DEVOTIONAL: TRUNCATING YOUR CHILD'S DESTINY?

Bible passage: Judges.13:2-5

Because God is a God of purpose. He never does anything without purpose. When He speaks, He has a purpose for what He says. When He laughs, there is also a purpose(Psalm.37:13). When He created you, it was for a purpose.May you fulfil God's purpose for creating you in Jesus' Name. Do you know that God's plan and purpose for your life has been concluded long before He laid the foundations of the earth(Ephesians.1:3-5)?. However, for you to fulfil this purpose, you have to understand it, and you need to do everything to ensure that its not derailed. Our bible reading shows how crucial it is to understand purpose. When an angel was sent to announce to Manoah's wife that she would give birth to Samson, it was for a specific purpose: the child was to be set apart unto God as a Nazarite. One lesson here is that even when God has a specific purpose for a person, it is the responsibility of the parents not to derail this purpose, right from the pint of conception until God's plan is fulfilled. For example, if Samson's mother had insisted on taking alcoholic drinks or eating anything classified as unclean after she has been warned by the angel, she would have derailed God's plan for Samson.

The plan of God for Samson was that the Holyspirit would start working on him right from when he was in his mother's womb; but if his mother had consumed alcohol, two spirits would have been at war in her: the Holyspirit and the spirit of alcohol( a demonic spirit). Because the Holyspirit would not work where the spirit of alcohol holds sway, Samson would never had become what God planned for him to be. This simply tells us that the physical and the spiritual state of parents, particularly mothers, is of great importance, right from the conception of a child. The actions of a mother affects the fetus in her womb and can alter the destiny of a child. The actions of a pregnant woman who smokes cigarettes or marijuana, often takes alcohol or hard drugs such as cocaine and so on will definitely affect the baby in her womb. Sometimes the physical structure of that baby is tampered with leading to abnormal foetal development or deformities. Such children could even develop mental health issues and find it difficult to live normal lives. Worse still, if a child ends up being aborted, the destiny of that child is completely destroyed. Beloved mothers abstain from anything that can cause harm to unborn child. Do not be guilty of truncating your child's destiny!

Culled from the rccg open heavens daily devotional.