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Honor Your Mother

Ephesians 6:1-3 (NLT)
1 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
2 “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise:
3 If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”

The word honor means to hold in

, to place great upon. Obedience is the right thing to do, but God us to honor our mothers. Honor in the family is not ; it is by God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NKJV)
18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1. We honor our mothers by saying

! Gratitude expresses honor; your validates her .

John 15:12 (NKJV)
12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

2. We honor our mothers by saying

! Verbal expressions of love the voice of the and her heart.

1 Peter 5:14 (NKJV)
14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

3. We honor our mothers by

and them! expressions of love create moments that her heart.

Proverbs 7:24 (NKJV)
24 Now therefore, listen to me, [my] children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:

4. We honor our mothers by

to their
. Listening,
, and applying her honors her , experience, and desire to us.

Revelation 3:20 (NKJV)
20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

5. We honor our mothers by

them into our lives.
are
of honor and worth.

Matthew 23:37 (NKJV)
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under [her] wings, but you were not willing!

6. We honor our mothers by

around her. Family
are to her soul.

2 Timothy 1:5-6 (NKJV)
5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
6 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.

7. We honor our mothers by

. and family are the greatest of her heart.