AUGUST 4

STRENGTH TO BRING FORTH

“Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? Saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? Saith thy God.” (Isa. 66:9).

For the child of God, apprehended by the Spirit to be processed and developed unto spiritual maturity, the words “transition” and “travail” are a steady diet. To leave the old order of the flesh with its carnality, and come into the higher realms of His Spirit life, with His nature and character, has been a real death and resurrection inworking. Death to the old, birth pangs to come forth into the new.

Often, it seems, we have fulfilled again, Isaiah 26:16-18, “Lord, in trouble have they visited Thee, they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them. Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and criest out in her pangs; so have we been in Thy sight, O Lord. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.” Man has had his day to produce, with all of his programs, but after all the expending of energy, money, time, what was brought forth? Nothing of lasting deliverance. It only brought us to the end of ourselves.

Now we come to the time of the birth of God’s new day. Man does not have this in himself, it must come from God, by the Spirit alone. There has been no precedent for it, no example of its manifestation, except in our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the FIRST of this company to be brought forth by the outworking of God’s glorious purpose. With the ending of all of man’s promotions and carnal activities, now shall He bring forth a pure Spirit move which shall liberate groaning creation from its bondage of vanity.

The womb of the morning shall be opened, He shall bring forth His elect, sons of the morning, sons of the Highest. The strength to bring forth is His!

Thou art the womb for many things,
From inmost being blessing springs.
Yet thou art also being born –
Out of the womb of Kingdom’s morn.

Ray Prinzing