Webster's
Dictionary defines "pregnant" (or "pregnancy") as
"having conceived"
Medical
Dictionary defines "pregnancy" as "from conception until
birth."[
Conception
The process of development of new individuals (procreation, the act of species
reproduction).
Text; Isa 66:1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and
what place shall be my rest?
Psalm
7:14 He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to
disillusionment.
1
John 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
James
1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a
kind of first fruits of all he created.
John
3:1-10 reads as follows, "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him,
"Rabbi, we know you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these
signs that You do unless God is with Him." Jesus answered and said to him,
"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the
God
gives man a spiritual vision to birth . God
reveals the purposes and objectives which will enable you to fulfill the vision.
As you experience the "birth of a vision" you will become a
participator instead of a mere spectator in God's divine plan.
The natural birth process which brings a human baby into the world is
similar to this process
"Conception"
means to create. A spiritual vision is created in your spirit by God. When
God gave Paul spiritual vision He identified the source. He said, "I am
Jesus" (Acts 26:15, NIV). God conceived Paul's vision.
In
"embryo" form God conceives the basic
spiritual vision within you. The vision must remain the embryo from which all
features develop. If you try to change the vision, it will be deformed from the
perfect plan of God, or it may be aborted. When the vision explained in this
series of teachings is conceived by God in your spirit it must always remain the
same although you may fulfill it in different ways. The vision will grow and
develop as you mature spiritually. Its features will not be the same as
yesterday, last week, or last month.
It
is a stretching experience just as it is in the natural world
If the vision does not develop within you it will die.
It draws from your own life source as well as from the divine source
which conceived it. While it is developing, you will deny your self of certain
things. As in the delivery of a child, a spiritual vision is birthed by intense
mental, physical, and spiritual concentration. As you work through this
concentrate on what God wants to birth in your spirit.
For
a dream cometh through the multitude of business. (Ecclesiastes 5:3, KJV).
The meaning of the word "multitude" is great.
"Business", according to one Hebrew meaning, is travail [difficulty].
(Isaiah
26:17-18, NIV). As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and
cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord.
We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind.
(Isaiah
66:8-9, NIV).
yet no sooner is
Isaiah
53:11 that God witnessed the travail of Jesus Christ and was satisfied. A vision
was fulfilled that day on
Travail
is a painful experience, but it is only through travail that the vision can be
birthed:
A
mother in travail hides herself from public gaze, so those in travail
spiritually must be alone with God.
Galatians
4:19 KJV My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be
formed in you,
Romans
8:26,27 KJV Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the
saints according to the will of God.
Let
God take control of your life. If you try to birth the vision in your own
strength it will abort the plan of God.
Peter
cried out to Christ, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man," (Luke
5:8, NIV) when he realized what Christ was calling him to do.
Transition
means change. As God gives you this spiritual vision it is going to require
change in your life. It will call for new commitment and dedication.
It required changes in your thought patterns and lifestyle,
This
happened to the nation of
(John 16:21, NIV). Travail brings sorrow but it leads to the birth which brings joy: A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born again
Who is the source of spiritual vision?:
When asked, "What shall we do, that we might work the works of
God?", Jesus responded, "This is the work of God", indicating
that He, Himself, was the source (John 6:28-29). God is the source of spiritual
vision. The vision which you will receive through these teachings is His plan.
It is not a plan of man, a denomination, or an organization.
Scripture has no record of God speaking again to Abraham for thirteen
years after the birth of Ishmael. Not until it was humanly impossible for
Abraham to have a child did God again stir the vision within him. By then,
self-effort had died.
Then came the birth of a vision, for in the perfect
timing of God Isaac was miraculously born. But with the birth of God's plan
[Isaac], Ishmael [self-effort] must be cast out.
It is time for your Isaac [God's plan] to be birthed in your spirit. In
order for this to happen, Ishmael must be cast out.
It is a painful experience to cast out self-effort, your plans,
ambitions, tradition, and organizational programs.
But God is saying to you as He did to Abraham, "Grieve not for
Ishmael [self-effort], for in Isaac shall your seed be called." In Isaac
the source of the vision was God.
Proverbs
19:21 tells us, "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's
purpose that prevails" (NIV).
Proverbs
5:21 For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his
paths.
Matthew
5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be
filled.
1. A supernatural Impartation of God's own Spirit
within us. We are his dwelling place, his Tabernacle (2 Cor 6:16).
2. A supernatural Illumination wherein the Spirit of
Truth opens our eyes so that we may walk in the Light of God uncondemned (Titus
1:14; 1 John 1:7).
