Dutch Sheets tells us, "It will help to keep us from error and alleviate some of your concerns if I state clearly up front, we don't birth anything spiritually, the Holy Spirit does.
He is the birthing agent of the Godhead (see Luke 1:34,35; John 3:3-8).
He is the power source of the Godhead (see Acts 1:8; 10:38; Luke 4:14,18).
He is the power behind Creation which, as we will see, is likened to a birthing (see Gen.1).
He is the one who supplies power to God's will, giving it life and substance. He gives birth to the will of God.
He is the one who breathes God's life into people, bringing physical and spiritual life (see Gen. 2:7; Ezek. 37:9,10,14; Acts 2:1-4). Concerning salvation, we call this the new birth or the new creation.
Therefore, anything we might accomplish in intercession that results in a birthing would have to be something that causes or releases the Holy Spirit to do it.
For example, Elijah as a human being couldn't birth or produce rain, yet, James tells us his prayers did.
Paul couldn't create the new birth nor maturity in the Galatians, yet Galatians 4:19 implies that his intercession did.
We cannot produce spiritual sons and daughters through our human abilities, yet Isaiah 66:7, 8 tells us that our travail can.
If we cannot create or birth these and other things through our own power or ability, then it seems fairly obvious that our prayers must in some way cause or release the Holy Spirit to do so."
Prayer
Note # 49 -THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD'S BIRTHING AGENT - Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory
Prayer (pg 121)
The next Prayer Note: June 21st.- HOVERING OVER AND BRINGING FORTH: Prayer Note # 50
"For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children." Is. 66:8 b
"If we call upon the Lord, he has promised in his Word to answer, to bring the unsaved to himself, to pour out is Spirit among us. If we dont call upon the Lord, he has promised nothing—nothing at all. It's as simple as that. No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer." (Taken from Jim Cymbala's FRESH WIND, FRESH FIRE, pg 27)
Today’s 12th truth: If you are “born again”, you are a daughter (son) of God. Rom. 8:14
This afternoon's post: REPENTANCE, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
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