WITHOUT INTIMACY THERE WILL BE NO CONCEPTION

I love those God-breathed moments when God opens your eyes and heart to a scripture that you have, till this moment, passed over or never even noticed.  So it was this morning during prayer and devotions.  I dutifully went verse by verse through Isaiah 26, mainly because it was the next chapter in my daily Bible reading, when SUDDENLY….the Holy Spirit stopped me at verses 16 -18.

Isaiah 26:16-18 Lord in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.  17 As a woman with child is in pain and cries out in her pangs, when she draws near the time of her delivery, so have we been in Your sight, O Lord. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth…

Read it again, let it sink in, meditate, chew on it for awhile…allow God to embed this Word into your spirit.

So many times we have been convicted by an anointed sermon, inspired by a guest missionary, or caught a vision from a heart wrenching testimony.  We shed a few tears, dream a dream and walk away enthused because something started stirring inside of us.  Our musings grow fat with expectation and at times we have even prepared the room for the pending birth.  Ads are running, brochures are printed, programs are readied and the coffee is brewing but the birthing results in wind.   WHAT HAPPENED??????

WITHOUT INTIMACY THERE CAN BE NO CONCEPTION!

WITHOUT INTIMACY, a dream is the product of an overactive imagination. 

WITHOUT INTIMACY, our programs are nothing more than exhausting entertaining endeavors.

WITHOUT INTIMACY, our preparations become exercises in futility.

WITHOUT INTIMACY, no children will be born….GOD WANTS CHILDREN!!!

God is calling His Bride to INTIMACY.  He wants us to linger in His embrace as He shares His heart.  He wants to be your partner in the dream, give you direction during the preparation and participate in the delivery of sons and daughters.

The pains grow more intense and frequent; the time for delivery approaches; then with joy a child bursts forth into newness of life because there has been intimacy with the Creator.

It is time to lay it all down; your dreams, your desires, your vision and spend some time with the Lover of your soul.  Your time of INTIMACY will result in CONCEPTION and when it is time DELIVERY will be accomplished.