May 9, 2010 - Mothers Day Message
Song: I Found Someone
Song: I've been longing to See Your Face
Kim singing: I found someone who would walk with me.
Yes I found someone but I know He really found me
I know He really found me
When I needed someone, when I needed someone you were there
You were always there
And I like to think that I found you but it was you that found me lying in the dust
Lying in the dust, you found me, you found me, you found me
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We are here today to recognize and celebrate mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general as well as the positive contributions that they make to society. So today the song that we sang was not really just for the Lord, but it's a song about mothers. You found someone in your mother that would walk with you, that would pray with you, that would fight for you. And lift me up and stand with me and when I'm weak you make me strong and when I'm down you lift me up. That's so, so beautiful to think about that as a mother's characteristic and nature.
So I'm really glad that I'm not a mother. I'm glad I'm a father because I've seen what mothers do, because my wife has been a mother five times and still is.
I'm going to invite my family up here because we are honoring Mother's Day.
Jane is a phenomenal mother; she is a phenomenal everything, but she is a phenomenal mother because she had a phenomenal incredible mother. I want to share something with you about that. For all you mothers, well done, congratulations!
I want to say a few things to you before I get them on. My daughter, Donne is here on my left, and then Gloria is sitting in the middle and there is Jane my wife. We are going to share something but what I said was a great mother makes a great mother.
Jane: I agree.
Kim: Well I agree. I know that a great mother makes a great mother in you; the transference of the mother spirit, that's what I'm trying to say. So I have firsthand experience right now with mothers. I have a mother too. Most of you don't even know it because you never see her, but she is still alive and she is in South Africa and I honor her as well. I don't even know if she's watching because the time is different, but she may see this. I have sent her beautiful flowers and I even sent Jane flowers.
Jane: Beautiful flowers and Mom.
Kim: You are with me at the Den for Mother's Day special celebration. I want to share some facts with you before we get to some of the stuff. There are 84 million Moms in the USA.
Kim: August is the most popular month in which to have a baby. How many are born in August here? About 4 million women will have babies this year. The median age of a woman giving birth for the first time in the U.S. is 24. Daughters keep in closer contact with their mothers than their sons. There are more phone calls made on Mother's Day than on any other day of the year. The number of people calling their Moms in recent years on Mother's Day has declined due to email and other electronic means of communication which I think is very sad. Nearly 83% of Americans will buy a card for Mother's Day and 80% percent of the cards will be purchased by daughters. Do you know what the official flower is for Mother's Day?
Donne: Carnations.
Kim: There we go - carnations. Mother's Day is the third largest card sending day as well. Mothers' Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants.
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Kim: Today when I was reading the Bible as well, in Genesis 3:20 Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living. I love that – the mother of all the living.
Jesus also honored his mother in John 19:26 and 27: When Jesus saw his mother there and the disciple whom he loved which was John, standing nearby, he said to his mother "dear women here is your son", and to the disciple, "here is your mother." And I believe that was because he was disconnecting and leaving the earth and he was handing that responsibility over to John. So it's interesting that in the disconnection, the fact is that Jesus said to her "woman" so he was no longer referring to her as "mother" for it was time for him to disconnect and of course from that minute onward the disciple took her into his home. The point I'm trying to make is that He cared for her and He cared about her future and what was going to happen to her even though He was taking the position of being King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He knew that physically on the earth He wouldn't be – or there would be a point when He wouldn't be coming back.
You know what I want you to do is read the little poem that somebody wrote, the "Dear Lord" poem. Listen to this cute poem.
Donne:
Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day with little time to stop and pray
My life's been anything but calm since you called on me to be a Mom
Running errands, matching socks, building dreams with building blocks
Cooking, cleaning and finding shoes and other stuff that children lose
Fitting lids on bottle mugs, wiping tears and giving hugs
A stack of last week's mail to read so where's the quite time I need
Yet when I steal a moment Lord just at the sink or ironing board
To ask the blessings of your grace I see them in my small one's face
That you have blessed me all the while and I stop to kiss that precious smile
What if Moms were mean and grind and also rather unfair and unkind
Would they scream and bite or hit and call people numbskulls, bird brains
Or nit-wits?
