The Birthing Process

The Birthing Process

This is an exhortation for you to Trust God’s Process and His Timing

You know those moments in life where God is clearly doing something new in you. You are aware that something different is occurring. You have entered a new dimension of your relationship with God; and it’s evident. You perceive that the new thing you are experiencing is good, even great. You enjoy your normal routine, the comfort zone, the predictability but now you are being challenged, stretched, and expanded. Pushed-thrust forward-propelled through the Birthing Process.

You Cannot Hide

You cannot hide your true feelings no matter how you try. You may think that you can hide but the Spirit of Truth will expose you. You cannot hide who you are. There is no hiding. The real you will come out. Who God created you to be and what you carry will be revealed.

The same way you can’t hide when you’re pregnant; eventually the baby will begin to grow and show. What you are carrying for God will begin to show. The thing that you have been ordained by God to carry, and deliver will grow and grow and grow. Your pregnancy will be undeniable. You will experience all the signs and symptoms of being pregnant. When you are pregnant with Purpose you cannot hide it. God’s plan for you will prevail in the fullness of time via the birthing process.

Process

Process can be defined as ‘a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.’ (Google.com). Merriam-Webster.com describes Process as something going on: proceeding, progress/advance. Dictionary.com says Process is a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner. Cambridge Dictionary describes Process as a series of actions or events performed to make something or achieve a particular result, or a series of changes that happen naturally.

The process is necessary to carry out the intricate plans of God for your life. The plan will produce the perfect will of God for you. There is a permissive will where God will allow certain things that we ask for. It’s like when we refuse to wait on the Lord, we want what we want, and we want it right now.

Sometimes God will allow us to learn the hard way but He gives us new mercies every day. God will not shove us against a wall and twist our arm behind our back and demand. No. He’s such a loving Father. Full of compassion, grace, long suffering and patient. The Lord is so kind and tender hearted toward us. He remembers his covenant even though we can be hard headed, rebellious, and stubborn. His mercy endures! But there will be consequences.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11 KJV.

Process, Purpose, Plan

God has plans for you. God knows the process needed for your life and the Holy Spirit will orchestrate it, step by step. The process will be carried out so that the plan of God for His people will happen. Our role is to fully surrender, submit to God, and yield to God’s process, purpose, and plan. The beauty behind process, purpose, and God’s plan is in Romans 8:28. (Look it up and memorize it—you’ll be glad you did).

This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29: 10-14 NIV

On G.O.D.

(God Ordained Destiny)

We are all predestined. Each person has a God ordained destiny and is blessed to fulfill it. God has given us dominion, power, authority and instructions to accomplish what we are destined to do on the earth. The process, purpose, and plan are apart of our God ordained destiny or destination. You must remain faithful to the process and to the people/relationships that build you.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26-28

God’s purpose, process, and plans from the beginning was what my Pastor always says, We work better together. God designed us to have destiny helpers and work together. God’s instructions reveal that teamwork does make the dream work. You need to be connected to a community and be an active team member. We need one another. And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him (Genesis 2:18).

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And 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. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:21-25.

God Has a Set Time for You

What you’re carrying, what is destined it will come forth through the Birthing Process. You become naked and exposed through this birthing process. The birthing happens in the fullness of God’s time. God’s time, not your own. Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Eccl.3:11 KJV. God reveals it through the birthing process.

God Can Do a New Thing

Although you have past birthing experiences, this new thing cannot be compared to anything that you’ve experienced. You wonder, God What is this? I have gone through all kinds of different experiences in life but there is something unique about this. There is no frame of reference for it.

This new thing you’re experiencing is your Birthing Process. When you begin to acknowledge your complete love, there’s no holding back. God through His birthing process has opened your heart wide. He has exposed you. There are God things you can’t quite explain, you can’t rationalize it, and you cannot deny it. Here you stand, Naked before God. Do not be ashamed of this process. You did not go looking for this. You didn’t plan or expect this so of course it’s unsettling and uncomfortable but in a good way. I woke up one morning and the baby was Stirring. If you were to try and explain it would go something like this:

Listen, all I know is that It happened. I was minding my own business, Worshipping God and It happened. Period. That’s all I got for you.

