Susanna Wesley

But let me give you some hope.

Susanna Wesley, one of the great women of history, had two sons, one named John Wesley and one named Charles, who changed, changed culture and changed history.

Not just Christian history, but all Western culture.

John Wesley founded the Methodist Church, spread Christianity across the Western part of America through the Methodist revival preachers.

John, his brother Charles, wrote over 6,000 hymns.

Susanna Wesley had 18 children.

How do you find time alone when you have 18 children? Well, I read her biography, and one of the things she did is every afternoon she would go and she would sit in her favorite rocker and she would take her apron and throw it over her head.

And for the next hour, mom with the apron over her head means no child bothers mom or you die.

But let me give you some hope.

Susanna Wesley, one of the great women of history, had two sons, one named John Wesley and one named Charles, who chained- changed culture and changed history.

Not just Christian history, but all Western culture.

John Wesley founded the Methodist Church, spread Christianity across the Western part of America through the Methodist revival preachers.

John, his brother Charles, wrote over 6,000 hymns.

Susanna Wesley had 18 children.

Ooh.

How do you find time alone when you have 18 children? Well, I read her biography, and one of the things she did is every afternoon, she would go, and she would sit in her favorite rocker, and she would take her apron and throw it over her head.

Whatever your assignment may be, giving, going, preaching, praying, give it all you've got.

When thinking of those with seemingly insignificant assignments, I often think of Susanna Wesley Amid her challenging circumstances and humble life, no one, no one who knew her could have imagined that she, through two of her children, would change the world.

Susanna was born in 1669, the last of 25 children.

God must have wanted her around.

God heard all those prayers, and her sons, John and Charles, became two of the greatest evangelists of all time.

Their ministries shook the world.

God's purpose for Susanna Wesley was to prayerfully raise children who would change the world.

All of us matter to Him.

His grandparents, all of them, had been, um, non-conformists, but his parents had gone back into Anglicanism, which is quite in-interesting.

His mother was Susanna Wesley, who many of you might have heard of.

Famously godly woman.

His dad was a, um, a vicar who was fine, [chuckles] I think.

Not being led, um, by our emotions, not letting our emotions lead us.

Um, and I'm reminded of reading about Susanna Wesley, who had a very bustling house.

I think she had 10 children.

It was quite a few children.

They just said it the way it was.

Susanna Wesley, John Wesley's wife, He said, there's only two things you need to do about the gospel, believe it and behave it.

Faith plus effort equals optimal obedience.

When we were younger and our kids were younger, I remember Bev reading books by Louis L'Amour.

But yet he found time to pray.

I was reading about Susanna Wesley, who is the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, who many of you will know who they are.

And she was a vicar's wife in a particular parish in And the parish didn't like them.

The reason being that he was a royalist and the parish was sternly against the king.