There has been a wait in the live’s of many of Gods people. For some the Wait has been years of agonizing praying. Great travail has been taught during this season and nothing will be wasted. Every hill and valley appointed to train the good soldier through various seasons.

The butterfly has 4 seasons in which it is required to sprout strong wings to fly. In the chrysalis, albeit a long and seemingly silent process to the visual eye, transformation was occurring under the watchful eye of the Creator. Every vital organ had to go thru a change to become all the butterfly was to be. There would need to be a death of the old to make way for the new. Many are still attempting to carry the old into the new. Old mindsets, old methods, old ways. Christ is doing a new thing… do you not perceive it?

Likewise, in the mother’s womb is 9 months of waiting as every intricate detail of the human being is taking shape. Every characteristic, divine design, and every ounce of divine purpose is being hand knit in this very womb by The Lord. After what seems like an eternity, comes labor pains where the body is preparing for life to arrive and live outside it’s familiar womb. Perhaps the shortest season in hind sight, yet most naturally painful, is the time of birthing. The moment the child comes no longer hidden from mans sight. You were unsure you could survive it. Yet the only option was to push… or the little dream would remain unseen. 

Next is a critical necessity. The umbilical cord must be severed…. for many what has sustained you in the past will no longer sustain you. Christ alone will be your provider. He will take you by a way you have not known. He may likely place new people around you. People who know how to get where you are going. The familiar comfort of the womb you held dear for 9 months is no longer and it will take courage to move forward from here.

Spiritually speaking, many are now in the birthing room. The Wait is soon coming to an end and the contractions of labor intensify as Christ makes ready His people for a season of “new.” Should we demand that which is old, we will never receive that which is new. It should be a wise thing to now place all on the altar that Christ may sift what stays and what goes.

Some will be called into areas of ministry they never considered as Christ has kept it hidden until now. Others will trek new lands and areas away from all that is familiar. Both will know with peace that destiny has arrived as a crying baby from its womb. 

Our greatest challenges are now before us as we close the year 2017. The Church of Jesus Christ will be faced with great trials, yet great victories. However, we shall never gain victory from a mute Church. We must move forward with Christ in great confidence of His strength and power in us. 

To those experiencing great mental torment, confusion, and even discouragement remember there is something you are giving birth to. Something given by the Spirit of God. The Heavens await its due date and the enemy watches intently to steal your hope and cause you to quit early and never birth that which is within you. 

Resist the unbelief and doubt… let Faith help you push… your wait is soon coming to an end…

December 11, 2017