Isaiah 37:3
‘they announced to him: “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth.’
Isaiah 66:9
As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons. 9“Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?” says the LORD. “Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?” says your God.
As there are numerous risks involved in childbearing and delivery so are risks in every other endeavor in life. There is the risky and fearful danger of bringing a child to term but developing complications at the very end leading to a still birth or a loss of life.
You can imagine all the inherent danger in not being able to deliver your baby. Hezekiah described it as a day of trouble, rebuke and blasphemy. It is neither expected nor desirable but that is exactly the outcome the enemy would like to see.
The thief cometh not but for to steal, kill and to destroy. John 10: 10. KJV
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. AMP.
The enemy would not like you to start anything progressive, so he will try to steal the good seed from you. He will sow tares instead in your heart trying to dissuade you from going forward in your God-given dream. Every seed of greatness that God has sown in your heart is a threat to the enemy, so he will counter the good seed with tares of fear, doubt and unbelief.
However, if the enemy cannot stop you from starting, he’ll surely not mind see you fail, falter and unable to see the fruit of your labor. It is better not to embark on an endeavor than to start, invest all the time, energy and resources and eventually fail at delivering the project at the end.
As stated in Isaiah 66 verse 9, there is an effort required to bring a baby to birth….As soon as Zion travailed… as soon as she pushed the baby came out….. As long as Zion is willing and able to push.
Compare with the situation in Chapter 37 verse 3 where there is trouble, rebuke and blasphemy. The time has come for the baby to be born but alas the mother has no strength to push. Something is wrong somewhere. Naturally the body is designed to work together to eject the baby when the time is ripe. What is lacking here is the strength needed.
There is a grace required to deliver your baby. There is a grace required to be successful. There is a force and an ability that comes from the deposits of grace within you to finish. God wants you to finish whatever you started in Him, irrespective of the enemy’s position.
‘And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work’. 2 Corinthians 9: 8
My encouragement is that you tap into that grace today.
Stand up against every force that will not want you to succeed.
Declare God’s word over your situation. Elder John wrote:
1 John 4:4King James Version (KJV)
‘Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world’.
David declared:
For by Thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. Psalm 18:29
Philippians 1: 6 being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
It is God’s will for you to be victorious in your battles against the voice of depression, discouragement and failure that wants to stop you from getting to your destination. You have everything you need in Him.
Let there be no still births.
Shalom,
Laolu Oyeyemi.