1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:15,660 I usually don't do necessarily special message, but I just felt compelled to do a short Mother's Day message, and we'll get into some serious grubbing and fellowshiping. 2 00:00:17,599 --> 00:00:28,580 But 28 years ago today, the woman who I say prayed me into the kingdom, I was there when she took her heavenly flight. 3 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,100 I had actually prayed and asked the Lord 4 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,000 I don't know that I had ever seen anybody die before 5 00:00:37,420 --> 00:00:38,640 and I prayed and asked the Lord 6 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:39,780 Lord I want to be there 7 00:00:40,460 --> 00:00:42,240 I want to be there when she flies away 8 00:00:42,460 --> 00:00:44,620 when she gets her angel ride 9 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:46,480 and sure enough 10 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:48,960 that Sunday 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:50,460 Mother's Day 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:52,480 28 years ago 13 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:56,260 I got to sit down next to my grandma 14 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:58,040 and hold her hand and pray with her before 15 00:00:58,660 --> 00:00:59,880 she took her last breath. 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:05,740 And she was the one who could preach. 17 00:01:07,620 --> 00:01:09,960 And the only time she preached was to her grandkids. 18 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,000 And she had a preaching finger. 19 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:16,580 And it was pretty long, and she had a big hand too. 20 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:19,800 So if you didn't listen to the preaching finger, 21 00:01:19,850 --> 00:01:21,600 you got the hand upside your head. 22 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:24,740 She taught us time travel, right? 23 00:01:25,340 --> 00:01:27,000 She said, I'll knock you in the next week, boy. 24 00:01:30,580 --> 00:01:34,340 But my grandma, when she disciplined you, you knew you was in trouble, 25 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:39,020 but when she loved you, she loved you so hard, it even hurt sometimes. 26 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,660 And then my mom, she passed away four years ago, the woman who taught me how to love. 27 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:50,000 She was one of the most loving human beings I'd ever met. 28 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,500 And so they had a very special place in my heart and were a huge impact. 29 00:01:57,980 --> 00:02:02,900 And the Bible says some things about this, and it says, 30 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:05,900 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. 31 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,380 The fruit of the womb is a reward. 32 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:11,540 That word heritage there means gift. 33 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:18,980 And all those gifts come from our mothers. 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,160 Psalm 128, verse 3 and 4 says, 35 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,540 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your heart 36 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,660 house, your children like olive plants all around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed 37 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:41,800 who fears the Lord. Fruitful vine. The fruit of the womb. It's a, it's a powerful thing, right? 38 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,320 I don't think we realize the power that mothers have. Mothers are the most powerful humans on the 39 00:02:47,460 --> 00:02:54,560 face of the planet because without them, none of us would be here. I know we take that stuff for 40 00:02:54,580 --> 00:03:03,120 granted, but it's a, it's, it's an incredible, incredible gift. And here's a few, here's a few 41 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:10,600 quotes on motherhood. I like this one. A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human 42 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:19,240 being to do the impossible. And anyone who's had a loving mother knows that. Some people have 43 00:03:19,260 --> 00:03:24,500 had mothers, they don't know what that's like. Abraham Lincoln said, 44 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:29,580 all that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother. She died when he was nine years old. 45 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:44,440 His mother. A fellow by the name of Lance Conrad, he said this, I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood. 46 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,000 Oh, if they could feel those labor pains before they ever got pregnant, would they do it? 47 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,260 But no heroism. 48 00:03:57,820 --> 00:03:58,840 Mothers are heroes. 49 00:03:59,590 --> 00:04:04,500 I mean, mothers will do things when their babies are in danger that are psychotic. 50 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:06,600 Right? 51 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,780 We get the whole mother bear thing from that, right? 52 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,900 My mom, I was between my sophomore and junior year high school, I got on this bull. 53 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,180 He was one of the meanest bulls in the western U.S. 54 00:04:17,260 --> 00:04:21,239 In fact, they blackballed him in Arizona because he killed a guy. 55 00:04:21,660 --> 00:04:22,460 His name was Rocket. 56 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,080 And at Mormon days in Kerry, Idaho, guess who I drew? 57 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:28,180 Rocket. 58 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,440 And here I am. 59 00:04:30,540 --> 00:04:35,940 I'm scared to death, and he bucks me off and commences to pounce on me. 60 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,920 And he would pounce on you, and he would try to pin you to the ground. 61 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:40,320 He'd kneeled down on top of you. 62 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:46,160 And two guys had to grab my mother because she was climbing over the fence to come help her baby. 63 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:48,860 What would she have done? 64 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:50,420 I don't know. 65 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:51,740 Miss Mady matter, probably. 