SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY SERVICE @ RCCG REGION 2 HEADQUARTERS PARISH – PASTOR (MRS) UCHENNA ADERIBIGBE

SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY SERVICE @ RCCG REGION 2 HEADQUARTERS PARISH, THE MASTER’S PLACE (TMP) GBAGADA LAGOS STATE NIGERIA.

MINISTERING: PASTOR (MRS) UCHENNA ADERIBIGBE (WIFE OF PASTOR IN CHARGE OF REGION, RCCG REGION 2)

TOPIC: AND SHE SHALL BE CALLED BLESSED

DATE: 30TH MARCH 2025

BIBLE TEXT: 2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7

SONG

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds my Future
My Life is worth a Living Just because He lives.

OPENING PRAYER

Father, I Thank You!

If it’s only me that can bring You Praise – Please receive it.

If You are not Living, I would not be alive. I have no tomorrow to face if not for You, Lord.

So accept my Praise, and accept my Worship.

You are Worthy, and more than enough to receive it.

You are Lord, not because I said so but because You are Lord even before the Foundation of the Earth.

So Lord, receive my Praise in Jesus’ Name.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Praised!

And as Your Word comes forth, Please let Your Word encounter us, in Jesus’ Name.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

I want to speak to us in a few Minutes on the Topic: “And She shall be called Blessed.”

DIFFERENT STAGES OF WOMANHOOD

Beloved, there are Five (5) Stages in a Woman’s Life:

I said, “in a Woman’s Life” because at birth, every Baby Girl comes with all the things that she needs in future to make children.

So, every female child is a Woman – Amen!

The only difference is that, we grow into the different Stages of Womanhood. And there are Five (5):

1. Babyhood
2. Girlhood
3. Ladyhood
4. Wifehood

*… The last and most crucial, important and demanding is:

5. MOTHERHOOD

Beloved, in these times and ages, we have seen a lot of mothers. So we are compelled to put Mothers in two different Categories;

I. We have Mothers

II. And we have Mothers Indeed.

A Mother is the female that has brought forth an Offspring Biologically.

We also have what we call Spiritual Mothers.

Someone that have borne children in their Spirit Wombs, and birthed them.

And when it comes to that aspect, every Believer is supposed to birth a child through Evangelism.

But we would restrict our discussion this Morning to “Biological Mothers” and “Mothers Indeed”.

We don’t need to repeat the times we are in, because it seems to us that the duty and the Ministry of Motherhood is becoming more and more Challenging by the day.

And while is this so?

2 Timothy 3:1-7 gives us an idea of why there is a lot of Challenge concerning Motherhood.

I want to read to you, 2 Timothy 3:1-7:

1 This know also, that in the Last Days Perilous Times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I want to read from the Message Bible that is written in a simpler English so that our children and teenagers can follow.

2 Timothy 3:1-7 (Message Bible):

1 Don’t be naive, There are difficult times ahead.

2 As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse,

3 dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical,

4 treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God.

5 They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.

6 These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.”

7 They get exploited every time and never really learn.

These are the times that we are living in.

• Those Adjectives and Descriptions, does it describe anybody you know?
• Has anybody told you that you are one or two of those things?

These are the Times we are in, yet God is still in the business of creating children through fathers and mothers – Amen!

If this be so, what manner of Mother are we expected to be?

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF MOTHERS

We will look at Examples in the Bible very briefly, and pull out from them a few duties and responsibilities of Mothers.

1. SACRIFICE

In Luke 2:7 we see a mother: Mary The Mother Of Jesus.

The Bible says, And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a Manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

The first duty of a Mother is Sacrifice – The Sacrifice to bear a child.

Beloved, if you have seen a Pregnant woman or you were old enough to comprehend when your Mother was Pregnant with any of your siblings; or you are married, and you are attentive enough to notice your wife whenever she is Pregnant; you will agree with me, and with the Word of God, that to become a Mother is Sacrifice.

There is a way God made it, so that it would not look like Sacrifice – Otherwise, no woman would go back to the Labour Room a second time.

But God has made it in His Divine Wisdom, in such a manner that He will find wombs in wives; so that He can use them in Synergy with the husband, to bring forth children.

So the first duty of a wife is to transit from being a wife, to becoming a Mother – Sacrifice your womb so that creation can continue.

And I’ll like to speak to our young wives – Those that are newly married; that are telling us they don’t want to become mothers now.

They want to do honeymoon for a few years before they would begin to obey the Word of God.