Preparation through Prayer

The birthing process requires your consistent discipline. It’s not just about you. The Lord has chosen and ordained you for this. Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God (Psalm 62:11). Don’t be afraid. Fear not. But if you are afraid—- Confess the Word. Stand on the Word and do it anyway. Having faith and confessing the living Word of God prepares you to Trust the preparation process. Pray the Word and have faith in God. The enemy may tempt you to want to run from the process. Don’t run. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he will strengthen your heart.

This thing that God is doing is like John the Baptist crying out, “I’m just a voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare…”. You must approach this birthing a certain way. What you are carrying requires another level of care; a multidisciplinary approach is necessary for you to fully understand what you are about to deliver. Your birthing process will cross interdisciplinary boundaries and converge into what God has created it to be.

The magnitude of what you are birthing requires that you pray. Prayer and intercession will clear the path and pave the way for the mission to be accomplished. Prayer will sustain the pregnancy, the birth, and the future. You will Build through prayer. God is sending you forth like His missionaries to Build. This thing you are carrying is Big. You are going to have to Build accordingly. Despite the warfare, the birthing process is preparing you to build. Purpose is growing, expanding inside of you and you must prepare yourself through prayer. A life of prayer is needed because you don’t have a specific due date. You may have to deliver, Suddenly. Prayer will get you and keep you ready, alert. You’re working, watching and praying while you’re pushing it out.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert (Isaiah 43:19 KJV). Jehovah Jireh God who provides will meet all of your needs during this process. You are in a season and a time when you have to be still and know…. Although you are praying, you might feel like: Lord, I need help. You got help! God is a very present help in a time of need. Remain focused and don’t get distracted.

Lord I Need You: Help Me!

There is an Ancient component to this new thing that will supersede your imaginations and surpass your thoughts. What you are about to birth represents Building onto the foundation established before time existed. It represents Kingdom and legacy. It represents eternity. Building—Not with hammers, drills, cement, or wood. God is speaking today….You cannot go through the birthing process alone. The Holy Spirit is your Helper. The Spirit of God is hovering and moving.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Gen.1:2 KJV). And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come (John 16:13 ESV). Now, we have the Helpings of the Holy Spirit: in us, for us, with us, and through us. You’ve got Help.

When We Cry Out to God

My father was Louisiana style country and he had this saying, ”Ain’t no telling what he liable to do”. I can testify to this saying. When we cry out to God He will hear and answer our cry for help. You may not want or be able to receive what the Holy Spirit is saying to you. However, God may show up in your dreams in such as a way that you will get the message loud and clear. When you pray, fast and pray, seek first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness. When you give God that ‘Yes’ Yes. When you say with your mouth and believe in your heart: Lord I’m committed to You; Your will be done in my life. I want what you want for me. Show me your Purpose for my life. What do you want me to do. Here is my Yes Lord. When you really need to hear from God—pay attention to your dreams. The Holy Spirit will lead and guide you into all truth even if it happens in your dreams.

In the Dream God Speaks

As a child, me and God had this thing about dreams. God has always used dreams to speak to me. Sometimes He will give me a dream about a particular Bible story and I have to search it out. Other times the dream will be literal it will be exactly as in the dream. I want to encourage you to pay attention to your dreams. Hold your dreams to the light of the Word. Google is not the place to go to understand your dreams. Run straight to Holy Spirit and the Bible, and steward your dreams well. This is an advantage that God will use to bless and help us. It’s not so much about the dream but about our relationship with God.

Understand the ways that God speaks to you on a personal level. You need Biblical Dream Interpretation, I am currently praying for this. We are created to grow. We grow naturally and we should be growing spiritually. When I say spiritually, I am referring to growing in God, growing in relationship with Jesus, growing in prayer, growing in studying and applying God’s Word, growing in awareness of the Holy Spirit in you.

Now that I have established that God does speak to us through our dreams I want to share a recent dream I had (about 4 months ago). I am not revealing everything in this because some of it has already occurred to two relatives and God was simply preparing me for how to pray for them ahead of time.

I will talk about the main context of the dream because I believe this is where the Holy Spirit was answering my cries. This dream comes from a place of prayer and intercession where I was seeking answers to some things the Holy Spirit had been dealing with me on. My heart at the time was not able to handle the revelation of what the Lord was giving me. The dream is the answer to my prayer and insight into my need for more.

The Process to Birthing Purpose

I had a dream that I was called to work at this particular hospital. (I’m an unofficially retired nurse). When I arrived at the hospital, they gave me my assignment and I was happy thinking oh yes I’m going to get back on my feet financially on this job. I’m working the Long Term Care/Rehab unit during the midnight shift and I’m going to rake in some serious hours. I know LTC/Rehab like the back of my hand; very comfortable in that setting.