66 00:04:54,980 --> 00:04:56,240 but there's a heart of a mother 67 00:04:56,940 --> 00:04:57,980 it's like no other 68 00:04:58,580 --> 00:04:59,700 Amy Schumer said this 69 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,500 sleep at this point is just a concept 70 00:05:02,820 --> 00:05:04,880 something I'm looking forward to investigating 71 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:05,800 in the future 72 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,100 I remember those nights 73 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:09,100 where I was 74 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:13,640 my poor bride was up with those babies 75 00:05:15,459 --> 00:05:16,740 sacrificing herself 76 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,700 the actress Jessica Lane said 77 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:21,760 the natural state of motherhood 78 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,900 is selflessness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your universe. 79 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:32,960 You relinquish that position to your children. That's so true. It's so true. 80 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:42,000 What an incredible example of a servant is a mother. So I'm going to just read to you a prayer. 81 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:48,760 It was a prayer of praise from a mother. And many of you know the story of Hannah. 82 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:56,940 there in Samuel chapter 1 where she is just broken because she's barren, she can't have a child. 83 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,540 And in that culture, it was everything to have a child. 84 00:05:59,940 --> 00:06:01,540 And especially to have a son. 85 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:09,640 Because many of the Jewish women's mindset was that they could be the one that would bear the Savior of the world. 86 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:17,280 Because they were so looking for this Messiah, this one who would come and rescue us. 87 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:26,000 And so Hannah is praying in the temple and she's despised by the Elkanah, her husband's other wife. 88 00:06:26,420 --> 00:06:31,020 She gets tormented by her because she is very fruitful. 89 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:34,240 And she's in the tabernacle and she's broken. 90 00:06:36,140 --> 00:06:39,960 And Eli thinks she's drunk because her lips are moving. 91 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,160 She's not saying anything. 92 00:06:41,340 --> 00:06:43,160 She's praying to the Lord in her heart. 93 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:45,820 And he starts to chastise her. 94 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:47,220 And she goes, I'm not drunk. 95 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,880 I'm broken. I'm bearing my soul to the Lord. 96 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:55,880 And he realized he was wrong. And he says, okay, may it be unto you as you've requested. 97 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,240 And sure enough, she gets pregnant with Samuel. It's interesting. 98 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:02,260 Hannah's name means gracious. 99 00:07:04,180 --> 00:07:08,920 Samuel means sent from God or asked of God. God granted her. 100 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,480 That request. 101 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,600 And so at the end of this, she makes a vow. 102 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,760 And she goes through with her bow and she does this praise. 103 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,640 We're going to read 11 verses here out of Samuel 1st Samuel chapter 2. 104 00:07:26,140 --> 00:07:28,360 And it says, and Hannah prayed and said, 105 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:30,700 My heart rejoices in the Lord. 106 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,220 My horn is exalted in the Lord. 107 00:07:33,380 --> 00:07:37,780 I smile at my enemies because I rejoice in your salvation. 108 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,420 No one is holy like the Lord. 109 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:45,360 For there is none beside you, nor is there any rock like our God. 110 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,540 Talk no more so very proudly. 111 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,400 Let no arrogance come out of your mouth, 112 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:54,000 for the Lord is the God of knowledge, 113 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,620 and by him actions are weighed. 114 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,760 The bows of the mighty men are broken, 115 00:08:01,060 --> 00:08:04,420 and those who stumbled are girded with strength. 116 00:08:04,620 --> 00:08:08,060 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. 117 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,700 The hungry have ceased to hunger. 118 00:08:10,860 --> 00:08:12,980 Even baron has born seven. 119 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:15,660 The baron has born seven, 120 00:08:15,780 --> 00:08:18,260 and she who has many children has become feeble. 121 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,480 The Lord kills and he makes alive. 122 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,320 He brings down to the grave and brings up. 123 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,900 The Lord makes poor and makes rich. 124 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,980 He brings low and lifts up. 125 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:31,720 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap 126 00:08:32,219 --> 00:08:34,020 to set them among princes 127 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:36,919 and make them inherit the throne of glory 128 00:08:37,340 --> 00:08:39,159 for the pillars of the earth are the lords 129 00:08:39,580 --> 00:08:41,500 and he has set the world upon them 130 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:43,960 and he will guard the feet of his saints. 131 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:45,640 But the wicked shall be sited. 132 00:08:45,660 --> 00:08:51,380 silent in darkness. For by strength no man shall prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be 133 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:57,700 broken in pieces. From heaven he will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. 134 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:03,600 He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed. Then Elkanah went to his 135 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:11,320 house at Ramah, but God ministered, but the child, excuse me, ministered to the Lord before Eli 136 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,620 the priest. