A reader shared this touching story.

Infertility

The Lord began to speak to me about children even before I accepted his call to serve him. After we got married, however, we faced the problem of infertility. Many wounds formed in our hearts because of this, but the Lord was speaking to me to remain faithful and that he would work. In the last months of 2023, he spoke to us more and more often that he was preparing our hearts to have children.

God’s Voice

In the Listening to God’s Voice course (January-February 2024), I did an exercise in which I was asked to remember a beautiful memory I had from the past week. Then, I pictured Jesus there in the memory and asked him a few questions.

I chose a memory of when my husband and I went to the park with our colleagues’ little boy. Asking Jesus those questions, I felt that Jesus was telling me that within a short time we will have our own child.

The last thing Jesus told me during that listening exercise was, “I will fulfill the promise I made to you in Genesis 11:14.” I went to reread that passage because I couldn’t remember what it said. As I read it, I realized that it was the verse through which the Lord had spoken to me two months earlier that He would give us a child before my husband turned 30. The verse says:

When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

It was only a year and a few days away from my husband’s 30th birthday. Although it required a lot of faith, I chose to share what I received with the other course participants. As I write this (June 2024), I’m now 14 weeks pregnant and expecting my baby to come in November!

A Step of Faith

In mid-March I had a dream. In that dream I knew it was March and I felt sick. In the dream, I went to the doctor to find out the cause and learned that I was pregnant. In the morning, I shared the dream with my husband. Again, sharing this with my husband was a step taken in faith because the chances of becoming pregnant that month were quite small. But still, at the end of the month I was holding a positive pregnancy test.

Another dream

Just days after testing positive, my non-believing sister wrote to tell me that she dreamed I was pregnant. Although I didn’t tell her then that her dream accurately portrayed what was happening to me, I felt the Lord confirming to me once again that he speaks in wonderful and different ways, and that we must listen and take steps by faith.

If you have read our story, please pray that the Lord will protect this pregnancy and help us trust Him through any waves of difficulty.

Editor’s Update: our reader gave birth to a healthy baby girl in November 2024

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Family photo by Dmitriy Ganin