Love labors! As I read these words from Jeremiah 31:8b “I will not forget the expectant mothers and women in labor” something stirred in my spirit, a vision of many rising up and taking their rightful place on the earth as restorers, rebuilders, revivalists and reformers. To do this, they would need mothers and fathers to “birth” them and get behind them to strengthen them.
Many have carried dreams in the womb of their hearts for both natural and spiritual children and some are very costly, costly in tears, prayers and fasting. Living a life of love will cost us something and Jesus is the prime example of that cost. He was willing to lay down His life for not only His friends, but His enemies. Before He went to the cross, knowing what they were about to do, He wept over Jerusalem. Luke 19:41 “And when He drew near and saw the city, He wept over it”. Paul was an example of laboring, of the giving of himself on account of others. Galatians 4:19 “You are my dear children and I agonize in spiritual “labor pains” again until the Anointed One, Jesus is fully formed in your hearts”.
Today, Yahweh is looking for Spiritual Moms and Dads who are willing to labor, to invest time, resources, prayer and tears on behalf of a generation coming after us. He is searching for those who will lay down their own agenda, their own callings, giftings etc. to see a young one grow into the fullness of Christ as Paul talks about in Galatians.
We have created a culture of orphans, both in the natural with fatherless homes and spiritually with servant-slaves rather than children. People often have no idea they are created to be sons and daughter of the Most High God living in fellowship and relationship with Him. They have no idea of what it means to be loved and redeemed by the love of the Father poured out through the Son, Jesus on the cross, revealed by the Holy Spirit. The Beloved Identity we were intended to have got sidetracked in the Garden of Eden by one little “suggestion” of Satan himself, the great enticer. “Did God really say that”? That is all it took for Eve to question and doubt God and begin to “think for herself”, and the spirit of orphanhood was born.
Th whole reason Jesus came, was to bring us back into right relationship with Yahweh and live the garden experience once again. We are to live in Oneness and sweet fellowship and operate in all things out of that place. John 17 tells us this, that we are to be one IN Christ Jesus as He is one with the Father. When we are, fellowship and relationship births callings, it creates opportunities to live out the Kingdom of God on the earth and create a new environment where sons and daughters who know who they are and they know who their God is, becomes the biggest influence of our culture today. Through this, we are transformed to a people of God who love and live in fellowship with Yahweh, becoming one with each other and it spreads throughout the earth! #MyGodisYahweh