Mothers Day Service

Just look at the person besides you and ask them,

do you have it?

Now?

Just in case they're wondering what you're talking about, ask

them or tell them I'm talking about the Holy Ghost.

Just look at that same person. Tell them, if you.

Have it, it'll make you run sometime.

Look at the person on the other side. Tell them

if you.

Really have it, it'll make your dance sometime.

Tell them, if you have it, it'll make your live.

Right now, tell them one last time. I'm talking about

the get your Bibles.

Get your Bibles in the trust and where I came from.

Somebody can look at something. Yes, I got it, hallelujah.

Get your Bibles.

One of probably the most familiar passages and will be

preached on today comes from Proverbs. It is chapter thirty.

You can sit because I don't know exactly which way.

I'm going to go.

I have a message, and I know how I'm supposed

to preach, and one I'm supposed to preach, but I

sometimes don't know exactly how God is going to get

us there. But it is in the Book of Proverbs

that the prophet begins to unfold to us the qualities

and the quantity and the capacity by which most people

measure their lives. What is amazing is we have picked

one day in the month of May to celebrate what

sometimes takes a lifetime to prepare for. It is amazing

because I must admit to you that I have a

problem whenever we set aside a day, because there are

some of you who should be herald as heroes and

celebrate it every day of your life. Can you help

me look at the prisoners and say, I've watched you.

Tell them you've come through challenges. Tell them you come

through obstacles. Tell them you've come through problems and you're

still here. That is the amazing thing that we find

in this proverb because it asks the question, who can

find a virtueous woman? When itever it asks a question,

what it should say is you are a virtuous woman,

but you're not a virtuous man. I didn't think I

was gonna I didn't think I was gonna get too

much on that one.

So that's that's okay. That's why I turned that.

Way, because sometimes we desire the quality of certain characteristics

without extending ourselves, because we don't normally have the same

capacity to give what we want.

But it's here that the man of God wants us.

To understand sometimes you have to give what you want back.

If I was in Mark, Mark will say, what's of

a man or a woman?

Soweth that shall he also reap? So Jesus shows us

the important qualities of the day that we have set

aside to celebrate mothers. He shows us first first of

all in the garden of Eden in the book of Genesis,

because he sees that Adam call from the ground.

Is there a.

Pushface, cushite, burnt face, the person who has been made

of clay. And God looks at him and says, as

good as you are, and as much dominium as you possess,

with all of the power and the authority that is

within your gates, you still need balance. You still need

somebody to help you to understand and to bear the load.

So he gives to him a woman by the name

of Eve.

Eve means the dawn of the morning.

She is called from the man's wound, and she from

his But she has given a wound which causes her

to be called one man or a man with a womb.

Y'all don't like them, but let me help you.

But he gives her to this man of God because

he says something that.

Literally blows my mind.

God says to HadAM, I've been watching you.

I've seen you operate within the gates. I've seen you

name the other animals, and I've seen you look googly

eyes at everything around you. And I've come to the

conclusion it's not good for you to be by yourself.

So God then causes a deep sleep to come upon

him and he pulls the woman out of the man.

I can say some things right here, but because I'm

not trying to go viral.

I think I better be careful how I say what I'm.

Going to say.

Nick.

So the woman has been pulled out of the man.

She is not your better half, she is not your

controlling half.

But it must be understood in the body of Christ

that while the man is the head.

Or the lead, you can't do anything without your nick.

Your neck controls the movement of your life. And so

he gives us such great disdain and understanding of the

ability of a woman that the Bible begins to address her,

and it addresses.

Her from several vanished points. The first thing he souls us.

Such is he begins to teach us in the New Testament.

That is important how you treat your wife.

Oh, I ain't gonna get a whole lot of amens

to day Smith. I guess I better go ahead and process.

It's important because you can't treat other women better than you.

Treat your wife. You can't.

You can't uphold other folks and hut everybody else and

leave your wife's standing.

You can't be disrespectful.

And even the world has come to a conclusion and

an understanding of understanding that a happy wife will give you.

A happy life. But he then goes deeper than that.

He says up that a husband'sould love their wife shut

like Christ has love the Church shut.

