Mothers are blessed. If you are a mother and you are reading this, may you receive a double portion of blessing.
It is such a joy to be a mother. Motherhood begins with the process of incubating a baby in the womb for about 9 months. Some children come before 9 months and others come after 9 months. In some rare cases, some come around 10 months. Such babies should be considered a miracle.
After the incubation period comes another painful and most undesirable moment for most mother. It’s called labor. For some medical or miraculous reason, some mothers do not experience labour. My wife did not experience labour during the birth of our second baby.
Labour is a period of intense pain and discomfort for every mother. In some cases, some mothers have even died in the course of labour due to unbearable pain and related causes. In the midst of intense pain comes the moment every mother dreams of: delivery. When the baby finally comes out, it brings such relief and joy to the mother. The first sound the baby makes is crying, not laughing. The cry of a baby bring such joy to its mother. probably the only time when a baby’s crying makes a mother happy. Soon after that and in the months that follow, every cry is almost undesirable for most mothers and often signifies a problem.
There are huge spiritual lessons we can learn from this experience:
- Once we are physically born into this world, we become a fetus in the womb of the Holy Spirit. Just as a bay lives in darkness in it mother’s womb, we live in darkness in the world.
- If we ever get born by the Holy Spirit, we are said to be “born-again”. When we are born again, we enter into another world: God’s Kingdom where we become spiritual babies who need to be fed and cared for so they can grow – same in the physical world.
- Before we are born again by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit also goes through an intense period of ‘labour’. A battle wages for our soul in which the Holy Spirit wages war against the spirits that are competing for our lives. To be born-again means the Holy Spirit has defeated our enemies and our will.
- Once we are born by the Spirit, we cannot grow without being fed and cared for, the same way a physical baby is fed and cared for. Think of the tenderness with which a mother cares for her baby! Without physical food, a physical baby cannot survive; in the same way, without spiritual food, a spiritual baby cannot survive. That explains why many believers are ‘dead’ in the church today.
- Just before delivery, a mother experiences the most painful and stressful moment of her life. It is often said, “the darkest part of the night is just before dawn”. It is the same with spiritual life. When your breakthrough is closest, that is when you (most of the times) experience the most intense hardship or difficulty. So, are you going through a very difficult moment? Then, know that your delivery (deliverance) is around the corner! Don’t give up or quit. If you quit, because of pain, you loose everything. You get nothing.
If you have been encouraged by this write-up, let me know by commenting below.
God bless you.
Pastor Genesis Tinshu
Buea Community Church
For photos of Mother’s Day Celebration, click here.
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Hi, this Sunday April 20, 2014 is Friendship Sunday at our Church (Buea Community Church, Next to COGENI, Bonduma, Buea).
Day 3 of the Bonduma Food outreach started with distribution of food packs at 4 pm. 10 food packs were given out. The coordinator kevin Penda at 6pm continued with a time of prayer and intersession for the land of Bonduma. The praise team then came on stage and lead the people in a wonderful time of praise they were help by Pastor Genesis later on who continued with worship. There was a testimony from a lady who narreted the story of how at first she was not taking the things of serious, in course of here stubbornness she was having some serious nightmare. She testified that from the first day she came to the crusade she has been able to sleep well. After that great testimony the children had a song presented drawn from John3:16. The choir after that also had a small sketch to illustrate the song they sang. Pastor Genesis continued with a him to prepare the heart of the people for the word of God delivered by Pastor Simon. He preached on the topic “get loose and be free ” he drew inspiration from the book of Jn 11:40-45 he made them understand that some off us are still walking wrapped with death cloths. We have to take away those death cloths for us to be free from the devil. There were 9 adults and over 8 children who gave their lives to Christ. The attendance was 72 adults and 50 children.
Day 2 of the Bonduma Food Outreach started with the distribution of food packs from 4pm to 6pm. 14 families received food packs during the distribution. The meeting continued with prayers coordinated by William Tabi who also introduced the praise team composed of Abigail and Jennings who lead in a great time of praise. Next was worship time lead by Pastor Genesis. Susan Moki gave a testimony of what God has done in her life and how God has taken her from nothing to something. Two hymns were sang from the crusade hymn booklet which prepared hearts for the word of God. Pastor Simon Njock the man of God, preached on the topic, “run to the ark you and your family” from Gen :7:1, 2. He said that its time for us to run to the ark of Jesus for salvation not only for our sake but for sake of our families. No matter what sin we commit whether hidden or expose Jesus is still ready to receive us. Hearing the message a man and his wife were touch and they decided to surrender all to Christ. The man of God prayed with them, then Pastor Genesis continued and prayed the closing prayer. There were 51 adults and over 30 children present at the meeting.
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