I bet that might happen if you forget to celebrate Mother's Day
and instead play croquet!
Kim:
A little Chinese girl wrote this one:
Mommy, Mommy you are sweet, Mommy, you are nice
Don't ever leave me 'cause you make the best rice!
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Kim: Okay, let's talk, Jane.
The one thing that I must tell the people is that Gloria in 1996 received a word from me, and I don't give my family prophetic words from platforms, so to speak. I do write them out and give my children words so they can know their future. But I got a prophetic word for her and Oral Roberts was actually in the meetings that weekend.
Jane: She was sitting behind him.
Kim: And what happened was I was speaking of Abraham and many of you know that one of my favorite characters in the Bible is Abraham, and I was sharing at the scripture where God says to him, "As for you, you will live to a ripe old age." And I swung around to her and I gave her this prophecy that she would live to a ripe old age. And what I want to say is whenever God says something Satan usually attacks what God says because he wants to discredit him. He has always tried to discredit God and a way that he can do it is through God's creation and that's what he tries to do. So what happened was when I said that, in the May of that year she had caught bacterial meningitis.
Jane: Bacterial meningitis which is very dangerous; it's a lot more dangerous than the viral meningitis. And a lot of people don't make it if they have bacterial meningitis. And my Mom having it at age 74 is even worse. So there she is still living and she's here and she's almost 85 and she's made it another 15 years, how many years has it been Mom? Nearly 20 years since then, and she died three times; they had to bring her back to life. They said she'd never – she'd probably be blind, deaf, and not remember that we were her children. And to begin with, when she was first recovering, we didn't think she was going to remember who we were. She didn't know who we were for at least three or four weeks, yeah, she didn't know who she was. Would you like to say a few words about it?
Gloria: I didn't know what was happening, did I?
Kim: But you do remember when you came around they were there.
Gloria: I don't when it was but Jane and Caleb came to see me. Kim sent them over in a place, and I actually saw Kim at the airport –
Kim: This is while she was in a state.
Gloria: - and he was by himself and I asked him to please help me because I was flying all over in a plane looking down at deep water and I was afraid. And he said you have to fly this plane by yourself. And that's all I can remember of that but apparently that's at the time when he put Jane on the plane and sent her with Caleb to come and see me.
Anyway that's what I knew about that. It goes to show that when you are in that state, you are all over. It goes to show that you are not just in where we were living, but your spirit isn't confined, your spirit is alive.
Jane: That's the best way to describe it.
Gloria: And then Jane arrived and they had taken me out of intensive care and she arrived there with Caleb and she was actually pregnant at that time with Elizabeth. And I hadn't even recognized anybody until I saw these two walking in and I saw Caleb and straight away "Caleb" that's what I said, because you know Caleb was my little baby. And Jane was there and then he came up and he was the first person I recognized after this happened. But I still remained in hospital a long time after that.
Jane: And it took you a long time to recover, approximately a year or two.
Gloria: That's when I came to stay with you.
Kim: The thing is they predicted, the prognosis was -
Gloria: The doctor told me that I was lucky that I was walking; I should be deaf, I should be blind, or I should be in a cemetery.
Jane: You were almost in the cemetery. Tell them about when you saw the three graves and your Mom who died. How long ago did your Mom die?
Gloria: My mother died in 1970. I had a sister who died in May in 1934. And my father died in 1988. And when I saw three graves and the headstones; I was kneeling on the grass next to my mother and there was this other headstone there and my Mother said "Write your name down here." And of course all I had was a piece of chalk, you know the chalk you get at school. And I wrote my name "Gloria Dulcie Barnes" and underneath "Nee Ladson" because "Ladson" used to be, was my maiden name. And my Mother said "That's no good. Wipe it out." She said "Write it again" and so I wrote my name again "Gloria Dulcie Barnes" and I could hear the chalk squeaking, and my Mother said "Just forget about it." So I forgot about it.
