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by: Stephanie God filled my heart with such joy… --------------------------------- My husband and I have been married for nine years. We tried to have a child but because of my health issues have not been able to conceive. I had given up on having a child because so many years have past, and I had not had a period in the nine years we had been married. The doctor told me I didn’t ovulate. We even tried infertility drugs at one time but I had tried to let my desire to be a mother go. Then God starting moving in my life in a big way. In October I had to go on an overnight camping/hiking trip for a college class I was taking. Yes I am 31 and just now about to finish my BS degree. The hike was a horrid 2 mile hike in which I thought I was dying, and our class camped out in a typhoon that night. I am not in good shape, and said I would never again put myself through that torture. I became sick from our night under the stars, in fact it took me a month to get over it. Something good happened on that hike, or at least I believe God used the hike to answer a prayer. On October the 13th I had the first period I have had in 9 years. I was so excited which sounds weird to some people but it meant my body did something normal for a change. But I figured it was just a one time thing.  November 13th came and went with no sign of a period so I thought my assumptions had been correct, but I was wrong. On November 23rd I started again. By this time I went to see my doctor, and told him about this miracle. He said that I could be ovulating on my own. I had been preparing to have lab band surgery for my weight, which meant that I had to see a couple of other doctors. I was put on a diet and before Christmas I had lost 14 pounds already.  Then on December 21st I started my period again. I have never felt something as powerful as I felt that day. God filled my heart with such joy, and I could do nothing but cry all day. Not from sadness but from him speaking to me. I told Jacob that I couldn’t explain it but I knew in that every moment that God is going answer our prayers and give us the child we have desperately prayed about for 9 years.  I wish that I could explain what I felt that day because I have never felt anything like it except the day that I accepted Christ as my personal savior. But God didn’t stop there. My husband then had a dream he said he believes was from God. He said in the dream we had a little girl who was barely able to walk, and her name was Alexia. This name means “defender”. We had never heard this name, but we have decided that when our daughter arrives she will be named Alexia Grace. It has been several months but God keeps working. I have had 5 periods on my own. I ovulated on my own last month, and I believe it won’t be long until I will be pregnant. A few Sundays ago I was feeling down, and during church I prayed that God would send me some encouragement. The preacher got up to give his sermon, and he said I will be preaching out of Hebrews today. Starting with Chapter 11 Verse 11 (Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.) Now that is what I call an answered prayer. That was God reassuring me of the promise he made me on December 20th, 2006. God made me a promise, and I am proclaiming to the world he keeps his promises and her name shall be Alexia.  Stephanie View the story online at: http://www.storiesaboutgod.org/index.php/stories/story_page/god-made-me-a-promise/

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