Birth Pangs & Spiritual Labour

Dear brethren in Christ, we thank God for bringing us to the Tuesday service, a day set aside for us to pray and fast. Right? We thank God for what the Lord is doing in the church. Last week, Tuesday, we talked on the topic the kingdom of God is in you.

And we have seen how that God wants us to advance his kingdom. Kingdom. There is work to be done. There is labor that needs to be done.

Even on Saturday, we spoke about a case study of Nehemiah rebuilding the temple. And we saw what he started with. There was a burden he caught, a burden for the walls of Jerusalem. And he was he prayed through that burden and until something was brought out.

So today I was trying to search and ask God, like, what do you want us to. What do you want us to know? What is your mind concerning the church? And the Word came yesterday morning while I was reading the book of Micah 4.

And the topic is bet pangs and spiritual labor, birth pangs and spiritual label. Now why did this come? So let's just look at Micah 4, verse 9 to 10 so we see the origin. And we'll trust the Holy Spirit to lead us this morning because it's it's kind of like a web.

But I'm asking God, for example. Now let's just go Micah 4, verse 9 to 10. Now why does thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee?

Is thy counselors perished? For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail? Verse 10 Be in pain and labor to bring what forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail. For now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon.

There shall thou be delivered. There the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thy enemies. Let's look at verse 11 to 12. Now also, many nations are gathered against thee that say, let thou be defiled.

Let our eye look upon Zion. But they don't know the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel, for he shall gather them as the sheeps unto the floor. So this was the part that stirred up this more like study as to. Okay, why this?

It just sprung up like the word, like a woman in travel. Now, if you read through Scriptures, you see this imagery of a woman in labor being used multiple times to describe one particular concept which you want to look at. I will explain what happened in Micah chapter four later on. But if you go through Scripture, you see this word travail, groaning, pangs, birth, bringing forth, you might have seen it Multiple times, especially from our brother Paul.

Apostle Paul always talked about it in our Famous verse Galatians 4:19. My dear children, in whom I travail in bed springs again unto Christ be formed in you. Are you saying something there? So before every spiritual birth, there must be spiritual labor.

Or let's look at the physical one. Normally, before a child is conceived, something must happen. Pain. I don't know if there's anybody that has gone through that did not experience.

Even if it's one, one pinch of pain, you shall feel pain. There's always pain before the delivery of a promise. The Bible frequently uses imagery of birth pains and labor because it it is the only human experience that perfectly binds intense and inevitable suffering directly to a guaranteed and joyful outcome. Now we are talking about birth pains and spiritual labor.

We are not talking about unproductive labor. We're not talking about unnecessary pain. We're not talking about pain that you generated by yourself and does not yield results. No.

Do you know why Jesus said, come unto me, all ye that weary and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest? You see, many Christians have taken that thing and destroy that verse because we don't read verses in context. Many believers thought that, oh, come on, Timmy, and I'll give you rest. Do and search the meaning of the rest.

You can see what he's saying there. He said, take my yoke upon me, learn of me, then you shall find rest for your soul. Two rests were mentioned there, but many believers thought that, oh, I give my life to Christ. I don't need to labor again now.

Why are you praying too much? Why are you reading Bible too much? What happened? Is it that deep?

Why are you praying hours? Why are you making your prayer long? What are you praying for? What is going on?

Is it that deep? What are you doing? Are you opening church? Why are you?

Those questions came as a result of lack of understanding of what it means when Jesus said, come unto me who I weary and heavenly, I'll give you rest. Before Christ came, men were laboring, but the labor was with human efforts, and it was not yielding any tangible outcome. First, Peter mentioned something that we have carried a life. I'm paraphrasing.

Oh, let me just paraphrase like this. Whatever you are doing, your flesh can never take you to heaven. That is it, right? Your prayer, your fasting without Christ cannot take you to heaven.

So all those things they were doing in the past was not. Can never take you to heaven. That which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of Spirit is Spirit.

