The Birth Plan Has Been Written

September 13, 2026

 Y’all, when I tell you… September at Zadok is hitting different!

Due Date isn't just a theme—it has been an active, lived experience every single Sunday as new voices step up to deliver.

Last week, Dom gave us the blueprint for the waiting room. This week? We moved from the waiting room to the delivery room with our very own Worship Leader, Klynne Moore!

Klynne met us in the birthing suite with fresh revelation for every stage of the spiritual birthing process. So whether you’re conceiving, in gestation, or ready to give birth, this word is specifically for you.

Let’s get into it.

Before we get to the delivery room, let's set the backdrop to our text in 1 Kings.

Solomon just became king and had an encounter with God in a dream where he asked for wisdom. Immediately after waking up, God puts him to the test: Solomon is thrust into a situation where he has to use the very wisdom he just requested.

Quick side note: Sometimes the answer to your prayer shows up before you even realize you have it.

Enter the backstory of two mothers:

“Some time later two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled. 'Please, my Lord,' one of them began, 'this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house.'”  — 1 Kings 3:16-17 (NLT)

As the first woman submits her grievance, she drops a crucial detail: "She was with me in the house." She's referring to the very woman who is now her opp.

Which brings us to the first item on our spiritual birth plan: Your Support People.

“Who you have around you while vision is manifesting matters.” – Klynne Moore

Look at what happened with David in 1 Samuel 24:

““Now’s your opportunity!” David’s men whispered to him. “Today the LORD is telling you, ‘I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.’” So David crept forward and cut off a piece of the hem of Saul’s robe.” 1 Samuel 24:4 (NLT)

Based on David's situation, this sounded like a good idea, but it wasn't God's timing. His team was basically trying to induce labor prematurely.

David cut a corner of Saul's robe, but he refused to kill him. He knew he was the anointed next king, but he also knew it wasn't his time yet. He didn't get caught up trying to prove his calling.

How often do we let people push us forward before our season? Don't let anyone force you to move outside of God's timing. What you birth prematurely might survive, but it will come forth underdeveloped.

Who in your circle is actually advocating for your timely delivery?

“Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.” — 1 Kings 3:18 (NLT)

This house was pure chaos. Double the labor, double the contractions, double the screaming, double the newborn crying, double the surging hormones—all happening in a home with zero order to begin with.

What does this have to do with our birth plan?

Many of us are trying to birth promises in a dysfunctional environment. We're carrying unhealed pain that creates imposter syndrome, fears that talk us out of our future, anxiety around timing, and busyness that leaves us exhausted while accomplishing nothing.

Echoing what Apostle shared during worship, Klynne reminded us that birthing out of dysfunction creates chaos.

None of the women in that house were rooted. The Bible tells us in Jeremiah that:

“They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.” — Jeremiah 17:8 (NLT)

A tree stays planted no matter how chaotic the weather gets around it. In that house, nobody was upholding a standard.

Who is holding the standard in your space? Are you planted?

Your environment is directly connected to your pain perception. In natural childbirth, a high-stress, fight-or-flight response stalls labor. If you aren't progressing, look at your surroundings. Your environment might be causing you to miss where you're supposed to be.

“Environment is what you’re in, an atmosphere is what you create.” – Klynne Moore

Create an altar and build a sanctuary to birth your next promise.

“But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it.” — 1 Kings 3:19 (NLT)

How do you respond to growing pains and the discomfort of caring for what you birthed?

“The most dangerous thing you can do is allow pain to cause you to lose sight of promise.” — Klynne Moore

Why do we roll over in our sleep? Because we’re uncomfortable and we want to reclaim comfort. But comfortability kills destiny.

This woman endured the pain of childbirth, but the second the baby arrived, she prioritized her own comfort—and rolled right over on what she birthed.

When you see a vision manifest, are you willing to endure the growing pains required to sustain it? Or will you retreat to comfort the second things get hard?

How many times have we started a business, launched a ministry, or stepped into a calling, only to shut it down after a few late nights and early mornings because it took too much out of us?

The moment setbacks hit, we check out. But Galatians 6:9 reminds us:

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” — Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)

Notice it says due season, not this season. Learn how to handle discomfort. When you signed up to follow Christ, you enlisted in an army. So when the hits come left and right, don't roll over—fight back. This is pain management.

“Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.” — 1 Kings 3:20 (NLT)

So far, we’ve dealt with your support people, environment, and pain management. Now we have to resolve this trauma response we have with time. This brings us to our interventions.

This part of the story is a vivid picture of how our perfectionism shows up. When things don't go our way, we struggle with "not yet," "too soon," or "too late". We interpret God’s "not yet" as punishment instead of preparation because we haven’t resolved that the process is part of bringing forth.

Look at the woman in the story—she first grieved for the baby she lost, and then for the plan that didn’t go her way. And if we're being honest? We do the exact same thing.

Because we haven't fallen in love with the process, we try to conjure up a replacement for what died, forcing ourselves to grieve twice—first for what was lost, and second for the artificial thing we tried to create in its place.

Sometimes something dies simply because it wasn't the right time. God was teaching you discipline. Not everything that dies was meant to live.

Declare over yourself right now: I am in the timing of God, and I am safe to deliver.

God doesn't need to be rushed:

“And the LORD said, 'That’s right, and it means that I am watching, and I will certainly carry out all my plans.'” — Jeremiah 1:12 (NLT)

God will intervene when He needs to. He watches over His word. When the time is right, He will introduce the spiritual midwives you need to help bring you forth.

So let’s review—we’ve addressed support people, environment, pain management, and interventions. Now what’s next?

In natural childbirth, we plan for the child being taken care of after it’s birthed, but not the mother. In the same way, you plan for the thing He called you to birth to succeed, but not for what it is going to take for you to recover after you’ve given birth.

That brings us to postpartum care.

“And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t my son at all.” — 1 Kings 3:21 (NLT)

In the morning light, the first mother examined the baby and realized: This doesn't look like what came out of me. What does that tell us?

If you examine what's in your hands under the Father's light and it doesn't reflect Him—that is not your baby! Where’s Maury when you need him? If it lacks intercession, worship, devotion, discipline, and obedience—God is not the Father.

Verse 21 says that she took a closer look. We have to take a closer look at what’s coming out of us. We must inspect the fruit and the roots of what we're conceiving and developing.

And don't forget the mother. In natural birth, we prepare endlessly for the baby—nursery painting, baby-proofing the house, building furniture—but rarely plan for the mother's recovery.

Postpartum care is essential.

Whether male or female, we all carry a spiritual womb. Once you birth what God downloaded into you, you also have to take care of you while nurturing it.

If you were eating healthy in the Word while carrying the vision, you have to stay in the Word to sustain it. You are responsible for nourishing both the calling and yourself after the delivery.

So now, let’s run back our checklist:

•  Determine your support team: Surround yourself with people who honor God's timing and will advocate for your timely delivery.

•  Evaluate your environment: Shift your atmosphere into a sanctuary and create an altar to birth what’s next.

•  Manage the pain: Refuse to let comfort crush your destiny.

•  Trust God's intervention: Understand that in His timing, He'll introduce a midwife to help you deliver without forcing premature labor.

  
  

• Commit to postpartum care: Nourish yourself and the vision God gave you to ensure what you birthed looks like the Father.

The birth plan has been written. Now follow the plan!