I must submit to you that you only have to

take up a little rip over to the Old Testament

and look in the book of Jose because he now

souls us Sutton, that sometimes your wife will not do

everything you said.

I just felt the holy ghost day. I just felt

to release the preach Sutter. I saw that to go

ahead and go with this.

He souls us, such the significance and the honor you've.

Got to have for your wife.

Ut by comparing it to the church, Suting, He says

to the man, not Ah you got to love your

wife like Christ sut loves the church.

Shut.

That means she may not always do what you said, but.

You still got to respect and love her.

Ah.

Sometimes she's going to disappoint you happy like the church

has disappointed me ucky.

But you can't use that.

As an example to disset yourself fucking from what I

have joined together, he says, Shut to the man of God, Shut,

that she has to follow you happy as you follow

Christ Shutting.

But you got to honor her. You got to hold

her up Fucking. You got to be there for suppli Hut.

You got to be there as an example up of

how I love the church shuting a scene. Now he

begins to late a shutting of the pattern for having

a happy life. Nothing, So I better go ahead and

give you my subject.

Look at a.

Neighbor and say, neighbor, God told me to.

Tell you happy.

He's getting ready to restore your laughter. He's getting ready

to bring restoration to your dreams.

Shut.

He's getting ready to release what He's placed inside of

you to cover every ascitnment.

Happy.

There is a.

Calling on your life.

Fut to soul this world Hut that has become crazy

this world that has become callous, shutter, this world that

has become whole not and is signing itself fucking in

difficult places.

Shut.

It ought to be the schirch Sutton. That's sos folks

shupting how to love.

I think it was Sena Turner Hut who asked the question, Well.

I've come to ask what's love got to.

Do with it?

Well, I'm glad you asked, sutting. Love covers a maltitude

of fox and sin. Suthen look at a neighbor and say, name.

U neighbor.

Oh, y'all say, oh neighbor, Say oh neighbor. I don't

always sucking care it rise, but you still got to

love me. I don't always sucking fix it like your

mama fixes it, but you better love me. I don't

always sucking fix the house shutting like.

Your childhood house suting, but.

You married me. Now you gotta respect what God allows,

and so sheesus gives us shutting this example, because we

got just shouting down, we got the dance down, we

got the hollow down. We know how to keep you

at sir for just a few hours.

Shut.

But I've come to ask you.

Why is it shutting that CHRISTI is good at sir shupting,

but he ain't good at sawhouse. You're a bad example

of who Christ is shut Because if Christ so loves

the sir solid, we are a love one another. I

guess I better turn this way, but they look at it, OK. Crazy,

But that's all right out on me. A salvation that

makes me live right. I don't just need a salvation

that makes me damn. That's why I don't need a

salvation that makes me roll on the floor. But I've

come to tell you her God is watching her. How

we treat one another? Help say hey, sucking with a

neighbor first time? You got about six more times. But

for this first time, shame how I treats you. It's

going to determine what's coming in my life. I got

to respect you even when I don't like you. I

got to love you even when you're unlovable.

Hut.

I got to say you with your help, because one

can chase some towels and help two can chase ten thousands.

I got to be able to praise God in difficult times.

But tell a neighbor you haven't talked to yet, you

might have to get up your seas and find the neighbor.

Run to somebody help and say, neighbor, God are washing

us up? He wants no, not only can you search shut,

but can you help leave a right? So he soulds

us such the importance of the family. He wants us

to be happy. And I've come to Propheside to about

thirty folks. God told me to tell you he's been

watching the quality of your life. Such three folks su

and say neighbor. But God said to tell you he's

getting ready to give you upgrades. No, ain't talking to

the right neighbor. You got my permission to get some stuff,

says you'll see because your position happen in the first

your status is getting her ready, getting ready to say

by how you treat treats so mama, shees as saying.

When he tells the family, he says, Father, love your

children and provoke them, not anger. That means we're a

child has gone wrong. Take your belts up, off your

way up, take your strapper off the wall, tell them

outside something. Get so switches and come back in here.