You are called into the Ordinances to becoming a wife, not for show.

You and I know that these days, People get married and they use Contraceptives.

They say, they want to give themselves time and they want to know each other – All manner of excuses. Because they are yet to understand that God needs their womb, so that creation can continue.

God is God enough to throw down children from the Heavens; true or false? True!

But He has designed, deviced and decided that it is through a man and his wife – Legally married Please.

… Do not go out there and say, “they say we should be giving birth.”

It is one man and one woman, that are legally married.

I don’t know why I am digressing – If you are living with a woman and you have not Paid her Bride Price, go and Pay her Bride Price.

And it is one man, one woman – Not one woman, hundred husbands or one man with many wives. No!

God has designed that creation should continue through the vehicle of Marriage. And young women that get married are expected, together with God, to see that you get Pregnant.

And it shall be so, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Every one that has agreed they are not going to become Pregnant, by this Unction, and by this Mother’s Day Celebration, we decree…

… It is a decree, so I don’t need your Amen.

Decrees cannot be hindered.

When a decree goes forth, it is Performed.

So I am not Praying, and I am decreeing by the Unction of God upon me – The Unction of a Minister of God, and the Unction of a Mother: I decree into the Life of everyone that is Standing at the Open Door for us to have children: in Nine (9) Month’s time, you will come with your children – Amen.

I decree Twins! I decree Triplets – It is better, because you’ll do it once and rest.

Sacrifice! You must surrender your womb for this Sacrifice.

2. NURTURE:

As soon as you become a Mother, you must Surrender yourself to Nurture.

You must be Patient to Nurture those children and teach them.

It is not all women that gave birth that are mothers – Those that are mothers are those that Nurture children.

And the Assignment of Nurturing and Teaching is a delicate one that cannot be Delegated.”

The Assignment of Nurturing children is a delicate Assignment that cannot be delegated – That is one Assignment that you cannot afford to delegate.

If you give birth to a child, Nurture that child.

Proverbs 1:8 was talking to children – It says, My son, hear the Instruction of thy father, and forsake not the Law of thy mother:

Another Translation says, “And do not forsake the Teachings of your mother” (DMC NOTES: NIV, ESV Bible Version).

And that is where I am going.

It is the Mother’s Duty to sit down and Teach.

The Message Bible puts it this way. It says, “Never forget what you learned at your mother’s knees.”

Fathers are to give instructions – “Where there is no Instruction, there would be no Direction.”

Mothers are to sit down.

Your knees cannot carry a child if you are not seated.

Once these children leave our Womb, the next Place they are landing is on our knees for Nurturing.

You can Nurture until you sit.

Once you are seated, your knees can carry a child.

If you stand, maybe your back.

But you can’t teach a child at your back.

You want to talk to your child, where do you bring the child?

When a mother wants to tell the child something serious, she doesn’t talk Standing. Does she?

But in these times we live in, we see young mothers giving instructions because it’s not teaching.

You can’t teach any child Standing.

You give ‘Instructions’ Standing, because you are rushing out to Pursue something else.

Mothers are expected to sit and put the children on your knees; and look them eyeball to eyeball, and teach them the way of Life.

You are to teach them those things that when they are old, they will remember.

My mother (of Blessed Memory) has left. But Beloved, many times I hear her voice behind my ear.

That was a mother that sat down to teach.

May God give you the Grace to return back to Teaching your children – Amen.

Many of you have househelps -You believe it is househelps that need to be taught. So you leave your toddlers, leave your children, and teach your househelps.

No wonder the Society is haywire.

And when I say ‘Society’ I mean the Church Society.

Because we have Christian Mothers that we cannot be called Mothers indeed.

The Lord will save you from being just a mother, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Remember our Topic; it says, “And She Shall Be Called Blessed.”

Until you reach that Place in your Assignment as a mother – Where your children rise up and call you Blessed: you are not yet a Mother.

3. COMFORT

The third (3rd) important thing, among other things; that God expects from a mother, is found in Isaiah 66:13.

Even the Lord was comparing His Comfort with that of a mother – He says, As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

There is a Comfort that mothers bring to the table.

So when you ask your wife some very funny Questions, “What did you bring to the table?”

These are the things mother’s bring to the table – Priceless things that cannot be bought!

Next time you hear, “What did you bring to the table?” Please, take your note and begin to read it out:

• I brought Sacrifice.
• I brought Nurturing.
• I brought Comfort.