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for your word. Lord, thank you for these powerful 137 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:23,360 words from a woman who was impacted by your greatness, by the fact that you had control over her womb, 138 00:09:23,540 --> 00:09:28,920 Lord, that you could bring life from her life. And so, Lord, Jesus, I pray that we would realize that 139 00:09:29,020 --> 00:09:34,000 in our own lives, that you called all of us, Lord, that we might speak the life that is in your 140 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:40,960 word, Lord, and that it would truly transform us and those around us. We thank you for it, 141 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,460 in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. So, 142 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:51,020 So Hannah's prayer here, it's because it's from her sacrifice. 143 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,360 From her sacrifice, she prayed. 144 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:57,840 And when she asked the Lord for that baby, she made a vow. 145 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:02,920 And she vowed that she would give this baby back. 146 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:08,160 She exalts God for his strength in those first three verses. 147 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:09,080 Right. 148 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,340 And my heart rejoices in the Lord. 149 00:10:11,460 --> 00:10:13,560 My horn is exalted in the Lord. 150 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:15,300 I smile at my enemies. 151 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:23,860 right she was not intimidated anymore this this god had had filled her cup this resembles mary's prayer 152 00:10:24,340 --> 00:10:31,740 her song after uh she accepts the fact that she is going to bear the messiah and uh and so 153 00:10:32,020 --> 00:10:40,300 god gives her strength right i smile at my enemies um my horn is exalted the horn is is that 154 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:45,300 symbol of power because in that culture if you got hit with a horn 155 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:53,620 from an ox or a ram it hurt that old saying you mess with the bull you get the 156 00:10:54,340 --> 00:10:59,220 horn that's a real true saying and I know I think I got some guys out here that 157 00:10:59,580 --> 00:11:05,640 actually took a horn or two hurts don't it it's one of them hurts don't it I 158 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,500 remember getting hit several times with horns and it is it's either a hurts 159 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:15,280 don't it or lights out one of the two for me a couple of 160 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:24,820 times it was lights out but but she she exalts God and she her sacrifice is the thing that seems 161 00:11:24,820 --> 00:11:30,440 to give her strength we recoil from sacrifice no that's going to cost too much that hurts too 162 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:40,260 bad I'm not going to give this but she does and she's she's strengthened by it so her promise to 163 00:11:40,260 --> 00:11:45,260 the Lord was listen I'll you give me this baby and as soon as he's waned I'll give him 164 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:53,880 back to you. Actually, she said, I will lend him to you for all of his days. And so as she does this, 165 00:11:54,860 --> 00:12:00,180 she could have went into a corner and cried and may have, we don't know, but she starts singing this 166 00:12:01,250 --> 00:12:09,460 song of praise to the Lord. She surrendered her child literally. Now, in that culture, 167 00:12:10,060 --> 00:12:14,540 a little different than today, they would wean a child anywhere between three and seven years old. 168 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:19,340 And notice she didn't go to, if you read chapter one, she didn't go to church. 169 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:20,160 She didn't do nothing. 170 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:24,340 She poured her life into this little boy for those three to seven years. 171 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,640 And then when she brought him to the temple, she left him there. 172 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,240 How hard would that be? 173 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,480 I know I got some little ones within that age range. 174 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,220 And I'm thinking, I don't know if I could do that. 175 00:12:40,540 --> 00:12:42,400 That's a huge sacrifice. 176 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:43,960 But that was her vow. 177 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:45,760 That was her vow. 178 00:12:46,020 --> 00:12:50,760 You realize what Ecclesiastity says about vows in chapter 5 verses 4 and 5. 179 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,560 It says, when you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it. 180 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,480 For he has no pleasure in fools. 181 00:12:58,540 --> 00:12:59,680 Pay what you have vowed. 182 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,420 Better to not bow than to vow and not pay. 183 00:13:04,140 --> 00:13:06,980 You made vows to God, made promises. 184 00:13:08,780 --> 00:13:12,460 I try not to make too many promises to God because I always break them. 185 00:13:13,780 --> 00:13:14,220 Don't you? 186 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:23,020 But it's better to not vow at all than to vow and not pay. 187 00:13:24,460 --> 00:13:27,200 And she had made that vow in 1st Samuel 11. 188 00:13:27,410 --> 00:13:30,380 It says, when she made a vow, then she made a vow and said, 189 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,320 O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on my affliction for your maidservant 190 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,300 and remember me and not forget your maidservant, 191 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,200 but will give your maidservant a male child, 192 00:13:41,340 --> 00:13:43,660 then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his. 193 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:50,060 life and no razor shall come upon his head. Not just what she going to give him to the Lord, 194 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:56,600 but she wanted a holy child. And many believe that he was, it was, that Samuel was a Nazarite 195 00:13:56,940 --> 00:14:04,020 being the last judge and, and that he was a holy man. So basically she's saying this boy, this man 196 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:12,680 is yours. And she proved it, right? We say that a lot. Oh, I've given my kids to the Lord. Oh, 197 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:21,820 really? How many times we rescue our kids when they shouldn't be rescued? Right? Hebrews tells us that 198 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:28,320 Jesus learned obedience by the things that he suffered and our children are no different. They're going to 199 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:33,580 go through hard things. Don't rescue them. Help them through those things, but don't rescue them. 200 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:42,680 Let God be their keeper and their hope. This reminds me the story of John Newton. Have anybody ever heard 201 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:44,680 of John Newton, the guy that wrote Amazing Grace. 