A WORD FROM THE PASTOR

"So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept..., and praying before the God of heaven."  Nehemiah 4:1

Only heaven's records can reveal the impact the prayers of mothers have had on the hearts and lives of their children and family.  If you follow the greatest men of God back to their beginnings, you will often find yourself in a hidden closet or lonely pew, where a mother kneels to pray.  Look behind Augustine, and you will find Monica.  Look behind Spurgeon, and you will find Eliza.  Look behind Hudson Taylor, and you will find Amelia.  And look at each of these mothers, and you will find earnest prayer.

The stories of God's redemptive movements often lead us to a home where a woman, a mother, hidden from the great ones of the earth, holds onto the "horns of the altar" and calls on a God who can make the impossible possible.  In the prayers of a mother, awakenings are born and peoples won, idols are toppled and devils undone, dry bones are raised and prodigals rescued.  Again and again, before God laid his hand on a man, he laid it on his mother.  And mybe it was the prayers of a mother that had so shaped the life of Nehemiah, that when he heard the news for Jerusalem, he sat down and wept and prayed.  Thank God for praying mothers.

Adapted from:  https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-power-of-a-praying-mother