As I approached the assigned unit, I heard “CODE BLUE…CODE BLUE”. I took off running directly to the Code (I didn’t hear room number or location) but I flew there. The location was like an Observation room in a hospital. There was an older black man in the bed coding and his wife of many years was in the bed next to him. It was as if they had both come out of surgery. I initiated chest compressions; other team members were arriving to assist. As I did compressions, I was calling out things we needed to do. O2 Sat, oxygen, vitals, blood gases, a lady was standing to the side watching all of us work and she was the recorder recording the code. As I performed compressions I began to declare life over the man. It was all hands on deck to save him. I told the wife through our eyes he was good. We all started thanking God he was stable and doing great.

Suddenly, his wife started to Code. She kept looking at me. Again I ran over to her bed, started compressions, deep compressions with excellent recoil. I was so happy about her recoil because I knew she was getting good oxygenated blood supply. I just knew she would be fine also. The team worked on her and I again began to speak life, I said you will live and not die in the name of Jesus as we worked on her. I was so connected with this lady as if she was my mother or grandmother; the connection and love between was so strong.

The Unexpected

The couple was stable and doing well. I wanted to hurry back to the unit I was initially assigned to but as I was rushing down the hall; the person who hired me stopped me and said; we need you on this unit. I said, I’m working on the Long Term Care/Rehab unit. She said, oh no there must have been a misunderstanding I hired you to work this unit. I thought to myself. Is she crazy. Is she crazy. She was so calm and peaceful I couldn’t argue with her. She pointed me back to the unit where the couple coded but were doing well.

I began to talk to God. God do you see this, I’m supposed to be working in LTC behind the scenes on the midnight shift. Did this woman just tell me to work day shift. Day shift with all these people. As I looked up I saw a sign saying ‘Surgery’. God help me! Lord I’m not qualified to work in that capacity. I thought I was hired to work in the Rehab unit, and now they have called me to this surgical unit. Now, I’m desperate for God to help me.

As I went into this office area for new hirees to the surgical unit, all these surgeons were in there talking. About me! They said you’re the nurse who ran that Code. Then the surgeons all stood up as if they were about to prepare for their next procedure. Some were interns and others were seasoned. They all wore the whitest, most professional looking lab jackets. Crisp white lab coats. The lady in the office said, you can go with them across the hall. As we all approached the door, they said he wants to meet you. I said who please. I’m new here? The Chief of Surgery they replied. My heart started racing.

They directed me to sit down in this hall that had chairs lined against the wall next to a specialist surgical suite. As I sat there, I began to talk to God. How did I get here? Who put me on this unit. This is the critical care surgical unit. Lord, you know I’m not qualified to work here. I need special training. I’m not prepared please God deliver me help me.

I’m about to run out of here, I thought. No, I can’t run I’m assigned to be here. If I leave it will be abandonment. Help me Jesus!. The surgeons were looking excited and happy, they were supportive but I was still very nervous because I usually overly prepare and now here I am with no advance notice. Holy Spirit please speak to me now.

“Ask them about the Chief of Surgery”. I said to one in particular (Surgery Department head or supervisor), tell me about the Chief of Surgery. He smiled and said Oh yeah he’s the real deal. Top shelf. He’s the Chief of Surgery not only at this specialty hospital but at other affiliate hospitals as well. Surgeon of surgeons. Highly honored in the profession. He wants you to work directly with him as his assistant.

Heart racing/pounding. God help me right now I’m not qualified this is out of my league. I need to be refreshed on proper surgical technique and protocol. Lord I haven’t worked in five years.

The Comforter to me: you are qualified. You heard the Code and ran to help. You quickly initiated all that you have been trained to do. You worked to save that couple. They have been married happily for so many years loving God. Side by side in the same room. You did not stabilize the husband, I stabilized the husband through you. As you looked in the wife’s eyes, you took a deep breath then Code Blue….Code Blue. The husband was good Now the wife was Coding. You told the team, we will not loose them. You worked on her (deep compressions with good recoil), you worked and you prayed. You watched and you prayed and you worked. I stabilized her through you and the team.