“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

That is God talking there.

And that tells us mothers that our Assignment is not something we should joke about – As many of us that are toiling with it.

You enjoy the Celebration, you enjoy the Title “Mummy” – There is a work to be done. Get back to work!

Beloved Mothers, Please get back to work; stop delegating your work.

• Point your children in the right direction.
• Comfort them when they are in need of comfort.

There is something a hug does when it comes from a mother, or even a father.

Comfort them, the times they are living in is so hard.

Don’t allow the internet to be the comfort your child is receiving.

Enter into their Space, find out their Struggles; Comfort, Guide, teach, Nurture and discipline them.

In comfort there’s also Discipline.

4. ADVOCATE FOR YOUR CHILD

John 19:25 says, Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

Mothers, how many of you are Standing by the ‘Cross’ of your children?

Every child will come to a Place in Life, where he stands by his Cross;

• Where he is about to be Crucified.
• Where he is in a Trouble.
• Where he cannot figure it out.
• Where he didn’t guard himself.
• Where his friends can no longer get him.

And the only Person God is going to use for that child is the mother.

But you are nowhere to be found!

Even to the Cross, the mother of Jesus followed and stood there – Standing by the Cross of a child that would soon be Crucified is not an easy thing.

But Mary leaves us an example, that even in these children’s Struggles, we should advocate for them.

Don’t throw them away! They have made a mistake, every other Person is against them but not their mother.

• It doesn’t mean you are siding the child, or you are rubber-stamping the bad behaviour.
• It doesn’t mean you are holding his or her breathe;

It only means that you are Standing there, so that God can use you to reverse the ugly situation.

God is always in need of somebody to use; and mothers are one of those People.

Stand at the Cross of your children, don’t sell them out to those who would crucified them.

Stand by their Cross, and look for Solutions:

• Mothers are supposed to be ‘Solution Providers.’
• Mothers are Shakers and Shapers of Destiny.

Somebody said, “If your father happen not to be good, but you have a good mother, you will make it.”

Because women that are mothers indeed, have been wired with some Patient wirings.

That a mother who endured Pregnancy for Nine (9) Months, and endured the rigours of Pushing out a baby, should be able to endure and Patiently see that child through any type of trouble.

Fathers want to stand, but they are not given that – So don’t judge them.

Don’t say, the father was not there! – He’s not been given that kind of Grace.

Mothers are Graced to endure – Use that to the advantage of your children.

He has failed WAEC, don’t kill him.

• Help him to get up again.
• Help him to look for another Place where he can repeat the Examination.

While you are Praying, Counselling, Teaching and doing everything that God has put in you to do.

When the father is so annoyed and talking, you join small.

When you go to the backyard, you Pray and say “you have defecate inside the bath water, I can’t throw you away.”

Mothers, you are only to throw away the dirty water; bring another water and wash your child.

Why will you do that?

Because Proverbs 31:28 has said, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he Praiseth her.”

If you don’t do that, Nobody will rise up and call you Blessed.

It’s when you have succeeded in being “Mother Indeed”; your children will first raise your Praise, before your husband would stand up to Praise you.

It is until the man begin to see the children do well that he will Praise you.

Women that are dying and hungry for Praise from husband, my Sister, forget that – Train your children!

When you train them, they will raise a Praise Song for you.

When they begin to sing, your husband has no Choice but to join the ‘Choir.’

The Bible has said it: “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”

Train your children, when they Succeed they will raise a Praise for you -;It’s Scriptural; it is happening, and I have seen it happen.

When they raise a Praise for you, your husband will join the choir (without filling Form)!

HOW DO YOU BECOME THAT MOTHER INDEED?

The Tools are in the whole of Proverbs 31.

But Specifically, Proverbs 31:25-27 says: Strength and Honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with Wisdom; and in her tongue is the Law of Kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

1. Just be a Role Model:

As you are Teaching, as you Correcting, Disciplining, Training, Advocating, Sacrificing for them, Comforting them – Whatever you are doing, be a Role Model.

“Children listen to what you ‘DO’ – They don’t hear what you ‘SAY’.”

… They are two different things.

And they do what they see you doing; and not what you say they should do.

So, be a Role Model.

Once you have Strength and Honour as your Clothing, you are a Mother indeed!

Do you know what it means to be a Strong Woman?

The Strength of a woman is different from that of a man.

Tap into your own Strength – Your Strength is the Strength of Influence.

It’s the strength of Comfort.