Jane: That must have been when you came back to earth, Mom.
Gloria: I don't where I had been – somewhere; but I was with her.
Jane: You do see your family.
Gloria: I think that we do. My brother in law told me that he believes that we do see our family gone before us. So the three people that had died before, and there was mine ready to go but I'm still on earth.
Jane: You made it Mom!
Gloria: And that was 15, just about 15 years ago.
Jane: No you said 20.
Gloria: It was in 1996, so that was 14 years ago, and in August I'm going to be 85 so
Kim prophesied I was going to be old and hoary. Well here I am!
Jane: Kim, you better explain what that means.
Gloria: It just means old!
Kim: I think in the King James Version, the word hoary is in there, it sounds terrible. But in those days I was using the King James Version of the Bible and the King James says hoary old age.
Gloria: Very old.
Kim: Very old. For those that misunderstood that. I remember Matt Crouch was with us, and afterwards, Matt and Laurie were in the room and Matt to this day, I can hear the way he screeched laughing because she said "what is hoary?" What is that supposed to mean?
Well that's great and that's just incredible what God did and I think Michael Babin experienced a very similar thing; he died three times, came back and I'm praying for the same for him.
Jane: And you know what he said, he said "I've been in Detroit all this time."
Kim: You know, I explained to people last time what that meant.
Jane: And it just made sense because that's exactly what happened to my Mom. She was also flying around.
Kim: You know what I explained last week on the Den, I said that when Abraham, whenever he built an altar and he gave to the Lord, it was after God has spoken to him, and when he went to Egypt, there was a great famine in Egypt and when he went back, when he was finished with Egypt he went back to the altar that he built to draw from it and I said to the people wherever you've built altars and you've sacrificed and given, you can go back and draw from that well, from that place and say "I need this now."
And that's what I think Michael did because he came to Detroit with us how many times and he went over and over for over an 8 year period, and he received prophetic words there, gave offerings there, sacrificed and during that period of time I believe, when he died, he went there to draw from those altars. Isn't that beautiful? I really believe in that. It's not a physical thing; it's a spiritual thing.
This is the most important. There are people watching us; some have Alzheimer's, some are older and are handicapped, crippled. Whatever the case God can do a miracle just like he did here with Gloria. And so I want you to get some hope today because God is able to do it. If He can do it for her, if He can do it for Michael Babin, and thousands of other people and He can do it for you as well.
And I pray that if you have a need today that you would relate to this and draw some faith from this and say "God if it could happen to her, it could happen to me." And there are some older, older people watching, very much older that come to our show and love it that are feeling the presence of God right now as we say this. And I want to tell you that all you have to do is get a promise from God and you've got it in the Word, many, many promises. You can draw from that and God can reach you and release you from that in Jesus' name.
Donne: I just wanted to say while you're praying for that, that I have a prayer request. It's Mother's Day and my friend, Rio, you know Rio.
Jane: She's in one of those Nike ads.
Donne: She's in a lot of commercials and magazines; she's a model. And she's a very good friend; she was at my wedding. Her mother is a jazz singer; her name's Moke and she's from Morocco. And they just found a tumor on her spine, so while you're praying for that, pray for Rio's mother because it's Mother's Day and she found that out.
Kim: Lord we pray today for Rio's mother. Lord we pray for those that are watching us now. The power of Christ, the power of Jesus, the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus is here alive today and there's no greater power than the name of Christ. We believe that.
We pray for every person that is watching right now. Maybe you've just lost your mother and your heart is broken. I want to pray for you now and we do pray for you now. We together pray for you as a family, for your family. We pray that you would touch them now Spirit of God. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would move; you are omniscient, you are omnipotent, omnipresent. You are able to go into any home at this very second. Heal the broken hearted. Heal every life right now Lord no matter what the problem is. Touch them and strengthen them, bone diseases Lord God, deterioration of, bone diseases, spinal diseases. We pray for a miracle right now. We call upon you to move into every life as they join with us, and our faith is with theirs Lord God, for we take the promises of God which are yes and amen and we release them into every life and every home right now in Jesus name, amen.
