WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:02.479 Good morning and happy Mother's Day. 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:12.800 I'm so excited about this message and this sermon this morning because I get to share with the morning message and this teaching with my wife, Christy. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.480 And we haven't done shared teaching in a very long time. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.920 And so I'm excited to do that. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:28.480 I'm excited for you guys to get to hear from her sort of some of the implications of our passage this morning, specifically for moms, but then also I think it'll be in service to all of us. 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:33.520 So this past Sunday night after dinner, we had our family dinner, and I cleaned up the kitchen. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.920 And don't be too uh proud of me on that. 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:46.320 I can't be too proud of myself on that because Chris does all the cooking, and then I just sort of show up there at the end to do all the cleaning up, and I put on my Dave Matthews band, and my girls make fun of my music. 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.320 And so I can do that, I can do the cleanup. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:49.600 So I did the cleanup. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.159 The girls they go and they get cleaned up and they shower up and they put on their PJs. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:55.679 We eventually get them in bed. 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:06.640 And I'm not kidding when I say 45 seconds later, maybe 50, I'm on the couch and I have The Last Dance On, Michael Jordan's documentary new, which you should watch. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:07.680 It's amazing. 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:14.959 But the point of the story is I look over to my left where Christy should be sitting in her chair, and she's not there. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.239 I'm there 45 seconds after the girls are in their bed. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.200 It doesn't take me long, but she is still up. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:28.400 And she's getting the house sort of reset a little bit, and she's getting the girls' schoolwork in order because she has to work the next day also. 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.400 It's not just me that has to work the next day. 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.560 She has to work the next day also, but she's the one that's still up. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:43.840 So later in the week, I read this quote, which sort of described what was going on there in our house that night. 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:46.000 This was in Vanity Fair last month. 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:48.640 So only a month ago, in the middle of coronavirus. 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.200 This is by Nancy Joe Sales. 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.439 She wrote an article that is entitled Dispatches from the Gender Gap. 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.959 Weren't from Home Moms in the Time of Coronavirus. 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:06.480 And women just, you can, moms, you feel free to say amen there in your homes as you hear me read this quote. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:16.719 In ordinary times, most working mothers who are married to men spend almost twice as much time on childcare and household chores. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.400 In the exigencies of the current crisis, which that word, that's a big word, I'd look it up. 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:32.719 It means the urgency, in the urgency of the current crisis, have not seemed to have had a significant impact on the domestic gender gap. 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:41.680 So what that means is that we're at home and husbands still aren't quite doing as much as moms are. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:47.360 Now that might not be true in your house, but that is a generically true thing based on research. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.599 I can't argue with it based on my house. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.199 I can't argue with it. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:57.680 The only thing I can do is learn to ask that question that took me so long to learn as a husband and a dad. 00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:58.479 Took me so long. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:00.319 It shouldn't have taken this long to learn this question. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.919 There's only one question, guys. 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:03.120 How can I help? 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:03.840 That's it. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.280 That's the question. 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.080 How can I help? 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.159 Now we don't have to be moms to know the feeling of being overloaded. 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.319 We all know this feeling. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:32.400 Because maybe when the crisis hit and husbands or dads are just you're at home working, maybe you're single, and now you've got your house to deal with, maybe you have your kids to deal with, maybe you're missing your friends, and you also have work, you're trying to figure out how to work around or work at home, or you lost work, and that feels overloaded, right? 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.800 It's the feeling like uh you have two or three things you need to get done, but you always forget one, you accomplish the other two. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.840 Or you have three things you need to remember, and you remember two and you forget the third thing, right? 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.280 You go into Kroger for seven things, you come out with six. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:04:01.680 It's the imagery of you're carrying a load of laundry from the laundry room to your bedroom to fold it on your bed, but you're too lazy to get the laundry basket from your bedroom, and so you decide to take those clothes out of the dryer, right? 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.560 And you're gonna bear hug those things down the hallway. 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.080 You've tried it, haven't you? 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:16.560 And you're making your way down the hallway, you think you're doing pretty good, and you're just leaving a trail of like socks and underwear and shorts all along the way because you're overloaded. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.680 You just have too much going on. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:28.800 And for us, maybe, maybe for you, this is practical, or maybe this is just the feeling of overload of cares or overload of concerns. 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.839 And that brings us into this morning's text. 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:33.839 What do we do with that? 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:41.040 Now we're jumping away from Joshua just for this week for Mother's Day, and we're gonna look at Philippians chapter 4. 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.319 In Philippians 4, we see Paul in verses 2 and 3. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.920 He is supporting and caring and esteeming two women. 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.519 What a great way for us to begin our passage here this morning. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.519 And then he jumps into gospel implications for us. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.199 And this is coming out of the context of the entire letter. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:13.199 We've been doing some midweek Bible chat devotions on Philippians, and we've been learning there in those early chapters how Paul's just pouring out how we are beloved and we are saints and we are secure in that because of Jesus. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:19.759 And because of that, he can write in chapter four some implications of that of what it means for our lives. 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.839 You gotta remember, Paul's in prison, he's writing this letter. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:24.959 He's stuck. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.600 We know the feeling of being stuck. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.639 Do you remember the first time you went to Kroger during shelter in place, right? 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:40.079 Because you could only go to a couple different places legally during that time, and you decided to go to Kroger, and it just felt like incredible freedom. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:46.560 You were driving, this unbelievable feeling because we all knew the feeling of being stuck. 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:59.279 And yet, Paul, in that stuckness, he's delighting in God's welcome and love and affection and acceptance of him. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.639 And that has implications. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:05.839 Verse 4, Philippians 4, 4. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.360 Rejoice in the Lord always. 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:08.959 Again, I will say, rejoice. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:10.160 I'm gonna make three points. 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:19.839 I'm gonna try to be pretty quick on them, and then allow Christy to come up and give sort of some implications of what this means for moms, and I think we'll also the rest of us will get something out of it. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.720 So, point number one, coming out of verse four, rejoice in the Lord always. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:23.920 Again, I will say rejoice. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:31.040 Point number one is this we are called into joy as we are already deemed God's beloved children. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:43.279 Knowing you are already God's redeemed child by his work and not your work automatically begins to create some joy in your heart because you've been relieved of so much. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:56.480 You've been relieved of having to dig your way out of a hole of guilt or shame or build up and produce enough righteousness to merit something in this world or before God. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.319 You've been relieved of that. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.120 Well, that's freeing. 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.480 That starts to create some joy. 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.920 That's why joy is the fruit of the Spirit, because the Holy Spirit in us begins to create that. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.079 The word joy means to be glad and to thrive. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:17.839 That's not like prosperity gospel, I mean you're gonna be monetarily rich the rest of your life. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.319 This is about a wholeness of heart that we're growing in. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:34.240 Allowing the love of God to come into all of our guilt and our sin and our shame and our brokenness and move forward toward greater joy. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:36.399 Verse 5. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:43.360 Let your reasonableness, now that could all that can be defined as that word could be gentleness. 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:51.600 Let your gentleness, it's a it's it means a reasonable attitude, a moderate amount of attitude. 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:52.560 So be gentle. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:53.360 Be gentle. 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.600 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.120 The Lord is at hand. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:03.680 So point number two is this we are loved perfectly as to be freed to love with a gentle spirit. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:09.439 We are loved perfectly as to be freed to love with a gentle spirit. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:17.279 I think I talked about this, I don't remember if it's in a sermon or one of those midweek devotional chats, but I can remember that first week of the coronavirus. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:18.000 Right? 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:24.000 I mean, it was life, world, church, business, everything just going crazy, stuff shutting down. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.240 You're trying to figure out how you're gonna redo your life. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:32.240 And in the meantime, a lot of us are watching our 401ks just plummet. 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.320 Absolutely plummet. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.840 Now, everybody's not addicted to that like I am, but man, I was pulling my phone out a couple times a day. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.679 I've just swipe to the right. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.000 You can read the headlines there on your iPhone, and then below that it has all the market, right? 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.960 Like it says SP, it says, you know, all sorts of stuff. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:49.519 I don't know. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.720 I know SP and Dow, all the other ones, I have no idea what's going on. 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:57.519 But I know that Dow number, and it was like at 29 in February, like 29,000. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.919 And I that just means a lot, is what that means. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:08.159 And it was looking good when those monthly statements were coming in, and everybody's getting excited, and you get excited every month, and look at this, and look how much we got, and we're gonna retire, blah, blah, blah. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.480 You know, and then it's at 19. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.480 I mean, it just plummets. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:22.720 And along that way down, I could feel myself sort of like every day, you're like, ah, man, lost more money, ah, lost more money, ah, lost more money. 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:28.159 And you know, it's starting to bother you a little bit, it starts to bother me a little bit because I can use that to feel kind of secure. 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:30.799 And something happened one day. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:41.759 I was walking from the church back home, and when it went under 20, and something in me just broke, like there was a death, and it was wonderful. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:43.519 Like it was a good death. 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:49.279 Because what it was, it was me coming to a point of like, oh yeah, like that doesn't work. 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.720 This will always, this will always fluctuate. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.279 This will always go up and come down. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:02.399 Like, I can't rely on that to define me, to define my value or my importance. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.240 Even my little moderate amount of savings, I can't use it. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.000 It won't work. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:15.039 And that death, that wonderful death, it was just me saying, you know, like this is out of my control. 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:19.679 What freedom that is, and in that death, we discover something. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.519 Every time we have a death like that, we discover something, we're still loved. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:30.879 God's love is still there, we're still loved, we are still a person, and in his eyes, we are still beloved. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:42.639 Whether that death is out of our own failure or that death is out of the failure of the world, we still discover God is still stable and secure, and he's still loving us in that moment. 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:44.080 So there's a death. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.639 But in that death, we're always regenerated in new life. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:53.919 And there's joy there, and out of that comes this gentleness. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:56.879 Right? 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.320 This is how it all connects. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:02.480 As we know our belovedness, we don't have to use people anymore. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:14.639 See, when you come in touch with that, however you get to that death of self, however you come to that, gentleness is a fruit of the spirit that comes out of that death of the self, that old Adam. 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:16.960 And that new self. 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:25.679 That new self that is born again in Jesus, that is where the Holy Spirit begins to birth in us this fruit of the Spirit. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.639 Joy and now gentleness in this passage. 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:31.440 We don't have to use people anymore. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.200 We don't have to use money anymore. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:39.200 But when it comes to loving people with gentleness, we don't ultimately need them to approve of us. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.279 They don't have to agree with us, they can hold a different opinion, and it's okay. 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.799 We can still be vulnerable before them and love them. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.440 Last point, and then Christi will come up. 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:57.840 Verse six Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:07.279 Point number three is this we are called to cultivate a slow, surrendering heart as to no fierce peace. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:12.000 When I was little, I'd get the service merchandise catalog. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.399 I don't know if you remember the store, I don't even know if they're still around. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.399 I'd get the catalog, I'd circle everything I wanted. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:21.919 I'd make a list, and then at Christmas time, go to Gwynette Place Mall, and I would give my list to Santa Claus, right? 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:28.799 Well, prayer is like the handing over that list, but it's nothing like actually getting everything off that list. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:34.240 What prayer is, is the surrendering of the request to God. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.679 We need to surrender everybody we want to fix. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.919 We need to surrender the wounds that still define us. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.519 We need to surrender the circumstances we try to control. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.840 This is what we're doing in prayer. 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.960 And prayer is not transaction, it is relationship. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:04.240 And this passage leads us toward a slow, surrendered, grateful heart. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:10.000 If the gospel is not the great rescue and definition of our hearts, we'll always look for something else. 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:17.759 That builds pressure, builds a fast heart, not a slow heart, builds a busy heart, not a slow heart. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.759 So it's always first about a slow heart. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.639 A heart that is at peace. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:34.639 Now, some of us have experienced great peace, right, in the last few weeks, last six weeks, because your life has become so slow, but that has been forced. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:36.559 That has been forced upon you. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:41.919 The greater lesson in this is not like, oh, I'm gonna come out of this, I'm gonna work so hard to make a slow life. 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:46.240 The greater lesson in this is what you've experienced in that slowness. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:47.919 It's about a slow heart. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.399 So as our lives speed back up, it's about a slow heart. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:14:16.879 That our hearts can be slowed down as we're surrendering to him these concerns, and we can have a peace that guards our hearts, and then practices of slowness will aid us, and practices of slowness will also be a fruit of a heart that is at peace in Jesus because he is our peace. 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.879 Christy's gonna come up and share some implications for us. 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:25.440 I'm gonna jump back into that first point. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:43.840 And just as we think about being called into joy, I can't help but in motherhood think about the witching hour, which may be the time that all of us know there is no joy possible to be found in the witching hour, which for those of you that don't know is five o'clock every day. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:49.120 Our little children turn into things we've never seen before. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.879 Um, amazingly, everyone is hungry at the same time. 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.519 There's endless places you're supposed to go. 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.080 You yourself are worn out and tired. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:05.840 And during this witching hour is where I've found I need joy, and I cannot find it within myself. 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:22.639 And so I've gotten in a routine of I keep a little card in front of the sink and also in my windshield, just as a reminder of the fact that this joy that I know that I'm craving and needing is something outside of myself. 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:30.000 And going back to Russ's point, we're called into joy as we are already deemed God's beloved children. 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.919 And joy is something that we do receive from God. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:43.519 It is not something we conjure up ourselves, but as God anchors us in his love, we then receive that great joy. