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Your Baby is Crowing, So Push!


Many people want a baby. Babies are cute and huggable, but before the manifestation of the baby can come, there is a process that has to be completed. People make saying yes look easy. The journey that they have to take because of that yes is usually a little harder though. 
It’s easy to look at cute pregnant women and want what they have. If they are married, we think in our minds that we want to get married too. We want the wedding, we want the attachments like the kids and the great house, but we don’t think about that cute woman’s responsibilities.
When we look at people in the body of Christ, some of them look like they have it all together. They look free and their prayers are beautiful, but we never think about their process. We don’t consider the babies that they have lost along the way and we don’t consider the pain that they had to go through to birth the beautiful baby that we see them carrying around (purpose, freedom).
The birthing process is not that pretty. If you think about it, your baby either has to be cut out or that baby has to be pushed out. Some women are g’s and they go the natural birth rout, but there are other women who need an epidural to make the process more bearable (every mom is a “g”!). In life, on this journey in Christ, we have to say no to the epidurals. We can’t numb the pain of our birthing process because we may miss some lessons that are vital to us and to those that we are sent to.
Hannah is so beautiful to me. Some people may have believed that she had it all. She had a husband and she was his favorite, but she also had a sister wife who had the one thing that she did not have; children.  Hannah’s sister wife did not have the call that she had on her life, but yet Hannah still compared her process to this woman’s because all she could see was what she didn’t have.
Hannah had to get aligned before she could get pregnant. Hannah had to know that her husband was not the source of her strength or her ability to get pregnant. Hannah had to stop looking at the opposition and make the choice to look at her God instead.
One thing that I admire about Hannah is her prayer life. She prayed so beautifully and powerfully to the Lord. He literally heard her cry, but that cry came from brokenness and had a purpose attached to it. The prayer that Hannah prayed in the temple that day was not her normal everyday prayer. The prayer that she prayed that day was a desperate one, but her desperation was infiltrated by destiny. Hannah did not just say that she wanted a baby, no, Hannah attached a promise to her request. Hannah told the Lord that if He gave her a son, she would give that baby boy back to Him. She did not back pedal in this prayer, but she was set free. At that moment in her life, whether she knew it or not, Hannah was right where God wanted her in both the natural and spiritual realm.
Hannah prayed that prayer during a time when there were corrupt people in the church. Eli was allowing his sons to disrespect God and He was using Hannah to birth a solution. Your baby is a solution to the problems that God wants to deal with, but you need to get aligned with His will and the purpose that He has for your life.
Eli thought that Hannah was drunk when she prayed to God. He didn’t understand her desperation. He was out of alignment. There are some people who will see you chase after God and they will think that something is wrong with you because they don’t know or see God the way that they should.
Hannah broke out of insecurity and shame by being desperate. She got tired of being cute and had to go in, in order to get her promise.  Some many people have promises attached to them, but they don’t want to go deeper in Christ in order to receive them.
Hannah had to stop looking at her haters and look at her creator and she had to not be offended by Eli. Stop letting folks offend you. Eli had to bless Hannah because his assumptions concerning her were not true. Hannah could not allow any offense to penetrate her heart because she got pregnant the moment that she was done praying. She had to have a clean heart in order to hand her baby over to a man who was not aligned with God. Eli might have been a sweet man, but His first love shifted from God to his sons.
Don’t allow what people have going on in their personal lives affect how you perceive God. Some people will say crazy things to you because of what is going on in their personal lives.
God wants to use you. He wants to move through you. He wants to use you to birth babies, but first you have to be aligned in order to receive. Jobs wont align you, a husband wont align you, but being desperate will. How bad do you want God?
Hannah’s husband made a comment to her on one instance. He said “Have I not been better to you than 10 sons?” Hannah had to hit him with a no, because destiny was knocking at her door. Her alignment was not about family, but it was about being connected to her God. There are some places that a man will never be able to fill. Stop looking for a mate and connect with your maker.
Stop looking for everything that you need outside of the will of the Father. That same question that Hannah’s husband asked her can also be flipped. Has God not been better to you than 10 sons? Has He not taken good care of you and given you all that you needed? Why then, do you continue to look for gratification outside of Him? Jesus is Lord over everything. It does not and will not get any better than Him no matter what way you try to run or who you try to run to.
Get ready to birth this baby! Some of you are already carrying. Stay focused and your baby will be health and flourishing. The pregnancy many seem long and hard, but you have a big baby in your belly!

Lord I thank you for the birthing pains because I know that that pain is only an indication that a baby is about to be born. I thank you for holding my hand throughout this pregnancy and I thank you for encouraging me even when I thought about going against you. I thank you for being a faithful and loving Father to me even when I didn’t understand that there was purpose in my pain. I thank you for every season of growth attached to my pregnancy and I thank you for the fieldtrips that you have allowed me to go on. I thank you that those field trips can be equated to feeling a baby kick, seeing a baby’s foot print in my belly, and to remembering that there is life on the inside of me. I thank you for the purpose that you have allowed me to carry and I thank you for the great things that you have ordained over my life. In Jesus name, Amen.
Lord, I also thank you for your people and for the babies that you have waiting to be birthed out of their bellies. I thank you for their gifts and for their talents. I pray that you cover them with grace and that mercy follows them right into the birthing room! In Jesus, name Amen
Jesus loves you so much! Don’t ever forget that no matter what season you are in <3 Carry that baby proudly no matter what anybody has to say about how long it’s taking you to get where you are called to be in your life.
Recommended Reading: 1 Samuel -2

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