Faith4Bride
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I would like to tell briefly of lessons I received from three pregnancies. Mostly because there was glory for the Lord in each of them and they have been told in part with the first child and the third but not the second which was the biggest testimony and lesson for me.
The first of these three I only have a little to share about. I was pregnant at the same time as my sister Leisa Miller whose testimony of the 18 month pregnancy ran along side this one of mine. We got pregnant on the same day and the Lord was very merciful to use my pregnancy as a physical example to us of her pregnancy. The way He did this was that we were always in the same place at the same time in the pregnancy. She would always call me first and say to me that she was having this or that physical " symptom" or physical change and I always would say, me too! So they ran side by side, although our midwife that we shared could see that I was pregnant and was blinded to her being pregnant. Because of this it taught me many things about not needing to walk by sight. Besides this we learned another lesson my husband and I. He had thought the Lord told him that our baby was a boy so we stood in faith for a boy and confessed to everyone it was a boy but when the birth came, it was a girl! As soon as she came out the Lord told my husband" you did want a girl" which he had. This was very confusing because it was not as we thought but we came to understand about getting confirmations for things after that which was an important lesson.This taught us that sometimes we can think a dream or word came from the Lord but that it is wise to ask Him to confirm these things are from Him so that we do not believe something falsely.
The second pregnancy came right after. My baby was born on oct 8th and i found out I was pregnant again on Dec 22. This pregnancy went normal until about a month and a half before the birth. My midwife had found two heart beats and then I asked the Lord for a sign if it was twins and He confirmed it by lot. Then my Son asked if He could ask the Lord which for His faith I said yes and the Lord told him yes also by lot. Then I called my sister and because I couldnt believe what I was believing I asked her to ask the Lord if it was twins without telling her that He had answered me already. He also told her yes by lot,and when she was on the phone her daughter heard us talking about it being twins and she went and asked the Lord by lot if it was twins, not knowing we had all asked and the Lord told her yes also. so that was so far one physical confirmation( two heart beats) and 4 by lot. After that I felt both babies, my husband felt both and my sister felt both( that is 7 confirmations). Then she found two heart beats again in the middle of that time,(8 confirmations) then when I was in labor 8 hours before the birth she found two again, and after that did not find two anymore.
When the baby was born it was one very large boy, and no other baby.( the Lord had also confirmed it was a boy and girl before). He was born such a loud baby, He screamed as soon as He was born and sounded like a full grown baby not a new born, I could not believe how loud He was and He also had silver hair. I have never seen hair that color before it was amazing. We had planned to name the girl Zealiyah and the boy Zealeon but now there was just one and his name did not fit so it took 3 days to decide on kaleb-zechariah daniel. I was very confused, I did not comprehend where the girl was. I knew the Lord is faithful and does not lie. I knew there was twins and I had no idea why that was not what was born and I knew the Lord would eventually give me understanding. But in the first two weeks I did have anger in me for the first time towards the Lord and I had to fight it because I knew whatever happened the Lord was right. But I had thought that nothing could happen to make me angry at the Lord and this showed me that is not true. After two weeks I prayed and ask the Lord to tell me through my husbands mouth what happened. Minutes later without telling my husband what I asked for, He came out in the kitchen and told me that he had prayed for it not to be twins because he felt so overwhelmed about it and that maybe God answered his prayer. I knew right away that was my answer and I was very happy to know and understand and I was not mad at anyone and I was glad that the Lord is merciful. ( Since this time my husband has had a hard time believing that it truly was twins because he says it would make him so sad to know he prayed one of his girls away. but I know the Lord answers what is right and good and merciful and the Lord revealed to me more about this and its spiritual significance which I will show at the end of this). I also had faith for no pain in this birth and with each contraction i would tell my body the truth that Jesus bore that pain and with each contraction the pain would immediatly disappear but I got distracted in the process as it went on and people were talking and I lost my diligence and the pain came back and got ahead of me. So I also learned more dilligence.And also that these pains have truly been bore by Jesus and we can see the manifestation by faith in His finished work.
With this baby it was almost 11 months from the time that the Lord confirmed I was pregnant until he was born.
With the third pregnancy the birth testimony is already posted in the testimonies because I believed for no pain so that part I will not share what what I would like to share is what happened during the actual pregnancy. ( I will say I have learned that when you give all over to the Lord and no longer seek the world and its answers and ways, the Lord no longer needs to do anything " normally" but all things are a way of faith lol)
On July 2 the Lord confirmed that I was pregnant. I saw my midwife in the end of august and she checked me in all the ways that you do and she confirmed how far along I was, my fundus was in the right place etc...As it went I had all the normal signs that come at each stage etc.. Then in november right after thanksgiving I was sick with some strange symptoms and we do not go to the doctor but my husband was worried and made me go to the hospital so I submitted to him and went.Up until this point I was feeling the baby moving, I was seeing my belly begin to grow. At each stage I was seeing exactly the right physical signs of pregnancy.
