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WE GONNA HAVE A BABY Part 3
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- WE GONNA HAVE A BABY Part 3a. FIRST TRIMESTERPREPARATION FOR BIRTHi. It’s hard… Tired, emotional – senses are hightened, nauseaTHERE ARE CYCLES TO YOUR CHRISTIANITY!You Are Going To Go Through Stagesii. God test mans fath, work and promiseThere is a time and a season for everything under the suniii. Because your body is creating a placenta
Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV - Anglicised There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:3 Trimesters Father, Son, and Holy Spiritiv. Nobody really understands what you’re going through/ privatev. This is the organ that transfers the nutrition for the baby to grow and be ready to birthredGetting pregnant was fun… life was exciting!BUT, Because of God’s love for you, he will not allow you to continue without becoming like him… Filled with faith and love.vi. SPIRITITUAL1. FIRST TRIMESTER Kicked out of the nest1. This is not as easy as I thought2. A lot is happeninga. NATURAL … Chaneyb. SECOND TRIMESTERi. It’s hard… Tired, emotional – senses are heightened, nauseaii. Because your body is creating a placentai. Energy comes backii. A lot of relief – best time in pregnancy.iii. Nobody really understands what you’re going through/ privateiv. This is the organ that transfers the nutrition for the baby to grow and be ready to birthrediii. Looking a awkward - clothes don’t fitv. You know you are pregnant but there is not a HUGE connection with the babyiv. Starting to showb. SPIRITUALv. You start feeling the baby inside of you.vi. Is there something coming – or are you just fat?i. Honeymoon wears off and God begins to require you to growvii. Can’t sleep on your stomach1. A lot of growth is happening2. This is not as easy as I thought!c. THIRD TRIMESTER [1]i. Fatigue comes back3. In the beginning of Christianity we don’t realize that we are all about self.ii. A lot of discomfort4. God has to allow trials to bring about the life of Love and Faith instead of self.5. It feels like you are getting kicked out of the nest.iii. Baby is growing and requiring lots of nutrition.iv. Very uncomfortablea. God, why are you doing this to me????v. Belly is always in the wayb. Feels like you are alone…ii. God Requires Your Faith To Growvi. Now you can’t sleep on your back1. Forgive 7 times??? Lord increase our faithvii. Using pillows to prop up your stomach.Luke 17:5 NIV - Anglicised The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”viii. Head is lodged in your hips.2. I do believe, help my unbeliefMark 9:24 NIV - Anglicised Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”ix. You know you’re supposed to give birth – can you feel it all the time.God Tests In Three Areas1. Your Faith 2. Your Work 3. Your Promise2. PREPARATION FOR BIRTH1. God Tests Your Faitha. NESTING/ Preparation for the babyGod tested Abraham,Genesis 22:1 NIV - Anglicised Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.Children of Israel,i. Realizing your body is getting ready to go through something intenseDeuteronomy 8:2 NIV - Anglicised Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.Jesusii. A baby is coming and I must get ready.Matthew 4:1 NIV - Anglicised Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.iii. Preparing to be out of it— MIA2. God Tests Your WorkEvery man's work will be tested by fire1 Corinthians 3:13 NIV - Anglicised his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work.iv. Packing your bags3. God Tests Your PromiseGod asked Abraham to sacrifice his son.Genesis 22:2 NIV - Anglicised Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”b. TIME TO DELIVER / Something’s getting ready to happen / until Zion travailed1. Jesus: “Where’s your faith?” “Because you have so little faith.”i. Early labor2. These trials have come so that your faith1 Peter 1:7–9 NIV - Anglicised These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.ii. Active labor3. The goal of your faith is the salvation of your souls4. Consider it pure joy when fiery trial come upon you1. I want to go homeJames 1:2–4 NIV - Anglicised Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.a. Let it finish IT’S work…2. I quitc. CHURCHiii. Transitioni. After the church is conceived, you realize that things are not as easy as you thought they would be.3. TRANSITION / New surrender to Goda. Tearsii. People begin to show their human nature..6661. They don’t show upb. Surrender to the inevitablec. Give in to the process2. They don’t do what they agreed to do3. They want to have control but not be submittedd. Ring of fire.... opening up to the final breakdown and pusha. Their opinions have to be received or they are angrye. prophecy of volcano and revivalf. Between life and death4. They start having rebellious attitudes5. They want to be seeng. Delirious6. They desert you… leaving you hangingh. Forced Stretching/ Resta. This is what happened to Jesusi. Comfort in knowing your body is made to push out a babyFrom this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.j. Everything stops – a five-minute breakJohn 6:66 NIV - Anglicised From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.k. ReliefGod requires the church to go to another level of faith.God requires us to step out upon his wordl. Contractions start again at full pace except now there is an ability to push.m. Gotta push—- gotta pushAbraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness4. A BABY IS BORNBold stepsa. A Move of God Is Happening2. SECOND TRIMESTERNow you are beginning the life of faitha. NATURAL - Chaney[1]i. Body adjusts and Energy comes backii. A lot of relief – best time in pregnancy.iii. Looking awkward - clothes don’t fitiv. Starting to showv. CONNECTION WITH THE BABY…You start feeling the baby inside of you.vi. Is there something coming – or are you just fat?vii. Can’t sleep on your stomachviii.b. SPIRITUALi. This is where we begin to leave the life of self…1. In the beginning it was all about me…2. I need. I need… I need..ii. When we begin to live God’s way things get easieriii. Why do things get easier?You Are Learning Three Things1. Surrender 2. Repentance 3. Obedience1. Surrender…Not my will but yours be done2. Repentance…Renew my mind to think ONLY God’s thoughts3. Obedience…Because I trust you, I will do what you are telling me to do… even if it looks impossiblev. You begin the life of walking by faith and not by sightc. CHURCHi. As a church, things get easier because:1. We surrender to what God was trying to tell us all along2. We change our minds about what a church should operate like3. We obey what God is telling us to do.3. THIRD TRIMESTERTruly pregnant…Faith is now your lifestyle… Now you know you are supposed to give birth.a. NATURAL… Chaneyi. Now there’s no doubt about wether you are pregnant or notii. People begin to say…..How far are you along?iii. Fatigue comes backiv. A lot of discomfortv. Baby is growing and requiring lots of nutrition.vi. CONNECTION WITH BABY… The baby is strong inside of you and you begin to have a relationship with it.vii. Very uncomfortableviii. Belly is always in the wayix. Now you can’t sleep on your backx. Using pillows to prop up your stomach.xi. Head is lodged in your hips.xii. You know you’re supposed to give birth – you can feel it all the time.b. SPIRITUALi. You know for sure you are called to something bigger than yourself…! A BABY IS COMING!ii. You No longer fit in with the “crowd” You Are Different!1. You look different- you feel different.Born not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible seed1 Peter 1:23 NIV - Anglicised For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.iii. A very difficult time!1. Something needs to be birthed out of you, but it is scary and seems impossible.iv. Playing with sin and living for self is no longer an option1. I have been crucified with ChristGalatians 2:20 NIV - Anglicised I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.2. Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful natureGalatians 5:24 NIV - Anglicised Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.v. The need for serious preparation becomes a realityc. CHURCHi. We are destined to make a real difference and everybody can see it.ii. People out of the blue begin to make comments about our pregnancy1. It’s obvious you are pregnant… How far along are you…2. People who are not even apart of the church begin to sow into it because they can sense the baby coming..iii. A difficult time because the baby hasn’t come1. Uncomfortable because you know birth needs to happen but it hasn’t happened yet.iv. Becoming less focused on the church and more focused on the peoplev. I am in travail until Until Christ is formed in youGalatians 4:19 NIV - Anglicised My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,TAKE HOME TRUTHS1. There are cycles to your Christianity2. God will kick you out of the nesta. It is for your goodb. It is for your faith3. God will make it so that you have to grow in faith4. The baby (Purpose) (Purpose) inside of you becomes real5. A time comes when you know you MUST give birth soon!MY RESPONSE TO GOD’S TRUTH1. Are you willing to trust God with the cycles of your life?2. Are you willing to accept that when God kicks you out of the nest that it is all about your faith.3. Are you willing to let God teach youa. Surrenderb. Repentancec. Obedience4. Are you willing to be used by God to give birth to his purpose on earth?5. Is6. Is Ecclesiastes 3:1ANIV
Luke 17:5ANIV
Mark 9:24ANIV
Genesis 22:1ANIV
Deuteronomy 8:2ANIV
Matthew 4:1ANIV
Mark 1:12ANIV
Mark 1:13ANIV
Luke 4:1–13ANIV
1 Corinthians 3:13ANIV
Genesis 22:2ANIV
1 Peter 1:7–9ANIV
James 1:2–4ANIV
John 6:66ANIV
1 Peter 1:23ANIV
Galatians 2:20ANIV
Galatians 5:24ANIV
Galatians 4:19ANIV
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