Jesus show's His love for us by giving us children!
Sometime during the late 1970’s, I decided to go on a 21 day
fast. Not a Daniel fast mind you but a water only fast. Needless to say my 21
day fast lasted 10 days.
I had heard a radio preacher say that when you fasted you
should be specific. So I specifically
asked for a brand new blue Chevrolet Van. I don’t think I have ever seen a blue
Chevrolet van in my entire life before or after the fast. However, van’s were a
popular item in the 70’s and it was all I could think of that I might like to
have!
However, during the fasting time, I
was reading a book by Demos Shakarian. Demos was the man who started the full
gospel business men’s fellowship. The book was called “The Happiest People on
Earth”. In the book he told of his
grandparents and the Pentecostal Russians who came across the Armenian borders
to tell them about all the miracles that were happening in their community.
Demos told how his grandmother, who had been crying and yearning for a boy
after having five girl children had thought that if miracles really happened
then maybe they could ask God and he would give him a son.
Then one day his grandfathers bother in law had the Holy
Spirit come to him and he went to Demos grandmother and prophesied that she
would have a son in one year. It happened just like the brother in law had said
it would.
I never got
that new blue Chevrolet Van but what happened was so much better. I believe that while I was reading that book
and reading all the things God did in the lives of very ordinary people, I
found faith to believe God for childless couples. I wound up a week after I
quit, the fast, in a prayer meeting where the Holy Spirit fell on me and I
walked on my knees all the way around the room prophesying to everyone there. When
I got to my friend Sherry who had been praying for a baby but had not been able
to conceive, I started to prophesy that in one year she would have a son. It
happened just like I said it would.
Many years later
I was sitting in a CPR class with a woman that I worked with. She had been going to a doctor who had done
everything he knew to do to help her get pregnant but with no results.
She was feeling really down and really alone. Her father had
recently died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Shortly afterward her mother had
to have a heart procedure done and a few weeks after the procedure she dropped
dead while hanging some new curtains in her living room.
During the CPR class we were watching a video about performing
CPR on a baby, when suddenly the baby in the video came alive. Just then I
heard her sniffling back her tears.
Then I heard the Holy Spirit say to me. “If you will pray
for her I will give her a baby!”
During the break for refreshments I
went to her and told her what the Holy Spirit said to me. I the ask her if I
could pray for her. She said “yes” so I just took her by the hand and simply said
aloud,” Lord give her a baby” Six weeks later she called me at the unit where I
worked and said, “Guess what I’m pregnant.” We were both so filled with joy! She now has two children and they are both
exceptional.
Since that time I have prayed for
so many women to have children and every one of them have either conceived or
adopted. There was a woman my daughter
insisted I pray for. I was unsure about
praying for her because I didn’t think, with her personality, she would make a
good mother. (I was being judgmental) However I prayed for her anyway. Right
after she had the baby she seemed so helpless, I was sure I probably should
have gone with my instincts and not prayed for her. Then several years later I saw her at a
school gathering and by that time she had birthed three children. I was
pleasantly surprised that she was dealing with all three of them like a pro. I
decided right then and there that I was not the judge of who has a child. God
is the giver of good gifts and it’s none of my business to whom He gives those
gifts to!
Okay one more story sticks in my
mind and then I’m finished with this subject.
This one is a hard one, and is the reason I told the previous one.
I first met this girl when she and
her sister were in foster care at a friend’s home. They had been taken from their mother because
she was a habitual drug addict and a drug dealer. Years past and I didn’t know what had
happened to either of the girls after they left my friend’s home.
One day at a church gathering I met a woman who had been
released from prison due to liver cancer.
The prison doctor had sent her home to die. She told the doctor that she
was not going to die but that she was going to live and declare the works of
the Lord. I was very impressed with this
woman’s testimony. Later she began
coming to our church and making restitution with her children. She told
everyone that she was declaring things that are not as though they were. Well,
I soon found out that I knew two of her daughters. They were the girls that my
friend had fostered.
The younger of the two was in prison for drugs and as soon as
she got out her mom brought her to church. I soon found out that this girl had
three children that she had to give away because she had to go to prison and
there was no one to care for them. After
she got out of prison her mom kept calling her and her sisters mighty women of
God. There was another sister that had gone to live with her dad when their mom
went to prison. Their mom just kept
calling all three of them mighty women of God. Both her other sisters had
daughters. As this young woman started to change she got close to her sister’s
children and started to grieve over her own children that she no longer had any
kind of access to.
She married a man that was a Christian and had been on staff
at a church I had formerly attended. He had, had an accident and hurt his back
and had lost so much weight I hardly recognized him when I saw him with her. I
was happy for them and thought they made a great couple.
Later on, she heard that I prayed for women to have babies
and wanted me to pray for her to have a baby.
So I prayed for her. However, as time passed and she didn’t get
pregnant, I asked God what was going on that she had not yet conceived. He put
in my spirit that she had not forgiven herself for giving her children away. One day I felt very impressed to go to a
certain store to buy a gift for a friend.
Just as I was looking for a gift at the costume jewelry section of the
store that was close to the entry door I looked up and she and her husband were
entering the store. I called her name
and asked if she had time to talk to me for a few minutes. She agreed and her
husband left to go and shop while we talked. I told her what God had put in my
heart and we prayed together about it. Shortly afterward she was able to learn
that her children were being well cared for and doing well. Time passed and still no results. So, I am thinking well maybe I don’t have the
ability to pray for babies any more? I wonder what is going on?
Then one day her husband came over to
my house. He was visiting with my
daughter and as he started out I went out with him talking all the while. Once
we were on the back porch I spoke his name and said let’s pray. As we prayed, I had a thought that I almost
rejected. In my mind I said:” God what was that thought all about?” Suddenly I
knew what it was about and prayed aloud that God would fix his man parts! He
immediately commented, “I really need all the help I can get in that department
right now.”
As I write this, I write it with the
knowledge that their little girl will be born three months from now! I'm grinning for joy so wide my cheeks hurt. All I can say is “Isn’t The LORD So Very,
Very Always Good”
