Amen, amen. How we do at church? Doing all right? Looking good. There's a bunch of here. Hey, grab your

Bibles if you got them. If you don't, there's one right in the seat back in front of you. We're going to be in Luke 11 and Luke 18,

Luke 11 and Luke 18, both of those. And as you are turning there, as we continue in this series called The Storyteller. I want to say, Happy Mother's Day. Can we give it up to all the mamas here at 1122 at all of our locations?

Amen and amen. So Jesus makes it very, very clear that he is the head of the church. That's what

the scripture says. But church history teaches us that the backbone of the church for the last

2,000 years has been

that of some praying mamas. Most of us are in the kingdom because our mama kind of prayed us

in there. All right? And so I also know this, that Mother's Day, that day can kind of represent

some of your highest highs, praise God, and also sort of represent some of the lowest lows for some of you.

And so let me just say this. Let's give you a little theology lesson on Mamas real quick.

Did you know that when Adam gave Eve her name, she had not given birth, and yet Eve means the

mother of all living things? So here's what this means in the kingdom of God, in the church, that depending on your

age and stage of life, if you are a female, then you are or will be a mama in the

kingdom of God because this whole thing is called a family.

And so we need, like for instance, every Mother's Day, I send all of the elders' wives flowers from me,

not because they're my mama, but because they're kind of like the mothers of our church. Amen?

And so we need every single church mama to be what God has called and anointed and appointed you to be.

This thing is a family, and we all do this thing together and so

if this day represents great joy then give god the praise and if this day represents great pain

give god the praise but he have gathered us here together for his glory and we could not make it

without you mammas one more time for the Mamas. Amen.

All right.

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