Pregnant? Prayer is the Delivery Room

I will be perfectly honest; prayer is mechanical for most people.  We’ve got our own prayer positions, places, protocols, and priorities.  We are quick to put our spiritual disciplines on automatic settings and our spiritual lives on cruise control. 

But take it from an unqualified mechanic, that kind of praying hasn’t worked nor will it ever work.  Prayer isn’t mechanical, it is spontaneous; it isn’t involuntary, but instinctive.  Prayer to a follower of Jesus should be like breathing…effortless.

Where have we missed it?  That’s a good question I’m not sure I have the answer for but I do see something that just might help us today.

King David wrote this in Psalm 37:4; “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires.”

Now note the word, ‘give.’  So what’s the meaning?  Webster defines give as “to offer as a present, to hand over, to pay as a price, to supply.”  But that’s Webster.  The Hebrew word for ‘give’ means something entirely different.  David understood the word in his culture and language to mean “to conceive.” 

Another way to look at this verse is when you press into God’s presence, what’s unnecessary and unholy will die and what is necessary and holy from our God will be birthed in you.

God wants to impregnate His holy plans in you and birth them through you!  Prayer is the delivery room and the Holy Spirit is the midwife. 

And to all the men reading this, don’t discount this as just for females; spiritually, you can get pregnant too!

I’ll meet you at the throne,

Pastor George