Keion Henderson - Induced Labor

Number 16, verse number 1: If you’ve got to say, «Man, something’s happening in here,» I can hear it. Last year, the devils tried to bind you with a spirit of heaviness, but today, together we stand against the wiles of the devil-meaning the schemes of the devil. I don’t care who you are; if you’re going to do anything for God, the devil’s after you. You better believe it. Number 16: Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and the son of Reuben took men and rose up before Moses, with a certain number of the children of Israel-two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown. They gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, «Here 's the translation: You think you’re better than us! And the whole congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Wherefore, then, lift ye up? Why are you lifting yourself up above the congregation of the Lord?» And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face and spoke unto Korah and all his company, saying, «Even tomorrow, the Lord will show who are His and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto Him, even him whom He has chosen.» Somebody say, «I’ve been chosen!» Will He cause to come near unto Him? What is taking place in the text is God is getting ready to show Moses who he really is, because your enemies are the only ones who announce it. Up until now, Moses has had a lot of support and a lot of friends, and now someone is challenging his position. That 's how you know you’ve made it; your enemies tell you you’re arriving, not your friends. Moses was a humble guy; you see, he fell on his face. But God pushed him into destiny, which is why today I want to talk on this subject: Induced Labor. Touch everybody on the way down. God’s getting ready to make you have this baby. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.

My sister-in-law just recently had a baby a couple of days ago. I remember the day she and my brother told me that they were pregnant. My wife and my family are my witnesses. I looked at her and said, «Your baby is going to be born on my birthday,» spoken into her life without hesitation. Many months have passed, and at 10:55 a.m. on July 6th, she gave birth to her son. She would have had the baby several days before. I mean, if you know, God won’t let it come one moment sooner than it needs to come. Man, we can only talk about birth from an intellectual perspective, but the truth is, we have no experience. If men were left to have babies, there would just be me. I don’t think any of you brothers would go through that. I mean, we don’t have the pain tolerance to have babies, and if we did have them, we wouldn 't have the nurturing spirit to raise them. So God left it up to women to do it. Moses, like my sister-in-law, was scheduled to have a birthday, if you will, probably different than what his mother designed. If it were up to Moses' mother, she would have never had to leave him on that river. If it were up to her, she would have never had to make a basket and line it with pitch and slime, and she would have never had to leave her baby in the Nile River. But the Bible specifically tells us that His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Sometimes you are going through what you’re going through not because you did anything wrong, but so that He might get the glory.

The Bible says in Mark chapter 9 that there was a blind man. In those days, they thought that if a man was blind, it was because of his parents' sins. So when they found out the man was blind, they asked the question, «Did this man sin or did his parents sin?» Jesus said, «No, neither one sinned; he’s only blind for my name’s sake.» There are some things that you go through just so that people can see God. There was a young lady here named Misty; I won’t call her out, but she’s here at church today. She came here to the church, and some of the members had gathered around her. She has a sweet spirit, and long story short, she said she needed a bedroom set for her house. Some of our members pitched in and were able to give her some money to buy a bedroom set. When we contacted the furniture company, they said, «You know what? I feel led of the Lord not only to provide the bedroom furniture but the furniture for the whole house.» She 's sitting in church today; you know why? God blessed her with a whole house and not just a room because she knew that if He blessed her, she’d come here and bless Him. You see, sometimes you settle for a room when God wants to give you the house. God is getting ready to do some things in this next year that’s going to blow your mind, and you better be ready because it’s not as small as you think. You 've got to think bigger because God cannot get a big blessing through a small window.