Eat and Make Seed

As I was watching an interview today of a lady that had been pressured by her boyfriend to go through multiple abortions, my heart began to break.  This lady found the love of God through it all, and I felt the Lord's heart ache.  I was drawn to intercede on behalf of those who have gone through similar circumstances...or even those like me that had been told they had a dead womb.

Although I have never had a baby ripped from my womb, I felt as if I was sitting in their place and was overcome with emotion and then a renewed hope!  The power of the Holy Spirit enveloped me and I felt as if I stood in their place and God was moving on their hearts and lives and even renewing wombs.  I know God moved today and miracles happened  Hearts were changed and even bodies made new.  

I began thinking how this was a parallel to the hopes and dreams that God has placed within each one of us.  Jeremiah 29:11-13, of which so many of us are familiar, says, "For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. ¹² In those days when you pray, I will listen. ¹³ If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me."

This was written as a prophetic word by Jeremiah and sent to the EXILES in Babylon.  He told them in the verses previously to live and multiply.  He commanded them to make homes, eat food, have babies and let their babies have babies.  They were to nourish and make seed.  He then promised them that after their season, they would return to Jerusalem.  Wow, what a parallel we can take from that.

How many of us have been disgusted with our "Babylon"?  It is easy to cross our arms and fret over a difficult place we find ourselves in, but I believe the Lord wants us to look up out of circumstance and LIVE!  What nourishment the Word gives us to live, and in the living in the Word we prepare seed to spread.  An inheritance is created for our children by the life we live.  I want that for mine.

I was talking to my mom the other day about forging forward.  I had previously fretted in years past about the "stuff" I had to face.  The Lord showed me that each generation has the potential to forge forward, to press toward a fertile place.  I was able to look back and see the weeds my grandmother had trudged through and then see my mother with the sickle cutting them down.  Even though I was upset at my patch of weeds I was standing in, I was able to see the sweet meadow out before me.

We are all on a journey.  Some of us are with child.  Are we going to abort what God has given us or are we willing to carry these babies and push when it is time?  If we have aborted a dream or vision God has given us, He is able to renew our womb.  It is time to eat! It is time to make seed!