It is comfortable, but it’s also firm.

You don’t Strengthen without Discipline.

You nurture with Discipline.

That’s the Strength.

When you say, “you are not getting your Milo this Evening.” That is it! Until the next day; that’s the Strength.

2. Be an Honourable Woman.

A woman that wants to Nurture children must be an Honourable Woman.

There must be Honour.

That is what makes a mother beautiful.

When all your shape has gone due to the Sacrifices of Pregnancy and things that come with it. What you are supposed to use and clothe yourself is Strength and Honour.

… I know you know what Honour means.

And Honourable Woman cannot be kicked around – She carries herself with Dignity.

She dresses well – An honourable Mother does not expose her body.

We are still Struggling and Teaching mothers to clothe Properly.

I mean, your Physical Clothes are opened all over the Place – It’s tight, it’s short, it’s transparent.

Excuse me!

And you are Nurturing children; they are watching you.

What you are doing now, your sons and daughters are copying. And you think it’s cool.

When you become a Grandmother, there is a weeping you will weep that you won’t allow anybody to know because you have left a bad example.

We are begging you to dress Properly and cover your Nakedness, as mothers.

We have to talk to you as children, because the Generation is wasting when there are mothers.

Somebody also said, “When you have a Mother, you can do More!”

Your mother is not God but God uses mothers to shape the Destinies of children.

3. Be Wise

“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the Law of Kindness” – Proverbs 31:16

Wisdom is something every mother should have.

And the Bible says, if you don’t have it, ask from God.

James 1:5, If any of you lack Wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

What is Wisdom?

It is knowing what to do, knowing the right time, the right place; in the right quantity, at the right place, and on time.

Learn: Don’t use Motherhood as an excuse to stop learning things that you will need to use and train your children.

“She openeth her mouth with Wisdom.”

A mother should know everything and about everything; so that when they ask Questions you’ll have answers.

Cooking is the least of the duties of a mother – I would repeat it again:

• Cooking has no gender – Just like Money.
• Money has no Gender.

A man can make Money, a woman can make Money.

• House Chores has no Gender.

As long you are a Human Beings, you can pick up after yourself.

So don’t be a mother that the only thing you know is to cook – That won’t save this Generation.

4. Train with Kindness

“And in her tongue is the Law of Kindness.”

You don’t train children loosely – There is a Law.

You are to operate that Law in Kindness – It’s not this looseness we see all over the Place now.

You send your children to school – Teachers cannot teach them, because you have not taught them at home.

They come to the Children’s Department in Faith Based Organizations, and they are uncontrollable because there is no mother committed to Teaching.

There is a Law; but those Laws must be Administered in Kindness.

You want to raise a child, there must be Boundaries:

• This is what obtains here, my dear.
• This is what is not going to be allowed here.
• If you are going to remain in this Household, this far you can go!

That’s how our mothers that were unread brought us up.

That’s how they brought them up in the Bible – Those good examples in the Bible.

That is what we must do if we must snatch out this Generation that the devil has already taken hold of.

We need to do a Fire Brigade snatching of our children from the hands of the devil.

And the Lord will energize us to do so, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

“She looketh well to the ways of her Household, and eateth not the bread of idleness” – Proverbs 31:27

You look well to know where your Household needs help from you.

Be a Role Model.

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF MOTHERHOOD?

Motherhood has Challenges, and that is why some mothers are not Mothers Indeed.

Being a Caregiver who is giving care to everybody in the Household, and she herself also needs care.

Motherhood is that job you do until you go to the grave.

• It’s either the children are in your womb;
• When they come out from the womb they come to your knees.
• When they are grown up enough, they come to your heart.

Every mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother knows that your Heart is with your children everywhere they are. True or True?

Some of them are fathers and mothers; they can’t come home and sit on your lap (it looks somehow); but they are seated in your Heart.

Motherhood is a Ministry of a Lifetime – It’s Service unto God and it is until you go to the Grave.

So this Caregiver is Challenged by this Quantum of duties that she has to offer. And it seems that no other Person is caring for her.

APPEALS TO FATHERS AND HUSBAND

Beloved husbands and fathers, we can’t Celebrate Mother’s Day without you.

Because it is so, we are also compelled to make this appeal – And the appeal is this:

No mother can actually be a Mother Indeed, without a Father Indeed.

• Stand up to your Role. Be a Father Indeed!
• If you claim you love your children, love their mother.

We want to see fathers and husbands building a Foundation upon which that Wise Woman would build a House.