Jesus was trying to explain to them. If you read the preceding verse, come on to me. He was talking to the Pharisees, right? Was trying to explain something to them.

And he saw that they were. They were doing all these religious activities and everything. And it was stressful. They had to obey 613 rules, laws.

So I was trying to tell them, bro, look, all this. You are doing sacrifice and this thing, it's not going to work. You're not going to actually enjoy. They were suffering.

Did many people were complaining, how will someone make it? It will was so stressful. He said, come on to me. I'll give you rest.

Now. When you enter into this rest, you see there is another kind of labor. But thanks be to God that this labor is not the same labor that our fathers went through. I'm not talking about Father, I'm talking about the Old Testament, right?

They went through. It's a new kind of labor in the Spirit. I pray God help understand. The reason why I'm saying is because there is a generation of Christians that has been bettered and they have been deceived by the enemy to think that there is no labor in Christ.

Now I'm going somewhere. I pray Holy Spirit able to understand what I'm saying. If you really think that because you gave your life to Christ, there's no work, it's just sit down now, then just sit down. Just sit down.

Don't do anything. Don't sit down. You will see how frustrated you become and wonder. I thought they said that when you give your life to Christ, you have good life, you enjoy peace, you enjoy harmony.

Everything will be smooth. I'm telling you, when I give life to Christ, I was thinking that it should just be smooth. Like everything will be soft. Nothing at all.

No problem. You don't need to. You just pray. God, I need this.

You take. God, I need this. You take. But for those of us that have been in the Christian race for some years now, you will notice something consistently happening, that there is a kind of work that still needs to be done for you to receive certain things from God.

We are going somewhere. I pray the Holy Spirit will help us. Let's look at the Old Testament of this thing. You know, most of the time when they're talking about birth, I told you, I've always said this thing.

The Old Testament is a shadow of what is to come. So when you are reading the Old Testament with just physical eyes, you will think it's just stories. It's actually explaining a spiritual reality using Things that you can understand. For example, let's look at the book of Roots.

Root 4, 13. Very simple sentence. But I'll show you what is happening there. I ask Holy Spirit to open our eyes in Jesus name.

Root chapter four, verse 13. Look, look at something though. Look for roots. Chapter four, verse 13.

So. So Boaz took root and she was his wife. And he went into unto her the Lord. Luko.

The Lord gave her conception. And what she bear a son. She bear a son. Look at two things.

Who gave her? God gave her what? Something. But she was the one that had to what?

Deliver that thing. Now you see it as those normal. That's why yesterday I had to ask my mom like what was the process of giving birth? How painful and everything.

And was there any time that you like throw it away? So that thing I asked because I was trying to understand why is pain necessary? Why look at that concept. God gave her something, she had towards bear that thing out.

It was not. Look at it. Did they say was God that bear the son? No, she was the one that bear the son.

This little thing that you are seeing, there is a fundamental principle in this, in the spiritual, in the kingdom of God. God giving you a thing does not mean that it should just come to pass by you being passive. That's why. Yes.

Statement like, oh, God will do his thing in his own time. Let me tell you something. If you do not go through this thing I'm saying, you will get frustrated and wonder why God does not hear prayer or why God is not listening. She had to be the one to bear the son.

Now the spiritual parallel of this thing is that God gives a promise. You have heard the promise. I said I'll make you. Bible says, okay, I'll enlarge your coast.

You have had it. Now the question for me is that what did you do with that promise? That is conception. Look at what Abraham did.

God gave me a promise. He ate it. Do you think Abraham just going to lie down, go and read Scripture? Abraham Babson, we copy the 9 sometimes.

And what he's going to pray reminding God about his promise. Why did he have to remind somebody that's already giving a promise? You see, it's opposite of what we do in the physical. If I promise you, don't worry, I'll give you.

I'll buy this thing for you tomorrow. You don't need to labor to get it right. But in the spirit, apparently you need to do something. There is something that needs to be done.

