birth. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ~ 9 ~ For every struggle in your life, God accomplished something in your ____________________________ and your __________________________________________. ~ 10 ~ God wants you to ______________________ the pain and ________________________________ the baby. ~ 11 ~ In the analogy of the birth process, why is it necessary to push? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ~ 12 ~ What is the balance that future desire provides? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ~ 13 ~ Women of promise are “impregnated with destiny.” How does this statement encourage women today? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ F URTHER C HALLENGE : Take a moment and examine your own life. Do you guard the point of access to your family? What are you allowing entrance into your life and family? Take steps to change what needs changing. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
http://wtal.destinyimage.com/ch7 Chapter 7 A W OMB -M AN I have been in the delivery room with my wife as she was giving birth. I witnessed the pain and suffering she endured. I believe that there were times of such intense pain that she would have shot me if she had had a chance. Her desire made her continue. She didn’t simply give up. She endured the pain so new life could be born. Once the child was born, the pain was soon forgotten. Until the desire to go forward becomes greater than the memories of past pain, you will never hold the power to create again. However, when the desire comes back into your spirit and begins to live in you again, it will release you from the pain. God wants to give us the strength to overcome past pain and move forward into new life. Solomon wrote, “ Where there is no vision, the people perish ” (Prov. 29:18a). Vision is the desire to go ahead. Until you have a vision to go ahead, you will always live in yesterday’s struggles. God is calling you to today. The devil wants you to live in yesterday. He’s always telling you about what you cannot do. His method is to bring up your past. He wants to draw your attention backward. God wants to put desire in the spirit of broken women. There wouldn’t be any desire if there wasn’t any relationship. You can’t desire something that’s not there. The very fact that you have a desire is in itself an indication that better days are coming. David said, “ I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living ” (Ps. 27:13). Expect something wonderful to happen. T he fact that you have a desire is an indication that