Chief of Surgery

The surgeons were happy and excited and speaking quietly among themselves but I could hear their conversations. The Chief of Surgery had asked them, who ran the Code Blue’s and saved that husband and wife? They all looked at me, expectantly, with eyes full of wisdom. The Chief of Surgery looked, no stared, directly-intently at me. I felt the Look. I turned my head to the left where he stood at the door. I Looked up, cautiously into his eyes.

Something Leaped on the inside of me. I wondered if the jolt was visible on the outside. Did they see me jump? Our eyes locked! He said, “I want you on my team working side by side with me”. When he spoke it was with Authority, I heard a ranking in the spirit. It was as if an auditorium of 10,000 people were all looking right at me. (My immediate thought was Yes—Gladly. Hallelujah. Singing and Dancing).

I stood and began to walk down the hall, I needed to collect my thoughts. I need training, I need to be equipped. I’m not acclimated, I’m not qualified Certified or Prepared. Lord I’m just being honest with you. I need you. I wanted to run to God and throw my arms around Him and hold on tight.

I know this man, the Chief of Surgery. I’m sure of it—don’t I know him? Lord, I’m undone. I must regain composure. I need my professional decorum. Oh God, I’m trembling. Holy Spirit. The other surgeons are all still watching me walk down the hall.

Yet I’m thinking, they must stay focused on their individual assignments. Holy Spirit help them they are distracted, patients are depending on them to maintain their positions no matter what comes. Their job is too important to get distracted. There are more patients coming in, we must prepare. They must remain focused.

As Holy Spirit and I dialogued, it was as if they could hear our conversation and they responded. That was a relief. I knew the chief of surgery was in an active and complex surgery and needed the team to remain in position. I sensed a strong urge to turn my head to the left and look up, in remembrance, just as I had previously did in the dream. I wanted to but I needed more courage.

Holy Spirit, I’m so sorry but if I do, If I turn my head to the left and slowly look up I’m going to see it again. And I might faint right here walking down this hallway. I must assess this situation, what made me so undone? Trembling under the power of God, Shaken but full of peace. Joy. An inner witness. Oh God! I must get to a quiet place, the spiritual weight of this encounter cannot be dismissed or denied.

My heart, am I in surgery right now? Something is happening to my heart. I must pray. God we need to talk. My heart is wide open. Repent, Repent, Repent. I Repent. Something new is happening to me. I can’t explain it. I know it is you God. I need to get home quickly at the end of this shift so I can began to process all of this. My mind is racing. As soon as I get home I will get a bottle of water, my anointing oil to anoint my head and my heart, my Bible, journal, and pen.

Holy Spirit only You can help me with this. Please what is this. I’m aware of rambling and sounding like a complete nut job. The intensity is embarrassing but I don’t know why. Okay Lord, I know we talked about me allowing myself to be vulnerable and kicking the walls down. But this is a bit much. I was thinking we could do baby steps. Instead, you show up with bulldozers and forklifts. Tearing my walls down and removing all the bolders so that I cannot re-erect them.

Still in the dream: Finally, I’m home. I can relax and unwind. Now I can pray like I want and need to and reign this thing in. I got this. I’m going in and cancel this assignment because this is too much. The devil is coming after my mind. I’m rebuking, binding and loosing. I’m decreeing, declaring, and pleading. I’m confessing with boldness and sweating.

Wait a minute. I need to cover the Chief of Surgery as well. Now I’m closing every ungodly door, taking keys and slamming the door shut. I’m standing on the Believers authority. I know my Identity. I know to whom I belong. Is not my word like fire, like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces (Jeremiah 23:29).

Now, I’m calling Holy Ghost Fire. Burn up everything and anything that is not of you God. Tongues all over the place. Here comes a litany of Jesus. Jesus Jesus Jesus. In the name of Jesus. I’m appropriating the Blood. The Blood the Blood The Blood. The Blood of Jesus prevails. Break in pieces Oh God, grind it to dust, let the wind of the Spirit come and blow it away. Purify, with your Refiners fire. Create in me a clean heart O God and renew the right spirit within me.

Now I’m standing in the gap for the entire surgical team, the whole hospital and the affiliate hospitals. I’m ascending in prayer and I won’t come down until the work is finished. After an extended period of This.

I hear myself saying, God am I still in this dream? I had a dream that I was hired to work at this hospital…….then I came home to pray about it…….?

I collect myself, drink water. I’m feeling good, hey I handled that. Now let me sit back and listen to worship music and relax. While worshipping God, it all resurfaces.

