Happy Mother’s Day
God's Plan for Mothers
1. Raise Godly Kids
Malachi 2:15
Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit
they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking
Godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit and
do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
God's Plan for Mothers
1. Raise Godly Kids
 How do we Raise Godly Kids?
Proverbs:16:3
commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans
will succeed.
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 1. Being a Godly Example Yourself
Mark 12:30
Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind…
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 2. Know & Obey God’s Word Yourself…
John 14:21
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the
one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my
Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 3. Tell Your children frequently of God’s Works
Ps 78:3-7
what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told
us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the
next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his
power, and the wonders he has done. He decreed statutes
for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he
commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the
next generation would know them, even the children yet to
be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they
would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds
but would keep his commands.
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 4. Teach Your Children God’s Word
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God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 5. Lead them to an understanding to Accept Jesus as
their Savior
Rom 10:9-10
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you
will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe
and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess
and are saved.
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 6. Teach them to Bring God into every situation and
decision in their lives
Prov. 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine
own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths.
Prov.16:3
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans
will succeed.
God's Plan for Mothers
7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids
 Step 7. Encourage and train them that nothing is more
important in life than loving and serving the Lord
Deut 10:12
what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the
Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
God's Plan for Mothers
2. Pass the Baton (Your Legacy of Faith)
Psalm 71:17-18
O God you have taught me from my youth:
And to this day I declare your wondrous works.
Now also when I am old and gray-headed,
O God do not forsake me,
Until I declare your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
A First Chair Person:
Is not only saved, but knows the Lord as a personal friend and
savior and displays a meaningful growing relationship with
Him for himself and those he’s responsible for. He willingly
puts himself/herself under Christ’s authority and
direction. The apostle Paul would call this the “spiritual
state”.
The First chair the Chair of Commitment
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3. Chair One Living
The Second Chair Person:
Represents someone who has received new life in Christ but
hasn’t decided in his heart how much or how little they want
to follow Him.
The Second Chair the Chair of Compromise
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
The Third Chair Person:
Represents someone who has not committed their heart and
life to the Lord. A Third chair person may have always known
he wasn’t a Christian, he may have consciously rejected God
or he just may be confused about his spiritual state.
The Third Chair the Chair of Conflict
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3. Chair One Living
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Committed
Compromised
Conflicted
Saved
Saved
Unsaved
Spiritual State
Carnal State
Natural State
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How Each Chair Relates to God
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Compromise
Conflict
Knows God
As a Close Friend
As an
Acquaintance
Is aware of God
Relates to
God
Relationship
Responsibility
Religion
Serves God
God First
Self Second
Self First
God Second
Self Only
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How Each Chair Relates to the World
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Compromise
Conflict
Shaped by
The Scriptures
Other Christians
Society
Lives by
Convictions
Beliefs
Opinions
Sees Work As
God’s Calling
God’s Blessing
A Proving Ground
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How Each Chair
Relates to Marriage & Family
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Characteristic
Commitment
Compromise
Conflict
Approach to
Marriage
Unconditional
Covenant
Conditional
Contract
Legal
Convenience
Approach to
Parenting
Apply Biblical
Principles/
Confident
Influenced by
Principles/
Hopeful
Chooses Own
Approach/
Confused
Parenting
Raise Godly Kids
Raise Good
Christian Kids
Raise Good
Successful Kids
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Picture of the Generations
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Commitment
Compromise
Conflict
Joshua
The Elders
The Elder’s Children
David
Solomon
(David’s Son)
Rehoboam
(Solomon’s Son)
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Picture of the Generational Slide
First Generation
Second Generation
Third Generation
First Chair
Second Chair
Third Chair
Knows God
Knows “OF” God
Doesn’t Know God
First Hand Faith
Second Hand Faith
No Faith at All
Has Works
Saw the Works
Doesn’t Believe in
Works
Submits to the Bible
Respects the Bible
Owns a Bible
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
Joshua 24:15
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then
choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether
the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for
me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
Joshua 24:31….
Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and
of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced
everything the Lord had done for Israel.
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
Judges 1:27-30
Judges 2:1-3
The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said,
"I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that
I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break
my covenant with you, and you shall not make a covenant
with the people of this land, but you shall break down their
altars.' Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before
you; they will be [thorns] in your sides and their gods will be
a snare to you."
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3. Chair One Living
Judges 2:10
After that whole generation had been gathered to their
fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the
Lord nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites
did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
Examples of generations in the Bible that shows how the Chair
1 Position passing on the Baton of Faith….
2 Timothy 1:5
I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your
grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now
lives in you also.
Ruth, Obed and Jesse (Who was King David’s Father )
(Book of Ruth)
God's Plan for Mothers
3. Chair One Living
 The Key to Raising Godly Kids and Passing the
Baton of Faith is which Chair you Sit in…..Sit
in a Chair – Choose a Destiny!!