Living Hope Fellowship Church

TRAVAIL THE VICTORY

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

TRAVAIL THE VICTORY

Preface

(pray for revival)

We have conceived the seed of faith in Christ, and that holy thing which is in us begins to grow as we yield to God and pray. 

It is a supernatural conception from heaven by God’s Holy Ghost that has overshadowed us.  That holy thing conceived in us must be brought forth – revival that manifests the Lord Jesus Christ. 

We are in travail that we might bring forth revival.  The Bible says when Zion travailed, she brought forth children.  If the Bride of Christ doesn’t give up, she will bring forth children, and the glory of God, and revival. 

However, you won’t have revival unless you fast, and pray, and believe God for it.  Pray for one another that God will give each of us the faith to go onward and believe Him for the rest of His move in us. 

TRAVAIL THE VICTORY

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          When a child is coming, you have to get the nursery ready for that which is to come. 

John 16:21 says, “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.”

Jesus said that when a woman is in travail, she has sorrow.  In the Bride of Christ, the church, God’s people, the seed of the Word of God has been planted by faith.  As we yield our lives over to God - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit, we are growing something within us as individuals and as a church body.  However, before there can be a birth, there must be great travail. 

If someone assists a baby chicken in cracking out of its shell when it is being born, the chick is weak, and in most cases does not live.  It was not given the opportunity to be birthed in the fashion God ordained.

According to God’s Word, it is the same way for the Church, the Bride of Christ.  She must travail before she can bring forth children.  God has ordained for His Bride to bring forth the remnant that will go up when the trumpet sounds and the rapture takes place. 

We have conceived the seed of faith in Christ, and that holy thing which has come upon us and in us begins to grow as we yield to God and we pray, building up ourselves in our most holy faith.  We begin to “show” the things God has promised to them that love Him.  The further along we get, the more uncomfortable and lousy we feel in the natural, because something is not normal.  It is a supernatural conception from heaven by God’s Holy Ghost that has overshadowed us.  That holy thing conceived in us must be brought forth – revival that is in the manifestation of Jesus Christ the Lord.  It must come forth in the church as a whole, but it must come forth in the individual first. 

In John 14:23 Jesus said, “. . . If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”  We believe this by faith in the beginning, and it was accounted to us for righteousness.  It begins a work in us as Christians.  As we go on, the power of God shows in us.  There are signs that we are “pregnant”.

We have gone through great wrestling likened to travail.  God wants Christ to be raised up in us and manifest in His people.  It will come forth first as the anointing.  Then it will begin to move forth as revival, and then to the manifest sons of God!  Whosoever will may come. 

We are building a church, a “nursery”, something God has commanded us to build as an act of faith.  As we obey God in anything, He will cause the growth of Christ to accelerate in us.  Many times it is not evident at first, but soon it will “show”.  Then the world begins to get upset! 

You get into sorrow, because you say, I’ve gone to the trouble of birthing this thing, and they do not care!  You go into travail and the whole gamut of emotions.  This is when men can understand a little bit of what a woman goes through as she goes through all the spectrum of trouble and travail in her mind and her body as she is about to give birth.

I believe the birth of the manifestation of the power of God we have sought and believed God for is about to bring forth.  I believe the door is open, and God is ready to do something with His people.  They are travailing, and people are mocking and rejecting them.  They say, Why are you starting something in the middle of winter, and in the middle of the night? 

God has given us a command, and we are listening to Him.  He says we must travail until we bring forth!  Birth is not painless.  God told Eve in Genesis 3:16, “. . . I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. . . .”

If you get full of God, you can birth an unlimited number of people to Christ.  They will see the manifest Son of God, and they will believe on Him.  They will conceive the seed of faith and go on to a greater move of God still yet.  That is revival, as children are birthed into the Kingdom of God. 

I have been told that it is the greatest act of agony in a human being when a woman goes through the final moment, that last big push in birth.  You want the child to be fine, and you want to get the thing over with.  You are in the midst of being delivered.  You are wrestling it for all you are worth.  You may be about to pass out, or maybe you are coming and going.  You may feel like you are being stretched and pulled in every direction.  Suddenly there is a powerful rush, and the birth comes forth, and the baby starts hollering.  Some fathers have been privileged to be at their children’s birth. 

