Summary: <p>Isaiah 66:13<br>13 I will comfort you there in Jerusalem as a mother comforts her child.” <br><br>Isaiah 49:15<br>15 “Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? <br>But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! <br><br>Mother’s have a strength in that they don’t leave. We see many father’s who abandon their children but mothers stay.<br><br>Mother’s have a superpower, they create culture, they shape values, and they form the next generation.<br><br>Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.<br>Moral Education<br><br>2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.<br><br>Far greater than any gift you could be given today mother’s is the gift of seeing your influence worked out in the next generation.<br><br>1 Timothy 2:15<br>15 But women will be saved through childbearing, assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty. <br>This verse speaks to the essence of a woman’s calling from God and the encouragement to live it out.<br><br>Deuteronomy 6:4-9<br>4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.<br><br>Teach<br>If you teach a mother, you teach a family.<br>If you teach 5 mothers, you teach a neighborhood.<br><br>Teach your children faith- Not only what your faith consists of but by letting them see you exercise your faith. Let them see you believe when situations seem bleak.<br><br>Teach your children forgiveness by letting them see you ask forgiveness when needed and by helping them to work through forgiving others.<br><br>Teach your children unity by not quarreling or having strong disagreements with your husband in front of them. Children interpret this as instability and it affects them more than we realize. Never belittle your husband, their father, for they will see him through your lens. Let them see its possible to work through disagreements without resorting to name-calling, sarcasm, or frustration.<br><br>Using data representative of parents and children born in the late 1990s in large U.S. cities, a 2011 study analyzed the relationship between parents' relationship quality and their engagement with their young children. It found that, for mothers, the quality of their relationships with the fathers was correlated with their parenting in the first three years of their children's lives, particularly how they engaged with their children: for example, how often they read and told stories, played games, played with toys, and sang songs or rhymes with them. Specifically, the research showed that it was the parents' relationship quality that tended to affect how mothers engage with their young children, rather than the mother–child interaction affecting the parents' relationship. This association diminished over time when the children were preschoolers. 3<br><a href="http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/44/healthy-mothers-healthy-families-how-mothers-are-crucial-to-the-success-of-the-family" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/44/healthy-mothers-healthy-families-how-mothers-are-crucial-to-the-success-of-the-family</a><br><br>Teach your children problem solving and to take responsibility by helping them work through their struggles instead of trying to remove their struggles. Help them work through their struggles the way the Lord helps you work through yours and in this way learn to gospel your children.<br>Mothers should prepare their children to live in the jungle, not the zoo.<br><br>Teach your children by making use of the dining room table at dinner whenever possible. Remember this is community group.<br>Create an environment that is safe, where communication happens, where you get into each other’s lives, and work out what it means to be a Christian.<br><br>Teach your children by having family devotions. Read through Scripture together, missionary biographies, and Christian children’s books. Westminster bookstore.<br><br>Remember, mothers set the standard for what their sons will look for in their future wife.<br><br>Let your children see you help a stranger, let them see you read your Bible, let them see you love your husband, let them see you on your knees in prayer, and let them see that your love for them flows from God’s love for you.<br><br>I DON’T KNOW HOW<br>Titus 2:3–5<br>3 Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They must not slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead, they should teach others what is good. 4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God. <br>Ladies, look for other women to pour into.<br>Ladies, look at the lives of other godly women in order to learn new ways of influencing your children for Jesus.<br>Ladies, remember their are plenty of other ladies out there who didn’t have a good mother, or a godly one and they are hungry for you to show them what this looks like.<br><br>Luke 2:33–35<br>33 Jesus’ parents were amazed at what was being said about him. 34 Then Simeon blessed them, and he said to Mary, the baby’s mother, “This child is destined to cause many in Israel to fall, but he will be a joy to many others. He has been sent as a sign from God, but many will oppose him. 35 As a result, the deepest thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your very soul.” <br><br>CONCLUSION:<br>We need godly mothers. No mentor or pastor can ever make up for what godly mothers do. Remember, you are the backbone of our whole society. <br><br>Its never too late to begin loving your children the way God loves us.<br><br><br>Community Group Questions:<br>3 Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They must not slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead, they should teach others what is good. 4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God. <br><br>1. This text commands ladies not to be heavy drinkers or slanders since these were the sins inherent to the culture of Crete. What would be some of the sins that are common for our culture? So if Paul was writing this letter to Oakland County, which sins would he have listed? How do ladies in our culture bring shame on the word of God?<br><br>2. How open are the ladies, along with their husbands, to having other ladies train them to be godly women?<br><br>3. How open are the ladies to helping to train younger ladies?<br><br>4. In what ways can we at GL be obeying this text? Please be specific.<br><br>5. What does submission in this text look like? Please describe how you interpret this.<br><br>6. What does working in the home mean? Please be specific.<br><br>7. Does the idea of working in the home or being submissive to your husband seem old fashioned or do you find yourself grimacing at this text?<br><br>8. We talked about ways our ladies can teach their children. Please comment on each of these ways along with whether you agree with them or list ways that we can specifically accomplish this.<br><br>Teach your children faith- Not only what your faith consists of but by letting them see you exercise your faith. Let them see you believe when situations seem bleak.<br>Teach your children forgiveness by letting them see you ask forgiveness when needed and by helping them to work through forgiving others.<br>Teach your children unity by not quarreling or having strong disagreements with your husband in front of them. Children interpret this as instability and it affects them more than we realize. Never belittle your husband, their father, for they will see him through your lens. Let them see its possible to work through disagreements without resorting to name-calling, sarcasm, or frustration.<br>Teach your children problem solving and to take responsibility by helping them work through their struggles instead of trying to remove their struggles. Help them work through their struggles the way the Lord helps you work through yours and in this way learn to gospel your children.<br>Mothers should prepare their children to live in the jungle, not the zoo.<br>Teach your children by making use of the dining room table at dinner whenever possible. Remember this is community group.<br>Create an environment that is safe, where communication happens, where you get into each other’s lives, and work out what it means to be a Christian.<br>Teach your children by having family devotions. Read through Scripture together, missionary biographies, and Christian children’s books. Westminster bookstore.</p>