We are used to hearing, “A Wise Woman builds her home.”

On what foundation?

The duty of a woman building a home is not for the woman alone – The men and husbands are included.

HOW DO YOU BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION?

Make your wife Comfortable, and Secure in you.

When a woman is comfortable and secure that she has a good man; she will now Channel all her energy to Training children.

What we have mainly these days are mothers that are focused on Training their husbands and they leave their children for househelps to train.

Your duty as a mother is to train children, not your husband – His mother would have trained him, before he marries you.

A WORD FOR THE SINGLE SISTERS:

• Don’t marry a ‘Boy’ that the mother has not trained.

If you do, when you have children, you will b Preoccupied with training him while your children are languishing.

The energy to train children, you will use it to train your husband. No!

Channel your energy to Training your children.

Husband, give your wife the Emotional Security.

Be involved in what is happening at home so she will not always be Palpitating, chasing after you.

Nobody has Succeeded in Training a husband.

What we do to husbands is to respect and obey them, as they obey Christ.

We don’t train our husbands – That’s not the Bible. It’s children that the Bible says we should train.

We care for our husbands, we obey them, we submit to them – We don’t train them.

Mothers should train their children.

But they require the Foundation of Emotional Security.

When your wife trusts you to handle an issue, she would not need to be running helter skelter. She would have enough energy, and she would Channel it to raising children.

… Let me leave you with this, as we Pray.

ELDERLY MOTHERS AND JESUS’ WIVES (WIDOWS)

If you don’t raise children Beloved Mother, you will not have anybody to sing your Praise.

• Singing of Praise is that, at Old Age, the children you have raised will cover you.
• There is a Covering that children that are raised give their Mother.

When I see our Grandmothers and Mothers-In-Law; some of them their husbands have gone to be with the Lord.

When I see them becoming Permanent Welfare Case, I begin to think twice. “This woman, has she not raised children?”

And if you are here your mother raised you, and you forgot her; your Religion is not Complete.

Your Christianity is not complete because Part of your Christianity is that you should take care of your Parents in their Old Age.

If you raised children and they are taking care of you; Please, you are not Permited to burden the Church of God with your Welfare Case because your children are giving you what you need.

So leave the Welfare Provision for the Jesus’ Wives that their children are very little.

The burden is too much for them – They bear the Emotional burden, they bear the Financial burden, they bear every burden.

That’s the People the Church has been instructed to take care of.

When I see Elderly Mothers still appearing to collect Welfare, I ask again and again: “Have they not raised children?”

And if you have not raised children; there is cold in the Evening of every Life. You will not find the blanket that will cover you in your Old Age.

And I throw it back to you as you Celebrate Mother’s Day:

For me, every day is Mother’s Day – That means I go about my duties every day as Mother.

If you have not raised children, go back and begin to raise them. Evening is coming, and you can’t wish these things away.

So you don’t start Commanding your children in the evening of your Life: “You didn’t pick my call.” He won’t pick your call!

• When he was at a Cross, he didn’t find you.
• When your daughter was at a Cross in her Life, you were nowhere to be found.

Now, it’s the Evening of your own Life, you are cold, you are calling on that daughter to pick your call.

How? You have eaten your cake, you can’t have it because whatever you sow, you will reap.

Mothers hearing me all over the Globe, rise up to your duties!

• Become that Mother Indeed!
• Become that Mother that, when your child is old, he or she would say: “My mother cannot suffer, I am here for her.”

I will leave you now with a Story:

My late mother, when she was about to go, she fell so ill and was in the horse Piece. She was in my younger brother’s house in the United States.

When Doctors see that Medically they can’t do anything; they know that this fellow is going to die anyway.

They would call the Relatives and advice them: “Do you want the horse piece in the Hospital or at your home?”

So People choose.

Some People may choose to keep their aged dying ones in the horse piece in the Hospital.

What it means is; they would keep the Patient in a Ward where they know they would die.

They would start Monitoring Minute by Minute, Hour by Hour, Second by Second, until the Person breaths his or her Last.

They would stop all Medical care, knowing that in a matter of Hours, this Person (Medically) will die.

Except God does a Miracle.

So, for my mother – She had eight (8) of us.

My brother called on us and said, this is the situation right now, they are doing horse piece.

And that he has told them to come and set up a room in his house – That means that he was going to talk off for weeks.

When he turned in his Application for Permission to stay off work, his boss saw that because he wanted to stay by his mother’s side; they gave him the Permission and gave him all his full Benefits.

