{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"West Side Church of Christ - Elkton Ky","title":"A Mother's Faith (From our 5-10-26 Worship)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1364,"description":" Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/KxDJouNcx1EIntroduction: Faith Acts When There Is No Time to PrepareUse the story of the Henryville, Indiana tornado. Rebecca Deckard had almost no time to prepare. She put her children in the bathtub, covered them with her own body, and protected them as the house collapsed around them.Her children survived without a scratch, though she was badly injured.This illustrates something powerful about motherhood: sometimes there is no time for a perfect plan. Love acts. Faith acts.Acknowledge that Mother’s Day is joyful for many but painful for some. Some miss their mother. Some have complicated memories. But Moses’ mother gives an example that applies to every Christian.I. A Mother’s Faith ActsText: Exodus 2:1–10Hebrews 11:23 says, “By faith Moses…” but Moses was only a baby. This verse is really showing the faith of his parents.Moses’ mother hid him for three months. That could not have been easy. Babies cry. Babies make noise. But she did what she could for as long as she could.When she could hide him no longer, she made a basket, waterproofed it, placed Moses in it, and set him among the reeds by the river.That was not giving up. That was faith doing everything it could do, then trusting God with what it could not control.ApplicationMothers cannot control everything. They cannot control the world, every danger, every influence, or every future decision their children will make.But faith does not quit because it cannot control everything.Faith says, “I will do what I can, and I will trust God with what I cannot do.”God then worked in a way Moses’ mother could not have planned. Pharaoh’s daughter found the child, and Moses’ own mother was paid to nurse him.Key LineA mother’s faith does everything it can until it cannot do anymore — then it trusts God to do what only God can do.II. A Mother’s Faith Sees Beauty and PotentialTexts: Hebrews 11:23; Acts 7:20–21Moses’ parents hid him because they saw that he was beautiful....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lvjrvJQzIzEamCIrdKMIrIgeJhJiQm_6B3NGmBkvnkU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMTFj/NDA4ZDU1M2YyMDdj/ZWFiZjA0MDU1MDE2/NWNmNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}