Posted on 08/31/2021 1:28:25 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him” (Proverbs 31:1 KJV).
This is a letter by king Lemuel. The name, “Lemuel” means, “by God.” “By Him all things consist.” The -el on the end is the Hebrew word for God—El Shaddai, Elohim, Bethel (the house of God) –Jesus said, “With God all things are possible.” So, with God you can do all things.
Here is the high calling of motherhood. There is truth in the saying, “Behind every great man is a great woman.” The greater truth is that this woman is usually his mother! Many churches allow their women to become pastors, but their greatest ministry is, was, and ever will be in the home. Where would be John Wesley without a Susanne Wesley? Would there have been a Timothy apart from a godly mother Eunice and his grandmother Lois?
“. . . the prophecy that his mother taught him,” king Lemuel had a good mother. She spent some time with him in the Bible, and she taught him some things about life. Prophecy is not always something dealing with the distant future, sometimes just telling you what’s true about you, and how for you to live right and not reap the wages of sin—just how to live today and tomorrow—is prophetic. In other words, if I tell you something tonight that will keep you out of trouble tomorrow—that’s prophecy. Prophecy deals with life, and so all Scriptures are prophetic in that respect, they help us to live from day to day.
Getting saved doesn’t remove all the problems of life, it usually causes a whole lot more. Before you got saved, the Devil was on your side, the world was on your side, the flesh is on your side. I mean, really, at the time the only enemy you had was God. After you get saved, God is on your side—and you get a hold lot of enemies. I tell you, you just don’t how what kind of trouble you get into when you get saved, but it’s sure worth it when you die and go to heaven. Paul said, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Rom 8:18 KJV).
It’s bad to suffer, and nobody like to suffer, but it sure will be worth it when we die!
So, prophecy is any kind of truth where we learn, where we are exhorted, and where we are comforted to live right (1Co 14:3). So these are “the words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.”
Mothers, your greatest ministry in in the home where you are the greatest influence upon your children: “The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (Titus 2:3-5 KJV).
Ladies, your greatest mission field is your own home, especially where your children are between the ages of 1 and 5 where they have the most potential to be molded and directed for God. It doesn’t end when you children leave the nest, for you may expect to do it all over again with your grandchildren.
Cheryl Diana posted this excellent meme recently. Read it and pray about it. There is much wisdom in these words:
"If you want a Proverbs 31 kind of woman, should probably ask God to help you be a Proverbs 1 through 30, kind of man."
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That is a keeper!!
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Amen. There probably isn’t a more practical book in the whole word of God. Glad to hear it!
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