sobering words you are going to have a baby. psalm 126:5,6 – seed/tears/joy they that sow in tears...
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Sobering words
You are going to have a baby.
Psalm 126:5,6 – Seed/Tears/Joy
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Pregnancy changes
Your bodyYour emotions Your activities Your dressYour scheduleYour house - nursery
Prenatal Care
When you are expecting,
everything you do
can have an effect
on your baby.
That is whyIt is important To See your doctor regularly
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
Hebrews 10:25
Tests and procedures
to make sure
both you and baby
are doing fine.
Advice on how to take care
of yourself so your baby will be born in the best possible health.
Hebrews:13:17: Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls
Balanced diet.
Your body requires more of certain nutrients such as calcium and iron.
As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word.
2 Tim 2:2
High cost of birth defects
Nearly four million babies are born in the United States each year. Many of the high costs associated with poor pregnancy outcomes are preventable and unnecessary.
When children are involved
even the most immature grow up:
Madonna’s child - Bible
School prayer
Manson’s tour after Littleton
Some things you don’t do!
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11:
It is also very important not to
drink alcohol, smoke, or take drugs
1 Corinthians 6:19your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
Remember, what you do while you are pregnant can effectthe rest of your child's life.
Estimated lifetime costs
for 18 of the most clinically
significant birth defects in
the United States were
$8 billion in 1992
(Waitzman et al., 1994).
AbortionsOver 1 million per year54% accidental pregnancies aborted Teens account for 20%. 70% abortions unmarried. 37% Protestant & 31% Catholic Church people account for 68% of abortions
Our children have been forced to survive
Abortion table
Abuse of every kind
Abandoned throw away society
Shootings - Littleton, Colorado
What Chance Do They Have?
Missing dependable relationships children of divorce,
Starved for closeness and intimacy as the family has deteriorated.
Abusive, neglectful, busy, absent, non-emotional and working parents have no time for relationships.
Deprived intimacy value
don’t have meaningful relationship skills
parents work, permissive, "latchkey"
every other weekend step kids
Throw Away Relationships:
"dad’s girlfriend", "mom’s previous ex-husband", "my second step-father", or "my step-brother’s father’s ex-wife
Skeptical of relationships, fill the void
Do anything to be loved
Inherited Not Free Love, but AIDS,
not peace but nuclear anxiety,
not cheap communal lifestyles but crushing costs of living,
not free teach-ins but colleges priced for the aristocracy
Acceptance by surrogate families
decisions based on acceptance
don’t bother with right or wrong
Children Do not ask
"what must I do to saved?”
They Ask,
"what must I do to be loved?"
not searching for truth,
rather they are searching for meaning.
Partners, Please
Change the Cat Litter
Many activities are out because they might hurt children:
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth,
1 Corinthians 8:13
Morning Sickness
Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the justEphesians 5:12: For it is a shame
even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Childbirth Preparation Classes
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Emotional extremes
Paul joy unspeakable
Great sorrow and continual heaviness
Stress - Uncomfortable
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Fatigue - Labor
For ye remember, brethren,
our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
Blood Tests
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Hebrews
Travel Restrictions
Roller coasters
X-rays
There’s a baby involved
Fetal Movements
Acts:17:32: And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Get to the Hospital
without Delay
“I travail in birth again
until Christ
be formed in you”
-Galatians 4:19
When labor starts
You can’t put it off.
Can’t put off salvation.
Revelation:12:2
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
John:16:21
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come:
But As Soon As She Is Delivered
of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
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