I got to whoof you up? Sow the police up,

won't wolf you. I got to stake, you slitch the

waltz have to go and sail. I got to put

sally and quality in your life. I know you're going

to fail. I know you're going to disappoint me. But

I come to tell you that Lord Trummers, a multitude

of sawt saw your hands around the neighbor and same neighbor.

God o me to tell you he got enough love

to cover what's you did in your past. So I'm

forgetting those stems. Whi's I behind? I'm a recing to

those stings. What's up before? For all the neighbor say name,

We got to press towards the mark of the high colleague.

What's in Christ Caesars? Su I came to tell tell

that sirup, you gonna get back. What's you put out?

You gonna get back? What's your gear? God's gonna bless

you according to how you handle what's been put in

your hands.

So I've come to tail.

Tell the church shut on this Mother day, Mother's Dame

morning him. That is time for the search to graduates

to the next level. It's time for the church to

understand how she's a sub selt about Mother. She souls

us how important your mother is when he sues this

his earthly workship because she is. He comes through sorty

and two generations. He comes down the birth canal of

a woman by the name of Mary. He causes her

from her connality cut in order to impregnate cut her

birth canne. He doesn't just appear there help, but he

comes inside of the wound happen of a little hot,

unexpected girl. He soues a sun her destiny.

Help.

He choes this, her name, he choes this her body.

Help.

He soothes as her mind, and he sins an angel

to confirm what he's doing inside of her. I needs

you help because I'm almost finished to grab a woman.

Help by the hand. Help tell that woman help something

he it's growing. Help inside of you. Tell them you

have been soul, said her before the foundation on the world.

Tell the name, said name her name, Gosh man growing something.

Help inside of you, so sake them he biny a hen,

he said name help. God told me to tell you.

Hep it's being the developed, But now it's time to producething.

Y'all werein't shaken her sake a name, say write the book,

open the business. Do what he says. Start the ministry.

Help answer him. God told me to tell you He's

been preparing you for lifetime. You are the carrier of God.

You are the technos.

You are in possessing of Shee and his mercy. You

are in possessing of his annoyty. You are in possessing

of his mind. You are in possessing of his power.

You are in possessing of his goodness. Son, Can you

imagine this little girl? For nine months, her body had

to be sad with Jesus, Jesus group inside of her,

Jesus eight when she Jesus breathe. When she breathed, Jesus

swim in a section and had never taken swim lessons,

and God help didn't let him die. I need you,

he say Hey with a neighbor and say name. God

told me to tell me you're going to carry this season.

Help to complete her. No early deliver here, no abors,

no losing. God told me to tell you how he

has prepared your wolf. God told me, not every woman

is a mother, but someone am. God is not souls

but the wave your hands. All the neighbors, Hey, help

and say name God souls to be the mother of

his next viction god souls to be the mother of

his next movement, God's souls to be the mother of

his next calling. So snap that name up and say name.

God has soulsen you for such a time as this,

as I come to a close, esus up. Not all

he help has to sew us up. At his birth,

he sols us son at his death? How in pardon

your mamma? Is he sows us suck at the cross

When he's murdering his last seven sayings, he looks from

the cross such shown chapter nineteen, verses twenty six through

twenty seven. He takes time from dying. He stops what

he's doing here. He puts Us up on the hole.

He falls in a flying, flying pat and he looks

aft him his mama, and he says, Mama, behold your son. Shout,

behold your mama. How needs you shake hands with a

neighbor next to the lads, say name. If you got

so mama, you better take care of her. So John

inherits Jesus's mother. Help make sure that she make sure

that she gets to the store, Make sure does she

dresses good? Make sore? Does she keeps her mind? Makes

sure she's provided fort and I come to tell her, all,

you lazy, crazy folks who still have your mother, help

you hat again. Go to their house, take them some flowers,

take them a car to give them some dinner, helpy

and tell them help you mine, not help happy, help

everything that I thought you could have. But I wouldn't

be here if it wasn't for my mama. God had

to use her God hat to choose her. God had

to let me come through her Lord.

And for that, and for that, I'm thankful.

I'm closing. I don't want to make sure make these points.

Scientists say that once a woman is pregnant, she's now

sharing her body. Her hormones are now out of balance,

her nutrition it's spent upside down. Her bloodstream is now divided,

and most of her blood y'all can sit because I

promise you I'm closing, goes to her child.