202 00:14:46,020 --> 00:14:46,920 Incredible story. 203 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,200 And the story of John Newton, his mom died when he was six. 204 00:14:52,460 --> 00:14:56,280 And before she died, she prayed that John would become a minister. 205 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:59,700 Well, he became anything but. 206 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:03,020 And that just goes to show you. 207 00:15:03,460 --> 00:15:06,780 We don't know what tomorrow holds, but we know who holds tomorrow. 208 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:08,800 That's the important thing to remember. 209 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,700 Know that God holds tomorrow. 210 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:18,100 So over the next 33 years, it looked as though her prayer was nothing more than a pathetic plea 211 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,880 that made a mockery of her faith and trust in God. 212 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:28,680 John followed his father to see and eventually became a worker of a slave trade, 213 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:32,420 and his heart was cold and hard in his life profane. 214 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,300 I think it was Newton himself said that he littered the Atlantic Ocean, 215 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,960 the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with the bodies of slaves. 216 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,400 That's how brutal this guy was. 217 00:15:43,740 --> 00:15:47,900 He spiraled downward out of control until like the prodigal son, 218 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,700 he was hungry and destitute. 219 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:53,540 He became the servant of a slave trader who brutally abused him 220 00:15:53,900 --> 00:16:03,400 and made him the slave of his mistress on one of the plantation islands in Sierra Leone, Africa. 221 00:16:03,740 --> 00:16:08,800 He finally escaped and was rescued by a sea captain who had known his father 222 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,840 and John again returned to the slave trade. 223 00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:21,460 On the night of March 20th, 1748, a terrific storm came upon his ship while they were at sea as if God's wrath was blowing out of his mouth. 224 00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:24,960 And it continued into the following day. 225 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:29,140 Newton was summoned to the helm where he had time to reflect. 226 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:34,940 He realized the wickedness of his sins and felt they were too great and too many to be forgiven. 227 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,840 His journal records records the deliverance from the storm that day as well as his spiritual 228 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:48,660 deliverance on March 21st, 1748. God saved John Newton. He later wrote, this is a day much to be 229 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:56,980 remembered by me, and I have never suffered it to pass wholly unnoticed since the year 1748. On that day, 230 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:03,640 the Lord sent from on high and delivered me out of deep waters. It was another 16 years before the 231 00:17:03,970 --> 00:17:10,819 final prayer of John Newton's mother was answered. In 1764, at the age of 39, John became 232 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:19,380 a new life began his new life as a minister in the church of england he took it took 33 years 233 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:33,860 for the answer to come right i'm telling you moms grandmas your prayers are the literal hounds of heaven right 234 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:40,800 i mean they wouldn't leave me alone i had barb mark bar bite marks all over my butt 235 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:42,980 until I gave my heart to Jesus. 236 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,400 The hounds of heaven, the prayers of my grandmother's, 237 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,020 not just my grandma Brown, but my grandma Jones as well. 238 00:17:51,980 --> 00:17:56,740 And she didn't pray for us much until she got cancer 239 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,220 and returned to her roots of knowing who Jesus was. 240 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:06,120 And she opened her Bible every morning and she would pray for me and my cousins. 241 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:14,880 My grandma Brown, she was laser focused because all she had was one child, my dad, and us four grandkids. 242 00:18:15,460 --> 00:18:19,900 And that's who she spent her time praying for with those five people. 243 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:28,240 And oh, man, she's got all kinds of preachers. 244 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,180 Her husband was a preacher. 245 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,620 My dad preached in the prisons. 246 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,780 My little brother became a preacher. 247 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:37,200 And here I am. 248 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:39,940 I'm stuck. 249 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,900 Not only did she pray, but her mother prayed. 250 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,220 Her mother, my great-grandmother, prayed for us when we were in utero. 251 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:54,240 We didn't have a chance, right? 252 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,060 Listen, don't give your kids and grandkids a chance. 253 00:18:57,980 --> 00:18:58,160 Right? 254 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,140 Just pray and pray and pray. 255 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:06,000 I've got a whole new respect for prayer after listening to a guy by the name of Jen 256 00:19:06,380 --> 00:19:07,680 Jim Woolford. 257 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,380 You'll have to look up his testimony. 258 00:19:09,380 --> 00:19:10,420 He's incredible testimony. 259 00:19:11,180 --> 00:19:12,700 Jim, they called him Diamond Jim. 260 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:15,840 He was a Canadian international airplane pilot 261 00:19:16,380 --> 00:19:19,260 that overdosed on some pharmaceutical drugs 262 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:23,560 kind of unknowingly and died for 11 hours, was dead. 263 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:28,320 And he had this vision of heaven. 264 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,260 And he says these three angels approached him. 265 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:33,920 And he said, one was a warring angel. 