WE GONNA HAVE A BABY PART 4

2. SECOND TRIMESTER

Now you are beginning the life of faith

It’s all about BIRTHING your LIFE PURPOSE

a. NATURAL - Chaneyi. Body adjusts and Energy comes backii. A lot of relief – best time in pregnancy.iii. Looking awkward - clothes don’t fitiv. Starting to showv. CONNECTION WITH THE BABY…You start feeling the baby inside of you.vi. Is there something coming – or are you just fat?vii. Can’t sleep on your stomachviii. b. SPIRITUALi. This is where we begin to leave the life of self…1. In the beginning it was all about me…2. I need. I need… I need..ii. When we begin to live God’s way things get easieriii. Why do things get easier?You Are Learning Three Things1. Surrender 2. Repentance 3. Obedience1. Surrender…Not my will but yours be done2. Repentance…Renew my mind to think ONLY God’s thoughts3. Obedience…Because I trust you, I will do what you are telling me to do… even if it looks impossiblev. You begin the life of walking by faith and not by sightc. CHURCHi. As a church, things get easier because:1. We surrender to what God was trying to tell us all along2. We change our minds about what a church should operate like3. We obey what God is telling us to do.

Preparing For Birth Part 2 YOUR NEW BEGINNING INTO THE LIFE OF FAITH.There are cycles to your life and Christianity!

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR?

3. THIRD TRIMESTER

Truly pregnant…Faith is now your lifestyle… Now you know you are supposed to give birth.a. NATURAL… Chaneyi. Now there’s no doubt about wether you are pregnant or notii. People begin to say…..How far are you along?iii. Fatigue comes backiv. A lot of discomfortv. Baby is growing and requiring lots of nutrition.vi. CONNECTION WITH BABY… The baby is strong inside of you and you begin to have a relationship with it.vii. Very uncomfortableviii. Belly is always in the wayix. Now you can’t sleep on your backx. Using pillows to prop up your stomach.xi. Head is lodged in your hips.xii. You know you’re supposed to give birth – you can feel it all the time.b. SPIRITUALi. You know for sure you are called to something bigger than yourself…! A BABY IS COMING!ii. You No longer fit in with the “crowd” You Are Different!1. You look different- you feel different. Born not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible seed

WE GONNA HAVE A BABY PART 1

​ NIV - AnglicisedFor you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

1. Relationship is the prerequisite to birthing life

a. Infatuation… could this be true

iii. A very difficult time! 1. Something needs to be birthed out of you, but it is scary and seems impossible.iv. Playing with sin and living for self is no longer an option1. I have been crucified with Christ

​ NIV - AnglicisedI have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2. There has to be Revelation… There has to be an epiphany

2. Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful nature

3. There has to be a Commitment…A Choice must be made

4. Marriage… Epiphany and Choice must come together

​ NIV - AnglicisedThose who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

v. The need for serious preparation becomes a realityc. CHURCHi. We are destined to make a real difference and everybody can see it.ii. People out of the blue begin to make comments about our pregnancy1. It’s obvious you are pregnant… How far along are you…

WE GONNA HAVE A BABY PART 2

2. People who are not even apart of the church begin to sow into it because they can sense the baby coming..

iii. A difficult time because the baby hasn’t come

1. Uncomfortable because you know birth needs to happen but it hasn’t happened yet.iv. Becoming less focused on the church and more focused on the peoplev.

I am in travail until Until Christ is formed in you

1. Intimacy Leads to Pregnancy

​ NIV - AnglicisedMy dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

TAKE HOME TRUTHS

2. Intimacy should be natural

1. There are cycles to your Christianity

3. Intimacy with God Leads to Conception

2. God will kick you out of the nesta. It is for your goodb. It is for your faith

3. God will make it so that you have to grow in faith

4. The baby (Purpose) (Purpose) inside of you becomes real

5. A time comes when you know you MUST give birth soon!

4. You know when you are pregnant--- You feel it—others can see it.

MY RESPONSE TO GOD’S TRUTH

5. When Rhema / Truth is conceived in you, Purpose and significance follow!

1. Are you willing to trust God with the cycles of your life?

WE GONNA HAVE A BABY PART 3

2. Are you willing to accept that when God kicks you out of the nest that it is all about your faith.

Preparation for Birth Part 1

3. Are you willing to let God teach you a. Surrenderb. Repentancec. Obedience

4. Are you willing to be used by God to give birth to his purpose on earth?

1st Trimester.... There are cycles to your Christianity and life...