Creating.

An unbreakable bond that goes beyond the physical and spills

over into the natural.

And takes.

Because this day.

The determination is because you have.

Put something inside of me. I'm no longer just responsible

for myself. I've got to give life energy everything that

I have to make sure what's insight of me survives.

And it lives. Her energy is totally shifted, the energy

she ONTs have.

Because of her decision to have a baby. She will

never ever come back to that place of energy. Having

a baby sometimes causes aches, pains, back pains, and cramps.

That will now be existent to the mother.

For the rest of her life, even after she has

delivered the baby. The stress, the strain, the anxiety that

a woman goes through for two.

Hundred and seventy days.

While a child lives rent free, while a child has

never been taught to swim, swimming in her embryonic sac

Even though the child has never been taught to swim,

the child has a natural instinct from the mother that

causes it not to suffocate from fluid, but to wade

inside a mother's.

Warm until the day of the child's birth.

Scientists say that a mother is closest to death, and

most African American women sometimes do not live while their child.

Is living.

Because it is at this point that the mother has

made a sacrifice.

To give life, even if it.

Causes her life. How even see why, I want you

to get quiet, I want you to hear me.

She goes through this and at the most vulnerable time.

She's now at the hospital, sometimes having contractions that are

fall contractions. She has to bear the pain and the

intensity of her body.

And when the doctor hollis.

Push, She's got to push to save.

Her own life.

I close with this scientist say that once a mother

pushes a baby out, she never stops pushing that child

for the rest of her life. Push to get them

to go to school. Push to get them to do

their homework. Push to get them to go to soccer.

Push get them to eat their vegetables. Push get them

to eat those peas.

Push you eat it.

Before it eat you'll Push to cook when they're type.

Push to go to work, come home, fix food for

her husband, who sometimes is her extra child. Push through

her time of need and anxiety.

Through her frustration.

Mothers, like pastors, have a whole lot of stuff going on.

She's got to deny herself so that her children, her husband.

Have everything. I'm gonna tell you three facts are totally close.

Three facts.

Fact number one, women are more spiritual than men. Okay,

they didn't like that. They didn't like that, But I

gotta tell the truth. I'm a preacher.

I can't lie while I'm in the poor pen I'll

come down there and lie, but I ain't gonna lie up.

People. The more spiritually perceptive you have.

Something that God has given you called spiritual intuition. You

can be at home and your child can be at

a party. You can be sleeping, and the holy ghosts say,

get up, girl. You gotta put some prayer to this.

Your prayers will lead out of your house, go all

the way to Cleveland. Or snatched that child up while

they're on the floor during the bank head bounce, say

you got to get up out of here because what's

coming in the next few minutes you don't want to

deal with. I know what I'm talking about because prayer

brought me out the club.

When I ain't had sense enough to know that I

needed to get out.

I know what I'm talking about because prayer brought me

home some nights I wasn't planning to come home. Number two,

mothers are the most neglected person in the world because

every child seeks for the approval of their mother. You

don't believe me, Watch them the football drafts.

Watch the basketball draft.

As soon as a guy gets chosen, he said, what

you gonna do?

You just got contract for fifty minute. I'm gonna buy

my mama house. I loved one. I don't even know

who it is, but I was reading an article. One

of the athletes said something that blew my mind.

He said, I watched my mother put her life on hold.

He said she had.

A house and she needed another house, but she wouldn't

get it.

Because she was too busy sending me to college. He

said she needed a new car, but because I needed

food while I.

Was in school, she kept the same old cars. So

they said, so what she gonna do with the money.

He says, I'm gonna buy her car, I'm gonna buy.

Her house, and I'm gonna pay them back every penny

that they spent.

And sending me to school. Some parent.

Woke up and I rebuked that spirit because I feel

it in here, because some parent looked at you and

said you was a mistake.

The devil is a liar. I believe in the providential

nature of God.

Everything that he allows, he allows it for purpose. He

allows it for task, And whether you want to understand

it or everything that happened to you, God did it.