266 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,080 One was his guardian angel. 267 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,160 The other one, listen to this. 268 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,880 The other one was the scribe angel. 269 00:19:42,420 --> 00:19:44,700 They keep really good records in heaven, just saying. 270 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,720 Read Revelation 21. 271 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:48,860 You'll know what I'm talking about. 272 00:19:50,020 --> 00:19:54,460 And so he's walking along and he says all of a sudden in front of them, 273 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,140 there's a horizon, but it's not spherical like ours is. 274 00:19:58,720 --> 00:19:59,880 It's just straight. 275 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,520 But he says there were these six incredible beans of light going up. 276 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:12,180 into the throne room and he asked the angels he goes what is that and they said well 277 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:18,280 that's that's the prayers of your family his wife had called five family members 278 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,500 there were six there were six beams of light shooting up into the throne room 279 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:31,820 and and she had called his wife was a believer she had called five family members 280 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,880 and they were sitting in her living room praying 281 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:43,580 don't let your light go out right keep that thing going that's why paul says pray without ceasing 282 00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:54,100 it was it was a power thoughtful thought i thought oh my gosh that's incredible pray pray pray 283 00:20:57,679 --> 00:21:03,860 so hannah is is so bold with her with her her her her her her 284 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:11,500 prayer here where it says verses four and five it says the blows of the mighty men are broken the 285 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:19,120 and those who stumble are girded with strength those who are full have hired themselves out for bread 286 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:24,380 and the hungry have ceased to hunger even the baron has born seven and she who has many children 287 00:21:24,540 --> 00:21:31,340 has become feeble she realizes god takes things and turns it on its head what we think is success 288 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:32,900 may not be success. 289 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:34,680 This diamond gem. 290 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,380 They called him diamond gym because everything he touched 291 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,200 just turned to gold. 292 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:40,540 But he says, 293 00:21:41,260 --> 00:21:43,060 he says, I was empty. 294 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:44,120 I was shallow. 295 00:21:44,620 --> 00:21:46,440 I had no substance to my life. 296 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:49,840 But she realizes, listen, 297 00:21:50,580 --> 00:21:52,400 the Lord is powerful man. 298 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,020 He can knock the bow out of the hands of warriors. 299 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,460 He can make those who are fruitful feeble. 300 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,060 He can make those who are rich, 301 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:11,280 hungry. What are you rich in? Something we have to answer. The older I get, the more apparent 302 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:19,880 it is, is riches aren't my bank account. That thing's all over the place. You usually has 303 00:22:21,260 --> 00:22:31,060 zero on the very first number. But to be rich in faith. And she had this faith. And she had this 304 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:40,000 this incredible faith and we we look at Samuel's life being a product of his mother 305 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:46,600 Hannah he resembles the New Testament version of Timothy where it's Paul speaks of 306 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,800 Timothy's mother and grandmother in 2nd Timothy 1 5 he says when I call to remember it's the genuine 307 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,700 faith that is in you which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother 308 00:22:57,780 --> 00:23:00,960 Eunice and I am persuaded is in you also. 309 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:07,960 When you look back in your life, who do you have that you kind of make the connection? 310 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,680 Oh, them reading their Bible influenced me. 311 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,900 Their prayer life, when they prayed, it was overwhelming when they prayed. 312 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,880 And so Hannah has this incredible faith. 313 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,360 She has an incredible prayer life. 314 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,700 The powerful God does what he wants to do. 315 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:32,280 And she realizes that. 316 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,800 Verse 6, the Lord kills and he makes alive. 317 00:23:34,980 --> 00:23:37,540 Here she's quoting Deuteronomy, chapter 32. 318 00:23:38,420 --> 00:23:39,560 She knew God's word. 319 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,340 The Lord kills and he makes alive. 320 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,900 He brings down to the grave and he brings up. 321 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,660 The Lord makes poor and makes rich. 322 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,100 He brings low and lifts up. 323 00:23:48,180 --> 00:23:49,660 He raises the poor from the dust. 324 00:23:50,020 --> 00:23:51,700 He lifts the beggar from the ash heap. 325 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:56,280 He set them among them the princes and make them inherit the throne. 326 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:05,040 of glory for the pillars of the earth are the lords and he has set the world upon them recognizing 327 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:15,480 God's creative power all of that God raises up one and takes down another man do you want to be 328 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,100 successful walk with God because if he wants you to be successful you're going to be successful 329 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:28,720 If God wants you to scramble your whole life and scrape, just keep walking with him. 330 00:24:29,860 --> 00:24:30,680 He'll see you through it. 331 00:24:32,260 --> 00:24:33,440 Because you see both, right? 