Mother’s Day Part II

On Mothers’ Day I got to thinking about all the different types of mothers there are in the world. Please join me in praying for them. Ask God to bring a name to mind for each category so you can pray for them specifically.

Moms with preschoolers – Lord please give them energy.
Moms for the first time – Lord please put someone in their world who can encourage them, that God will give them wisdom for all the unknowns.

Moms with elementary students – Lord, help them take special moments with you during the day.
Moms with middle school children – Lord, keep them safe on the road and help them make good connections with other taxiing parents.
Moms with teens – Lord, make sure the communication lines stay open, help them not over or under react to situations.
Moms with troubled kids – Lord, as these parents fall to their knees over and over again, please meet them with comfort and hope.
Moms who don’t know where their child is – Lord, give these moms a thankful heart that you know and care and are working in their child’s life.
Moms whose adult children are making harmful choices – Lord, relieve them of their debilitating guilt and replace it with a firm faith in your purposes.
Moms who have no biological children but many spiritual children – Lord, give these moms many opportunities to birth others into your family.
Moms who can’t feed their families – Lord, please have mercy and provide for all their needs.
Moms with no husbands to carry the responsibility – Lord, fulfill your promise to be the husband to the husbandless, the Father to the fatherless.
Teen moms whose family has abandoned them – Lord, please provide every resource necessary for them to carry them babies to birth and to make good decisions about the future.
Moms who never get visits from their children – Lord, fill their loneliness with your presence and love, and spur their children to care for their moms with honor.
Moms who have given their children up for adoption – Lord, help these moms to turn their worries into prayers, knowing that you hear and answer.
Moms whose child is going off to college or moving out of the home – Lord, help these moms grieve well and then see the new horizons you have for them.
Moms who have to share their children with their ex-husbands – Lord, give these moms wisdom and more wisdom, patience and more patience, kindness and more kindness.
Moms who have had their children taken away because of their own unhealthy choices – Lord, please put someone in their life that can encourage them to faith and obedience and reconciliation.
Women who long to be moms – Lord, fill their hearts with joy in being your child.
Moms who have aborted their child – Lord, help them receive your forgiveness and give them assurance that they will have a relationship with their child in heaven.
Moms who have watched their child die – Lord, the whole in their heart is wider than the Grand Canyon yet your love is wider. Thank you.
Moms already in heaven – Lord, thank you for dying in our place, for paying the death penalty for our sin. Thank you that we will one day see our moms again.   

Isaiah 49:13-16 Sing for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on them in their suffering. Yet Jerusalem says, “The Lord has deserted us; the Lord has forgotten us.” Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem’s walls in ruins.

Please email me with any I have missed. All moms are important and valued by God. You might have seen yourself in one or more of the above categories. God LOVES YOU. Why don’t you take time to tell another mom that God loves them today. I’m sure it will be just what they needed to hear today.

Blessings from Bev