When we got there I told them my symptoms and how far along I was pregnant etc.. The doctor came and did a sonagram and acted strange. He kept asking me what my midwife said about how far along I am. Then his machine did not work right so he sent me down for another one with a differnt machine and that came back and he again asked me about who my midwife was and what she said and why I think I am that pregnant. Then he told me that I was only about 6 weeks pregnant. I knew that wasn't true but again the Lord blinded the men and machines and He is faithful to test us and not let us go to trust in men when we know to trust in Him. AMEN. I should have known that the methods of men do not work for daughters of God when we live a life by faith. It also helped to loosen by husband from any faith at all in doctors to save us since the doctors machine did not even work and he wanted to critize us and our midwife.
Now the odd thing was this, up until this time everything happening to me seemed to be as far along as I was. But after this day it was as if I was back at that point which made me realize I had to believe what the Lord said and showed, not what was seen or felt.The Lord was also merciful to have the whole time before the hospital be " normal" in the way of feeling the baby and seeing the growth etc.. so that when it felt and appeared differnt after the hospital I knew it was just a test to see if I would believe the Lord or the bad report from the doctors.- Her birth testimony again is in the testimonies. With her she was born a year and three days after the Lord confirmed that I was pregnant.
Recently I was meditating on what physical things mean spiritually. I was thinking about the fruit of Christ and how you measure fruit when it is manifest( bore) in us the way we measure and weigh babies when they are born. Then the Lord showed me something interesting about these pregnancies.
My husband and I began with this first baby by asking the Lord to give him a job to support more babies which we believed was Gods will.- This began a trial that we are just now in the end of- we did not know what we were asking!While we were deciding to bare fruit for God to raise in Him, God knew He would use this to raise His spiritual fruit in us. What He showed me was that when I was in that second pregnancy it was twins and it was because my husband and I were both carrying spiritual fruit and this part of the trial had bore alot of spiritual fruit in me which is why the physical fruit was so big ( my son) but my husbands trial was so hard on him and not bringing out alot of fruit and the Lord showed me that He was merciful to my husband in that time because his labor for that spiritual fruit at that time would have been so hard because he was not ready to bare it which is by example my daughter whom my husband prayed to not have to have twins. her name would have been zealiyah which means the my zeal of YAH- and at that point in our trial my husband would have had such terrible labor to bare zeal of God so he was spared.In other words, my husband would have had alot of increased trial at that time to come anywhere near being zealous for God. Then my husbands fruit was postponed until this last child whose name is Avyah- Ari Dannyah which means Yah is my father Lion judge of Yah.And if you could see the manifested fruit of Christ in my husband now, you would see it's boldness fits the name.So what the Lord was showing me was an example of baring physical fruit and spiritual fruit and how in this case my husband was spared from baring that spiritual fruit until later and when he could bare it, it was bold and that is exactly what I have seen come forth from my husband
The first of these three I only have a little to share about. I was pregnant at the same time as my sister Leisa Miller whose testimony of the 18 month pregnancy ran along side this one of mine. We got pregnant on the same day and the Lord was very merciful to use my pregnancy as a physical example to us of her pregnancy. The way He did this was that we were always in the same place at the same time in the pregnancy. She would always call me first and say to me that she was having this or that physical " symptom" or physical change and I always would say, me too! So they ran side by side, although our midwife that we shared could see that I was pregnant and was blinded to her being pregnant. Because of this it taught me many things about not needing to walk by sight. Besides this we learned another lesson my husband and I. He had thought the Lord told him that our baby was a boy so we stood in faith for a boy and confessed to everyone it was a boy but when the birth came, it was a girl! As soon as she came out the Lord told my husband" you did want a girl" which he had. This was very confusing because it was not as we thought but we came to understand about getting confirmations for things after that which was an important lesson.This taught us that sometimes we can think a dream or word came from the Lord but that it is wise to ask Him to confirm these things are from Him so that we do not believe something falsely.
The second pregnancy came right after. My baby was born on oct 8th and i found out I was pregnant again on Dec 22. This pregnancy went normal until about a month and a half before the birth. My midwife had found two heart beats and then I asked the Lord for a sign if it was twins and He confirmed it by lot. Then my Son asked if He could ask the Lord which for His faith I said yes and the Lord told him yes also by lot. Then I called my sister and because I couldnt believe what I was believing I asked her to ask the Lord if it was twins without telling her that He had answered me already. He also told her yes by lot,and when she was on the phone her daughter heard us talking about it being twins and she went and asked the Lord by lot if it was twins, not knowing we had all asked and the Lord told her yes also. so that was so far one physical confirmation( two heart beats) and 4 by lot. After that I felt both babies, my husband felt both and my sister felt both( that is 7 confirmations). Then she found two heart beats again in the middle of that time,(8 confirmations) then when I was in labor 8 hours before the birth she found two again, and after that did not find two anymore.