3. A supernatural Inspiration where there is a
burning passion to worship and fellowship with God in Spirit and in Truth (John
4:23).
4. A supernatural Invigoration as the Power of God in
us becomes a witness to a lost world (Mark 13:10; Acts 1:7-8).
5. A supernatural Ignition that makes and outburst of
fire in the Holy Ghost in the Church by the anointing (Acts 2:3, 4:33, 26:18).
6. A supernatural Intoxication as the new wine
produces excitment (Luke 5:38; Acts 2:13).
7. A supernatural Indwelling that produces the gifts
of the Spirit, (1 Cor 12:4).
Incomplete)
list of manifestations that may or may not accompany the birthing process.
There is no way to list all of the manifestations and
variants of each one. None of them are new; it's all been seen before.
You can not judge any of these signs as being evil, because you can't know them
outside of their circumstances. They have different meanings to different
people What God wants most to be shown is a passion for Him and his people . If
the manifestation happens they'll just happen on God's timetable for
God's reasons. They confirm to our
flesh that God is present and in charge. You're not spiritually inferior or
superior.
Babbling
(not to be mistaken for tongues; it's when a totally infantile sound is
produced.)
Barking
'animal noises'.
Birthing,
when someone sits themselves down on the ground in a position like a woman does
when giving birth, and then starts groaning and writhing as if giving birth.
(The sign is that once made pregnant with the Gospel, something new is being
born in them -- something spiritual.)
Crunches'
(keeling over like you were just punched)
Uncontrollable
crying or weeping ('tears of joy', or sadness
. weeping over the spiritually dead.)
'Drunk
In the Spirit'
(looking, acting, and feeling like a drunk -- staggering, slurring speech,
becoming uncoordinated, having to prop oneself to stand up, and getting that
dizzy look to the eyes.
Fainting
(loss of consciousness)
'Slain
in the Spirit' (falling to the floor while conscious).
Singing
in the spirit
(out burst of singing in the spirit
Glossolalia
(outburst of tongues by themselves as a manifestation.
Goose
Bumps
(sometimes exceptionally large ones, with body chills.)
Growling
(see 'Barking')
Holy
Dance
(frantic motion, which looks like bouncing off of the walls, where there are any
walls.)
Holy
Laughter
(can be anything from giggling to cackling to side- splitting guffaws)
Hopping
or Jumping
(can be done in place or by hopping all over the room/tent)
Quaking
(shaking) Shaking (as the Shakers did)
Rolling
(roller done on the floor)
Running
(dashing around in a proper runner's stride, doing either laps or straight
sprints, over and over)
Singing
in the Spirit
(the whole place spontaneously sings praise songs in succession, singing in
tongues and spontaneous harmonics)
Spinning
(usually a dizzy but circular turning, although on occasion it can be a Taz-like
rapid whirling)
Spontaneous
harmonic
singing (when each individual starts to sing notes that fit together: Gregorian
chant-like to campfire singing to New Age space-out sounds to eery and
spooky-sounding, it may well be the
most beautiful of the signs).
'Braveheart',
or 'Warrior' (when someone suddenly grasps their hands above their head,
and then starts swinging them up and down in a slicing motion, as it they had a
medieval broadsword in hand, slicing up demons. Of course, demons don't really
get sliced up, but by acting this out, one's body and imagination get fully into
the spiritual experience. The image is kinda violent, though.) It becomes a
person's 'Warrior Anointing', in the context of spiritual-warfare talk.
Tingling
(a feeling in the body's extremities, similar to that of losing circulation,
only the circulation is unaffected.)
Whimpering
(usually
accompanied with tears)
The historical magnitude of impartations were not the signs and wonders but the changed lives.: the way people spent their money, the way they raised their children, their concern for the poor, their opposition to oppression; their rejection of drunkenness, sex outside of marriage, their support of the public rights of women; their business practices and public administrations, their turning away from evil, and etc. By changing individual lives nations are affected.
Giving
Birth
Psalm
22:10 From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my
God.
Psalm
51:5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalm
71:6 From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's
womb. I will ever praise you.
Isaiah
26:18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have
not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the
world.
Isaiah
46:3 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of
Isaiah
66:9 Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the
LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your
God.
John
3:6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
John
16:21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but
when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is
born into the world.
James
1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a
kind of first fruits of all he created.
