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When God Says Wait...My Supernatural Testimony| Christina Smith's Miracle God Story · Witness the Wonder Christian Podcast: Supernatural Christian Testimonies, Miracles, and God Stories

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Based on the numbers from your test last week, that would be
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impossible. It felt like my heart had
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shattered into a million pieces. How could this man with one
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sentence so casually crush every dream I had of becoming a
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mother? That season forced me to answer
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a question I think all of us eventually face.
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Do I trust God enough to surrender the thing I desire
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most, even if the answer doesn't come the way I hope?
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Welcome to witness the wonder. I'm your host, Christina Smith.
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Today I want to share my own personal miracle story and
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hopefully by the end you will understand me a whole lot
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better. Especially why these stories on
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Witness the Wonder are so important to me.
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This particular story catapulted my faith to believe God for the
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impossible because I saw Him do it in my own life.
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While technically this is a story about infertility, it's
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really a story about surrender. Surrendering our will, our hopes
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and dreams, and trusting God in the waiting.
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And if you know me at all, you know I don't like to wait.
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So if you're like me, impatiently waiting for the
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impossible to happen, you need to hear this story.
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A couple years after my husband Kevin and I got married, I
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started talking with him about starting a family.
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Kevin wasn't ready. He told me we weren't
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financially prepared, the timing wasn't right, and his list of
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reasons went on and on of why he didn't think we should start
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part of family at that time. But we had friends who had
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struggled for years to get pregnant and before long my mind
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started becoming flooded with the fear that that would be our
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story too. Eventually I voiced my concern
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to Kevin and asked what if we had trouble having kids?
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He just shrugged it off and said that won't be us.
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But eventually that did become US.
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And while I would love to tell you I never once said the words
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I told you, so I definitely did because years earlier I had
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voiced my concerns to Kevin and now here we were.
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At the same time though, I was internally kicking myself for
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even speaking those fears out loud in the 1st place because I
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knew what scripture says about the power of words and fear has
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a way of making your mind spiral into places it shouldn't go.
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After about 15 months of trying to conceive, nothing had
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happened. My OBGYN began trying different
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things, but eventually she referred us to an infertility
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specialist. The whole process felt so
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clinical and not at all how we had imagined starting a family
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would be like. But by this point I was so
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obsessed with having a child that I had resolved myself to
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the idea that if this was our only hope, then so be it.
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I still remember sitting in that infertility specialist waiting
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area. I had this strange mix of
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excitement and anxiousness all at the same time.
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The anxiousness was actually winning the battle in the pit of
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my stomach as we sat there waiting.
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And then another thought started tormenting me.
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What if I had caused this? Because years earlier I had
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said, what if we have trouble having kids and the Bible says
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life and death are in the power of the tongue.
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So I found myself wondering, had I opened the door to
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infertility? Had I spoken something over us
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and now we were dealing with the consequences of it?
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Have you ever had those types of thoughts tormenting your mind?
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Eventually they called us back to the doctor's office and he
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didn't waste any time. He started explaining what would
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be necessary for us to have a successful IVF procedure.
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He looked over our test results and after reviewing them, he
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looked at us and said based on the numbers from your test, IVF
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would be impossible. I felt like my heart had been
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shattered into a million pieces. Tears began to well up in my
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eyes and my mind immediately started racing.
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How could this man with one sentence so casually dash every
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hope and dream I had of becoming a mother?
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Conversations like this may be a daily occurrence for him, but
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for me, this was my worst nightmare.
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But I'm also a fighter. I don't give up too easily.
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I so I said to myself no I will not give up.
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So I fought back the tears and I asked him is there really
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nothing else we can try? He offered to repeat the test
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but told us that even if the numbers doubled IVF still
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wouldn't work. We thanked him for meeting with
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us and we walked out. Before we even made it to the
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car. Kevin looked at me and said I
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don't want to do that test again Chris.
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Then we drove to his parents house, completely devastated.
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Now my mother-in-law, Aggie, was one of the strongest women of
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faith I've ever known. Before I ever dated Kevin, she
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had already become like a spiritual mom to me and a great
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friend as well. I'm pretty sure she had decided
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long before I dated Kevin that I was going to marry one of her
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four sons, and it turned out she was right.
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The other thing you should know about me?
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My face doesn't hide anything. So when we walked into the
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house, Aggie knew immediately the appointment hadn't gone
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well. We told her what the doctor
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said, and without hesitation, she confidently responded.
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Well, they don't know. My God, nothing is impossible
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with him. Then she went and got her prayer
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journal. Aggie always wrote down
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everything God spoke to her, and during one of her prayer times,
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God had spoken something specifically about her children.