When the baby was born it was one very large boy, and no other baby.( the Lord had also confirmed it was a boy and girl before). He was born such a loud baby, He screamed as soon as He was born and sounded like a full grown baby not a new born, I could not believe how loud He was and He also had silver hair. I have never seen hair that color before it was amazing. We had planned to name the girl Zealiyah and the boy Zealeon but now there was just one and his name did not fit so it took 3 days to decide on kaleb-zechariah daniel. I was very confused, I did not comprehend where the girl was. I knew the Lord is faithful and does not lie. I knew there was twins and I had no idea why that was not what was born and I knew the Lord would eventually give me understanding. But in the first two weeks I did have anger in me for the first time towards the Lord and I had to fight it because I knew whatever happened the Lord was right. But I had thought that nothing could happen to make me angry at the Lord and this showed me that is not true. After two weeks I prayed and ask the Lord to tell me through my husbands mouth what happened. Minutes later without telling my husband what I asked for, He came out in the kitchen and told me that he had prayed for it not to be twins because he felt so overwhelmed about it and that maybe God answered his prayer. I knew right away that was my answer and I was very happy to know and understand and I was not mad at anyone and I was glad that the Lord is merciful. ( Since this time my husband has had a hard time believing that it truly was twins because he says it would make him so sad to know he prayed one of his girls away. but I know the Lord answers what is right and good and merciful and the Lord revealed to me more about this and its spiritual significance which I will show at the end of this). I also had faith for no pain in this birth and with each contraction i would tell my body the truth that Jesus bore that pain and with each contraction the pain would immediatly disappear but I got distracted in the process as it went on and people were talking and I lost my diligence and the pain came back and got ahead of me. So I also learned more dilligence.And also that these pains have truly been bore by Jesus and we can see the manifestation by faith in His finished work.
With this baby it was almost 11 months from the time that the Lord confirmed I was pregnant until he was born.
With the third pregnancy the birth testimony is already posted in the testimonies because I believed for no pain so that part I will not share what what I would like to share is what happened during the actual pregnancy. ( I will say I have learned that when you give all over to the Lord and no longer seek the world and its answers and ways, the Lord no longer needs to do anything " normally" but all things are a way of faith lol)
On July 2 the Lord confirmed that I was pregnant. I saw my midwife in the end of august and she checked me in all the ways that you do and she confirmed how far along I was, my fundus was in the right place etc...As it went I had all the normal signs that come at each stage etc.. Then in november right after thanksgiving I was sick with some strange symptoms and we do not go to the doctor but my husband was worried and made me go to the hospital so I submitted to him and went.Up until this point I was feeling the baby moving, I was seeing my belly begin to grow. At each stage I was seeing exactly the right physical signs of pregnancy.
When we got there I told them my symptoms and how far along I was pregnant etc.. The doctor came and did a sonagram and acted strange. He kept asking me what my midwife said about how far along I am. Then his machine did not work right so he sent me down for another one with a differnt machine and that came back and he again asked me about who my midwife was and what she said and why I think I am that pregnant. Then he told me that I was only about 6 weeks pregnant. I knew that wasn't true but again the Lord blinded the men and machines and He is faithful to test us and not let us go to trust in men when we know to trust in Him. AMEN. I should have known that the methods of men do not work for daughters of God when we live a life by faith. It also helped to loosen by husband from any faith at all in doctors to save us since the doctors machine did not even work and he wanted to critize us and our midwife.
Now the odd thing was this, up until this time everything happening to me seemed to be as far along as I was. But after this day it was as if I was back at that point which made me realize I had to believe what the Lord said and showed, not what was seen or felt.The Lord was also merciful to have the whole time before the hospital be " normal" in the way of feeling the baby and seeing the growth etc.. so that when it felt and appeared differnt after the hospital I knew it was just a test to see if I would believe the Lord or the bad report from the doctors.- Her birth testimony again is in the testimonies. With her she was born a year and three days after the Lord confirmed that I was pregnant.
Recently I was meditating on what physical things mean spiritually. I was thinking about the fruit of Christ and how you measure fruit when it is manifest( bore) in us the way we measure and weigh babies when they are born. Then the Lord showed me something interesting about these pregnancies.
My husband and I began with this first baby by asking the Lord to give him a job to support more babies which we believed was Gods will.- This began a trial that we are just now in the end of- we did not know what we were asking!While we were deciding to bare fruit for God to raise in Him, God knew He would use this to raise His spiritual fruit in us. What He showed me was that when I was in that second pregnancy it was twins and it was because my husband and I were both carrying spiritual fruit and this part of the trial had bore alot of spiritual fruit in me which is why the physical fruit was so big ( my son) but my husbands trial was so hard on him and not bringing out alot of fruit and the Lord showed me that He was merciful to my husband in that time because his labor for that spiritual fruit at that time would have been so hard because he was not ready to bare it which is by example my daughter whom my husband prayed to not have to have twins. her name would have been zealiyah which means the my zeal of YAH- and at that point in our trial my husband would have had such terrible labor to bare zeal of God so he was spared.In other words, my husband would have had alot of increased trial at that time to come anywhere near being zealous for God. Then my husbands fruit was postponed until this last child whose name is Avyah- Ari Dannyah which means Yah is my father Lion judge of Yah.And if you could see the manifested fruit of Christ in my husband now, you would see it's boldness fits the name.So what the Lord was showing me was an example of baring physical fruit and spiritual fruit and how in this case my husband was spared from baring that spiritual fruit until later and when he could bare it, it was bold and that is exactly what I have seen come forth from my husband
