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s
Christians,
we
sometimes think and
feel that whenever we
ask
God
for
something,
He has to do it
immediately. What we forget is that
in His own time, He makes all
things beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
As a young, newly married woman,
and being on fire for the Lord, the
next thing I was expecting was to get
pregnant and have my first child and
be called a mother. But to my
disappointment, my expectations
seemed to have been cut short. After
waiting for two years I began to
question God like many others. I
always cried to God and prayed that
He would bless me with a child. I
sought help from gynaecologists but
they all concluded that there was
nothing wrong with me or my
husband. We continued to seek the
face of God till my husband travelled
abroad to further his studies. After a
year, I joined him in Sweden; We
continued to seek God's face for a
child. I remember once when we
were having our morning devotion,
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he said the Lord had laid it on his
heart that we should stop praying for
ourselves but rather pray for our
friends who were waiting on God for
the fruit of the womb. You can
imagine my shock. As we prayed for
our friends, their wives would take
seed and they would call to share the
good news with us.
In all this, my husband was very
supportive. I always say that God
knew my weakness and gave me the
bone of my bone. Sometimes when
my human body became weak, my
husband was there to encourage me
to stand again with the word of
God. He loved me unconditionally
throughout these challenging times
because we were in it together. He
never made me feel less of a woman
because I hadn’t borne him a child.
He always told me he didn’t get
married to me because of children
and that children are a blessing from
God. I always thank God for his life
and what God is using him to do in
his ministry.
In the fifth year of our marriage,
we decided to seek medical
In His Time ...