I've been sharing on the natural birth process and applying
it to the birth of a vision. I have discussed previously conception, development, and travail. Next comes the time of transition.
In
the natural birth process there is a time during labor known as the time of
"transition.” It is the most
difficult time of travail right before the birth canal is open to permit the child
to be born.
This parallels the birth of a vision in the spirit world.
When God births in you a spiritual vision, you will experience a time of
transition. Transition means
change. As God gives you new spiritual vision
it will require change in your life. It
will call for a new commitment and dedication.
You may experience pressure in every area of your life. Everything within you may cry out for relief
from the spiritual birth pangs of what God is bringing forth. This is the point where many fail to receive
their spiritual destiny. Repeatedly, God has brought His people to the time of
transition to birth His vision through them, but because the transition was too
difficult many have turned back. They
could not take the pressure of this most difficult time. A new vision required changes in thoughts, actions,
and lifestyle which they were not willing to make. They could not abandon their own self-effort
and traditions. They would not set aside
their own ambitions and desires to embrace the plan of God.
This is what happened to the nation of Israel:
Isaiah 26:17, 18 " Like as a woman with child, that draweth near
the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we
been in Thy sight, O Lord. We have been
with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we
have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of
the world fallen."
Travail and transition are painful experiences, but it is
only by these that the vision can be birthed:
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