No passica the devil, the devil. The devil tried to

defeat no.

No, no, no, no no no.

God was trying to give you the ability to our understand.

You can over go hurt us. You can do things

that you don't even know you could do.

Sometimes God's got to put your back against the wall,

make you think you can't do it, just so you

can come through it and understand He has put the

power inside.

Of you to be successful.

So while we're here, we're taking one day to celebrate mothers.

You ought to celebrate your mama every day.

The sacrifice a woman makes their body.

Just a fair a napping headed child, just to bear

some and it's gonna rise up at like you want

to say something back. I wish she was in my generation.

My mama was five foot three. She ain't have to

tell me, but one time, I brought you in this world.

And I'll take you out.

I didn't give her a chance to hit me because

she was built like tyson. She said, Boy, she did that.

I ran for cover because I knew she meant what

she said. I never knew my mom would leave here

while I was eighteen. If I could rewrite it, I

rewrite it. But when she left here, she had put

in her children everything that was necessy.

A sirih for our success. I wasn't prepared because you're

never prepared for death.

I have to keep telling all these around me, you're

never prepared for death.

I don't care if you know what's coming. I don't

care if they tell you.

I don't care if you got the diagnosis. I don't

care if you're in hospital. I don't care if you're

in pelative care. You're never prepared for it. Don't be

like the bulk of us, and don't appreciate your mother

until their God.

She ain't always do what I wanted her to do.

She ain't always say what I wanted to.

Say, and I closed with it. She was my LNG agent.

She was my chauffeur. She was our babysitter. She was

our counselor. I didn't always like it because she would

take her side, say.

Let me tell you wrong.

I thought, what can I get a little space? I'm

your child. She said, Nah, you ain't getting no space.

You wrong.

Mama told me say you got your own house. Don't

ever come back here.

I said, what that's cold? She said, don't come back here.

I thought I knew everything because I was a smart

little kid.

The you know, the black first black president, first black student.

I thought I was all that. One day I'm in

my own place. I go to the wall. I said,

oh lord, the.

Little man in the refrigerator and quick, I said, what

chess open the refrigerator, said slicker stands cooling down.

That's where you used to have the falls on the wall.

Mama, wonder what doesn't happen the little man in refrigerator quistion?

She says, what it's a little man in refrigerator. Quit

stuff is getting warm. Mama said, go over to the wall.

She said, flip the switch. I said, ain't nothing happening.

She said, did you pay your light bill?

I said, ain't know you had to pay no light bill.

I thought you just had to pay rent, got all

that was all inclusive.

Mama said, boy, if you don't get off this phone

and go down to the Duke Power and find out

what you owe them and.

Pay it back before your food throw out.

I immediately became humble. See how I was. I thought

I was grown.

You know. You know my mama told me flake, you

ain't grown. To you out on your own pair of

all your bills. I want to make sure y'all got

that par.

Not calling me for no money paying all your stuff.

Mama, I think I'm gonna borrow two hundred dollars.

She gonna let me borrow it.

But after an hour and a half lecture and you

and and tell, and then you and then you have

a nerve to be calling me, and then I call

you to do something, you can't do it for that here,

I'm gonna sit here like I'm sitting here thinking like

I don't I don't know if I want this or not.

And then she literally like, don't take it because you

ain't got to take it.

Now, I'm like.

The only loan officer I know that you can go

to for a second loan and you're still older.

First, I know, I ain't saying nothing to me. I

still owe her money to this.

Day, thirty eight years later, because I kept on borrowing.

Because she was always there.

But God told me when I was writing this message,

and I close, I promise God told me when I

was writing this message.

There's getting ready to be a renewal of the values.

That our parents had. God's getting ready to bring back

a reverence from motherhood like we've never seen before. God's

getting ready to show us the value of what the

scripture says.

And I did all of that to get to description

honor your mother.

And your father, that your days may be long upon

the earth.

You live long if you do right. I'm finishing. I

got one more thing to say.

And if you are a no good father who let

your children say anything to your wife and their mother,

you need to be smacked.

Upside the head.

My boys, I wish they were here right now because

they testify to you for themselves.

When she was.

Going through, my oldest son said, Daddy, the.