332 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,600 When you look at humanity, you see both. 333 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:42,400 I see people that struggle their whole life, you know, with health problems and financial problems. 334 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,980 And it's just one trouble after another. 335 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:44,880 And then they die. 336 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,340 What's that all about? 337 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,780 I bet they sure are glad to get to heaven, right? 338 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:58,400 Because their labor is over. 339 00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:00,220 The struggle is no more. 340 00:25:02,420 --> 00:25:06,760 And that's promised in the Bible that it's just going to be tough. 341 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:08,280 This life is just tough. 342 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:14,400 Last of all, she acknowledges God's protective hand in verse 9, 343 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:16,780 and he will guard the feet of his saints, 344 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,360 but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. 345 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,220 For by strength no man shall prevail. 346 00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:25,020 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces. 347 00:25:25,780 --> 00:25:27,720 From heaven he will thunder against them. 348 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:29,900 The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. 349 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,840 He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed. 350 00:25:38,140 --> 00:25:38,640 God's goddess. 351 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,280 God had her, even though it was hard. 352 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:43,720 Her life was hard. 353 00:25:45,420 --> 00:25:50,020 She recognized that he had guarded her, the feet of his saints. 354 00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:56,360 And by strength, no man will prevail. 355 00:25:56,660 --> 00:25:58,720 We prevail because God wants us to. 356 00:25:59,300 --> 00:25:59,800 Or not. 357 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,660 Verse 10 is a powerful verse to me. 358 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,100 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces from heaven. 359 00:26:08,260 --> 00:26:09,720 He will thunder against him. 360 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:12,320 Listen, the Lord will judge the ends of the earth. 361 00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:14,400 He will give strength to his king. 362 00:26:14,940 --> 00:26:17,180 Many believe this is a messianic reference, 363 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,780 that this is referring to Jesus who would come. 364 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:22,740 This is before Moses, folks. 365 00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:24,620 Samuel is the last judge. 366 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,620 But Samuel anointed the two kings of Israel, 367 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:29,880 the first two kings of Israel. 368 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,620 He anointed Saul and he anointed David. 369 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:35,660 When he anointed David as king of Israel, 370 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,360 he was in a Samuel, the son of Hannah, 371 00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:44,240 was establishing a throne that was going to be a forever throne, 372 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:48,760 and was going to be occupied by none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. 373 00:26:49,620 --> 00:26:49,780 Right? 374 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:51,600 She prophesied that. 375 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,980 He will give strength to his king, and he will exalt the horn of his anointed. 376 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:10,160 This mama produced a spiritual dynamo, right? 377 00:27:11,060 --> 00:27:12,880 This mama, this Hannah. 378 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:19,860 and she had totally surrendered herself to the Lord. 379 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:28,920 She resented totally surrendered herself knowing that she could do nothing about it. 380 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:34,380 And I tell people all the time, 381 00:27:34,460 --> 00:27:40,080 it is amazing how often God puts us in those positions where all we can do is trust him. 382 00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:42,160 She made her request known, 383 00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:46,820 Lord, if it's your will, give me a son, and I'll give him back to you. 384 00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:55,020 I believe Samuel was a great man because he had a magnificent mother. 385 00:27:58,140 --> 00:28:02,600 And I don't think, you say, well, I don't got no kids or grandkids to pray for. 386 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:04,640 No, but you've got kids to pray for. 387 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,540 There's all kinds of kids to pray for. 388 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,180 I went to a rodeo Bible camp five years ago, and I've been. 389 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:17,680 been going ever since. Three years ago, I wrote down all the names of those kids at that camp. 390 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:24,240 There were like 35 names. And I occasionally go through their names. I can pray for them. 391 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:32,840 Right. I can pray that God gets a hold of them. And because God's not a respecter of persons. 392 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:40,100 Now, I'm bent towards praying for my grandkids. But God hears the prayers all the same. 393 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,420 Whether it's my grandkids who I'm very affectionate towards or kids that I don't even know that well. 394 00:28:46,220 --> 00:28:46,840 God hears. 395 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:48,520 So pray. 396 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,560 I think some takeaways. 397 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:54,980 I said earlier, Hannah's name means gracious. 398 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,260 Samuel names means asked of God. 399 00:28:58,260 --> 00:28:59,580 He was asked of God. 400 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,660 And God used his life mightily. 