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She opened the journal and read it to us.
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None of your children will be barren.
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Hope immediately started rising inside of me and then Aggie
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boldly declared. God said none of my children
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will be barren. So that settles it.
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You will have a child. I'm so grateful God had placed
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someone in my life with that kind of faith.
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Aggie and I used to sit for hours and she would tell me
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story after story after story of all the ways that God had
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miraculously provided for their family.
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I think she planted some of the first seeds of faith in my life
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that grew into my love of sharing God's stories, which
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obviously now has become Witness the Wonder.
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Kevin and I decided not to pursue more tests or medical
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interventions of any form. We decided if God wanted us to
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have a child, all He had to do was speak the Word and life
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would come into existence. And I believed that with every
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ounce of my being. About a year later, during a
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prayer meeting at church, I was kneeling at the altar praying
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once again reminding God that all He had to do was speak the
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word and life would come into existence.
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Then suddenly I heard the Lord say in my spirit, you will hold
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your child in September. To say I was excited was an
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understatement. I was so sure of what I had
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heard that I ran over to Aggie and I told her what God had just
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told me. She got so excited that she
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started sharing it with the other ladies at the prayer
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meeting too. And that night when I got home,
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I told Kevin. And from that moment on, I truly
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believed with all my heart that I would be holding my baby the
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next September. There was no doubt none.
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And if you've ever struggled with infertility, you know
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exactly what I'm about ready to talk about.
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I knew my body, so I knew exactly when I was supposed to
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ovulate every month, which meant if I was going to hold my baby
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in September, I needed to conceive in December.
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This is where the waiting slowly started turning into striving.
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Because somewhere along the way, my desire to have a child had
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become an obsession. I think so many of us struggle
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with this at some point, with the things that we really want
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in life. We start out in faith, fully
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trusting God, but somewhere in the waiting, our impatience
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turns to fear that it won't happen.
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And then fear slowly turns into US trying to control the
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outcome, and somehow control feels safer than just
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surrendering it to God and trusting that He has our best
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interests at heart. I mean, if we're planning,
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fixing, obsessing, trying to force outcomes, we feel like
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we're doing something right. All that usually does is get us
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in more trouble because that's when the greatest struggles in
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our lives really began. It's when we start trying to
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carry things that God never intended us to carry.
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I think that's why I connected so deeply with Abraham and
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Sarah's story, because God had promised them a son.
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But after many years, they got tired of waiting on God's timing
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and tried to help God fulfill His promise themselves.
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Through Hagar, I understood their temptation of trying to
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help God and trying to control the outcome completely because I
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was doing it too. That New Year's Eve, after God
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told me I would hold my child in September, our church had
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decided to have a New Year's Eve service.
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The theme was bringing our gifts and talents to God as a form of
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worship. So some people sang, some played
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instruments. I decided to do a solo praise
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dance to the song In You Alone by Kim Hill.
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Dance had always been an intimate form of worship between
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God and I. When I danced, it was always for
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an audience of one. But on that New Year's Eve, as I
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was leaving work to head to Kevin's parents house for
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dinner, an unwanted monthly visitor arrived.
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Yeah, that one. The arrival of that visitor felt
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like a shot to my heart because it meant I would not be holding
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my baby the next September. I was completely devastated.
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But it didn't take long for that devastation to turn into anger
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and by the time I got to my in laws house I had already decided
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I wasn't dancing that night. I wasn't going to give God my
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worship. He didn't do what he said He was
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going to do. To say I was angry at God was
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probably an understatement. I was furious.
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I walked into my mother in law's kitchen crying and said well I'm
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not going to hold my baby next September.
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The word God gave me wasn't true and then I completely lost it.
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I literally threw myself across the kitchen table like a 2 year
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old toddler throwing a temper tantrum.
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Aggie was speechless. I'm not sure she knew what to do
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with me at that moment. Honestly, have you ever thrown a
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temper tantrum on God? Let's just say that wasn't my
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finest moment. But I always told my students in
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youth ministry, there's no point in hiding your emotions from God
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because he already knows how you feel, so you might as well talk
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to him about it. As I lay sprawled across the
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kitchen table crying, I heard God say, Are you done yet?
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It was one of those stern, fatherly kind of tones where you
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know your answer better be yes. So I sheepishly said yes and he
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responded, good, now go in the living room and worship me.
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So I did what he said to do. I went into the living room,
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turned on the song and started worshipping with with my dance.
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As I danced, the Holy Spirit began comforting me and showing
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me something I had spent so long believing God for.
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The promise that somewhere along the way I desired to have a
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child had became an idol in my life.
