PUSH: Persevere Until Success Happens Through Prayer by Cindy Trimm Read Free Book Online

influence us. Has God planted an idea for a business, a book, or a ministry in your heart that perhaps you aborted because you were waiting for someone’s approval? Are there abortive spirits in your midst that are on assignment to kill the deliverance God wants to birth through you?
    It is important that you are careful to only allow spiritual midwives into the delivery room with you. You need God-appointed midwives. Spiritual midwifery requires a special type of kingdom practitioner who is able to skillfully apply the process and technology of intercessory prayer. Be careful that you do not allow a spiritual abortionist in the delivery room with you. Those are individuals whose negativity, doubt, unbelief, frustrations, and fears can potentially undermine and sabotage your success and prosperity.
    I entreat you: discern the spirit working through the individuals in your midst. As you pray, ask God to reveal every satanic agenda and agent; ask Him to squelch demonic activities. Ask Him to frustrate the plans of the spirit of Pharaoh. Ask God to send spiritual midwives—people who will help you push past the discomfort, pain, and disappointment of an old season into the joy of the new, people who will support and cover you with their gift of speech, speaking out and interceding on your behalf. Pray for God to send those who know how to touch heaven and unlock its divine portals of grace and blessing. In the words of Sarah Zadok, “May G-d bless them to continue in the paths of Shifra and Puah, fearing G-d, not man, and through their faith in the G-dliness of birth, bless them to be His partners in creation.” 24
    But the midwives had far too much respect for God and didn’t do what the king of Egypt ordered.
—E XODUS 1:17 MSG
    I think of midwifery as a seed full of potential—a seed that will grow into a lush, blossoming tree with green branches and plenty of ripe fruit for nurturing women, babies, and families.
—M ARINA A LZUGARAY
    Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.
—M OTHER T ERESA

Chapter 6
PUSH
    Childbirth, perhaps more than any other life event, is an experience that demands a strong dose of faith and surrender. No matter how well planned or organized we may be, the inevitable moment will arise, where the birthing woman must face the fact that there is a force at play that is larger than herself. As her baby moves down the narrow passage towards birth, and contractions rush through her body with the force of a tidal wave surging towards land, the birthing woman is presented with a sublime choice: to faithfully submit to its power, or to fight it tooth and nail.
—S ARAH Z ADOK 25
    I n the final phase of the birth process, when the long hours of labor have finally passed, and just before you feel an uncontrollable urge to bear down and push with all of your strength to bring forth the new life you are bursting to deliver, there is what birth practitioners call “transition.” Transition can be described as the period of time during which your body is preparing to push. Although it is the most intense time of labor, it is the shortest, lasting only fifteen to thirty minutes. It is a critical time, however, because it is when the mother is commonly overcome by an overwhelming desire to give up.
    Transition is the dark before the dawn. It provides the signal that the baby has dropped into the birth canal and is positioned to come into the world. It is often the time when the mother’s water will break, the time when the body is fully dilated, completely yielded, and ready to push the baby from the womb into the world. It is when the woman will exclaim she can’t “do it anymore.” It is not unusual during this phase that a woman will doubt her ability to go on. Transition is the time when the mother is the most emotionally needy and