THE BLESSINGS OF A MOTHER

Ben Carson was dull as a child in school and usually came first from behind (last position). However, he was blessed with a mother who believed in him and today he is a world renowned Paediatrics Neurosurgeon and a child of God. When no one believed in him, somebody did...his mother!

When Moses was born, there was a law that did not permit any male child of the Israelites to live but to be killed. But his mother believed in him, having seen that “he was a proper child, she hid him 3 months” (Exodus 2:2). The father was silent but the mother was fervent in her belief. Moses became the deliverer used by God for the people.

When Samuel was born, someone saw a priest in him and believed in him...this was his mother. “And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young” (1 Samuel 1:24). Samuel became a blessed priest of the Most High God.

By the time John the Baptist was born, the family gathered themselves together and said he was going to be named ‘Zachariah’ whereas God had told his parents what he would be called. These people were attempting to alter the destiny of the boy, but his mother stood up and resisted the people. She supported and co-operated with the counsel and purpose of God thus frustrating the agenda of the enemy through the people. “And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John” (Luke 1:59, 60). John the Baptist was the forerunner of Christ.

When Jesus was born, many things were said about Him, and his mother “Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 1:19). And when a time came, even though Jesus had never performed any visible miracle at that time, his mother knew what He carried and she told the people who needed wine “whatsoever He saith unto you, do it” (John 2:5). She believed in Him...it turned out to the beginning of the miracles which Jesus did. A mother’s belief premised the manifestation of His divine purpose.

I find out that mothers are blessed channels for men to come forth into destiny. I pity men and women who despise and ill-treat their mothers. Many destinies have been cut short and dreams aborted because many refuse to honour their mothers (and fathers). “Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise). That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth” (Ephesians 6:2, 3). The first commandment with promise! It appears the bible is saying that it shall not be well with anyone who dishonours his/her mother (and father). The reason why some people are not making progress in the city might just be because they have forgotten and ignored their mother in the village. * If you are using BlackBerry Bold 5 and Ipad and your mother (or father) does not have a phone, not even a Nokia phone of N2000, God is watching you!

When no one believes in you, when it becomes tough holding on to what you believe about yourself, somebody just needs to believe in you – your mother, and that could birth the dawn of greatness in your life again.

Friend, I open up to you the ministry of mothers. So passionate was the mother of James and John about her children that she made a request that Jesus admitted was determinable by God. It looks like if it were in His power, because she worshipped Him first and asked, He could have done something about it.

Take a moment to intercede for that woman today; could be for her salvation, her health, long life, her heart desire, just say a word of blessing on her behalf. A woman beheld Jesus and prayed for his (earthly) mother, “And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked” (Luke 11:27). ‘Mother, you are blessed’...is someone saying that prayer? Peace.