1 Honeymoon wears and it's time to grow

2 God Will Test You in Three Areas

Your Faith, Your Work and Your Promise

1. Your Faith…

Abraham, God tested Abraham

Children of Israel,

Jesus Jesus led into the wilderness by the Holy

2. Your Work… Everything will be tested by fire

3. Your Promise … Sacrifice your only son

Today...

WE GONNA HAVE A BABY PART 4

Preparing For Birth Part2

We Gonna Have A Baby is all about BIRTHING your LIFE PURPOSE

Purpose For Today’s Message: I want you to know that:

1. Living by faith is possible

2 Living by faith is the easiest and most rewarding life

3 Living by faith connects you to your purpose

Reminder: There are cycles to your life and Christianity!

SECOND TRIMESTER — Now you are beginning the life of faith

NATURAL - Chaney

Body adjusts and Energy comes backA lot of relief – best time in pregnancy.Looking awkward - clothes don’t fitStarting to showCONNECTION WITH THE BABY…You start feeling the baby inside of you.Is there something coming – or are you just fat?Can’t sleep on your stomach

SPIRITUAL

My Story… God… “is it still about you?”To grow we must be constantly tested!The sale of our old buildingThis is all I know...Everything is here… This is where I have spent thousands of hours praying and meeting with God.Feel like a failure… Why does this other church have the cash to buy the building and I don’t?All kinds of fearful thoughts came...Let go and trust God God this is in your hands One foot in front of the otherGolfStarted getting more done in less time...

1 Spiritual growth is walking by faith and not by sight

Why? Spiritual growth is looking more to God for my answers and less to meI had to choose to look to God and not to self

We live by faith and not by sight

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV - Anglicised

We live by faith, not by sight.

2 Spiritual growth is leaving the life of self

I am Crucified with Christian the beginning of a person’s Christianity it was all about self… I need. I need… I need..

3 Spiritual growth is leaving self -righteousness behind

We died to the law so that we could belong to another

Romans 7:1–6 NIV - Anglicised

Do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to men who know the law—that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Kick out the slave woman and her son

Galatians 4:21–31 NIV - Anglicised

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labour pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Christ is the end of the law

Romans 10:4 NIV - Anglicised

Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

4 Spiritual growth is the easiest way of living

Why do things get easier?Worry and anxiety means I trust me...Peace means I trust God

My yolk is easy and my burden is lite

Matthew 11:28–29 NIV - Anglicised

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

(Example) Man who was homeless and said “the way I see it, I am God” I asked him “So how is that working out for you?

You are beginning to learn 3 things…

1. Surrender…Not my will but yours be done

Jesus… Not my will but yours be done

Matthew 26:39 NIV - Anglicised

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

2. Repentance…Renewing my mind to think ONLY God’s thoughts

Whatsoever things are pure and lovely

Philippians 4:6–8 NIV - Anglicised

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Transformed by the renewing of your mind

Romans 12:2 NIV - Anglicised

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Set your minds on things above

Colossians 3:1–3 NIV - Anglicised

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Philippians 4:6–8 NIV - Anglicised

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

3. Obedience…Because I trust you, I will do what you are telling me to do… even if it looks impossible

5. Spiritual growth is the process of becoming more connected with your baby (life purpose)

TAKE HOME TRUTHS YOUR NEW BEGINNING INTO THE LIFE OF FAITH.

1 Spiritual growth is walking by faith and not by sight

2 Spiritual growth is leaving the life of self

3 Spiritual growth is leaving self -righteousness behind 4 Spiritual growth is when you begin to have real connection with the baby (or purpose) inside of you.

5.Spiritual growth is when you KNOW a baby is coming!

YOUR RESPONSE TO TRUTH

1. Are you willing to trust God with the cycles of your life?

2. Are you willing to accept that when God kicks you out of the nest that it is all about your faith.

3. Are you willing to let God teach you Surrender, Repentance and Obedience

4. Are you willing to be used by God to give birth to his purpose on earth?

Next Week… Now You Know...A BABY IS COMING