Okay, here we go I remind every Ephesians 6 principality vs 10-18 that I have annihilated that thing down to the root. Baby I took that garden hoe in the spirit and tore those roots up, I ripped them to shreads. Then I picked up the spade shovel, brand new shovel with sharp blade. I dug up and uprooted and you shall Not return!!! I reiterated Isaiah 54:17. Okay, now I’m done with this thing. This was just a dream! I thought.

Back to Worship. I don’t need words right now I need Instrumental worship music only. I’m in a fight. I need a certain sound. Where is my boxing gloves. I settle in to the worship but feel a Stirring. Oh Lord, I’m exhausted I’m at the end of myself. I’ve done all that I know to do here. Help me! What is this?

After settling into the quiet, I hear Holy Spirit:

Now are you ready to deal with your

• fear of the future
• fear of failure
• self sabotage
• lack of discipline
• lack of truly trusting me
• inconsistency
• constantly running when you have been identified
• refusing to commit to my Purpose for your life
• delayed obedience aka Disobedience and rebellion
• questioning my Voice when you Know my voice

Holy Spirit, speaking to me. You cannot rebuke the dream it’s about your Birthing Process and Purpose. The Surgeon dream, helped me to understand the importance of remaining in position for God’s Purpose. The dream of the Lord flowed out of prayer and seeking God for clarification, and instruction. God should always get the glory through your birthing process. The prophetic process; the birthing process is founded on the Bible. Scripture is the final authority. God will allow us to Ascend through the birthing process. Holy Spirit reminded me that when I cried out to God and said I only want Your will for my life; the dream is a response to that cry.

You are Getting Closer

“The third trimester is the last phase of your pregnancy. It lasts from weeks 29 to 40, or months 7, 8, and 9. During this trimester, your baby grows, develops, and starts to change position to get ready for birth. Now that you’ve reached the third trimester, you’re in the home stretch of your pregnancy.” (www.webmd.com March 22,2023). You are uncomfortable.

Holy Spirit: “Rhonda! Instead of you rejoicing. With joy unspeakable and joy full of the glory of the Lord. You are operating in fear. You are well able and it is your Set Time” you have to trust me”. “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel:……Amos 9:13—The Message Translation

The Birthing Process is challenging you to humble yourself to get through it. “During pregnancy your brain goes though changes to help you get ready to be a parent to love and nurture. This can cause increased levels of anxiety. It can come from feeling unsure about what’s going to happen, and the feeling that you want to protect your baby and yourself. Many people also feel anxious about giving birth” (Google.com). You want to succeed at it.

We are instructed, Don’t be anxious for nothing Philippians 4:6-7. This practical application of God’s Word is comforting. However, there is a spiritual reality to being a yielded vessel. Like Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, nevertheless Father, no my will, your will be done. Your Perfect will be done in my life. When you surrender and God begins to shake you and sift you so that He may purify and prepare you. It’s a new thing, new territory. It’s the unfamiliar, the unknown, the taking a huge leap, a monumental leap of faith. Lean into it. It’s the Birthing Process.

Discernment

All the emotions can feel so real. Like, my heart has actually been opened up and love poured in, like fresh oil. I’m just out here wide open, vulnerable, exposed. And I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t go looking for it. It happened. It just happened. One day while worshipping God, it happened. Strong Emotions can be divine intel from God as a point of intercession a prayer point. God is doing a new thing. God has a purpose, a plan and a process to bring it to pass.

There is peace, an assurance you can’t quite explain. Own the unsettling feelings associated with coming face to face with Purpose, Future, Destiny, and Love. Like a sudden attack, you think it’s physical but it’s spiritual. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating, feeling tired may occur (Google.com/anxiety). Like grief these signs may occur in your life as intrusive, at inconvenient times. It can even be embarrassing. Why am I crying like this. But God! It’s relevant to the Birthing Process as you are being healed.

On the continuum of the birthing process: Confrontation, Repentance, Deliverance, Inner Healing, Spiritual trauma care, Honesty, ownership, accountability, Humility, transparency—Process.

When confronted with the truth a response is required. Often God will ask a question. Not for the answer but for your awareness, to provoke conviction, to teach you, to help you be honest with yourself and to confront you. So that you can be accountable. When God reveals, we need to deal.

