We’re officially two days past our guess date (due date). We’re in uncharted territory now, not knowing when the baby will choose to arrive. That’s something most people don’t know, by the way. The baby is the initiator of all major events. The baby sends a hormone signal to the mother to announce its arrival in the beginning. This hormone signal tells the mother to keep the egg and to cease flushing the system every month. At the end of pregnancy, when the baby’s lungs have reached full maturity, the baby releases another hormone signal to the mother to announce it is ready for birth. So despite all the inducing that doctors do these days, it’s based on the desire for convenience and rarely upon necessity.
But that’s not my point in writing tonight. While we’ve been anxiously awaiting our new arrival, I have been acutely aware of the fact that I have not done everything I wanted to do to prepare for this baby, and I am getting the opportunity to prepare now. Had the baby come when we hoped (end of November), I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get some important things in order, or to experience some of the joys I have recently discovered.
Just an hour ago, I laid my hand on my wife’s belly and began to listen to the Lord. I wanted to hear from Him about my child before he/she was ever born. I have a strong sense that the baby is a female, but we won’t know until the birth day. I will be ecstatic over either a boy or girl, so don’t take that to mean that I’m “hoping” for a girl. As I lay beside my wife, I began to write a few things that the Lord shared with me. Just a few words about my child which I will share with that child some time in the future.
If you’ve never prophesied or listened to God speak over your unborn child, you’re missing out. If you have the opportunity, please do it. It’s amazing to hear God share mysteries with you about a person you’ve never met. Especially when you don’t even know the gender of the child. It was a precious time to me of listening to God speak. I would very much like to do it again if I have the opportunity before our baby is born. Then again, I’ll be praying over this child all the time, and asking God to share his thoughts with me about him/her.
Hearing God speak over your child is a major pleasure. It’s a quiet, simple pleasure, but it’s a major pleasure nonetheless. These are the kinds of things I hoped to do before our child was born that would have been sacrificed if we had rushed the birth and induced labor to fit our schedule rather than God’s.
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