Don't worry. Go by getting somewhere so I said that spiritual labor is a God given burden that precedes the birth of his purposes. It's a God. Take note.

I'm very careful with my words here. God giving burden that precedes the birth of his purposes. Just as natural birth requires travel before you give birth. When I say travel, I'm talking about painful.

A painful labor, a laborious effort. That's what I mean by travel. You have towards labor, right? Just as when you want to give birth there is you need to what you actually need to what they need to be labeled.

Work has to be done. Can you know that it's God that. Let me show you something about children. What Bible says about children.

God is the one that said that children. Look at this. Psalm 127, verse 3 to 5. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Imagine God saying that child children is a reward from God. If something is a reward, why is it painful to bring out that reward? No, no, no. Think about it.

If something God wants to give you something good, why is it painful to bring out something that is good? Why did he not make it smooth? Well, there's a story behind that. Genesis 3, verse 16.

I'm trying to give the Old Testament analogy and everything so you understand John 3:16 we see something that happened that caused this pain into the world. John 3:16. I said until the woman. He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.

In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and it shall be over thee. But the first one in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. See until see by grace of God.

My desire is always to bring the whole counsel of God and not just sugar coat it. You see, that's the part why we get a lot of deformed Christians confused Christians, Christians that are weak because you don't get the focus. You think oh, God is kind. No, God is good actually.

God is actually good. But you see something here. In sorrow shall thou bring forth children. It's not a God forbid matter.

It's just it. That is just it. Understand that. So that was why we always had towards.

That's why there's always like sorrow in childbirth and there's pain basically. So bed spanks is a purposeful pain. It's something that comes before you receive the promise. Now let's go back to something.

So I was saying something just as natural beds return requires travel, spiritual breakthrough, revival, spiritual maturity, redemption are often brought through prayer, perseverance and dependence on the Holy Spirit. If you want to see revival, there must be labor. If you want to see breakthrough in the Spirit, there must be labor. If you want to see redemption.

Even Jesus Christ is a proof that salvation was not even actually free as you, some of us think, look at it even after salvation, what did the Bible say? Work out your salvation with what? Fear and trembling? It's another label.

You see, this is a word for many Christians that are lazy. See this generation, you see a lot of lazy Christians. You just hear them, they are outsourcing their prayers to pastors. They don't want to do the work, they just want to give it to people.

Oh, my brother. Ah, man of God, please pray for me. Pray for me, pray for me. Ah, don't get me wrong.

There's no issue with someone praying for you. But when you choose to neglect your own labor, because any child that was going to be delivered by a woman was will be delivered by that woman. Is it woman that what go through that labor? You cannot outsource the labor for your child.

It's not possible. It's not possible. You cannot say, oh, please, labor for me. No, no.

Who is the one that want to bring out the child? Not you. You can't. But now we're talking about spiritual labor.

I'm trying to be very careful so that you don't think about. We're not talking about human efforts. We are talking about spiritual labor. That's why the Lord said he will send a comforter, the Holy Spirit to help you.

We are going somewhere. So I've already said that God uses imagery many times because God's kingdom advances through spiritual births, not human efforts. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, that was. He had to labor for us.

That means for salvation to be bettered. Just imagine salvation was a child and it was inside the womb of Jesus, right? And Jesus labored that pain on the cross. All those things went through was spiritual labor until salvation came out.

And that's what we're enjoying today. Jesus, our perfect example, showed us that in order to beg for you be wondering why did God not just bring salvation like this, just like this and salvation come. Why did he have to go through that pain 33 years just to bed salvation? He's trying to show something in the Spirit.

There's a pattern that you have to understand. Every goat form is requires labor not of human effort, but by the Spirit. Now let's look at Micah. That was where better did Micah 4, 9, 10.

Let's look at the context in this Case here. Now, what happened here was that Jerusalem or Israel in general, they had gone astray, right? They went astray. And God was trying to do something new through them.

And look at what he told them. He told them, he assured them that, look, I'm going to take you people to Babylon. They're going to stay there for about. Is it 70 years or so?