Okay so you've got something to say now.
Jane: I've got something I want to read. And well did you know that, do you know who the President is who first signed the first Mother's Day as an official holiday?
Kim: Woodrow Wilson.
Jane: Good! I think it was two ladies that started this whole movement, a Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. Anna Jarvis. They were the ones that started the whole thing and then it became what it is today.
Kim: I was reading today that in India it has only just recently started
Jane: Well in the U.S., Canada, Australia and India they celebrate Mother's Day on the second day of May, not today.
Donne: We do the second Sunday of May in the United States.
Jane: But they do the second day.
Donne: Well I actually looked it up online today. They listed every single country on the internet. And there are a lot different dates but it is usually around April or May in the spring time to have Mother's Day, I'm not sure why, I didn't read why, but it is interesting that all over the world and around the same time of year also it was officially made in a lot of countries, in the 1920's, the early 1900's in a lot of countries.
Jane: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a great mother, said this, "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you."
Kim: That's a good one. I love my mother.
Jane: Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while but their hearts forever. Men are what their mothers made them.
So hopefully Caleb will be a good husband.
Kim: Caleb will be detailed; he'll have long stories. When Jane tells a story – here we are with Israel Houghton the other day and we were telling us a story about something and he turned to us and said, and he looked at Jane and he said "Can I have the 90 second version of it?" And I said to him, Israel, if you ask Jane you're not going to get the 90 second version. Mine is the 90 second version.
Jane: Yes but we need the details. Some of us need those details.
The heart of a matter is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement.
That's what you do to me, Mom.
Kim: Yes she does. She does that to me too.
Gloria: I'm not very successful, am I?
Jane: Yeah, I hope so.
Let me just say, I've got two more.
The most important think a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Kim: The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother; that's right.
Jane: And Abraham Lincoln said, "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all of my life."
Kim: That's beautiful, and you know I also got a word once when I was ministering at Randy Clark's church in Nederland, Texas. And I pulled out a man and the Lord gave me his name: Leroy Brown. And there is a song good ol' Leroy Brown. And I called this guy and I thought "Come on Lord are you sure it's Leroy Brown?" So I said, you are Leroy Brown, and he said yes. And he was down and out. And I said "I see a grave, a tombstone and I'm hearing a prayer coming from the tombstone. On the tombstone is a Sarah ... Brown, born July __, 19__ and died …" And he fell on his knees weeping and weeping and that was his mother. And she died but her prayers were still in the spirit. The prayer doesn't die. And so the prayer is going on all the time and even though that's interesting, because you were carving on the tombstone, is that you know there's something more than it just being a tombstone. Anyway, this woman was his mother and her prayers – and I said "Sarah, your prayers have been answered today!" And he fell down and he got freed that day and he joined the church and everything, but it was incredible!
Jane: I remember that.
Kim: How powerful a mother's prayer is. You can never underestimate a simple little prayer that comes from a mother. I was going to say, Donne, what do you have to say about your own environment as a child with us, and specifically with your mother because we are a very close knit family but we do have our chin wags every now and then which means we do thrash it out if we've got a problem. There's Italian blood in us and Scottish so we will talk a thing out, so just share a little bit about that.
Donne: Well we traveled a lot, especially when I was a little girl; it was just Jacquelyn and I. So we traveled quite a lot and that was good for us because we got to spend a lot of time with you, and my mother is an example. She was a good example for me because I saw how she took care of Dad, and that taught me how to take care of my own husband and eventually my own children when I have them. We are very close and we have a very open communication and I can see how Granny influenced Mom and I can see myself in both of them as I go through my day to day life.
Jane: You are becoming more and more like us.
Donne: More and more like you.
Kim: I'll never forget something you came and said to me once. I don't know how old you were but you were growing up and you'd been through your things and Donne said "You know, I've come to realize you are real people. You are actually – you have a life; you're not just Dad and Mom." I know what you were trying to say but I can't explain it. It's almost that you came to the reality that we have our own life; that we are – I don't how you said it but it was something that just dawned on you.