Spiritual consolation that overflows into the senses and into the body is a phase in the growth of contemplative prayer. Some temperaments are more prone to it than others. Some do not experience it at all. If it is especially strong, the body cannot move a muscle and time goes by unnoticed. You can see that if you were just a little deeper, you would have no idea of time at all. If somebody came up and touched you, you would be shaken up. Some people may be labeled when they are just expressing themselves clumsily.
The spontaneity of the early Christian communities described by Paul and by the Acts of the Apostles is being rediscovered in our time After you have sung the praises of God, shared prayer together, spoken in tongues, and prophesied for a few years, where do you go from here? It is time to do soaking prayer, periods of silence waiting on the Lord, listening to his voice. We are now better and more fully prepared to move into a more contemplative expression of walking in the spirit.
1.
Principles of prayer based on God's conversation with Abraham (Gen. 18:17-33) We
learn from this that it's not the presence of evil that puts an end to GOD's
mercy and goodness, but the absence of good. The absence of good makes his
patience run out.
2.
The heart of the intercessor (Exod. 32:11-14,30-34) Moses demonstrated an
unselfishness spirit of intercession. must prevail.
3.
Joshua and his warriors step into the breach (Josh. 10:12-14)
Joshua
and his warriors stepped into the breach, fighting for God's eternal purpose,
and illustrating the triumph that such faith can attain in the spiritual battle.
4.
God powerfully intervenes (Is. 36:1-37:8)
Hezekiah
and Isaiah show the power of prayer when facing difficult times and defeating
the powers of evil.
5.
Intercessors link God's Mercy with human need (Ez. 22:30) God seeks intercessors
who will work in the "breach", close the door to intruders and give
entry to the blessings of God. The divine search for an intercessor among the
priests, prophets, princes of the people of
6.
Spiritual leaders: pray and teach (Eph. 3:14-21) Know that the strength of
Christ resides in our inner self, Paul prayed that Christ should imprint his
nature on the mind, the will and the emotions of the people. Spiritual leaders
should pray and teach their people. Paul prayed for his brother believers,
knowing the power of the Spirit in the inner person. Like the boat besieged by
the storm, as he had experienced once, he saw himself reinforced on the inside
and tightly sealed on the outside (Acts 27:17
7.
Prayer and fasting produce signs and wonders (Acts 13:1-14:28). Support by means
of prayer and fasting will make way for signs and wonders, while God confirms
his Word.
8.
Prayer, is where our faith is proven (Acts 4:1-37) Prayer, not debate or
arguments.
9.
God's fire descends (II Chron. 6:12-42; 7:1) In the moment when we place our
most precious offerings on the altar, God's fire comes down, and as long as we
open a space for God, He will come and fill it.
10.
Constant prayer is the key to deliverance (Acts 12:1-17)Great deliverance comes
through prayer, at times so unexpected that it's an uphill struggle for us to
believe it!
11.
The Our Father (Matt. 6:9-13) is a model of prayer that contains seven topics:
1) The paternal need: "Our Father" (v. 9). When you pray, all your
needs are attended to by a loving Father. 2) The presence of GOD: "Hallowed
be your name" (v. 9). Enter into his presence through praise (Psalm 100:4),
and call him "Father", because of the expiatory blood of Christ (Heb.
10:19-22; Gal. 4:4-6). 3) GOD's priorities: "Your kingdom come" (v.
10). Declare that the priorities of His kingdom (Rom. 14:17) will be established
in you, in your loved ones, your church and your country. 4) GOD's provision:
"Give us today" (v. 11). Jesus, he who supplies our needs, we should
pray daily, asking him to provide for all that we lack. 5) GOD's forgiveness:
"And forgive us" (v. 12). You need GOD's pardon and you need to
forgive everyone. 6) Power over
Satan: "And lead us not...free us from evil" (v. 13). Ask the LORD for
a circle of protection around you and your loved ones (Job 1:9,10; Psa. 91). Ask
him to clothe you with his armor (Eph. 6:14-18). 7) Divine society: "For
yours is the kingdom" (v. 13). Glorify GOD for making you a participant of
his kingdom, power and glory (II Tim. 4:18; Luke 10:19; John 17:22). This is the
prayer that teaches you how to pray.
12.
To pray is to be in agreement with God's will (I John 5:14,15) Immature faith
tries to manipulate God; mature faith seeks to be placed under the mantle of
God's will.
13.
Seeking God in prayer is the way to satisfaction (John 4:34) To seriously seek
God leads us to find spiritual strength and full satisfaction.
14. David asks for Joy and the presence of God (Psa. 51:1-19) David called, not only for forgiveness, but for purity; not only for absolution, but for acceptance; not only for consolation, but for complete cleansing of sin