Going to stay there for 70 years. And guess what? See the outcome of that label. He wanted them to be what he want.

He was trying to b for a new Israel from them. And if you look at it after the Babylonian experience, a new Israel came out. So he took them through pain so that what he was trying to bear for will come out. Even God had to understand.

He understood that. Look at it now. Be in pain and labor to bring forth, oh, daughter of Zion. Whenever I hear daughter of Zion, they're just talking about the children of Israel, basically, right?

Like a woman in travail. For now shalt thou go forth out of the city. That means telling. For now I'm going to send you.

I'm going to put you in Babylon. There thou shalt be delivered. There shall thou be delivered. There shall thou be delivered.

That's. And there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hands of thy enemy. So you see that God even uses pain to what? Transform?

To bring something new. So that's one of the things about birth pangs, spiritual labor. It brings out something new. So when you choose to skip jump, you can never see something new from a Christian that does not labor in Christ.

You can't. Nothing fresh will come out from you. This is the reason why revival has not broken out. This is the reason why we have been praying for revival.

Many of you are trusting God. But the problem is that we are not laboring. That's the truth. We are not laboring in the now we'll talk about what laboring looks like in context.

But before that, we want to look, okay? Why birth spanks? Why do we need this thing? I've already explained that God's kingdom advances through spiritual births, not human efforts, Right?

One of them, I always said, is Galatians 4:19. My dear children, in whom I travel in bed, pains again unto Christ before me. Now look at that thing. He said that he first called them my dear, what children.

Paul calls the church children. He's now saying, I'm going through another bed pain. Maybe he wanted to deliver another kind of child. Do you understand?

He said you might travel in bed it again until Christ be found in you. So one of the things that spiritual labor does is that it produce Christ likeness. It produces Christ likeness. And how does that look like practically?

What did. What was Paul saying when he said my. What was that traveling process before a life? He look like him interceding for all the believers in the church, praying that Lord remove pride from them, remove jealousy from them.

He's praying, groaning. And if you check, how long does travail takes? If you check, you see that it's not just sometimes. It's always short, but most of the time, usually lengthy hours.

And guess what? When you are traveling, you don't stop until that child comes out. You see, mom was describing that it was like, ah, I want to die. It should do you as you want to die, but no, you.

The reason why you continue traveling because there is an assurance in you that no, there is something inside that must come out. It must come out. It has reached its time. It must come out so you don't back out.

That's what pause in. He knows there's a promise. The goal is Christ must be formed. So he continues until there is a breakthrough.

So you see, this is. This is the mindset of somebody that understands what it means to be advance God's kingdom. You are a believer. It doesn't make you yet a what to be Christ.

Like that's it. That's why you have a lot of flawed believers. So you see people married, married, married, married believers, look at the way their life is. They are still committing fornication because Christ has not been formed in them, because nobody has labored.

So this is why they are usually intercessory team intercessors, people that stand in the gap and they labor until that thing that God has promised comes to pass. So spiritual children are gifts from God. Souls born to Christ are spiritual offspring. Right?

I want to show you something. And disciples are spiritual children. So just the way a. A woman will give birth to a physical child in the spirit as well.

Look at what Paul said. Look at what Paul said to show you what I'm saying there. Paul says something. 1St Corinthians 4, verse 15.

1St Corinthians 4, verse15. Look at what Paul said. For in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel. Did you hear that?

Paul said, let me just show you. Let me just show it better now. First Corinthians. I just want to read it in this one.

First Corinthians chapter, chapter four, verse 15. Look, he said, let me read the full thing now. For though ye have. For though ye have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet have.

Yet have ye not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. Listen carefully to this thing. Look at what Paul said.

Is Paul your father? Explain to me. Just imagine Paul come to church and say, for in Christ Jesus I've begotten you, you, you and you and you. What is he trying to tell you?

