What if We really did Surrender it all, Mama?

Tonight we will talk about what it would look  like to surrender it all to God as mamas. From our dreams to our disappointments… what if we surrendered it all? 

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Good evening mamas and welcome back to midlight your light in the middle of the night. Tonight I started wondering what if we really did surrender it all to the Lord, Mama? You know the song I surrender all? I started wondering tonight what if we truly as mamas were willing to surrender it all to the Lord? Our families, our hopes, our dreams, our anxieties, the weights that we carry that nobody but the Lord knows about? What if we did that? What if we just surrendered it and didn't choose to let it consume us any longer? What a beautiful thing it would be to cast those things over to the Lord and just say, God, I have been struggling as a mama in this area, or God, I have been struggling as a woman in this area, or I'm just so stressed out, God, I don't even know which direction is up anymore. What if we just chose to surrender it to the Lord? I think tonight about Romans chapter twelve and verse two, and it says, Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. And I think this is it. This is the beautiful transition from worrying about it to surrendering it. He tells us right here in his word how to handle such things, and it is not to be conformed to this world, don't let the worries of this world take us over, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That is putting our mind on the things that God has for us to do as mamas, as this is a beautiful opportunity to serve our families and the Lord, and it's a special assignment that we have been given to do so. We impact generations. We are legacy levers, and it's such a vital role. But if we find ourselves in a place of constant worry or holding on to things so tightly as we've talked about earlier this week, it's important to get to a place where we allow the Lord to renew our minds and we truly can surrender it all to Him. There was a time in my life as a mother where things got really difficult, and things did not go as I had planned or hoped for, and I sat in a moment to be honest, as a single mother, which I never thought I would be, and I found that in that place where I felt extremely alone, that the Lord was with me. And there was a lot of pain in that moment, a lot of confusion, and I didn't know what was going to happen next, but you know what the beautiful thing was? In that moment, and I remember it clearly, I decided I would surrender it all, I would trust the Lord, even in the miry, mucky mess, and I would trust the Lord to turn something beautiful out of something so incredibly hard. And you know what? He did. There is no words for what God has done in my life, except to say that He is faithful and He is good and He is tender and He knows the plans that He has for us, declares the Lord. Plans to give us hope in a future, not to harm us. Jeremiah 29 11 says that, that He knows the plans he has for us to give us hope in a future and not to harm us. So even when someone human or anyone fails you, know that the Lord will not, and in those moments when you would like nothing more than to give up and just hold everything so tightly to you, know that the Lord your God is with you and he is trustworthy, and you can surrender all of your upset, all of your real feelings, all of your heavy weights to the Lord, and He will sustain you. In fact, Jesus tells us in His Word, He says, In this life you will have trouble, but take heart, for I have overcome the world. That's John sixteen thirty-three. I want to wrap back around to Jeremiah twenty nine eleven and give you the rest of what is said in this chapter. And it starts in verse twelve after he says he knows the thoughts about us, and they are for good and not evil, thoughts of peace, and to give us future and hope. Then in verse twelve he says, You will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. Isn't that beautiful? We can call upon him, and he will listen to us when we seek him and search for him with all of our heart. That's where I was at, mammas, years and years ago when I found myself sitting in that difficult moment, a moment I never would have wanted, and I didn't even feel it was fair. But the Lord says I have plans for you that are good and peace and not of evil. So mammas, if you sit tonight in a place where you have disappointments and heaviness or just exhaustion, just know that you can truly surrender it all to the Lord and He will meet you there. I feel like I want to read to you one more time the whole verse from eleven through twelve together. So here we go, Jeremiah twenty nine, eleven through twelve. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. So good. God's word is so encouraging for us, mammas. We are never alone, and the Lord is good to meet us right where we're at. I want to leave you with that understanding tonight, mammas, that you are not alone, and then I want to share and pray a blessing over you. From number six, twenty four through twenty six. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face to shine upon you, be gracious unto you and give you peace. Amen. Until next time, Mamas, take care.