401 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,500 I don't know that we see there was no more powerful man. 402 00:29:11,380 --> 00:29:19,960 between Moses and I said he was before Moses so he was after Moses excuse me before Moses between 403 00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:25,700 Moses and David there was no more powerful man than Samuel he was he was the dude he 404 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:30,860 wasn't a priest but he was a prophet because he was from the tribe of Ephraim but he was 405 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:39,500 powerful because his mother his mother asked for him and he literally came from God so 406 00:29:40,260 --> 00:29:43,240 some takeaways from Hannah's life real quick as we close. 407 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,040 Number one, she vowed and paid. 408 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:49,780 She vowed and paid. 409 00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:52,380 Don't vow if you're not willing to pay. 410 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:54,180 Because it might cost you. 411 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,860 It might cost you some of the things you want to do in life. 412 00:29:59,340 --> 00:29:59,920 You never know. 413 00:30:02,460 --> 00:30:03,460 I remember I vowed. 414 00:30:03,910 --> 00:30:08,940 One of the main vows I said to the Lord when I got saved 415 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,520 just, Lord, no matter what I want to serve you. 416 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,260 No matter what, I want to serve you. 417 00:30:15,420 --> 00:30:16,480 And I didn't know what that meant. 418 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,780 I didn't know if he was going to ship me off to Africa. 419 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,660 I didn't know what if I was going to go into the slums of one of the inner cities in America. 420 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:24,940 I didn't know. 421 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:29,840 I was going to go out into the brush and be a cowboy preacher. 422 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,060 I didn't know. 423 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,400 But I said, no matter what, I want to serve you. 424 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,860 Even if I fall, because I had read that scripture in Proverbs, right? 425 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:41,920 the righteous fall seven times and get back up again, because I knew I was going to fall. 426 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:52,440 But make some kind of a commitment, because Jesus said, you can't be mine unless you give it all, right? 427 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,700 So she vowed and she paid. 428 00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:57,760 Secondly, she was willing to sacrifice. 429 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,220 The very thing that was the most precious to her, she gave to God. 430 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:04,600 What have you given? 431 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:13,740 I know a lot of times I'm kind of like the farmer that had the twin calves, right? 432 00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:16,580 He was so blessed that he had twin calves. 433 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,780 He gave one to the Lord. 434 00:31:20,740 --> 00:31:25,540 And he came in one evening and his wife said he was downtrodden and his wife said, 435 00:31:25,620 --> 00:31:26,080 what's the matter? 436 00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:28,200 And he goes, the Lord's calf's sick. 437 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,780 But he didn't designate which one he had given to the Lord. 438 00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:42,140 right just the sick one oh that must be the lords that's how some people sacrifice that's how some 439 00:31:42,260 --> 00:31:50,280 people give no give your very best the firstborn was his she recognized that she was willing to 440 00:31:50,620 --> 00:31:58,820 sacrifice thirdly she worships she worships god for who his greatness have you have you come to know 441 00:31:59,420 --> 00:32:03,800 how big your god is he's so big we 442 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,580 our little pea finite brains can't get wrapped around it. 443 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,900 It's almost frustrating to try to. 444 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,100 I was listening to an interview. 445 00:32:15,740 --> 00:32:19,060 Great interview by a guy named Sasses. 446 00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:22,080 He's last name as a senator, Diane, of pancreatic cancer. 447 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:26,300 And a strong believer in the Lord Jesus. 448 00:32:27,499 --> 00:32:31,800 And they were asking him about his cancer and his diagnosis. 449 00:32:32,020 --> 00:32:32,460 It's terminal. 450 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,440 You're not going to live. 451 00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:34,920 He's, I think, 53. 452 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,620 And he's been trying these different drugs. 453 00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:43,800 And he finally said, he said, 454 00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:45,760 so the interviewer says, 455 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,720 you believe God has a plan in all this? 456 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:48,840 He said, well, absolutely. 457 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,500 He says, you realize there are no maverick molecules in the universe. 458 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:57,100 Do you get it? 459 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,700 No maverick molecules in the universe. 460 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,040 In other words, God's in control of every molecule. 461 00:33:03,020 --> 00:33:04,860 every single molecule. 462 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:08,580 So God's not surprised. 463 00:33:11,780 --> 00:33:13,460 She worshipped God. 464 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,800 And lastly, fourthly, she prayed. 465 00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:18,120 Hannah prayed. 466 00:33:18,940 --> 00:33:21,720 She knew where her bread was buttered. 467 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:23,760 She prayed. 468 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,540 What an incredible, incredible life. 469 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,520 Several messages on Hannah's life. 470 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,540 she's called the magnificent mother. 471 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:36,620 Prayed for a child, 472 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,700 vowed to give that child back to God, 473 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,060 sacrifice that child back to God. 474 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,380 I think that we would do well 475 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,080 to follow her lead. 476 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:53,500 Remember, 477 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,100 Paul said pray without ceasing. 