God wants to do something.  If a woman remembered the sorrow and anguish from the first child, she would want no more.  Medical science says women are at the closest point of death when birth is about to come forth.  The blood pressure is high, the heart rate is pounding, the sweat is pouring, and the blood is running.  However, a new life is coming forth.  There is a near death before that life comes.  That is what a woman goes through.

That is what the church is going through!  We are in a birthing time, travailing right now for the greatest move of the Lord Jesus Christ the world has ever known.  When the things that God has promised to us that love Him come, we won’t remember the travail!  We will be concentrating on getting on with the revival!  Signs, wonders, and miracles will follow them that believe!            Mark 16:15-18 says, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.  And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

Jesus is growing in you, and you are about to travail with the manifest presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.  When He comes forth and stands in all His glory, He will draw all men unto Him! 

The closest point of death for one who is giving birth is right when the child is coming forth.  Some people feel like the bottom would look good if they could ever reach up high enough to touch it.  The devil even starts to make sense to them.  The mind is in great warfare.  The body feels oppression from the things the devil has sent against them. 

We are in travail, and we have a choice to come on or to abort!  Some have aborted in the very last hour, but some have aborted early.  Some never allow the conception to take place.  Some want to be delivered from the travail.  They do not want to give birth.  You can encourage Christians, telling them about the joy waiting on them, but they say they can’t stand it, and they abort. 

One great device of hell is that many have conceived wrong seed and are about to give birth to that which the antichrist has planted in them! 

Christ wants warriors who will fight the battle against the thief who has provoked the earth since Cain.  We are travailing and we are going to bring forth.  There will be days you will bleed, days you will be confused, and days of wrestling, but there will also be days of relief, blessing, and joy.  Always remember what the Word of God says.  Believe it and follow it and that Word will become more manifest in you.  Your sorrow shall be turned into joy! 

When you are going through trouble to bring this forth, know that the joy that waits thereafter is far greater, far more glorious, and more powerful.  It is anointed of God, and it shall cast out devils, heal the sick, raise the dead, and move on all the afflicted.  It shall bring many to Christ. 

Hezekiah was the king of Judah, and Jerusalem was the capitol.  Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, had sent Rabshakeh with harsh and blasphemous words against the kingdom of God and God himself.  They had declared all their victories in front of God’s people.  The king was told all the things the heathen spoke against God.  This enemy told them they were going to take the city and destroy the work of God, because the gods of others had not saved them, and Israel’s God would not save them either. 

Isaiah 37: 1-3 says, “And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.  And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.  And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”

          This is what they told the man of God.  They were in great travail, and they did not feel they had the strength to bring forth.

Isaiah 66:8 says, “Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.”  In Verse 9 God is talking to those of us who would say there is not strength enough to bring forth.  Verse 9 says, “Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.”

If God has begun a travailing in you, a work in you, He will perform it.  He will cause it to come to birth!  You keep on laboring, and travailing, and believing God, and He will bring it forth!  You don’t have to bring it forth; God will do it.  God will move on you, the people, and the church, and there shall be a glorious birth, and a glorious rejoicing.  Jesus Christ, the Son of God shall be made manifest among His people.  The Bride of Christ shall be made known unto all men.  God said He shall bring it to pass.  It doesn’t matter how hard the push, or how close to death. 

1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

He will bring you to the point of death that you will know the difference between death and life.  Psalm 23:4 says, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

You may not know if you can do it.  Keep on believing God, and He will do it right on through you.  God, I have a heavy blood loss.  I am passing out.  You are going to travail some tears and sorrow.  There will be some anguish right before the awesome day of the Lord.  James 1:3-4 says, “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

Luke 21:19 says, “In your patience possess ye your souls.”  As we have believed God, we wait on Him.  We are supposed to eat and drink just right.  We are not partaking of uncleanness during this “pregnancy”.  We must believe God as we move forward.  We don’t need assistance from the world or the devil.  We need what God’s Word has provided for us to eat!  God’s Word and His grace are sufficient for us.  Matthew 4:4 says, “. . . Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

There is victory in Christ Jesus, and we shall see revival like the world has never seen in its entire history.  The bigger the baby, the harder is the travail.  Men can’t amen this nearly as hard as the women, unless they have held the woman’s hand as she was giving birth.  Have you felt that grip when she had a contraction?  Sure it hurts, but do you know what you are bearing?  Sure you are in a lot of pain, but it is worth it.  Look what comes forth from it. 

