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Faisal Malick, “If you are pregnant with a baby, with a ministry, with a task, you have to give birth to it. If you have not felt new life stir within you for a while, allow the presence and the glory of God to revive it, and then pray for wisdom to carry it.” 4
    I exhort you to be faithful with the seed God has given you. It contains the assignment He has commissioned you to carry out in this earth. Carry that seed in good soil, water it, protect it, make it a priority, and allow it to grow and mature to full term. Bring to fullness the champion that you are and fulfill the divine mission that only you can accomplish.
    “Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby. Fill the air with song, you who’ve never experienced childbirth! You’re ending up with far more children than all those childbearing women.” God says so! “Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big!”
—I SAIAH 54:1-3 MSG
    Pregnant women! They had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.
—R UTH M ORGAN
    Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn’t dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line.
—G LORIA L EMAY

Chapter 4
TRAVAIL
    Nearly every revival has been preceded by the physical prayer of travail—an intercessory birthing that not only serves as an outward prophetic sign of what God is doing, but also incorporates the believer’s entire body, soul, and spirit in some of the most intense, enjoyable, and beneficial kind of prayer.
—J OHN C ROWDER 5
    …without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.
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M AY S ARTON
    T here is a time for conceiving and
receiving seed
, a time for faithfully carrying the seed with expectation, and a time for bringing the seed you are carrying forth, both delivering and being delivered. Giving birth is a process that does not begin in the birthing room but in the intimacy of a private chamber where an invisible germ of potential is given and received. The birth of new life begins at conception. Godly plans and purposes begin in the prayer closet.
    The seed of God’s promise for you is planted in your spirit when you receive His Word in the inner sanctum of your heart. It is carried to term through your faith and expectation. And it is delivered through trial and tribulation, or
travail
. We not only travail in prayer but also in life.
Travail
is both defined as “work, especially work that involves hard physical effort over a long period” and “to be in labor” as a woman during childbirth. 6
    We deliver the promise we carry both through travailing experiences as well as travailing prayer. According to Mark 4:17, we undergo
“persecution…for the word’s sake.”
The enemy strives to stir up persecution against the word of promise about to be birthed through you, the seed you carry in the womb of your spirit containing the life and deliverance God has created you to bring forth. The Rev. Faisal Malick states, “The wisdom hidden within you will bring about persecution and affliction because you are pregnant with something that is not just about you. When you give birth to that word it will bring life to everyone around you.” 7
    When you are about to birth your assignment—your prophetic destiny—you will go through a period that can be compared to the dark before the dawn. It is always darkest just before the sun is about to rise. St. John of the Cross called this time “the dark night of the soul.” In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, “In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.” And to quote St. John, “The soul perceives itself to be so unclean