Donne: Actually well you know when you're a little child, your parents, when you look at your parents it's sort of something you take for granted because they're always there so it's not like when you meet a new person you find out about a new person. Your parents have always been there. So I think that's probably why that you know you reach a certain age and you realize these are human beings and they get sad and they struggle and then you realize how difficult it is to be a good mother or father. It isn't an easy thing.
Kim: And congratulations to those who are good mothers and fathers, congratulations. You've accomplished something and that's what America's made of. You leave a legacy for your children and the greatest thing is to have a family, and to have that family together. Now I'm not condemning those that may be sitting watching now and you are single mothers or you've had a divorce or such. God helps you through that. You are just as honored today. And especially the single mothers that have to sacrifice.
Jane: You know there are probably a lot of people in the same position as this lady. Her name is Jackie and she says "Please pray for restoration for my relationship with my son. He has unforgiveness towards me from a very long time ago. My mother's heart is broken. Every Mother's Day is so hard for me. I miss him and my grandchildren." So I think there are a lot of people in the same position as this lady.
Kim: There are and that's why we do this as well so we could pray for you and touch your heart and just comfort you at this time. Some of you are celebrating because your family is there with you and that's great but we pray for those that are hurting as well. And I want to say something before we finish because you are all so very special to us.
Jane: Gran has got a few words to say as well.
Gloria: The Art of Staying Young at Heart
Sometimes we watch the days go by wishing they could be lost
And we can help but wonder why time must fly so fast
But we keep in memory every moment left behind
And we can keep our special dreams and joys we hope to find
And if we seek God's will through every day we live and what we have to give
If we try to see some good in all that comes our way
He will bless us with contentment at the end of every day
And when we will have mastered that special art
Of growing rich in happiness and staying young at heart
The joy of remaining young each year and the happiness of being loved
By those you hold most dear the year ahead will always bring
Fulfillment of our hopes and plans and all of life's loveliest things
And then I've got one more verse which says, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds a divinely implanted sense of purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy, yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end."
Jane: Very good, Mom.
Kim: Thank you. There was a mother that was desperate. It was during the time of Elisha's reign as a prophet. She had a son that God gave when they were incapable of having children. This woman was well off and before she had that child she did something very powerful. This is a mother. She said to her husband, "This man that comes by here is a holy man and I would like to make room in my house for him because I believe that if I treat this prophet and I give him a room to stay that God will help us." And so they built a room and it cost them money. They put a bed in there and a lamp stand and a table and every time Elisha would go by, he would stop there. And so one day he said to her "What is it that you need?" And of course he found out that she needed to have a child; it was impossible. So he gave her a word and said "This time next year you will have a child, a boy." Of course it happened, and it was so beautiful because it was something that she could not accomplish by herself. She and her husband were incapable of having children. But as she gave God began to open up the way for the impossible to happen. That's why I believe in giving and sowing. Today is a special day. Some of you have great needs. What this woman did was she had the child and eventually one day the child died. What she did was, as a determined mother, she went to Elisha and said to him "I have laid my son on the bed in the room that I built for you because I am expecting God to raise him from the dead." What she did was she took advantage of the offering that she gave to God and she said "I'm going to lay my child, even though he's dead, on that which I gave to God, that offering." Of course you know the end result was that she received a miracle and the son came back to life. The thing that I'm trying to tell you is take advantage of moments like this when you can give so that one day if anything comes against you, you can draw from that well. Because it certainly is a well, so I am encouraging you right now to give. God has touched you and He has ministered to you. I want you to go and give something to him right now and say "God this offering is to make room in my home, in my house for a prophetic presence and a promise."
Lord I release a miracle in each life right now as they obey you and give. Determine to do it and say "Lord this is my offering for my family and for our home."
God I pray that you would bless this offering and that you would receive it and I pray that you would give them a great, great day with their families today. And to all of you mothers, congratulations, we celebrate you today!
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