You don’t know precisely what it is going to look like, but after it comes forth, you would give your life to make sure they keep theirs.  You should be willing to give your life for the children that are to come forth by your travailing in birth in Christ Jesus.  You should be seeking God with all faith and all holiness, yielding over by the Spirit, doing what He has commanded you to do.  There is an innumerable multitude of souls who want to come to Jesus if they can find something REAL. 

The only thing that is really birthed is something that has been travailed over.  When Zion travailed, she brought forth children.  It was not when she just sat, or goofed off, or was lukewarm.  When she wrestles, and wars, and says No, devil.  This one belongs to God - then she is fighting for the things God promised.  If she (the Bride of Christ) doesn’t give up, then she brings forth children, and the glory of God, and revival.  You won’t have revival unless you fast, and pray, and believe God for it. 

God has already sent the birth pangs on you.  I think some people are saying, If I hold real still, and don’t do anything, maybe the pain will go away.  Lord, let somebody else have this one.  This is not mine.  It is yours, because you are carrying it.  Romans 11:29 says, “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”

I changed my mind.  Hold it.  Time out.  Here comes the next contraction.  Oh, no.  My wife and I took a course that said if you push with the same desire and energy the contractions are coming, it is supposed to make it better.  It does speed birthing, so PUSH with the same attitude that it is coming on you.  When the devil stands in your face, stand in his face!  When the devil tells you that you aren’t going to make it, tell him he SURE isn’t going to make it!  The Word of God says that the devil is going to hell.  The devil will tell you that you are not going to make it, because the last big contraction is too much, but the devil is a liar! 

Jesus said there would be great sorrow in this travail.  Do you want to keep this child, or are you going to abort it?  Mean or ornery, you still love your children.  The only thing you can do to keep them out of hell is prayer, and wrestling, and travail against the powers of darkness that try to destroy them. 

What is this THING?  It is a mighty, awesome anointing of God, the manifest presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.   He has promised this to them that love Him.  1 Corinthians 2:9 says, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”  In the Old Testament it says it is for them that wait on Him. 

If you believe the promise that God will bring forth a mighty move of God, then you have conceived this seed.  As you feed it, it must grow.  We have been fed mighty things from God’s Word.  Prophecy and the anointing of the Lord caused it to grow, and now we are in travail, about ready to give birth.  It will be by signs following. 

We are at the last push, and we can’t quit now.  If you quit, you abort it.  God says He has brought it up to that point, and He will cause it to come forth.  Philippians 1:6 says, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

It cannot fail if you won’t give up!  The thing God has put in you will not fail to come to pass if you will not give up, no matter what the reasoning.  You think you have plenty of reasons to give up.  You think Jesus didn’t have reasons?  Jesus held His faith like flint in God.  He bought you with His blood, and now you can come by the blood of the Lamb and the promise of the Father.  You are going to have revival with the anointing that breaks every yoke. 

Now is the time to believe.  John 16:22-23 makes us to understand that Jesus will manifest Himself to His people at this time.  Verse 22 says, “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.”

John 16:23 says, “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.”  Whatever you ask God in the name of Jesus in that day when this is brought forth, God will answer.  There will not be a six month’s wait or maybes.  He will give it to you right then, or He will give you the reason.  Revival shall spring forth. 

Jesus said we will see Him again.  2 Chronicles 5:14 says, “So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.”  God was there.  When He brought His people out of Egypt, they saw Him (see Exodus 13:19-22) as a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 

You can read in Exodus 24:9-13 how Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel saw the God of Israel, and did eat and drink. 

God wants to show forth Himself out of His people again.  Don’t quit praying.  Now is the time; it is just about ready to come forth.  If your contractions are farther apart than those of somebody else, pray for them.  Galatians 6:2 says, “Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” 

Pray for one another that God will give each of us the faith to go onward and believe Him for the rest of His move in us. 

CONTACT INFORMATION:

PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

E-mail  livinghope@hughes.net

www.livinghopefellowshipchurch.org

These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.