Genealogy Books - Supernatural Childbirth

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Summary: Great purchase ~
Comment: I bought this book for my niece a few months before her baby's due date and she loved it!! She'd
talk about it all the time and was so uplifted by the stories. Great purchase!

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Summary: Extremely faith promoting book
Comment: This book starts from the premise in the Bible that nothing is too hard for the Lord. I had never
"interpreted" some of the scriptures the way the author did, but I don't think it is harmful to view
them that way. The book is loaded with scriptures. I had expected more mundane advice and certainly
nothing that expected the incredible. She gives her own experiences as well as including stories
from some who had tried this and it had worked. My opinion is that we, mortals, know very little and
much more is possible than we judge possible. But it takes faith and, very definitely, humility to
tap into the "impossible."

This lady has incredible faith. I learned a lot from this
book. I took many of the scripture references and taped them, along with some affirmations. I play
the tape over and over again to get the words into my head. No baby as yet, but Amazon wanted a
review and I didn't think about waiting several months or a year to write it.

I don't
think that those people who tried and "failed" ought to judge themselves or the book. There is a
difference between faith to be saved and faith to be healed in a way that our society and traditions
say, no, shout is impossible. There is condemnation for one, but not for the other. I think it takes
a lot to look in one's soul and see the fine points where we lack faith.

This book is
definitely worth trying. There is nothing anti-Christ nor dark about this book.

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Summary: God used this book to break MANY CURSES off of my LIfe!
Comment: This is a Book that God used to break the spirit of fear off of my life concerning birthing
children, This book helped me to first prepare spiritually so i could then prepare naturally and by
having this book it not only spoke to my spirit man but also showed me how to do it myself hence
provided me with the tools i needed to go into the Hospital, beleive and then receive. My testimony
is too long to tell but it was nothing but Miracles and because of that I am soon to write my own
book but in brief with my first child due to having read this book i was dialated to 5cm and did not
know the doctor had to send me straight to the hospital due to being able to feel the baby's head
and was in amazment that i had NO pain whatsoever, and with my second child again i did not know i
was in my delievery and when i showed up at the hospital i was already dialated to 10cm where all
they asked me to do was to please wait so they could get a doctor. This book is something that will
draw you closer in your walk with God regardless of your outcome, it's something you do have to work
your own faith with. The principles i learned in this book i applied to not only having my children
but in many other areas of my life and due to having done so this is why i said God used this book
to break many curses off of my life. Point blank you will only gain by reading this book if you
approach it with a humble heart. Blessings and lookout for my book soon to follow. Sepia Gladden

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Summary: Life Changing Pregnany Book
Comment: My husband and I are planning on starting a family soon, and a friend of my read this books during
her pregnancy and recommended it to us. It's packed full of logical information and guidance from
Scripture about pregnancy. It puts pregnancy and childbirth in a whole new light. This book is a
must for anyone who is pregnant or planning on having children!

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Summary: Takes scripture out of context, makes dangerous conclusions
Comment: Supernatural Childbirth is a book I really struggled with.

I struggle with the book
because I want so badly to believe the author's conclusions. However, I can find no confirmation in
scripture that the author's conclusions are correct.

Let me start by saying that I do
not presume to question the truth of the author's own personal experiences with conceiving and child
bearing. Nor do I doubt the testimonies of the women included. I do not doubt her sincerity in her
belief. I will even go so far as to say that I believe it's possible that God worked the way He did
in the author's life for exactly the reasons she thinks He did. However, I draw the line at the
author's use of her personal story as a prescription for all Godly child bearing. She boldly claims
"If it will work for us, it will work for you." Later in the same passage she claims that she won't
even argue about it, and that she's right because her claims are supported by scripture. I do not
believe that any interpreter has the monopoly on understanding the meaning in purpose in Holy
scripture.

The author, Jackie Mize, is the mother of 4 living children and 1 miscarried
child. After her first miscarriage, she sought comfort in the Word and came to the conclusion that
it was God's will for her to have children and she could triumph over any physical failures in
conceiving or carrying a baby by claiming various passages in scripture as promises for her life and
fertility and commanding her body to obey. She went on to have 4 successful pregnancies and 3
pain-free deliveries.

