We’re pregnant!
Side Note: I wanted to put “We’re Pregnant” as the title, but that probably would have caused more problems than we would desire to have right now.
Not exactly what you were thinking though…
To explain, let me rewind back to the start of the year, January.
In January of this year we were in Guatemala. It all started with a sense, or some might call it a hunch. I just had this sense that Sarah was pregnant. We weren’t trying to get pregnant (nor are we now). There are times when God speaks to us, and it can seem like a hunch or you just think something and don’t know why. Some people call it being emotional, but that’s not what I mean, and especially in this case, because I wasn’t wanting Sarah to be pregnant.
There are times where I think God is speaking, and what I sense is incorrect or I interpret it incorrectly. Especially with something as big as being pregnant, I waited to see if there are any outside sources that will confirm what I was sensing. So even though I sensed that Sarah was pregnant I did not tell her. Soon after, I got an email from one of our friends who prays for us regularly. She wrote that she was praying for us the other day with a friend and they thought God was speaking that Sarah is pregnant.
After reading that, I was like oh crap. Our current situation was not the ideal one for having a kid (being homeless and living out of a suitcase). After that I told Sarah. She prayed about it, and I asked some friends to ask the Lord and if they hear anything let me know. I didn’t tell them anything about what I was thinking, just to ask God for us whatever He would have to say. A couple of our friends gave confirming answers. Okay…
We waited out the month, and we found out Sarah was not pregnant. Wow… talk about confusion. All this stuff just came out of nowhere and then bam! Nothing to show for it. Did we just worry about nothing? Are we crazy? We decided to take a day to come to God in prayer, asking for clarity on what just happened.
He answered back, “what I see in the spiritual is just as real to you as what you see in the natural.” God doesn’t have a supernatural and a natural; He just has a natural. He then spoke to us about somethings for our kids in the future and us as parents, but He also gave us a sense that this time before us is a time of pregnancy in the spirit. We then understood that He wanted to grow things within us that we wouldn’t be able to see clearly. So this last season has been one of seeking Him, and allowing Him to work in us. We have felt a need to halt in pursuing opportunities before us, but rather giving more of our time for Him to work in us personally.
That has not always been easy. I am impatient some times, I get bored, I am on Twitter a little too often, I have felt like I haven’t been doing anything at all at times, and God has slowly worked and grown things within us, that we have not been able to see at times. And God has reminded us of this along the way, because we have sometimes forgotten.
A week or so ago out of curiosity I looked back at that old email. It was dated January 11th. If you add a 12 hour time difference and 9 months, you come to October 12th. October 12th is the day we are moving from our apartment and into a new home. It’s this Sunday.
We have sensed a shift in the spiritual atmosphere coming soon for us, and maybe this is it. Maybe its right around the corner? As I was looking at that email, God spoke and said, “new wineskin, new wine.” Jesus taught about this in Luke 5. He said a new wine needs a new wineskin. If you put new wine in an old wineskin, the wineskin will break, thus spoiling the wine. Symbolically, when God does a new thing, He uses a new means.
I think that us moving into a new house is not just about us moving, its symbolic of a new wineskin for which God wants to pour out His new wine. All in all, we have been pregnant with the work of a Master Craftsman, and were due some time soon. Let’s see what He does.
