God Made Me a Promise

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published on 02/21/07
categories: Miracles  

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. 

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Michael Boyink

on 02/22/07

Thanks for your story Stephanie - and I expect to be included on the birth announcement...;)

Yoon, Chang-Ju

on 02/24/07

Stephanie, to you, may Alexia be on her way. As God preps the soil, tils the ground (womb) and watches for the perfect season, may new life be born in you.

From a child that was born and abandoned, yet adopted by a woman who could not have a child on her own, I come before God on bended knee and ask in his presence that Alexia be the bit of Heaven you will behond upon this earth. Defender of all that is just and merciful, another queen to come from his Kingdom.

Amen.

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