Birthing from God’s Perspective

Encouragement for your Mission.

by Kim Potter, Dayton, TN

Recently I read a quote that impacted my heart and soul, and I want to share it with you today. Here is the quote:

“When someone is pregnant, she is not ‘expecting a child’ – she already has one. She is not ‘going to be a mother’ – she already is a mother. The baby is not ‘on the way,’ the baby has already arrived. If we are going to change the way society treats unborn children, we have to change the way we talk about them.” –Frank Pavone.

This quote caused a spiritual awakening in me concerning a principle we often hear taught and preached in the Church today. I don’t know how many sermons I have heard on giving birth over the past twenty-five years, but there have been many. As I pondered this quote, it became a timely revelation to me. The simple fact is that when we are in travail over a thing or a promise, this is the PROOF that it already exists and is a living, breathing thing.

Changing the Way We Think About the Birthing Process

I was reminded of a powerful truth. If we are going to change the way we go through the process of conception, travail and delivery, we must change the way we talk.

“‘Shall I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?’ says the Lord. ‘Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?’ says your God.” (Isaiah 66:9)

“… Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, be assured I will do it.” (Isaiah 46:11)

Whatever has been birthed in you – whether it was spoken to you either through the Word of God or through a prophetic word, or from God speaking it to you Himself, or however He spoke it – if He spoke it, then He will, without fail, bring it to pass.

God does not bring you to the moment of birth and not deliver. He is not a man that He should lie. The very fact that you are fighting for it, travailing for it, is the undeniable truth that it already exists. It is not something you are trying to create or speak into existence, it already is…just like as a baby already exists in a mother’s womb.

Let’s look closer at Isaiah 66:7: “Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.”

In this verse the Hebrew word “travail” (chuwl) means “to twist, whirl about, dance, fear, tremble, be in anguish, be pained, to writhe (in travail with), bear, bring forth, to wait anxiously.” Have you ever felt any of these things as you are standing in faith for the promise God has given you? I know I have.

Also in this verse, to be “brought forth” (yalad) means “day of one’s being born” and “to show lineage.” It is essentially declaring one’s birth. It reminds me of what we hear from the doctor when a child is born: “It’s a girl,” or, “It’s a boy!” That baby wasn’t just created in the delivery room. Before it came forth, it was created nine months ago – in the very beginning it was a complete baby.

Now, let’s look at verse 12 in that same chapter: “For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream…”

We are promised delivery of the very thing God has placed inside us; we are promised it will come to a time of fruition. For God says, “I will extend peace like a river!” Peace, here, is defined as “completeness, soundness, welfare, safety, soundness (in body), health, prosperity, quiet, tranquility, contentment, peace from war” – nothing broken or missing in your life. This is what comes at the destined time of delivery.

Your Reward

I know most of you already know this, but God has a great plan for you. He has not made you promises that He can’t fulfill…if He said it, He shall bring it to pass. There is a reward for the spiritual “baby” that you have been carrying – the reward is the delivery. And, again, the very fact that you are carrying it declares that it is a completed work, something that already exists! It is already done! It is already complete! It is already yours!

Psalm 127:3 says that the “fruit of the womb” is your reward! Your reward is real. It is not something you are hoping for. No! It is already done!

The Voice of the Lord Brings the Delivery

Let me share another Scripture with you that I found to be insightful. Psalm 29:9 (ESV) tells us that the voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth. I believe this is true for us as well. I know that many times in my life God has given me a specific word that has brought me through a season. He has given me a Scripture to stand on until I see the birth of what I am praying for. I am sure He has done the same for many of you.

Years ago, He gave me a Scripture and told me, “This is your life Scripture.” I can’t tell you how many times over the past 25 years I have been reminded of this very Scripture – and it has been bringing forth the birth, as I have stood on this word spoken from the very voice of God. The Scripture is found in Psalm 27:13: “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

Today, I pray that God will speak to you, and that you will hear His voice as He speaks a word to you that will cause delivery to spring forth. May you see the promise of God manifest right before your eyes. May we see, today, HIS goodness, which already exists, come to a time of delivery in each of our lives.

Kim Potter
A New Thing Ministries
Email: Kim@anewthingministries.com
Website: http://www.anewthingministries.com

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My Word

Many of the most encouraging passages in Old Testament scripture are to be found in the Book of the prophet Isaiah.

Although there are many passages of ‘doom and gloom’, aimed at the stiff-necked, ever wayward Israelite people, Isaiah also came across with the most lyrical, heartwarming and encouraging of his prophecies for those that honor the Father.

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from Heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”   (Isaiah 55:10-11)

There come times for all of us when we wonder if the Father is listening.  “Are you there, God?”  “Did you hear my cry?”

It pays to remember two things:

  • Firstly, we are told to be careful  what we ask for, and what spirit we ask in:   “You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.  Yet you do not have because you do not ask.   You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.   You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?    So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”  (James 4:1-4)
  • Secondly, we need to submit to the Lord’s timing.  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.”  (Isaiah 55:8)    It is indeed helpful to do this: remember, God’s viewpoint is much wider than ours and – assuming our request is a good one – he may delay its manifestation for a very good reason that we are not aware of.  Have you never in hindsight thought, “Thank goodness that didn’t happen when I wanted it.”?

This is where it helps to remember today’s scripture.  God has promised that His Word will not return to Him void.  If we have not prayed amiss, we need to bear in mind that according to Jesus, our Father wants to give us beneficial things:

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”  (Matthew 7:11)

So, search your heart and ask the Holy Sirit to show you if anything within you needs dealing with, then wait in patience and thanks-giving, knowing that His decree will not return to Him without achieving His purpose!

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