There, you see? You see, he's trying to show you that, oh, all this happened in the past about normal children during birth in the New Testament. How that looks like spiritually is that someone that intercedes and brings you to Christ basically has become your father. You see, this thing I'm saying now, many people have not heard it before, but let me show you, let me show you again.

Let me read another one. He said, for even if you had 10,000 others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus. When I preach the gospel to you, the person that preaches the gospel to you and you get saved as a result of that person, that person has automatically become your spiritual father.

You see? You know, when the Bible says be fruitful, be multiplied, replenish, dominate and all those things new, you are thinking about those physical giving birth to children. Giving birth to children. Do you know?

Oh, God help us. You see, this is why you have to when you are reading scripture, Bible says the letter key, the Holy Spirit giveth life. You have read Genesis this thing all your life thinking that it's just about getting married. You see, when people don't understand marriage, you don't.

You're thinking about getting married. Give birth to children, 10 children. And guess what? These 10 children are in the flesh.

They don't know Christ. What are you doing? You had the initial plan of God was that when God made us in his image, he wanted to have multiple of his own image. Look at what he told all the things he created.

He said, he told the plants that he should produce after your own kind. He told the animal, produce after your own kind. He now came to human beings. He said, be fruitful and multiply after your own kind.

Now the question is, what is the kind of humans is God. But when man fell right, they produced, they became something else. Now anything that man gave birth to was not looking like God again because of the fall of man. So when Jesus came, now anybody that is not in Christ, anybody that that person give birth to spiritually must look like God.

I don't know if you are getting my point. So I'm saying That when God was saying be fruitful and produce after your kind. He's not talking about physical births. He's talking about producing people that look like God spiritually.

That's what Paul is saying here. I became your father in Christ Jesus. When I preach the gospel to you, my question is, how many children are you bettered? You see that no matter of male or female.

Again he said in kingdom there's neither male or female, Jew or this. Nothing like that. Paul is saying that he's your father because he preached what the gospel to you and not just preach, right? Because you came to Christ because of me.

Look, let me see now. He said, for even if you were to have 10,000 teachers to guide you in Christ, yet you will not not have many fathers who led you to Christ and assume responsibility for you. For I became your father in Christ through the good news of salvation. Are you seeing the label Paul is talking about?

Look at it now. Let's look what the assignment Jesus gave us. He said, go into the world and make disciples of me. Who was it okay to disciples, Go and make more disciples.

It does it not sound like making children? Do you know the process of making a single disciple? It requires labor. My question for us is how many disciples have you made?

How many people have you raised to look like Christ since you gave your life to Christ? Look at the Bible. It said, for the whole of creation waited for the earnest manifestation of the sons of God. Even creation.

The whole world itself is trying to become something new. That's why let me tell you what happened now. Do you know all the suffering that we are seeing in the world? Some of you are thinking the world is dying.

Let me tell you what is happening. A new world is coming. When something goes through pain, the kind of pain that God allows for his children and loved ones is the pain that will transform us into something new. So as you are seeing the word suffering, the suffering is to something new.

Even creation is trying to build something new. That's why you hear of earthquakes, all those things you read in the scripture. They said even creation self is crying, waiting for that new thing. I don't know.

I pray the Holy Spirit to help you to understand what is going on here. Because this is the burden of the Father. He wants to see children. He said is a gift.

He wants to see children. But for children to come out labor. My question is, can you as a church, can we calculate how many men have been raised into Christ likeness? This is the matrix that God is looking at.

I say spiritual children are Gifts from God. Souls won to Christ are spiritual offspring Bring. It's not about giving birth to 20 children. Hey, we have plenty children.

Ah, give birth 20 children on those 20 children. God forbid. They are not the one causing havoc in society. What are we doing?

Look at. Look at what? 3Rd John 4. 3Rd John 4.

Look at what Paul said. This one said, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Let me ask you again. Why is he calling me his children?

Why is this writer here calling me his child? How am I your child? Did you give birth to me physically? No.

