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1. John

3. John

4.  An intentional birthing process
 Requiring love, sacrifice and commitment
 Bearing lasting fruit (Gen. 1: 28; John 15: 8, 16)
 Our fruit proves our faith

5. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow
because her hour has come, but when she has
delivered the baby, she no longer remembers
the anguish, for joy that a human being has
been born into the world.
 A message of hope
 A message of challenge

6.  Expectation of struggle in labour
 We do not choose to suffer;
we choose to obey
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow
because her hour has come, but when she has
delivered the baby, she no longer remembers
the anguish, for joy that a human being has
been born into the world. John 16:21

7. Prov 24: 7; Matt. 24: 44
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow
because her hour has come, but when she has
delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the
anguish, for joy that a human being has been
born into the world. John 16:21
 Know what to expect
 Know your hour and your season
 No fear in love (1 John 4: 18)
 Fan into flame your gift (2 Tim. 1: 6)

8. Habakkuk 2: 1; John 6: 38
 Alignment: Being where God wants, when God
wants, for what God wants.
 Total surrender of our will to His
 Discover God’s will through disciplines of:
 Keeping in Step with the Spirit
 Reading and Meditating on The Word of God
 Prayer and Fasting
 To position, we must please

9. Matt. 24: 13; Heb. 12: 1-2; 1 Cor. 15: 57; Rom. 8:18
 Perseverance: a fruit of motivation
 Motivation comes from understanding:
 Your God-given purpose
 The joy your reward
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking
to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before Him endured the cross. Heb. 12: 1-2

12. Matt. 24: 13; Heb. 12: 1-2; 1 Cor. 15: 57; Rom. 8:18
 Perseverance: a fruit of motivation
 Motivation comes from understanding:
 Your God-given purpose
 The joy your reward
 The grace of God
 That your labour is not in vain
 Our fruit supply should exceed demand!
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking
to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before Him endured the cross. Heb. 12: 1-2

13. John 16:21 ...but when she has delivered the baby,
she no longer remembers the anguish, for the joy
that a human being has been born into the world.
 A Beautiful Exchange:
 Sorrow for Joy
 Ultimate Joy:
 Jesus: our Great & Eternal Reward
John 16:22 So also you have sorrow now, but I
will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice,
and no one will take your joy from you.

14.  Prepare
 Position
 Persevere with Purpose
 Produce and Prosper

15.  A message of hope; a message of challenge
 Time to surrender: Not my will but Yours
 Joy in Jesus: your strength and your reward!
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
Psalm 126: 5

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