She uses the term "Supernatural" in this way:

"When
I refer to supernatural childbirth, I'm talking strictly about being able to conceive and to have
babies with a pregnancy free from nausea, morning sickness, pain, moodiness, depression and without
fear of any kind; then going through the entire labor without pain, and through the delivery without
stitches and anesthetic. I'm talking about using the Word of God to overcome, change and make things
better."

I will confess my own bias and say that I am not a charismatic believer. The
spirit has never moved me in that way and the walk He has called me to is different in mode than the
walk of those He has gifted more charismatically. As it is with anything unknown, I was initially
leery of the author's assertions based on ignorance alone.

However, it is my sincere
belief after lengthy consideration that my objections are founded on spiritual truths and not on
prejudices.

The fundamental problem with Ms. Mize's basic thesis is the underlying
assumption that it is God's will that every woman who wants a child would have one. Translated: it
is God's will that we should have whatever we want. In one support of her claim, the author
writes,

"...Every barren woman in the Bible who was godly and believed Your Word
became pregnant; You opened her womb and blessed her."

This begs the question:
what then of the woman who wants children but has none?

The hermeneutic problem with
the author's proof-text approach is that it is based on the logical fallacy of an argument from
silence. It assumes that Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel, Hannah, Manoah's Wife, the Sunammite Woman,
and Elisabeth are an exhaustive list of every barren woman in Israel when there is absolutely no
text to support that, nor does assuming so make any logical sense. If one assumed that, one would
also have to assume that every person, miracle and teaching in the Bible was exhaustive. Else, how
would the distinction between what is exhaustive and what is selective be made? I am positive that
in the whole of the spans of time covered by the scripture there were more godly citizens, miracles,
encounters with God, testimonies, and teachings that we will ever know. God's power throughout
history is not limited to what is contained in 1500 pages of text.

The notion that God
exacts his favor on man based on the man's works is clearly contradicted in scripture. In the
author's context, a man's very faith is a work that he improves and builds of his own will and
capacity. She writes, "The reason it worked for us is we found it in God's word and kept reading,
studying and talking it until it was part of us. And that's what will make it work for you."
Essentially, they willed it so. She even assigns value judgments to women, dividing them as
"average," "above average" and "below average" in God's kingdom. There is no scriptural evidence
that God's economy works this way.

She also claims "by His stripes we are healed" as a
proclamation of power over cancer, migraines, stomach aches and childbearing. She even goes so far
as to say "If we're redeemed, we're redeemed; either we are or we're not!" The logical extension of
this is that any measure of pain in a person's life is either a failure of Christ's redemptive
power, or an indication of an incomplete faith in the believer. Were pain proportionate to faith,
Paul, John, Stephen and Christ himself would have ascended to glory pain-free.
/>Additionally, the author's basic premise would have to extend to the conclusion that a childless
couple is not manifesting God's will, or is following it less well than the couple with children. By
this conclusion God's ability to exact His will on earth is limited by the power and faith of
mortals. God's performance in the midst of pain and suffering is less perfect than His work in lives
where there is no pain.

If it is genuinely true that there is no place in God's kingdom
for pain and suffering, then what of the suffering of Job, David, Christ and the apostles? How
beautiful is Job's faith in God in the midst of his struggles! How precious are David's psalms of
heartfelt honesty! How urgent are the Apostles' pleadings that we persevere for sake of Christ! />
God's glory is vast, and His power to redeem is unending. God can manifest His glory
through pain, through jubilation, and through everything in between. He can redeem any broken body,
but it does not follow that redemption is always earthly healing. How arrogant of us to limit God in
such a way. If it is the case that His glory will be made manifest more in brokenness than in
health, may it never be so that we attempt to stand in His way! We are told that God's ways are not
our ways. Therefore how can we claim to know the exhaustive list of the manners, modes and
circumstances in which He might choose to make His glory known?

While I appreciate the
author's courage in addressing the issue at all, and the sincerity of her beliefs, and her general
encouragement that women should trust God more with their bodies and children, there is little in
this book to recommend it to anyone looking to read it for any other purpose than mere curiosity and
exposure to alternate ideas.

Recommended: No

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