A Prayer and Message for Those Desiring Children
Chuks, Samuel
Below you will find a message and prayer preached by Pastor Kenneth
Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries. This is a very important
message for couples desiring a child/children. If you already have
children and know of a couple seeking to have children, please forward
this message to that special couple. I have a first hand experience with
the frustration and anxieties of having child/ren and can honestly
inform you that it is no fun. I remembered that almost two years after
my marriage, we could not have children. My own family (my mother
included) will always remind me of couples that married after us that
now have children. I was always reminded that I made a bad choice of
wife. To be real honest with you, after a while, it got to me. I started
blaming God and myself. But praise God, today, my wife and I have three
handsome, very intelligent boys. After those three boys, I personally
requested God to "stop" blessing us with more. With God everything is
possible.
Please share this very important message with all couples you know.
In His Service,
SamChuks
1Chronicles 16:34
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You have a right to believe God for anything He has promised in His
Word. The Word says in Psalm 127:3, "Lo, children are an heritage of the
Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Psalm 84:11 says, "...no
good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Also, Psalm
113:9 says, "He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a
joyful mother of children...." Exodus 23:26 in The Amplified Bible
states, "None shall lose her young by miscarriage or be barren in your
land...."
Besides focusing on these scriptures, remember also that God is no
respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). What He did for Hannah in 1 Samuel 1,
He'll do for you. God loves you as much as He loved Hannah. These are
truths that John and Marty Copeland learned to apply when believing for
the conception of their first child. Their daughter, Courtney Mercer
Copeland, became the seventh grandchild of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
because of the walk of faith in her parents' lives.
They learned to sow seeds for the specific things they were believing
for. Marty gave a baby shower to honor and bless a friend. She made the
conscious decision to sow love into the lives of the children around
her. Every time they prayed over their food, John would say aloud,
"Father, I thank You that Marty's pregnant. We have a perfect child."
At a time when her faith was beginning to waver and she needed a
breakthrough, God revealed to Marty that she wasn't "missing it."
Rather, she just needed to seek Him more by pressing in with her faith
in every area possible. Search for additional scriptures and look for
new areas to apply your faith. God will meet you where you are with the
encouragement you need to receive your manifestation.
Children are the right of a marriage in covenant with God (Deuteronomy
28:11). Based on the Word of God, we set ourselves in agreement with you
that you have the desire of your heart, a child of your own. The Lord
perfects that which concerns you (Psalm 138:8).
God's Word is always His will. We have included a prayer and scriptures
that we believe will minister to you as you stand on them. As you make
these scriptures part of your prayer life, you may be sure that you are
praying according to the will of God. "And this is the confidence that
we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he
heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we desired of him" (1 John 5:14-15).
We believe with you!
Father, as Your children, we come to You and remind You that we have
been redeemed from the curse of the law and You have promised us all the
blessings of Abraham. We are in a covenant with You and we expect You to
fulfill the conditions of that covenant.
Father, we desire to have a baby, and since Your Word says that children
are a gift from You, we expect to have a normal, healthy baby. Since
_________ has been redeemed from the curse, we expect her to carry that
child full term. Your Word says You will bless the fruit of her womb,
and Your Word says she will lose none of her young by miscarriage or be
barren and that You will keep her safe through childbearing. Since she
is no longer under the curse, she will be able to have this child the
way You originally planned for Eve to have children - free from pain and
suffering and pangs and spasms of distress. So we expect this child to
be brought into the world quickly and with no pain. We believe she will
feel the contractions but will feel no pain. We believe, according to
Your Word, that she will have a beautiful pregnancy with no suffering
during it.
Thank You, Father, for hearing and answering our prayers and for
faithfully watching over Your Word to perform it. We know You have given
your angels charge over us to accompany and defend and preserve us in
all our ways.
Now, Satan, you hear the Word of God. We speak it to you and command you
to take your hands off us, God's children, in the Name of Jesus. We
break all assignments you have put up against us and forbid you to
hinder this pregnancy or childbirth in any way. We bind you and the Word
of God declares that whatever we bind on this earth is bound in heaven,
and whatever we loose is loosed in heaven. And we loose the peace of God
to flood our hearts right now, in Jesus' Name.
Thank You, Lord, for hearing and answering our prayers. We love You and
we appreciate You and look forward to seeing this precious little love
that You have especially picked out for us.
We Do Not Have to Be Barren
Genesis 17:15-21 Sarah
Genesis 25:21 Rebekah
Judges 13 Manoah's wife
1 Samuel 1:1-20 Hannah
Luke 1:5-25 Elisabeth
Romans 2:11 God is no respecter of persons.
Deuteronomy 7:14 No barren people among us.
Psalm 113:9 The Lord makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a
joyful mother of children.
Hebrews 11:11 Through faith Sarah also received strength to conceive a
child, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she
judged Him faithful Who had promised.
Mark 11:24 Whatever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you shall have them.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
We Are Blessed
Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of your father, Who shall help you; and by
the Almighty, Who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb.
Deuteronomy 28:4, 11 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body.
Proverbs 20:7 The just man walks in integrity and his children are
blessed.
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit and My blessing upon your
children.
John 16:24 That our joy may be made full.
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence that we have in Him...
Jeremiah 32:27 Nothing is too hard for Him.
Psalm 113:9 For the wife to confess.
Psalm 128:3 For the husband to confess.
Psalm 127:3; Matthew 18:19 For the husband and wife to confess.
For an Easy Delivery
Galatians 3:13 We are not under the curse of pain in childbirth.
Isaiah 53:4 Christ bore our griefs (Hebrew choli - sickness, weakness,
pain) and our sorrows (Hebrew makob - pain).
1 Timothy 2:15 Saved (Greek sozo) meaning physical deliverance from
pain, suffering, etc. Both the Hebrew and Greek words for salvation
include the ideas of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing and
soundness.
Exodus 1:19-20 (The Amplified Bible) Quick and speedy delivery.
Psalm 91:11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in
all your ways.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power,
love and a sound mind.
Deuteronomy 31:6 He will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Exodus 23:26 (The Amplified Bible) No miscarriages.
Isaiah 66:9 He shall bring forth.
Romans 4:21 What He has promised, He is able to perform. You can be
fully persuaded and give Him all the glory!
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Ken Onwere
This raises a sad situation amongst us, and that is the low rate of
adoptions in our culture. As much as we would like to believe that our
society (unlike our american counterparts) takes care of its young, the
fact remains that our orphanages (the so-called "motherless" childrn
homes) are overcrowded with kids that can easily be placed in better
homes. Why do we have to place so much emphasis on biological lines ? A
life is a precious gift from God, regardless of who gave birth. There
comes a time when we should have the guts to thumb our noses at thoses
aspects of our culture and traditions that are plain wrong, and do the
right thing. Adopt a child today, and save a life for ever.
Ken
Mary
: right thing. Adopt a child today, and save a life for ever.
Care to start, Mr. Onwere? :)
Actually, a more outstanding part of our culture is aiding relatives that
cannot adequetely take care of their own children. Kind of like the
equivalent of adopting a child. I believe Nigeria is known for her
emphasis on family ties. If we all took care of our (extended) families,
which a family is the smallest social unit, many children would have a
better fate.
--
blah
Ken Onwere
I will as soon as you become my wife :)