We want to share with you a little about the wonderful working of God during the whole labor and delivery process. At the beginning of the labor, our whole family got together to worship. It wasn’t a ritual, it was because the presence of God came upon us in such a powerful way that we were released from everything else into a time of worshipping and adoring the Lord Jesus. All during the 3 stages of labor, the presence of the Lord was upon my wife and I in a very special way-in a way that I don’t remember sensing or feeling in the birth of our other three children. Although the recent birth of our 10 lb. plus girl was natural, it wasn’t a pain-free process for Tiffany. Yet, she worshipped the Lord through it. We both worshipped, not only with song, but with believing hearts, and hearts focused on Him and nothing else. Every time I saw my wife in pain, and me being completely helpless to remove it, worship naturally poured out of my mouth. As I prayed, asking the Lord to take the pain away, I had a thought that might sound foolish to some. But, radical obedience is a conduit of blessing (and answered prayer). So at one point I told my wife what the Holy Spirit told me, saying that every time she felt pain, to tell Jesus, “Here’s another offering for You. This pain belongs to You. You died for me and are worthy to carry it.” My wife told me that she actually started believing that, and that the Lord had been speaking to her concerning the pain, “it’s not really that bad”. Imagine that! If you have faith and know Jesus, you know that when He speaks, His words create our life, and if we believe, we can become conscious of no other reality than what He just spoke to us. Another thing was that during the delivery process the Lord actually let me know when my wife was about to have contractions (during the pushing stage) and when they would end even before she knew. Actually, He let me know so many things before they happened and before my wife knew, things too numerous to explain in this short blog. This was a great comfort to my wife. Remember, we didn’t have any special monitors or other computerized equipment to know this.
As my wife and I talked about all that the Lord had done, we realized that the Lord gave us a precious and special delivery. So many things happened during the process and birth itself that prophetically testified of the many things the Lord has done and spoken into our lives and ministry this year. Most importantly, both of us could see how much the Lord has done in 2 years, since Chayah’s birth, to bring worship and love for God into greater depths of our being. As we received our little girl into our arms, we were actually receiving a gift we didn’t expect or deserve… that is, we realized that the Lord had brought our family into a level of deeper and more intimate life with Jesus Christ that we desired. It was a true birthing experience indeed.Love,
Tyren and Tiffany Haynes
