Birthing… the 9th Month
When a child is conceived, only the mother can sense the growth and movement in her body. This is a private and personal experience. There is nausea, vomiting, constipation, hormonal changes, smell changes, cravings, weight gain, backaches, sleeping problems, legs swelling, and many other discomforts that come with pregnancy. When it comes to birthing full term, the 9th month, the mother experiences excruciating pain which serves as a way maker for the child to be born.
This is also a private and personal encounter, only with those closest to you. They can hold your hand, encourage you, help make you comfortable, but they cannot experience your pain. Then finally in pain, the child is introduced into the world. The first thing they do is sound an alarm, with a cry, they introduce themselves in their own voice. They have a voice. They begin to live and operate fully because they have been given a voice to the world.
God’s glory, birthed through His obedient, patient, Spirit-led children will be revealed to the world and will have its own voice in the appointed full-term birthing season. Beloved, the people who have carried their pregnancies faithfully to term, even when it was uncomfortable, when their souls were grieved even unto death, but they looked up to Jesus for strength. They did not abort mission or abandon their assignments even though they could, these faithful stewards will rejoice in the Lord in their 9th month.
Resurrection is here, they will get a new name, new honor, God’s own glory will shine in and through them.Those who thought that the pregnancy (seed from God) was too hard and opted to bail out and abort their children, will mourn their loss. They will wish that their pride, ego, anger, selfishness, and the like did not get the best of them. They will hope that God will entrust them again to carry His seed in the future. Their assignments and its reward will be distributed to the faithful.
Those who possess patience, perseverance, obedience, humility, the fear of God, and extravagant Kingdom love, will enjoy their season of birthing. Those who possess Ego, pride, arrogance, impatience, and anger, will abort their baby and their reward. They will cry as they see the reward of the faithful. Let us choose humility, obedience, faith, love, patience, perseverance, and delight in the spirit of the fear of the Lord, being fully led by the Holy Spirit of God.
Isaiah 66:9-11 (NKJV)
“Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the LORD.
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.
“Rejoice with Jerusalem,
And be glad with her, all you who love her;
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;
That you may feed and be satisfied
With the consolation of her bosom,
That you may drink deeply and be delighted
With the abundance of her glory.”
Always in Christ’s love,
GZ❤️ HGIM