He's showing a spiritual reality that we should understand. It's not Jesus talking. It's not God talking? No, it is a disciple.

I think this is John. He said, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. And you're thinking as about physical child. Which child did John have?

Maybe our child, but in this case it wasn't. In this case, I doubt it was the child he's talking about. But my children, that means the one that I brought to Jesus are what? Walking in truth.

So basically I have a child by what? Leading people to Christ. I pray God understanding. So when we talk about spiritual labor, the purpose of travel, the purpose of this labor is not merely to experience labor itself, but the birth of something precious to God.

The goal of the labor is not to just experience it. Imagine the reason why you go through labor, God forbid. Just imagine the pain after crying for nine months, a child, you do not deliver it. What is the point?

And God forbid the child, maybe something miscarriage, you know, the pain that they feel because you have created something for nine more. This is what happened when many people aboard. I'm talking about spiritual abortion. Spiritual abortion in the sense that God is trying to do something new.

And you quickly say, oh God, Lord, this is too painful. See what. See the problem? Many Christians, God is taking through a season.

He wants to bring something new from you, but you now jump the process. Say God, I'm not. Do again you skip. Let me tell you how that looks like.

Look at Abraham. God promised Abraham a child through Sarah. Now look. Look carefully.

He promised a child to Sarah. Let me tell you, spiritual labor is not easy, but there's grace. It takes time, but there is grace. That's the.

That's the point I'm trying to make here. There's grace. Abraham. What he waited.

But guess what? The devil came and whispered to Sarah's ear. Tell him to go and sleep with this thing. Look how he was saying he was trying to do what human efforts.

I said this spiritual labor is not physical effort. It is you. Sorry, it's not. Yes, it's not physical effort.

It is spiritual effort. It is by the help of the Spirit. It takes God to deliver what he wants to bring. Now Abraham listen to the wife and went to go and sleep with Hagar.

He was. He was trying to abort the betting process of something new. He now skipped I won't sleep Yeager and gave birth to Ishma. That is that Ishma is what has caused problem to you now.

Many people has aborted that traveling process. The truth is that. Let me tell you something. You are praying for something for yet.

Let me tell you. I heard of the Moravian brothers. They said they prayed for 100 years and that was reviving our bed thought and cause what is happening today. In fact, the way you fact even the apostles their labor is what is making us still have church today.

If those people do not labor like that, you will not have things today. So you need to understand that for God's promise to be delivered, people must labor you. If you want what God has promised you to come true in your life, you must labor. It will not come cheap.

Because if it came cheap, everybody will write on it. The get my point. Imagine God was just on the do you know what it takes to get gold? He must go down.

Even say God does not even like to show himself easily. Have you noticed God likes people seeking him? He doesn't like God. Do you know that God could have actually made it easy for us to see him?

That you just pray, Father, I want to see you and you just show. But do you know why he made it so immediately? If you notice, you cannot just easily just come. If it was like that, everything they will just see.

They'll see God finish. It will be like ah. And I don't see me finish because I destroy myself. That's why I see God presence.

He was not showing himself like that easily said to selected people. Only Moses wouldn't see him like he was making himself a mystery that you have to go. That's why he said, seek and you shall find. He will not just show yourself.

He said, you must diligently seek him. He said the word, I'll do that diligent. You see that diligent. It is labor.

See, this is the reason why many people are confused as to why is God not answering my prayer. God is seeing all these children. They are killing them and doing this thing. Why is he not just coming to do things?

No, no, no, he won't. And you know the point. He wants to heal that person more than you want that person to be healed. He's more compassionate than you, but he will still not do it until you decide to what labor?

Why must he go through that laboring process? Because of time. We not going to that part. But just ask yourself this question.

What promise? As we wrap up, what promise has God placed in your heart? It's because you see, that's why I say that your eyes of understanding be enlightened. Many people don't know what God has told them.

Jesus, if you can see the book that's already concerning you. You see, there's a large book. Everybody has a book. Jesus by the help of the spirit was able to see his book.

