Brother:
Your prayer request reminds me of the one my wife and I had for the first seventeen years of our marriage. We, too, had problems having children. My wife had many miscarriages and we tried many medical procedures. This lasted for seventeen years. Finally one night while we were in church partaking of communion, the Lord spoke to me and told me that we would have a child. We were kneeling at the altar at church and that is when the Lord spoke to me very plainly. We were in the midst of another medical procedure and I was confident that the Lord was telling me that the procedure would work, so I left rejoicing. It was not until a few nights later that I told my wife of what the Lord had told me. It was then that she revealed that the Lord had spoken to her at the same time He had spoken to me and had also told her that we would have a child. Well you can imagine how we both rejoiced!!
After the medical procedure was completed we went for a pregnancy test, both totally confident that the Lord's word would be fulfilled. You can imagine our disappointment when the test came back negative. We both asked how could it be when we were so sure that the Lord had promised us a child. We were very low for about two months.
Little did we know that at the time the Lord had spoken to us while we knelt at the altar in our little church that there was this young woman half a world away in another country who was praying for the Lord to tell her what to do with this child she was carrying. She was single and scared. Several months after our disappointment in finding out that my wife was not pregnant, the Lord arranged for this young woman to come to the U.S. and stay with a Christian family and to give birth to her child. Word of the birth of this child and the young woman who was looking for a couple to adopt this precious child got to my wife and me through my brother-in-law who was in that town because he was attending seminary and studying for the ministry. We came the next day and then and there saw the Lord's Word made true in the face of our daughter. Our precious daughter is now four years old and her laughter is music in our house.
Don't lose faith, Paul. The Lord is true to His word. It may take some time and you may misinterpret what his intentions are (as we did), but He is true to His word.
Now I pray for you and your wife:
Dear Lord, I pray that you will perform a miracle for Paul and his wife as you did for my wife and me. Lord, please provide for a child by giving the child the parents he/she needs and, Lord, please provide for Paul and his wife the child that they want. It will all be for your glory so they, too, may have a testimony of your power and the truth of your Word. Amen!
In Christ, Tom |
