WOMEN AND BIRTHING: Lessons from Mary and Esther

There are characteristics and attributes that the male and female have which express the nature of God and Godly precepts. Physically, the womb of a woman is where the fertilized egg is implanted and where the baby develops until birth. This means that after incubating, a woman births forth. “A woman is an incubator of everything you give her. She produces life out of everything placed in her charge. (Extract from Arisesister writup on Woman God Created: An Incubator).
The same way women in the natural birth/bring to life children after the full gestation (pregnancy) period is symbolic of the woman being an incubator of God’s agenda and plays a fundamental role in birthing these Godly plans in time and due season.
Let’s learn from the life of Mary the Mother of Jesus in the biblical narrative of the birth of Jesus Christ which is recorded in Matthew 1:16-24.

Jesus Christ’s coming to earth is God’s Ultimate plan for the salvation and redemption of mankind. Jesus is from Joseph’s lineage but before they came together, Mary was pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Undisputable, Joseph had a very fundamental God ordained role to play in the manifestation of God’s agenda on earth and so too did Mary, a woman who aligned herself with Godly precepts, yielded herself, was filled with the Holy Spirit and in submission to the leading of her husband Joseph, played a great role in the birthing and nuturing Jesus Christ. Joseph and Mary aligned with God and yielded to the instructions of God for their lives and Jesus Christ, the Messiah and God’s ultimate plan for the salvation and redemption of mankind was birthed on earth.

Women are part of God’s agenda for his plans to manifest on earth. I recently listened to a pastor who expressed the symbolism of the birthing ability of women in these words “Women have a power in God. In every powerful move of God for the manifestation of His will on the earth, there are women in the plan. Women express the nature of God to bring forth.”

Let’s also be inspired by the Life of Esther. In the book of Esther, we see a king Xerxes who apparently had a God ordained mandate to liberate the Jews. During the time of his first wife Vashti, this mandate was not fulfilled. In fact, Xerxes almost got wrong advice from his kinsmen to destroy the Jews. Due to Vashti’s insolence towards the king, she was replaced with Esther. Esther, who was a woman submitted to God and to her husband, fasted and prayed and discerned her task of giving wise counsel and helping the king to fulfill the mandate of passing decrees for the liberation of the Jews. Esther partnered with her husband and God’s will of liberation for the Jews was made manifest.

Dear sister, we are part of God’s plan for the birthing and manifestation His will on Earth. The fundamental way of living up to manifesting the plans of God is by:
1) Becoming intimate with God our creator who is our maker and the orchestrator of these abilities;
2) Understanding our Identity in God especially through His word;
3) Partnering with God which begins with the right positioning;
4) Yielding ourselves for God to transform and empower us by the power of the Holy Spirit to manifest His glory.

Our prayer is that by God’s grace, we would daily grow in knowledge of the word of God, understand our Identity and be vessels through whom the glory of God will me made manifest on earth.