Many women expect birth to be a fearful and painful experience where the whole process is out of their hands. This does not have to be your prognosis! If you can trust the Lord to place your baby within your womb, then you need to take your faith one step further and trust Him to take them out!
It is my aim to give you some
positive information to help you to overcome any
fears so that you can move towards a desired
outcome rather than expecting
your birth to be
full of sickness, trauma or pain.
Expectations in Childbirth!
I discovered a study on the Internet on
‘the
expectations and experiences of pain in
labour’. What I found was amazing!
Read Below...
This was taken from a large
prospective study of over 700 women who gave
birth in six maternity units in southeast
England. It showed that most women
preferred to keep drug use to a minimum, even
though they expected labour to be very painful.
The ideal of avoiding drugs was unrelated to
education or social class. Women who
preferred to avoid drugs were more likely to do
so, and were most satisfied with the birth
overall than the women who used
drugs. In general,
women tended to get what they
expected. Breathing and relaxation
exercises were widely used, and were most
successful for those who had
expected
them to be so. Anxiety about the pain of
labour was a strong predictor of negative
experiences during labour, lack of satisfaction
with the birth, and poor emotional well being
postnatally (1). Birth 1993 Jun; 20 (2)
65-72. © Copyright 1997,1998 by
Childbirth.org. All rights
reserved.
Expectations are powerful!
Isn’t it often true that the very thing we are
afraid of happening, comes to pass? Job
said ‘For
the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto
me’ (Job
3:25).
We need to change
our fears or negative expectations into positive
expectations!
To ‘expect’ means; to look forward to, to look
on as likely to happen, to look for as one’s due,
to anticipate, to take or receive, reaching out
in readiness to receive, to have your hand out
ready to receive, watching with an outstretched
head.
What are you expecting? Begin to get your
expectations in line with your faith and with
what God says you can have. Cast down any
negative imaginations and expectations that you
have that say anything contrary to God’s Word
(see 2Cor. 10:5
Amp.).
We need to have a plan and a purpose. Being
bold and specific isn’t being arrogant but rather
confident in who you are as a child of God and
what belongs to you. We are creative beings made
by a creative God. He has given us
authority in so many areas so we need to be wise
stewards of what He has given to us. Use your
imagination, your words, and your thought life to
bring positive God filled expectations.
This is the breeding ground for miracles and this
is how faith works!
Note: don’t
not expect something from God out of fear of
disappointment! We need to get an attitude
in our spirit to expect something
and not be
afraid. Begin to sow prayers with
expectancy not with vagueness. Be bold and
tell God what you are expecting. If we don’t ask
then we’re not going to get
anything. Ask and you shall
receive - be single-minded, bold and
speak out what you would like and what you are
expecting.
Children are a
blessing!
Psalm 127:3 (NKJV) ‘Behold, children are a
heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is His reward.’
Duet. 28:4 The fruit of your womb will
be blessed….
Whenever the Bible mentions children, it says
that they are an inheritance, a blessing and a
reward from God. Pregnancy and birth are both
designed by God as the way to bring forth the
blessing of children into our lives. Therefore,
we are not meant to fear or dread the pregnancy
or birth because it is meant to be a
blessing! It is not meant to be a
complicated, fearful or painful experience.
God created us to bear children and every part of
our reproductive system is created perfectly for
this task.
What God says
There are many scriptures which talk about
childbirth and show by example what can
happen. My favourite one is:
1Tim. 2:15 But women will
be saved
through
childbearing - if they continue in faith, love
and holiness with propriety.
(Emphasis added)
The word ‘saved’
above is the Greek word Sozo
and means: to
save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger
or destruction from injury or peril, to save a
suffering one from perishing, (i.e. one suffering
from disease, to make well, heal, restore to
health) and to preserve one who is in danger of
destruction.
This scripture is not saying that this is how we
receive our salvation but it is a benefit of our
salvation. We are saved wherever we are and
we can claim the benefits of salvation at that
time.
Therefore, though there are difficulties and
dangers in giving birth, women will be delivered
and saved from suffering, perishing and preserved
from danger or destruction in childbirth if they
continue in faith, charity, and holiness, with
sobriety (sober-mindedness, soundness of mind,
self-control).
We are Redeemed from Pain!
We serve an awesome God! God wants His people to
prosper and multiply and live a life in perfect
health. God sent Jesus to reverse the curse
and to set us free from all the effects of sin
and the curse of the law of sin and death.
(see Gal.
3:13-14,29)
We have been redeemed from all types of
pain! Generally speaking pain is the
symptom of an underlying cause. This still
doesn’t mean that we accept it as par for the
course.
Isaiah 53:4-5 Surely He took up
our infirmities
and carried
our sorrows,
yet we
considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him,
and afflicted. But He was pierced for our
transgressions, He was crushed for our
iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace
was upon Him, and by His wounds we
are
healed.
(Emphasis added)
The word infirmities
is the Hebrew
word Choli
meaning - sickness,
disease, grief, sick.
The word sorrows
is the Hebrew
word Makob
meaning - sorrow,
pain, grief. . The meaning of the word
‘pain’ is further described as pain, sorrow
(emotional), pain (physical), pain
(mental). Isaiah
53:4-5 should
therefore correctly read Jesus
took
up all our
sickness, diseases and griefs and carried
all our sorrows
and pains away! Jesus took all forms of
sickness, disease, grief, sorrow, distress and
pain upon the cross in our place! We
therefore don’t have to cope with these we can
now overcome them instead!
Pain and the Curse of Eve?
If you would like to learn that God did not
create childbirth to be a painful or traumatic
experience and that Eve was not cursed with pain
(only the serpent and the ground was cursed) but
was rather was told that she would now bring
forth children in sorrow (labour, toil and hard
work) along with detailed information on how to
pray effectively during each stage of labour,
delivery and the recovery without any unnecessary
medical intervention then grab a copy of our
book God’s Plan for
Pregnancy and/or the Pocket
Companion! They not only have
information on what God’s Word says on all the
areas of ‘childbearing’ but also detailed
information on ‘how
to’ apply it to your life! They
will show you how to; build your faith, pray
effectively, overcome fear and they even have
suggested prayer points for each stage of
childbearing, along with blank pages for your
own personalised prayer points and
prayers that we have written out as a guide
for you to follow. There are also several
testimonies from infertile women who outline
how through God’s Word they were able to
overcome infertility, and other complications
to receive their miracle children! Go to
the
Products and Resources Page
on how to purchase
your copy or for more information visit
www.godsplanforpregnancy.com