I was at a prayer meeting some years ago. We were a fiery bunch of young moms, who would meet each week and storm heaven for our family and friends.

One day, we had a visitor. Our prayer meeting was foreign to her, as she was used to the Catholic church format. She was there because she was desperate for prayer and healing. She was a young and newly married woman who was a labor and delivery nurse. She had just lost her second baby. The last pregnancy was a still born little girl. After that, she had a tubal pregnancy and was told that she would never be able to conceive.  She was deeply grieved. The pain and sorrow she was experiencing was enormous.  We all surrounded her as she cried. I got down on my knees next to her and began to pray.  I too had lost a son when I was younger. I  felt her grief and pain. But, at that moment, the Holy Spirit began to overwhelm me with faith and intercession.  As we prayed, the Lord said, “She will have a baby.”

I knew it was His voice.  I was crying and crying as she was crying. My friends thought  I was crying tears of sadness for her, but quite the contrary. I was crying because God was doing something!!! It was completely clear and obvious.  We stayed in that moment for a while as Jesus ministered to her.  Then the Lord asked me to tell her, what He had told me.   I prayed silently to Him, “Oh God, please don’t ask me to tell her.  What if it doesn’t happen? I mean, what if I am hearing wrong, or I only know part of this. I will be setting her up for more pain”  He said, ” I have shown you here today. You are my witness. She will have a baby, but I want you to speak it to her.” Oh my gosh, “Are you sure?”  I knew I had to speak it out loud.  I needed to be obedient and speak the faith and hope into her heart.

I said with tears streaming down my face, “You are going to have a baby.” The room was silent.  I put myself completely out there, trusting God. I could feel my friends looking at me, with concern in their eyes. I said it again, ” You are going to have a baby.”

This sweet sister, was blessed by the prayers and the sense of love in the room. We exchanged numbers.  Every time she would have a period for the next two years, she would call me crying. She would say, “Sheri, are you sure you heard the Lord’s voice?” Oh, my heart would break, but I felt continued confidence to say, “Yes”  God showed me that the reason I was to tell her she was going to have a baby that first day we met , was because when her heart would fail, she needed a sister to hold her up.  The Lord made me a witness to something He was going to do. Every time she felt defeat or would get a bad report from the doctor or pregnancy test, she would call me to assure her of the promise God made on that day. I was a witness to what the Spirit of the Living God was doing in His time.

After two years, she conceived miraculously. She gave birth to not just one little girl, but twin baby girls. God blessed her and her husband with a double portion. Two years after that, she conceived miraculously again, and had a third blessing.

“In my distress, I called upon the LORD; to my God, I cried for help. From His temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears” Psalm 18:6

In complete awe of His mighty wonders

Sheri