A mom has a rich and varied job description, according to Holly Ellif.

As mothers, we are called to teach and train and nurture life, to love, correct, and lead our children.

We have the privilege of becoming participants in God's process of multiplication and giving life as we recognize it and embrace it.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, April 16th.

Yesterday. Yesterday, we began a message from Holly Elliff called Turning the Tide.

We were swept up in some of the adventure that comes with mothering, and we caught a vision for the privilege of investing in the next generation.

Holly is the mother of eight.

She's a pastor's wife, and she's a familiar voice to revive our hearts listeners.

She delivered this message at our True Woman conference last fall in Schaumburg, Illinois.

At the end of today's program, we'll let you know how to get a copy of a helpful booklet by Holly

to help you apply

what you hear. Now, here's Holly Elif with Part 2 of Turning the Tide.

Now, one way in which we know that mothering is important to God himself is that so many mothers are mentioned by name in

scripture.

Jacobed was a Hebrew woman who stood against the political climate of her day, rather than

kill her newborn son, as commanded by the Pharaoh, she protected him.

Now, can you imagine trying to hide that child for three months so that no one knew

he existed so that it would be assumed that he had died at birth, which was the command?

Scripture says in Exodus that when she could no longer hide him, she released him into God's sovereignty.

She built a little basket of pitch, right, of reeds and covered it with pitch,

and you remember that she placed him on the water.

Do you know that the word for that basket is the same word that describes the ark

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