Formal/no-formal: una explicación kantiana de la belleza adherente

The very next thing that presented itself was, "Since this is your second baby, you will have afterbirth pains, and they are really bad. In fact, they are worse than the labor pains."

Let me tell you, those afterbirth pains are under the same curse as any other pain. After you have your baby, keep talking to your body, keep telling it what to do. It is subject to you; you are not subject to your body. You can use the name of Jesus and make your body do what it needs to. Command the bleeding to stop. Command the uterus to contract like it is supposed to, without pain. It is still only a contraction and does not have to hurt.

The doctors and nurses had never seen anything like it.

They had never seen anybody walk into the hospital laughing, lie down on the delivery table, push once, have a ten-pound baby and an hour later call friends and family in the United States announcing the baby. I never felt better in my life.

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What Should I Say?

Many people think they have to tell the doctors, hospital staff, relatives, and everyone they see just what they believe.

My doctor in Mexico was Spirit-filled and attended the church we were involved with there in Guadalajara, but we didn't tell him exactly what we were believing for. He respected Terry—he knew he was a man of God—so it was easy for him to go along with us in the things we did tell him.

When the nurses asked me about an anesthetic I said,

"I won't need any." They looked at me like I was a little strange, but they said, "We'll have it here, and if you need it, you can ask for it." I said, "That's fine with me." That way it didn't disturb them; but yet, I had the baby and never needed any anesthetic. (I didn't feel that it hurt my faith at all since the anesthetic was there for them and not for me.) That made an impression. They could accept it because they saw me do it, not because they heard me make some wild confession about what all I was going to do.

You need to make your confessions out loud first to yourself (and to your husband if he is in agreement) because faith comes by hearing. Second, confess it to God because you are reminding Him, as well as yourself, what He has said in His Word. And then third, tell the devil, because you certainly want him to know where you stand and that you're not going to budge an inch. No one else needs to know.

Supernatural Childbirth

Don't make the mistake of telling everyone what you're believing. It is enough to deal with the doubt and unbelief that come against your mind from the devil without having to answer to relatives and friends too:

"Why doesn't it look like it's working? Why hasn't anyone else ever done this?"

People have asked me, "What did you tell your doctor, the nurses, the personnel in the delivery room?" Nothing.

It was none of their business what I was doing.”

When you go into the hospital, that's not the time to have all your confession cards out, yelling and screaming with every contraction. "Bless God, I'm going to have this baby without pain." It's too late. If you haven't built up a confidence on the inside of you by then and you are in pain, tell them to give you a shot so you can relax. You don't have to impress anybody. You don't have to try to prove God is God. You don't have to wave your Bible and tell them what a great spiritual person you are. If you walk in with confidence and peace and say, "I'm going to have my baby now," they'll work with you. They'll do everything they can to help you when you cooperate with them.

But when a woman walks in the hospital like some kind of a religious weirdo, that's exactly what they will think she is. Then that gives a bad testimony of what a Christian is because many times the lady isn't really in faith and what she is screaming and confessing doesn't happen. Faith is having confidence, being totally at peace

—confident that it is all working. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us (1 John 5:14).

When you go to the hospital, you can quietly make your confessions, your declarations, if you want to. You

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can talk to your body if you want to. But when the nurse comes into the labor room, you don't have to slap her in the face with your confessions. You don't have to hide anything, but you can be discreet—just be in control. Do what you need to do to stay in control, but still be kind and act in love to everyone there. Sometimes that speaks the loudest and is one of the best testimonies we can have as a Christian.