Notes for Pregnant with Possibilities

Women’s Retreat April 20, 2007

Ladies you may order your own CD from the church for Pregnant with Possibilities. I will request that it be downloaded on our website also so you can listen to it from your computer.
Getting off the sidelines

We are pregnant with possibilities:

• Things that squelch our possibilities:
• Devilish Low Self worth
• Dreaded Comparison Syndrome
• Doubt
• Demoralizing Fear
• Disobedience

Isaiah 26:17-18
“As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we in your presence, O LORD. We were with child, we writhed in pain,
but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation (deliverance) to the
earth; we have not given birth (life) to people of the world.”

GOD IS CALLING US TO FULFILL OUR DESIGN – BE WOMEN:
· ARISE!
· COME FORTH FROM!
· AWAKEN FROM OUR DENIAL!
· RUN TO THE ROAR!
· BE FULLY ALIVE!
· DREAM!
Be An Ezer Knegdo

These are desperate times – Eph. 5:16 “Make the most of every chance you get these are desperate times” – The Message

• Be Relators
• Be Communicators
• Be an Influence
• Be a Connector
• Be Intuitive Sensing – observant – responsive
  

BIRTHING IS OUR DESIGN
CONCEPTION
Mary birthed a Savior -Luke 1:27 -37

When the World needed a Savior God went to a woman.
When Israel needed deliverance God called on a woman
Jocabed –the Mother of Moses; between a rock and a hard place. She didn’t bring her circumstances upon herself.
· Jocabed a woman of FAITH
· Jocabed - FOCUS
· Jocabed – TRUST
§ RUN TO THE ROAR
Hannah - I Samuel 1 (shame filled; cursed and forgotten by God)
Hannah represents those of us who are broken in spirit
· Hannah’s song in I Samuel 2:
“He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has then inherit a throne of honor.”

Isaiah 54:1-"Sing, , …burst into song, shout for joy, 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.

Elizabeth – mature God was not done with her yet!!!

God wants to birth something new:
“Forget about what’s happened; Don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? I am making a way in the desert And streams in the wasteland. Isa. 43:18-19

Fresh Anointing of Isaiah 61-1-3 (read)

IT WILL TAKE CONSECRATION -cleansing, set apart unto God; His
Joshua 3: 2-5 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about a thousand yards [a] between you and the ark; do not go near it." 5 Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you."
· Isa. 1: 16
· Isa. 1:18
· Cleansed and Set Apart
CONSECRATION always precedes birthing an outpouring of the Holy spirit.
· Joshua 3:4 “You have not passed this way before”

"The wonders God wants to perform in our tomorrows are prepared for in our todays." quote by Beth Moore
Consecration through Prayer:
Cleansing Prayer
Intercessory prayer
Standing on the Wall Prayer
Authoritative Prayer
Warfare Prayer
Fasting Prayer
Worship and praise
Breathing Prayer

Let’s’ believe God to birth a fresh anointing and His will and purposes in us.
Count the Cost -- Run to the Roar!! You are pregnant with Possibilities!