Boy, you gotta lose some of that base in your voice.

Dandy, what's wrong with my mama?

Like I done done something to her? I said what

I said? What he said, I call her.

I ain't like the way she shound.

I said, you better lose some of that base out

your voice. But I quickly made an appointment. Mama added

for them to come up the road. I told her, Jo,

Mama got something to tell you.

She was upset. I told you, I can't tell you

to tell. These boys calling me want to know what

I'm doing to you?

Kill them off my back. I don't have to kill nobody.

I'm gonna have to kill me some people cause they.

Call it daddy.

I don't like the way mama shound what you may

get some you better put some tellor.

Put some apps on that voce that on. I'm true,

I'm telling you, man. Let me tell you. Y'all know

brown man?

Now?

Man, you know man, I need to know. Man, I

don't even know what's going on. Man? Oh, who you

talking to? Man? I'm telling you, man, nigga. I think

I can take.

Both of them on a good day. But I don't

even want to try because if I don't win, they

gonna kill me.

But them boys, they love their mama. Boy, that's something

happening to them. Mama, I said, who is just.

Walking into my house like you paying? Morgan's here? I

need no man? You know what something?

Man?

Me? Man, I mean what's going on now?

Most of time when they call me, I'm in trouble

about how I treat them.

Mother. I ain't got to worry about them. They'll they'll

talk back to me.

They ain't gonna talk about to her that they know

she's crazy.

Already know they're talking about daddy, won't you?

Then?

There? I said, what you say that to your mama? No? Man, no,

man were cool. Man.

Yeah, mm, so you gotta learn that sometimes as the father,

you gotta say to them, I watched.

I love our church.

I'm closing, I promise, but I love our church because

I love the men at our church. Because the men

at our church are disciplinarians. Sometime there's so much disciplinaries.

They scare me. My man, I be wanting to save

the children.

I'll be trying to say, no, no, do it, don't

do it, just sit down and be quiet, because he's

gonna kill you.

And Pastor can't save you.

Because sometimes I be looking at him.

Sometimes we say.

I got a couple of I got a couple of deacons.

I ain't gonna name their names, and be like, I

ain't gonna name no deacons up in here.

Pastor can't save you now because I have told you twice,

you don't don't tell you three times.

I'll be saying to the Lord, I wish I could

just take them home with me.

But it's a good thing, because can I tell you

my last thing, everything, my mama, my grandmother.

The deacons in the church, cause see, we.

Got beat by everybody the mothers in the church did.

Has made me who I am. They have a terminology

and it's not a bad terminology.

Yet it really isn't. I'm really a mutt. I'm a mutt,

and I'm proud you call a mutt.

I heard you.

Somebody said, what is munty? I'm glad you asked. I'm

a mixture of a whole lot of folk who wouldn't

let me go wrong. I'm a mixture of a whole

lot of deacons. They came to me, boy, I wish

you would say something. Then they take me.

To my mama. Come on, Ms Porsche, and all she

had to do. Sit. My mama didn't say nothing. She just.

Man, don't come home, not today, because you done embarrass

me in church.

And now I got to get you.

We need more people because it takes a village to

raise a child. We need more people that would take

interest in our children. No, baby, don't do that.

Baby.

You know your daddy gonna kill you.

You know your mama. But baby, baby, I know your mama.

And she's crazy. She gonna get you. Sit down. Sit

down here with Auntie. Sit sit with Auntie. Sit right here.

I'm gonna hide you.

That's the values that make a successful child. Somebody said

something to me, and I'm totally fits. Somebody says something

to me about you at the homegoing yesterday and.

It blessed my life.

Another musician place on one of the biggest churches. Help

us to say well, he said to me, He says, mad,

I love what I see in Jerry and in Harvey

and Nick and your musicians. He's because all of us

grew up together and all of us are doing well.

That's a compliment. That's a compliment. All of us are

doing well because we had parents, mama's. He used to

pop upside the head, pull the bell out. Whoo. We

try to sit there looking like you all. You know

you done got beat.

You don't got beat in front of me Jesus' name,

but it made.

Us who we are, and it's blessed oundl like we'll

leave it