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
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