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You are not involved in some insignificant task. You have the highest calling in the nation. You may have been involved in a career at some stage and of course you had to be faithful to your employer. But you now have a far more important task. You are employed by a heavenly employer, the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. You are now responsible to Him.

Dear Mother, in all the activities and work of keeping your home, never lose sight of your highest purpose - to walk in the anointing of your maternal instinct. This is who you are. You are a maternal being. You were created to ooze with nurturing. This is the greatest need of your children. This is the greatest need of this sin-sick hurting world. It does not matter if you do not finish every project and every teaching course you have planned for your children, but it does matter that your children live in an atmosphere of nurture and love. Embrace your maternalness. Pour it out upon your family and all you meet. In doing this you will walk in the anointing and glory of womanhood.

More than anyone else, you as a mother can determine the destiny of the nation. You may feel as though you are hidden in your home while many of your neighbors drive off to work each morning. They may think you are wasting your life, but they have no idea of what you are doing! They don't realize that you are shaping lives. You are polishing and sharpening "arrows". You are getting children ready to fulfill God's divine purposes for their lives. There will come a day when they will come forth out of your home to rock this nation - and even the world!

Look out world! Get out of the way, Satan. There is a mother in this home who knows who she is and knows her calling from God. You can trifle with this woman. She is like an awesome army with banners! (Song of songs 6:4,10)

You not only can you determine the destiny of this nation, but you will influence the generations to come. Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David and I am sure she had the privilege of holding him in her arms. Did you ever read about Hudson Taylor who founded the China Inland Mission? His godly generation started with his great-grandfather who lived in the time of John Wesley. This godly line has passed on from one generation to the next and there are now nine generations of preachers in the Taylor family. (Note: Nancy is not Catholic, but she is a Godly woman. She brings up a very good point here!)

What mighty children will be born in your following generations as you strongly impress God's ways into the hearts of your children?

Your influence goes even beyond the many generations to follow. Motherhood is an eternal career. Every precious baby that you embrace from the hand of God is another eternal soul that will live forever. There is absolutely nothing more powerful and more eternal that you could do in this life than bring an eternal soul into this world! You will leave everything in this world behind - except your redeemed soul and the redeemed souls of your children.

Don't let this humanistic society deceive you to think that your home is a boring place. On the contrary, it is a place of divine appointment for you. It is a sacred place. God chose the home as the place where He wants His children nurtured and raised. Before God gives us children, he first puts us in a home. Psalm 113:9 "He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children." Our humanistic society provides daycares for children but these are poor substitutes for the home. A little boy was asked why he didn't like daycare. "Because I didn't have a mommy," he replied.

Embrace your home. Thank God for it. Know that it is where God wants you to be to fulfill your great commission.

Husbands guard the city gates but you stand sentry at your home, guarding against all inroads of the enemy. You watch in prayer. You watch over the bodies, souls and spirits of your children. As I raised our children, I made Paul's prayer for the Thessalonians in 5:23 my goal, "I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Prayer should be inseparable from motherhood. It is pretty difficult to adequately mother without constantly looking to the Lord. Abraham Lincoln said, "I remember my mother's prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all of my life."

Perhaps you have a child who has gone astray or is giving you much concern. Don't despair. Keep praying. They cannot get away from your prayers. When the great Latin Church father and theologian, Augustine, went away to college, he got in with the wrong crowd and became a worldly young man for many years. Monica, his mother, had one vision - that her son would know God and be a preacher. She prayed and interceded continually. Her whole life was given to prayer. When he eventually came to the Lord in answer to her prayers she said, "I have fulfilled my task. I am now ready to go to the Lord," and she died soon after.

There is no one who can teach your children better than you can. Proverbs 6:20-23 says, "Do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. When you roam, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you..."

Abraham Lincoln said again, "The greatest lessons I ever learned were at my mother's knees.

George Washington said, "All that I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

John Wesley said, "I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians of England."'

Dear mother, God has chosen you to be the mother of your children. No one can do it is well as you can. And God is behind you all the way. He has commissioned you to the task and He will empower you.