478 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:00,960 Right? 479 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:01,940 Living life 480 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:11,379 that is so bright, people can't help but see who it is that you worship. 481 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,040 Pray with me, would you? 482 00:34:13,740 --> 00:34:15,399 Father, we thank you. 483 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,780 Thank you for faithfulness, Lord. 484 00:34:20,899 --> 00:34:23,740 You've given us mothers as an example of faithfulness. 485 00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:25,899 I've never seen anything like it. 486 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,919 And so I aspire to be that kind of a faithfulness. 487 00:34:31,980 --> 00:34:38,520 servant. And I pray that we as your people, Lord, would be yielded. Lord, whatever you call us to do 488 00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:44,280 in these last days, Lord, as crazy as life gets, pray that you would have your way with us. 489 00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:51,980 That we would be people who are willing to make a vow, whether it be to you or in marriage 490 00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:58,400 or to the children you give us for a lifetime. Lord, help us to make those vows, realizing that 491 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,900 we can't make a vow without there being a sacrifice. 492 00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:11,540 sacrifice, Lord, that realizing that nothing goes unnoticed, as you encourage us to not grow weary 493 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:18,320 in doing well, Lord, that we would worship you because we know that there's nothing we can give 494 00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:27,720 that you can't replace a hundredfold. And Lord, give us a passion, a passion for your word and 495 00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:31,620 prayer to seek your face, that you would direct our steps. 496 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:35,460 Surely we plan out our way, but you direct our steps. 497 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,720 May we give you that freedom in our lives. 498 00:35:37,820 --> 00:35:40,860 We pray it in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus. 499 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:41,860 Amen. 500 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:43,860 Let's all stand, shall we? 501 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,880 Hey, if you, you're here today and you're just thinking, you know what? 502 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,020 I need to get right with God. 503 00:35:50,820 --> 00:35:52,700 I've just been kind of on the fringes. 504 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,760 I've been just kind of going through the motions. 505 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:56,800 There's a prayer tent right back here. 506 00:35:57,020 --> 00:35:59,020 It's the blue top prayer tent. 507 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,440 Go and have them pray with you. 508 00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:02,740 Get right with the Lord. 509 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,120 It's a simple prayer, a simple prayer of faith. 510 00:36:08,930 --> 00:36:14,460 And also, we're going to eat now after we pray. 511 00:36:15,060 --> 00:36:19,560 And the moms and the ladies all get to go first, guys. 512 00:36:20,060 --> 00:36:20,180 Okay? 513 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:25,260 I know you're hungry, but the moms and the ladies all get to go first. 514 00:36:25,820 --> 00:36:30,700 And so ladies, you are dismissed to go eat. 515 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,600 I'm going to pray over the food as you go. 516 00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:37,820 And then guys, we can sit and let our bellies grumble a little bit. 517 00:36:38,380 --> 00:36:39,600 Lord, thank you for these guys. 518 00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:40,600 Pray that you bless them. 519 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,640 Lord, bless this food and this fellowship, Lord, 520 00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:46,060 as we celebrate our moms this day. 521 00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:48,040 And we just praise you. 522 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,680 Thank you for that incredible gift, Lord, that we so often take for granted. 523 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,280 Bless them, we pray in the mighty name of Jesus. 524 00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:00,780 Amen. And then I'm going to do a song that I almost do every Mother's Day so you guys can sit and listen. 525 00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:30,220 Then she took him up and held her to her breast. 526 00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:38,620 And he sure was glad to get what Mama offered. 527 00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:46,780 Then he went to sleep and put his fears to rest. 528 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,080 It didn't seem to matter what he needed. 529 00:37:55,780 --> 00:38:01,640 He could always count on Mama to supply. 530 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,880 And regardless of the sleep she might be losing, 531 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:18,300 He always found a twinkle in her eye. 532 00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:25,100 There ought to be a hall of fame for me. 533 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:33,320 Mama's creation's most unique and precious pearl. 534 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:42,320 Heaven help us always to remember 535 00:38:43,470 --> 00:38:48,960 that the hand of rocks the cradle rules Lord. 536 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,579 She taught him all the attributes. 537 00:38:54,120 --> 00:39:07,800 tributes of greatness that she knew we couldn't learn away from home by the time 538 00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:21,700 she wore the cover off her Bible her hair was gray and her little man was gone 539 00:39:23,020 --> 00:39:28,980 There ought to be a Hall of Fame for Mama's 540 00:39:30,260 --> 00:39:35,020 creation's most unique and precious pearl. 541 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:43,820 And heaven help us always to remember 542 00:39:44,990 --> 00:39:50,720 that the hand that rocks the cradle rules of world. 543 00:39:56,980 --> 00:40:12,200 Heaven help us always to remember that the hand the rocks are crows a cranes o'erose o'er. 544 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:21,420 Thank you. 545 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:24,460 Probably that was awesome.