That's why he knew everything he's supposed to do. He was not confused. He knew when he woke up in the morning, he knows he will just stay in Zaku. Let's go here, wait here.

He tell them go to the market. I'll wait at this well, he already knew that someone was coming because he has read his book. He woke up in the midnight. Maybe he has been praying, praying, praying.

And as he sprays, you see revelation. He knows what to do when he comes in a day. He just knows it's okay. By this time this one is coming out.

So you sit down, wait. And the man came. He did the decent. And that's what births revival in Samaria like that.

He just knows what to do. I said, what promise has God placed in your heart? Are you willing to pray until that promise has better? Maybe God has said, you are going to do this thing.

He's going to enlarge your cause. You are going to be one in charge of territory. He's going to give you the wisdom of Solomon. It's going to make you wise.

It's going to make. Let me tell you a practical example of my own case. You see this app that we built here for like two weeks I prayed one prayer. Lord, open my eyes on understanding.

I saw that I was not seeing well. I just pray that prayer every night. I'll just pray like open my eyes. Let me see, let me see.

Let me see, let me see. Sorry, I think it was Friday night. I just left. As I woke up, I just felt ah, this idea just dropped my head.

I quickly just stood up and just wrote it. I just started thinking, thinking, thinking. I just carried this thing just, just came out and I just. After I just finished, I now look back and reflected what caused this, this thing to come out now.

I just said, okay, my eyes open. I saw one of the promise. I remember in my book that someone had written something. But let me not go too deep there.

Is there someone God wants to carry? Wants you to carry intercession? Ask yourself, maybe God has placed on your heart. I want you, my sister, my brother, I want you to give birth to this child, this person you are seeing here.

I want you to give birth to him in the place of prayer. Is there someone that God has placed in your hands for intercession? Maybe it can be your own child. It can be somebody.

Remember, Paul became the father of them because he preached the gospel to them. So you may not necessarily preach, but through your prayer, maybe you can. But basically it's true what preaching according to Paul. Am I recognizing current pressure as label rather than abandonment?

This thing will change the way you are seeing problems. I'm telling you, when you see this thing, you'll be able to know that oh, this thing is producing something. It's not that God has abandoned you. Abraham will have thought God abandoned him.

No, it is not abandonment. When you go through things that you understand that all things, what's going to go to them that love God? According to what purpose is Christ being formed more deeply in you? These are some of the things you ask yourself.

This is why you will know why you need to labor spiritually. And it looks like you praying long prayers on your own, staying longer with God, reading your Bible. Fasting is not always for bread, water, business, money. Sit down and ask God what is that you want to bet in me?

It's not always about material things. I pray God open our eyes to see these things. So we go to God in prayer. We ask him, Lord, open my eyes of understanding, help me to see.

This topic is actually very extensive, but I just have to truncate it. I ask God to open our eyes to understand, help us to see what you want to bet in us and through us, even as a church, there is something God wants to bet out of us. But because people are too in a haste. You want to live, you want to skip, you just want fast.

You can never skip nine months. God, I don't know if someone have ever given birth in two months. It's not possible. Have you seen?

I've not seen. No, nine months is nine months. You wait that nine months. You can't skip it.

You just have to go. So rather than you praying, God, deliver me out of God. Show me what you are trying to get in this process. I'm telling you that's a more profound prayer I'm telling you if Abraham was like just take me out of this thing just take me you have to know when God is trying to build some Lord what is that thing you are trying to build in me in this season Please let it better so that that pain will not waste some people have wasted the pain they went through the nine months and God forbid was miscarriage God forbid that we get miscarriage in our destiny in Jesus name that that you will labor for nine months and because of you want to jump out of the process stay inside there are not it's painful the Bible said it is what true sorrow it's painful but at the end like Jesus looking unto Jesus who for the joy that was before him was building the cross and he kept on moving until he finally got to his destination May God grant us the grace to labor spiritually until Christ is formed in us in Jesus name I will go to God in prayer.