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:16:07.120 And that's no matter what we've done that day, what we've the bad attitudes we've had towards ourselves, towards our children, towards our spouse, um, or what we've left undone, the dishes or the task or whatever, God freely gives us joy in those moments, in our worst selves, as we rest with our security in Him. 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:12.960 One of my favorite things about God is that in that witching hour, he is always available. 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:22.559 So when I am at my worst or when I feel completely depleted, he is fully available to us, even in the witching hour. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:32.399 And as we think about being loved perfectly, reading that point, I couldn't help but I feel like as a woman, I hear the word perfect and I immediately cringe. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:38.799 I don't want to have anything to do with that, largely because I feel like it has been um placed on me. 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:40.320 It feels like a demand. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:45.840 But when we think about God's perfect love for us, it changes things up. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:56.639 But so oftentimes when women hear the word perfection, we can't help but think of all the demands that puts on us for our body, our career, our family, our home. 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:04.400 But there does feel like such rest to think of this radical, perfect love that's been poured out on us. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.599 And it's something obviously that's not of us. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:18.480 And oftentimes when I get caught up in this striving for perfection, it does feel like my shadow self or um just left to my flesh. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:29.279 But even when my shadow self is hanging out all over the place, there is a loving freedom still in my worst self. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:38.880 There is a loving freedom that is able to rest in being fully known in that shadow self and still fully loved. 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.359 And that alone frees me. 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:56.559 And I've heard it said before that motherhood is a series of small deaths, and it's a death emotionally, it's a death for to yourself, it's a death to your plan, to your will. 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.359 But I found that so true. 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:23.519 Uh, when I had my first daughter, we Russ and I were double income, no kids, dinks, as you would say, and we were so excited to have this child in our fifth year of marriage, and here she comes, and she's beautiful and healthy, and I did not realize all that I was gonna have to give up for this new thing to enter in. 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:40.079 And it was the beginning of me learning how to die more quickly to myself, and in that um, I began to just learn how there is this mysterious love that God has for us. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:44.640 That I saw this anger rise up in me that I never even knew existed. 00:18:44.960 --> 00:19:00.480 And amidst that I was able to escape to a love not of any human being, but of God's great love and mysterious love for me in the middle of feeling like I was my worst self. 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:12.559 But his perfect mysterious love, this love that um just began to almost woo me in as I saw kind of the worst parts of myself. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:22.960 This mysterious love became more than enough, and it became more than enough for my miscommunications and my selfishness. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:40.400 And at the same time, this mysterious love, this radical love that we've been talking about is also what woos us into this third point about how we are called to cultivate a slow, surrendering heart as to no fierce peace. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:49.039 And for me, that mysterious love of God is what woos me into this great peace that He has promised us. 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.039 And apart from Him, I can't have that peace or create that peace. 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.200 It's completely a receiving. 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:12.640 But I think for me, um, in all of this pandemic, the slowness has revealed my busy heart and my restlessness that I was carrying and maintaining and almost couldn't even hear due to the busyness around me. 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:19.279 And so it's it's hard to process something that's convicting amidst the busyness. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:39.200 But as everything shut down and my house began to get quiet, well, there's a few moments of quiet, um, there was time to reflect and confess and repent about the busyness that I and the restlessness that I had been feeling in my heart, and I was able to become aware of that. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:21:03.599 And I have loved finding those quiet moments where um all the things that I use to compensate for my restlessness, instead of those spilling out on everybody within my home, the slowness has created a place where I can process those things that I use to compensate. 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:14.160 It has created a place where I can process those amidst the love of the Father and not just immediately having to pour them out on all of the people in my home. 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.039 And so I have really enjoyed being able to do that. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:26.640 Part of the mystery of this great love that he's given us is these three pieces that these three points have had, which I really love. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:35.200 And a lot of times when I'm praying for the girls at night, I talk about a short term would be a short phrase would be LPJ, but love, peace, and joy. 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:36.640 And these three points are that. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:44.559 And a lot of times at night I'll pray, you know, that they would find their love in Jesus, that they would find their joy in Jesus, and they would find their peace in him. 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:52.319 And those three things are our three points, and it's also where we find those things are in Jesus. 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:59.440 And it's not something we can conjure up or create or make a craft for it to happen. 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:06.559 It's something that truly we are dependent on his great lavish love for us in order to have. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:18.880 And so, my prayer for you today, moms, is that you may find your love in Jesus and that you could find your joy in him and your peace in him, for he is the source of radical love for you. 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:20.480 So I'm gonna pray. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.119 Dear God, we thank you for this time. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.599 I thank you for mothers, we thank you for how our moms love us. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.400 And nobody loves you like your mom. 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:39.279 And there is a great love that you have gifted moms to be able to love their people, whether they're two or whether they're 62. 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:50.799 And would you and your kindness continue to open up our hearts in greater ways to trust in you and to rest in this great radical love that you have given us. 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:52.640 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:53.599 Amen.