Holy Spirit will come in and wash you with the Word concerning these things and show you how to stand on the Word. Stand with your feet firmly planted. You cannot yield to every emotion and become easily upset. You must stand as An Overcomer. Each of these exposed areas become a confession of the Word of God. Here is where you release the Word of the Lord and work your faith. Faith and works. Not merely saying Scripture but believing it, obeying it, doing it. Praying the Word and having faith in God; while assessing yourself. Remain humble, mindful and truthful. For example, when Holy Spirit gives you instruction—-Self assess: Did I obey quickly, Am I disciplined in this or that, Did I stick to the commitment no matter the emotion, Am I delivered in that area or do I still have work to do.

The Lord will perfect that which concerns you (See Psalm 138). You have a responsibility to remain humble and trust God’s process and God’s timing. You are not in control. Who can stop the hand of God? No one can and no one will. “This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. (Psalm 118:23).

You cannot uproot what I the Lord have planted. When opposition comes, Stand. When discouragement comes, Stand. When frustration comes, Stand. During conflict, Stand. When you are afraid, Stand. I have planted you, and this birthing process is like a tree that has been planted by the rivers of water that will bring forth fruit in its season. It’s leaf also will not wither and whatsoever it does shall prosper. The Birthing Process.

The Birthing process is a reward, an honor, and a privilege. It’s confirmation of the promise of Restoration Joel 2:25.

What is the point of all this?

This is a true story sent by God to awaken you to the sound and the voice of Almighty God. The Ministry and Work of the Holy Spirit in your life. Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Holy Spirit wants us to hear His voice and align with His sound. To Advance the Kingdom and Build, we must hear and heed the clarion call; the Voice of Heaven and the Sound of heaven. Humility and obedience will produce a peaceable fruit in us.

We can no longer continue in rebellion. Our ears must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit so that we can obey quickly and carry out. One day last week the Holy Spirit woke me up around 4am to read Revelation. I was instructed to put emphasis on Revelation chapters 2 and 3. After reading, the Holy Spirit told me to sum it all up in one word. The Word of the Lord to me was Repent. Remember and Repent, Repent Repent Repent. Wake up and Repent. Be honest and Repent. I knew there was More. I began to pray and intercede; to Repent.

Obedience is Key

God wants you to know that He desires to speak to you. He has more for you, and He is speaking to you. God may be speaking to you right now as you read this. God loves you. You are God’s very own love. He wants a closer relationship with you. He doesn’t want you separated away from him. When He calls your name He wants you to immediately recognize His void.

Check Yourself

Maybe God has you in the birthing process. What is that thing you’ve been longing for? The thing you have been praying for. The thing you need. Maybe it’s healing, provision, ministry, purpose, assignment, your soon coming husband or wife. Maybe it’s a strong, healthy and loving marriage that you need. Maybe you need to be delivered and set free. Maybe you’ve been married to the same person and feel like same ole same ole. But let me tell you—God is doing a new thing and He wants to do it in you. Is there anything too hard for our God. Holy Spirit can ignite a fire. A flame. He can perform a supernatural surgery on your heart. It all starts with your response; your motivation; your agenda. What pushes you. It must be God. It must be to the glory of God.

God has more for you. God wants to Pour out on you. You need to hear Holy Spirit so that you can position yourself for the pouring.

People are searching, seeking, desperate. Looking for love and satisfaction in all the wrong places. Shhhh! God still speaks! You must choose to Listen. Holy Spirit wants you to have that intimate close relationship with him. He may speak to you in a dream, in a vision, from another person, from His Word, from a child from a cloud, from a random phone call. God still speaks and wants you to Know His voice. And Obey.

When you really love somebody have you noticed how you can recognize the sound of their voice anywhere. You can be in a crowded room. But you recognize that voice. You love that voice. Hey, that’s my baby’s voice.

You may be in the birthing process today where you are birthing out what the Holy Spirit has revealed to you. Be encouraged; it won’t be long now. You will be holding and hugging your baby. When you look into your baby’s eyes. When you look at his smile. That smile. My God that smile. You look, Oh that’s My baby’s smile. Look at him. He’s so beautiful. When you behold what the Lord has done. What the Spirit of God has birthed. All because you heard, you listened, you trusted and Obeyed His voice.

Trust God’s process. Trust God’s timing. People may have hurt you and damaged your ability to trust, but not God. You can Trust Jesus. Put all your Trust in Him. Rejoice in the birthing process. Again, I say Rejoice. Be encouraged, the birthing process might not always feel good but it’s good for you, it’s God for you.