks identity.
A godly mother covers her family in prayer.
And when those are lived out over time…
Her life becomes a legacy that continues long after she is gone.
It is true a mother may not see all the fruit immediately.
But that does not mean nothing is happening.
Hebrews 6:10 (NKJV) says,
“God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love…”
With God Nothing is wasted.
Every prayer…
Every word…
Every act of faith… Matters.
Ecclesiastes 11:1 (NKJV) says,
“Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.”
Harvest may come later - but it will come as a legacy to you Mom.
So today we honor godly mothers.
Because they…
Plant faith
Trust God
Speak identity
Pray protection
Build legacy
And according to Isaiah 55:11 that means what has been spoken in faith will produce.
So to every Mother here today I will leave you with this:
You are not just a mother. You are a covenant carrier. You are a seed sower in one of the most strategic gardens on earth — the garden of the next generation.
Every Word you speak over your children has eternal weight.
Every prayer has eternal reach.
Hannah did not just pray for a baby. She prayed for a prophet. Susanna Wesley did not just teach ten children under an apron. She trained two men who helped birth a revival that changed the course of Western history.
Nether of them knew any of that when they were doing it. They were just being faithful — in the season they were given, through the tears that would not stop and the prayers that kept rising.
And God took those seeds and grew them into something the world is still living in today.
So please do not stop. Do not grow weary in well doing. Galatians 6:9 says in due season you shall reap, if you faint not. The God who remembered Hannah and who multiplied Susanna's seed is the same God you are serving today.
And to those honoring a mother today — take a moment to be grateful for the faith that got into your bloodstream through a woman who prayed.
Take a moment to recognize that the covenant ground you are standing on was broken up and planted by someone who never stopped believing in you. Your Mom!!!
