Does God's Timing play a part when it comes to the conception of our children? By this I mean do we need to sit back and wait until God is ready to bless us?
When it comes to the finished work of the cross I don't believe in "God's timing" because that would mean you would be waiting for God to do what he has already accomplished!
When God created Adam and Eve, He created them with everything they needed to conceive and bring forth healthy children. He then BLESSED THEM and told them to go forth and to multiply. When God looked upon everything he made at creation, He saw that it was good and on the 7th day HE RESTED! His Work was done! Adam was given dominion over all the work of God's hands so Adam was left to look after the earth and over everything God created.
Adam and Eve did not need to wait for God's timing to conceive - they were created with everything they needed within their bodies to go forth and to multiply! In the same way all the animals on the earth didn't have to pray or seek the Lord for offspring - they just went and did what He had created them to do. When animals are "in heat" they instinctly know what to do and when to do it! Now while we are a lot more sophisticated than animals - the same applies to human beings.
This is God's ORIGINAL plan, purpose and will for His creation. God DOES NOT change His mind, His will or His character. If His nature is to bless, prosper and to make fruitful - then this is who HE IS!
God didn't create us with reporductive organs and then command us to come to Him and to ask for children every time we wanted one. No! He MADE US FRUITFUL - He created us to REPRODUCE! The animals do it, plants do it so we can do it too! We don't have to come and ask God for what He has ALREADY done for us. Children ARE His plan and purpose for mankind. If we are struggling in this area - it is NOT GOD WITHHOLDING. GOD IS NOT making you sick - or preventing you from having children!!!
When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in the Garden of Eden their eyes were opened and they KNEW EVIL. KNOW means to know by observing, calculating and EXPERIENCING! Up until that point they only knew good. The result of the fall in the Garden meant that the world was now in a fallen state (it was now cursed for Adam's sake - meaning as a result of what Adam had done). Satan was also made god of this world.
God's Solution
It is important to note that in the Old
Testament, when those struggling to conceive
prayed to God for children - EVERY Godly couple
who prayed received their answer!!!
Another awesome truth under the O.T. is that God
told Moses to write down the law. (Moses
wrote the Pentateuch - first 5 books of the
Bible). Now in these books we fiind several
Scritpures showing the PROVISION FOR CHILDREN!
Exod 23;25-26, Deut 28 etc etc. Blessing, health
and fruitullness was still God's will, plan and
purpose for mankind! So even though the
children of Israel under the law lived in a
fallen world God made His purpose very clear that
children were still His plan, and purpose.
We have a better Covenant!
One thing we need to remember - God dealt with
people differently under the O.T as they were
under the law. We shouldn't be looking to how Old
Covenant children responded or how they came to
God. We are under a NEW COVENANENT! The old
has gone! Under the O.T. they were slaves
or servants. We ARE CHILDREN - joint heirs
with Christ - seated in Heavenly places WITH HIM!
Now here is where this gets exciting...
When Jesus died on the cross, He paid the price
for EVERYTHING that came into the world as the
result of the fall. Satan is still roaming
the earth as the god of this world (for a time)
and the consequence of the fall is still at work
and this is why sickness, disease is still
operating on the earth. BUT through the
work of the cross JESUS DISARMED IT ALL! He
deprived it of power to harm us! He bore it
ALL on His body, and he became our substitute.
So now ANYONE who looks to the cross -
LIVES! We do not have to continue to be
bitten by this fallen world and the effects of
the curse of the law. If we partake of the
work of the cross we can overcome and learn how
to walk in victory over what we may experience!
Through Jesus, God has made the provision for our
healing. And this includes everything that
can cause or contribute to infertility and
miscarriage. We are STILL blessed to go
forth and to multiply! When Jesus ascended
to heaven - He SAT DOWN! His work was
complete!! This means that we don't need to pray
and ask God for what He has ALREADY provided.
It is FINISHED! This means infertility and
miscarriage and everything that causes it is
FINISHED!
Children ARE God's plan, purpose and will for all
of mankind. That never changes. In fact
there are MANY people abusing their
friuitfullness. They are not being wise stewards
of their bodies - they are having unprotected
intercourse and there are literally THOUSANDS of
unwanted pregnancies all around the world!
Just look at the abortion rates.
These people are doing what God created
mankind to do. This is how it is meant to
be (how our bodies are meant to work). We
are meant to be fruitful! Those who don't have
health issues in their reproductive organs are
using birth control to prevent conception.
NOW if you are not fruitful you need to
understand that this is NOT God's will and this
is NOT God withholding from you!!!!
Generally speaking we don't conceive or we
miscarry because there is a complication or some
form of sickness or disease operating.
Jesus has ALREADY paid the price for
ANYTHING holding us back from conceiving and
carrying and giving birth to healthy children!!!!
So conceiving doesn't have anything to do with
God's timing. Children are not a promise - they
are a PROVISION! It is established in the
Word of God which means it is a DONE DEAL.
God has therefore done His part for us
through Jesus. Jesus is sitting at the
right hand of the Father - WAITING FOR YOU - to
go and possess EVERYTHING He died to give to
you!!!
He gave you His Word (in fact He sent forth His
Word and healed you). His Word shows who we
are what, what we have already inherited.
He disarmed the devil
He disarmed ALL sickness and disease
He gave you His authority (so you can take
authority over anything holding you back)
He gave you His power (you have power over ALL
the power of the enemy - Luke 10:19)
He poured His Spirit in you (His ressurection
power - by the Spirit who dwells in you - Rom
8:11)
The Holy Spirit is your guide to warn you of
things to come and to lead you into victory...
What more do you need???
God has ALREADY done everything He could possibly
do!!! It is FINISHED!! It is now up
to us to KNOW, BELIEVE and ACT on this (receive
it - lay hold of it).
So in closing if you are waiting for God to do
something you will be waiting a very long time.
I meet couples who have been waiting for
years for God to bless them with a child.
And when they lay hold of this truth and
they receive the finished work of the cross in
every ara of their lives - barrenness is broken
forever and I end up getting phone calls and
emails from those same couples asking me how they
can stop their fruitfullness because they now
have too many children!!!
So what are you waiting for?
GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY!!!!