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I had allowed my desire to have a child to take precedence over
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my relationship with God. That night became a pivotal
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moment in my life. God showed me surrendering my
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heart's desire doesn't mean I had to stop believing.
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It just meant I had to stop trying to carry the things only
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God was meant to carry and trust Him completely to do what He
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said He was going to do. Before I left that living room,
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I repented. I repented for allowing my
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desire for a baby to become greater than my desire to trust
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God. I repented for speaking words of
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fear. And yes, I repented for my 2
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year old toddler temper tantrum too.
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Later that night when I danced at church, every moment felt
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like a little more surrender, like I was laying down my
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dreams, my timeline, my expectations, and my will at
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God's feet. And by the end of that dance,
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every ounce of striving was gone and it was replaced with this
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overwhelming desire for God Himself.
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That night I told Kevin and Aggie if I never have a child,
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it will be OK. And for the first time, I truly
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meant it. I stopped obsessing every month.
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That doesn't mean Kevin and I still didn't do our part in the
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process, if you know what I mean.
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But having a child didn't consume me anymore.
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I actually didn't realize it until I started planning this
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episode. But the surrender of my will
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that night was probably the very first miracle in this story.
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Because I can become like a dog with a bone when I really want
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something. So for me to give it completely
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to God, that was truly a miracle, because up until that
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moment, my peace had become completely tied to whether or
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not I got the outcome I wanted. And surrender finally broke
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that. Not because I stopped believing
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God could do the miracle, but because I finally trusted Him
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enough to believe He was still good, even if He didn't.
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The next September came and went, and I did not hold my
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baby. This is the moment many people
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quietly stop trusting God because delay and disappointment
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have a way of challenging our faith and trust in Him.
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But instead of pulling away from God, my relationship with Him
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grew deeper. That season was actually the
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beginning of a transformational lesson God wanted to teach me
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and the unfolding of His bigger plan for my life.
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A few days after the next New Year's, Kevin and I felt led to
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visit a church a couple hours away.
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We didn't know anyone there by the end of the service.
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I actually remember wondering why we had felt to come because
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nothing significant had happened.
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But as we were leaving, the pastor shook Kevin's hand and
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asked, Do you have any kids? We said no.
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And then he said, I just heard God say there are two in the
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house already. A couple weeks later, I woke up
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one Sunday morning and I felt the Lord say go take a pregnancy
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test. I had one test left so I took
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it. And this time instead of
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standing there obsessively staring at it like I used to, I
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went to the kitchen to get something to eat.
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When I came back, the lines look different so I reread the
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directions and I screamed for Kevin to come into the bathroom.
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I handed them to him the test with a trembling hand and said
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it's positive I'm pregnant. Kevin asked if I had any more
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tests to make sure and I said no.
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That week, after three more positive tests and my OBGYN
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confirming, we finally believed I was pregnant after 4 1/2 years
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of trying, God had done what doctors said was impossible.
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And when we announced it at church the next Sunday, the
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entire place erupted. People were shouting, crying,
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praising God because they had been believing with us too.
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And that morning, the faith in our church had been so elevated
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that a man who had just been diagnosed with cancer came
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forward for prayer and God healed him.
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Later, his healing was confirmed by his doctor.
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God had turned 1 miracle into two.
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I was still curious about the pastor's word though.
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What did he mean by two in the house already?
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I mean, I was clearly pregnant. We had no reason to believe that
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we were having twins because twins didn't run in our family.
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But after a while we honestly wondered if maybe we were having
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twins and when we went in for our first ultrasound we were
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anxiously waiting to find out. The ultrasound tech started the
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scan and and finally she said I only see one baby.
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And honestly we were just so overwhelmed with gratitude to
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even see one miracle baby on that screen.
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Nothing else mattered. And after the ultrasound, my
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OBGYN came in and she looked at my chart and with the a cold
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expression on her face she asked so how did this happen?
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Heaven and I looked at each other and we jokingly said well
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doc, we thought you knew how babies were conceived.
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She was not amused and coldly said I see I sent you to an
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infertility specialist a couple years ago.
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Did you conceive through IVF? And we said no, we conceive
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naturally. She was like, oh really?
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What I really wanted to say was no, actually God performed a
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miracle. But honestly, her demeanor was
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so unpleasant. We just wanted to get out of
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there. And I remember thinking the very
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thing doctor said was impossible was now alive and growing inside
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of me. Later, during my pregnancy, God
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began to speak to me about something completely unexpected.
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At the time, the technology job I had required me to travel and
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be on call, and I desperately wanted something different
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before becoming a mom. I wanted to be able to be home
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with my child, honestly, or at least have the flexibility to
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create my own schedule. And I had been trying for years
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to figure out how to start my own business so I could create
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that flexible lifestyle for my family.
