Mother's Day 2025

      Mother's Day has always been a day of miracle conceptions at Everlasting Covenant. That promise dwells within God's Word, as we will read, and is still an active promise today. If you have desired a child, this message will be an encouragement for you. 

     From the beginning of God's Word, the LORD made the character and purpose that He created in a woman. After creating man, Adam, the LORD said: "And the LORD God said, It is not good that a man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." (Gen. 2:18). In Hebrew, the term "help meet" is ezer/azar, meaning "help, aid, succor/support, to surround, defending, protect, to conquer." The LORD took an *aleph-tav/Alpha and Omega rib from the man in order to create the woman. When the LORD brought her to Adam, who had the authority to name every living creature, Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." (v. 19-23). The term "Woman" in English is derived from Old English "wifmann", meaning wife-man, and according to Renaissance linguists, the word "woman" can also be traced to the meaning "womb-man".

     Genesis continues saying: "Therefore shall a man leave his (*אֶת, aleph-tav/Alpha and Omega) father and his (וְאֶת, vaw-aleph-tav) mother (em - mother as the bond of the family), and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (v. 24). As the written Hebrew letters attached to the words father and mother above show, there is a special significance relating to Christ in these words (*see note below). A special reverence for father and mother is also shown in the Ten Commandments: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." (Ex. 20:12, see also Deut. 5:16 for more specifics). Today, contrary to the commandment of God, there is widespread disrespecting of parents, including mothers.

     Jesus, as He came of age at twelve years old, and began to seek the House of the LORD and the discussions of the Word of God, He had caused His mother and father concern because they found that He was not with their group as they journeyed home from Jerusalem. His parents had to turn back to find Him. When they found Him, His mother scolded Him, saying: "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing (odynao - to cause intense pain, to be in anguish, torment or distress, to grieve)." (Lk. 2:41-48, excerpt). This is the panic of parents for a missing child, and we see that today, there are many missing children. Jesus was just following His divine purpose as He had remained behind in the temple in Jerusalem, but when they came home to Nazareth, Jesus "was subject (hypotasso - be subordinate, submit to one's control, obey, to yield to one's admonition or advice) unto them." (v. 49-51). Jesus had no desire to cause His parents this kind of anxiety again. The concern that Jesus had for His mother, Mary, was shown even as He suffered on the cross. She and others were at the cross, and when Jesus looked at her, He gave her care into the hands of His trusted disciple John, to care for her as if she were his own mother, and for her to care for John as a son. John then took Mary into his own home from that point on. (Jn. 19:25-27). Today, many older parents become neglected, or put away, as they grow infirm.

     Many of the miracles in the Word of God, including miraculous conceptions, are based upon the principle of homologeo, meaning "to say the same thing." Jesus is the logos, the spoken Word of God in Jn. 1:1-3 that created all things from nothing. This is what faith is also as revealed in Heb. 11:1: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is the "title deed" to what God has given to us. Hebrews also tells us to hold fast to this homologeo profession/confession (see Heb. 3:1, Heb. 4:14-16). These verses from Hebrews tell us that not only is Jesus the creative Word of God, but He is the High Priest of that logos Word and of our profession/confession of that Word.

     Because of this faith in the logos Word of God spoken to them, many of the patriarchs of faith received the miracles of God. Two who received such a miracle were Abraham and Sarah, both being elderly, and Sarah being barren. The LORD promised Abrham and Sarah a miracle conception and child, something so unlikely in the natural way of things that Sarah laughed when she heard the promise. She indeed had a son and his name was called "laughter", or Isaac - and not only Isaac, but so many descendants they cannot be numbered. (see Heb. 11:11-12).

     Elisha the prophet desired to bless a Shunammite (from Sunem, meaning "double resting place") woman who, with her husband, had built a chamber onto her house for him to rest whenever he would travel through her area. What could he do in return for her, he wondered. She asked nothing from the prophet. The prophet found out that she and her elderly husband did not have a child. Elisha prophesied that she would embrace a son. As in the above account of Sarah, the Shunammite woman was shocked by the prophecy, but she did conceive and gave birth to a son at the appointed time that had been prophesied.

     Later, when her son had grown, he mysteriously died while his mother held him. She had her son placed on the bed in the prophet's chamber of her house and went as quickly as possible to the man of God. She would not tell the prophet that her son was dead, but said when asked, "It is well." The prophet knew that something was wrong, but he did not know what it was because the LORD had not shown him.

     The prophet and his servant went with the woman to her house and found the son dead. Shutting the chamber door on everyone else, Elisha repeatedly ministered to the lifeless son. On another attempt: "Then he (Elisha) returned and walked in the house to and fro; and went up and stretched himself upon him (the son): and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes." (2 Kings 4:12-37, excerpt). The same logos Word from God that had once resulted in a miraculous conception of life, was relied upon by the determined prophet in the miraculous revival of the child from death. Elisha stood fast in the promise of God.

     In another part of scripture, the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah both wrote the LORD's assurance to us that He hastens His word to perform it, and His Word accomplishes what God sends it to accomplish. (see Jer. 1:12 and Isa. 55:11).

     Two miraculous conceptions were also recorded at the beginning of the Gospels. The first involved the elderly priest, Zacharias, and his barren wife, Elizabeth, a descendant of Aaron, the brother of Moses. An angel, who later identified himself as Gabriel, appeared before Zacharias saying: "Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John." (Lk. 1:5-13, excerpt). Zachariah answered the angel saying: "Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years." Because of this response to the angel, the angel said to Zacharias: "And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season." (v. 18-20). Zacharia's wife, Elizabeth, indeed conceived and hid herself for five months. (v. 24-25). As Elisha closed the chamber door above, Elizabeth closed herself off, perhaps to shut out comments from doubting sceptics. She delivered a son whom we know as John the Baptist who would prepare the way by the baptism of repentance for the appearing of Jesus Christ to Israel, and the world, by identifying Him and publicly announcing Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

     Six months later, in Nazareth of Galilee, the same angel, Gabriel, appeared to Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph. Again the angel brought the Word of God to Mary about a miraculous conception that would happen to her: "Fear not Mary: for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." (Lk. 1:26-31). Mary did not understand how she could have a child because she had never been with a man. The angel told her that the conception would occur be the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit: "...therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Mary was encouraged by the angel to believe this logos Word of God by informing her that her cousin Elizabeth, who had been barren, had also conceived a son: "For with God nothing shall be impossible." (v. 34-37).

     The spoken Word of God, the logos, created life when it seemed impossible. We will be praying this Mother's Day, in agreement with the Word of God in homologeo for conception for all who are hoping for children and for anyone else who needs healing. Jesus' name is above all of these issues.

*Based upon Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson, Jr.'s 5/11/25 message to the church. If you would like to hear the complete message, you can find it on the Facebook page of Kenneth E. Stevenson Jr. Dr. Stevenson's video messages are also found on You Tube at Kenneth Stevenson. To contact or support this ministry, or to request prayer, you can write to PO Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705. To find out more about the Shroud of Turin, and to receive a free e-book now available in several languages, go to http://www.theshroudofturin.org/freebook. The book NAZAH: White Linen and the Blood of Sprinkling is available on Amazon.

*NOTE: aleph-tav written in Hebrew as אֶת, are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The meaning of the two pictographic Hebrew letters can also be interpreted "Adonai (Lord) of the Cross/Covenant". In the New Testament, these letters are translated as Alpha and Omega written as ΑΩ , the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. These letters are those by which Jesus Christ identifies Himself in the Book of Revelation: see Rev. 1:8, Rev. 21:6, Rev. 22:13.