When The Women Travail

For some time now I’ve been hearing a sound in my spirit. there is a sound that is being heard in the heavenlies and its reverberating across the entire globe. It’s a sound that seems to be emanating from the very foundations of the earth…. The earth itself seems to be crying out with guttural sounds which cannot be put into words. It is a wailing in the spirit like a woman in travail. The whole of creation is travailing and moaning like a woman on the verge of giving birth.

From Genesis to Revelation the Bible mentions a trouble which is to come upon mankind in the last days as of a woman in travail.

Now when we hear the word travail, some of us think of working and toiling all day in the fields. It’s thought of as extreme physical and mental exertion, hardship and struggle,

As a matter of fact the Miriam Webster dictionary states the word travail means “work that is full of pain and hard labor.” Given that context some individuals serving time in prisons and internment camps around the world including here in the US could be considered as being in travail.

But please excuse me if I do not wholeheartedly ascribe to that particular assertion.

For the majority of us, the word travail automatically conjures images of pregnancy, agony, childbirth and hours upon hours of excruciating pain… And rightfully so.

The World Health Organization has declared that maternal mortality rates are drastically increasing world wide. Here in the U.S., women are more likely to die from complications of pregnancy, and childbirth, than any other High Income Nation in the world. Much of these deaths are attributed to a severe ongoing shortage of skilled maternal health providers — especially midwives. We’ll take a closer look at that as we go deeper in the message.

Having given birth to 3 children, including one that weighed over 8 lbs I think the portion about the agony comes pretty close. But unless you are a woman who has given birth or unless you have ever been severely tortured you will never know what it’s like to be in travail.

And the last I checked, try as they might, science still has not managed to find a way for a man to give birth to a child.

Definition of travail:

The Greek transliteration of the word travail:-

The intense pain necessary to open up and introduce something new as in childbirth

Now the Hebrew form is the word telaah

Phonetic Spelling: (tel-aw-aw')

Meaning Hardship or distress

So then, In layman’s terms, we understand that the most accurate definition of travail is to experience intense extreme pain and suffering as in the pangs of childbirth or in other words, to be in labor.

Any woman who has ever given birth can testify that it is one of the most intense pain that you will ever experience in your entire life. Not only is it a painful process, some labor can literally last up to 18 hours. But most women you talk to will tell you that they would do it again for the joy of seeing and holding their child in their arms.

But this is not a message on the physical anatomy of a woman… It is a message about the need, the power, the efficacy and the potency of prayer. If ever there was a time to pray, and travail in the spirit, that time is now. . .

This message is a Macedonian call today. I’m calling for the mothers in Zion to rise up in power and authority and begin to lead the charge against the kingdom of hell. It’s time the mothers begin to go down on their knees and seek the face of God for the souls of a lost and dying generation.

I believe that right now we are at a pivotal time in the plan of God. At this very moment, this sound is resonating all across the world. As I hear the sound I am reminded of when I was a kid coming up in the church. We used to have a special service for new converts and other individuals who had not yet received the Holy Spirit. It was called a tarrying service. The candidates would be given teachings and instructions on the person and the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Teaching them how to seek the face of God

Teaching them how to wait on God until they received a breakthrough in the spirit.

Teaching them how to pray until they were able to break down their barriers and touch God

At a certain point in each service the candidates would be lead into prayer. The prayer warriors would stay with them, praying for them and interceding for them in the spirit. They would be travailing and crying out in the spirit, crying out like a woman in labor. Crying out to God on behalf of these individuals, for these new converts to receive the infilled of the Holy Spirit. They were intercessors, spiritual midwives who would stand in the gap and pray with you till you broke through in the spirit. The sound of prayer would fill the room. You could hear them interceding and tarrying before you even got to the door.