Secondly, I happen to be the first child; when they set up a room in my brother’s house, in form of a Hospital, and he told us the decision, I said why? He said to all of us: “Our Mother would do the same for each one of us. She will stand by our Cross.”

That the mother we know would do the same thing!

That he cannot receive all the care from our Mother, and leave her alone in the Hospital to die lonely.

Yes, she is going – if God doesn’t want to return her. But he wants her to die on his arms.

All of us wept. We said okay, go ahead.

They brought her into his house and my brother and the wife were taking care.

My brother said the wife should be going to her work that he would be with our mother and he was staying with her.

Few days before she gave up, he said he would sit on the sofa in his room, Mummy would lie on the bed. She couldn’t move, they were cleaning her on the bed, doing everything for her on the bed; she wasn’t eating again.

She was just breathing, and they were looking at the breathing on the System attached to her body.

And one Night, my brother was so tired from sleepless nights.

… And by the way, that’s what mothers go through – sleepless Nights.

That he didn’t know when our mother fell off. When he woke up and found her on the floor, he wept! That, “why did I sleep off and my mother fell down?”

So he carried her. She wasn’t talking anymore, she was just breathing one at a time.

Of course, when she fell, there was no sound, because all the veins were dead. She didn’t even know she fell. So he carried her, crying!

That’s exactly what my mother would do for any of us – eight (8) of us. When she had sons and daughters in-laws, she had sixteen (16) children. And she cared for all of us the same way.

MOTHERS IN-LAW

I am talking to you Mother-in-law that is maltreating your daughter-in-law – You think your daughter-in-law was brought from somewhere you don’t know. You will reap!

Evening is coming.

FATHERS IN-LAW

You father-in-law maltreating your son or daughter in-law, your Evening is coming.

It’s only if you die early that you would not reap what you are sowing.

If you don’t die early, whatever you sow you will reap – No one will help you.

During harvest you will reap all you are sowing alone.

My younger brother sat down, he didn’t take his bath for days until Mama breathed her Last!

As soon as she breathed her Last, he put a call to me.

… That is what it means to be a mother.

I challenge you this Morning, by the Mercies of God, rise up to your duties.

TO CHILDREN

If you are a child, your mother is suffering. If she has Laboured and Cared for you and you are here doing ‘Big Boy’ while your mother is suffering;

She can’t get Clean Clothes, she can eat well, because you don’t send her money and you don’t even go to check on her – You are sowing, you will be alive, your children will do the same to you.

Because if she took care of you and you are not taking care of her; you will not be able to take care of your children. So your children will not take care of you.

I Pray that you will do that Call to Action and Repent – Amen.

It’s not just Praying.

And we are not cajoling you to send your mother a Gift just for Today.

If you send your mother fifty thousand (50,000) Naira every day, you have not done too much.

Have you done too much?

As you have, take care of your aged Parents – It is not when they die you’ll now call all of us, and begin to sell Aso Ebi and kill cows, just to impress People who don’t know you while your mother died of hunger.

When my Mom passed, all of us checked ourselves – We were comforted because while she was alive we took care of her. We did!

Even though when we quantify it now, we see that she cared for us more than we were able to care for her.

Shall we Pray!

CLOSING PRAYER

Heavenly Father, we Thank You.

Your Word has come to all of us, including the Speaker – Raw, without mincing words.

Lord, we ask for Grace to be able to do those things expected of us, that we have not been able to do.

Father, give us such Grace, in Jesus’ Name.

Give us Energy: Spiritual Energy, Mental Energy, Physical Energy, Intellectual Energy.

Every type of Energy that is Positive and Righteous that we need to be Mothers Indeed; deposit into us in Jesus’ Name.

Help our fathers and husbands, to play their little role – It is a good husband that makes a good Mother.

Help them to pick up their roles.

As many as have not known it; as many as have known it but they don’t have the Grace to do it;

Father, Grace them for it today, in Jesus’ Name.

Father, we Pray for our children: Those in our tommy, those on our knees, those on our heart.

Everywhere they are right now, we Pray that those that still need Shaping and Nurturing, you will help them to put their head down to receive Teaching.

And at the end of everything, your Name and Your Name alone would be Glorified, in Jesus’ Name.

In Jesus’ Name we have Prayed – Amen.

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE STABLE OF DMC

Moses Durodola, Titilayomi Ajayi and Tope Babalola 
March 2025