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Then one day, after getting a 3D ultrasound done during my
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pregnancy, God spoke to me and said He was going to grant
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another one of my heart's desires.
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And I suddenly realized the second thing that was already in
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the house wasn't another baby. It was a vision, a business, my
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dream. Something God had been preparing
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behind the scenes the entire time.
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And eventually that vision became first expressions
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ultrasound, which I owned for almost 19 years.
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And suddenly I understood something that completely
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changed the way I view delays today.
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If I had gotten pregnant years earlier when we first started
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trying, that business never would have existed because
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although the technology was being used in some research
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hospitals, the business model God was calling us to start
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didn't even exist yet. But what I thought was a delay
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was actually God preparing something bigger.
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I realized if God had answered my prayer the way I originally
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wanted Him to, I would have missed part of the bigger story
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He was trying to write with my life at the time.
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All I could see was God, please give me a child.
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But God could see my daughter, my business, my future, the
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flexibility I would need as a mother and a small business
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owner, and even the ministry that would eventually come from
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all the stories Aggie planted in me through that season.
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And I think that's one of the hardest parts about trusting
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God. Sometimes we see the immediate
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need or want, but God sees the entire picture.
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God wasn't just giving me a child, He was giving me a hope,
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a future in a completely different life than I could see
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at the time. And looking back now, I can see
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God was writing a much bigger story than the one I was
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desperately trying to force in my own timing.
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At around 30 weeks pregnant, our friends and family threw us a
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baby shower. And walking into that room was
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surreal because during the those 4 1/2 years of trying, it felt
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like everyone around us had gotten pregnant.
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No joke, I threw at least 12 or 14 baby showers for friends and
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family, the whole time secretly wondering if I would ever get to
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have one of my own. So walking into that room and
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realizing that this one was finally for me, who was
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extremely emotional in a way that honestly, I don't think I
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could even fully describe to you.
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Then on September 23rd of 2004, I finally held my daughter
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Kirsten Grace in my arms. The word God had spoken to me
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was true. I did hold my baby in September.
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Later when I asked God about it, He reminded me I never told you
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what year. And he was right, He didn't say
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which September I'd hold my baby.
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He had just said September. When I told Aggie about my
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conversation with God, she laughed and said no.
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I guess he didn't tell you what year.
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See Chris, those doctors didn't know what our God can do.
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Nothing is impossible with him. Typical Aggie response.
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This was one of the most transformational faith building
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seasons in my life. It had forever solidified my
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belief that nothing is impossible with God, Matthew
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1926 says. With man this is impossible, but
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with God all things are possible.
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That became more than just a scripture for me.
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It came alive because I had lived it.
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I watched God do the impossible and give me my miracle Child, If
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you're in your own waiting season right now, don't lose
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hope. I know sometimes delays can feel
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like God doesn't hear you or He's saying no, but more often
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than not, He's busy unfolding a bigger plan that you just can't
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see yet. That season taught me something
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I will never forget. That just because God hasn't
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done it yet doesn't mean that He won't.
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Sometimes what feels like delay is actually preparation.
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And sometimes God is not just answering the prayer, He's
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transforming us in the process. Truth is, God did give me the
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child I prayed for, but before He placed her in my arms, He
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taught me how to surrender my will at His feet first.
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And maybe that's what some of you need to do today.
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Maybe there's an area of your life you've been gripping so
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tightly because surrender feels so risky to you.
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But faith is not trusting in our abilities to control the
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outcome. Real faith is trusting God
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enough to surrender it completely and still believe He
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is good no matter what happens. And maybe some of you watching
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don't need to surrender a situation.
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Maybe you need to completely surrender your life to God.
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Romans 10/9 and 10 says if we confess with our mouth that
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Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him from
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the dead, we will be saved. It really is that simple.
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Just telling him you believe he died and rose again, asking him
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to forgive you of your sins, and inviting him into your life to
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have complete control. So if that's you today, I'd love
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to pray for you. Heavenly Father, I pray for
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every person listening or watching today.
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For those who are weary in the waiting, I ask you to strengthen
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them. For the ones carrying burdens
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you never intended them to carry.
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Help them surrender those things to you.
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For the ones struggling to trust you because life hasn't gone the
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way that they hoped, remind them that you are still faithful and
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those surrendering their lives to you today, meet them right
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where they are. Let them experience your love,
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your peace, your forgiveness and your presence in a real and
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personal way and help every person remember that nothing is
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impossible with you. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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If today you prayed to receive Christ, message me and let me
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know at christinosmithofficial.com.
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in reality God has been moving in their life all along.
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