[The following is a lightly edited transcipt of the above video.]
Growing up, I always had a picture of what it would be like to be married and have a family. I always imagined myself getting married and starting a family right away…but it didn’t happen quite that way.
When we first got married, I figured we’d wait a year or so before we started trying to have children. After that year was up, we started trying.
After the second year, we kept trying and the third year and the fourth year and the fifth year and as you can imagine…that gets a little bit trying when you’re waiting and hoping for something to happen.
About seven years into our marriage that through prayer through seeking God I began asking, “When, God? Why so long?” …why is it taking so long for this to to have my dreams – our dreams – come true.
God led me to Scripture, specific scripture – a study on the word “barren” – to look at and see all the other women in the Bible who were barren.
So I started studying barrenness in the Bible, and why God allowed it. What were these women’s stories like? Here I was seven years trying and He just led me to surrender…
…led me to prayer
…led me to bring my husband alongside and coming before Him and submitting ourselves totally to Him. And then being okay with whatever His plan was.
In that seventh year, my sister, who had been married for about a year, called me and said, “Great news, we’re pregnant!”
And of course, I was happy for her. But…here we are waiting still, and she’s married, and she it just happens while it’s been seven years for us. Why?
Well, I didn’t know at the time, but when she called me that day, I was pregnant also.
About three days after that phone call, I found out I was pregnant as well.
After all that time and now? Wow.
I remember that day so well…Overwhelmed with joy I wanted to feel closer to God and love Him and hear from Him so I went to the Word to and I happened to pick up my One Year Bible and opened it to the passage for that day, and that day’s passage – the day I found out I was pregnant – was this passage:
My soul glorifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant. (Luke 1:47-48)
Not that I’m special or anything like that, but it just happened to be that promise, that Scripture that God had given to Mary, “what I said I would do, I’m going to do it.”
It was just such a powerful confirmation from God, that I would do all the things that we’ve been through all the emotional struggles and the waiting and the why. Why are you why are we waiting so long to have this child and then to open up God’s word and to have it just speak right back to me and say to me, “”what I promised in your heart, I have given you.”
That was a time in my life when I felt God’s presence when I knew He was there for us. And no matter what would happen in the future, He would be there. And so after even Jonathan our son was born, I’ve constantly gone back to that truth during difficult times, that God is there for us.
He always has been I know he always will be.
Just having those promises there has meant everything to us.
Also in the reading for that day in my One Year Bible was Psalm 57
I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies. (Psalm 57:9-10)
A beautiful extra blessing, like our cup overflowing with promises was this: that day in the One Year Bible – that exact passage that my bookmark had opened up to was the scriptures for March 14. In a few days I’d be at the doctor’s office hearing the confirmation that we were pregnant and hearing for the first time our due date.
The date? March 14.
God is good. All. The. Time.
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