Another Emergency Childbirth: Woman gives birth in Church

 

ANOTHER EMERGENCY  CHILDBIRTH: Woman gives birth in church   

           God indeed works in mysterious ways. Just recently, a young heavily pregnant lady in my church who is in her late twenties delivered a little bouncing baby boy right inside the church premises. The amazing part is, she was delivered of her baby effortlessly and just by herself with only her little brother and an aged sickly woman present.It's her very first pregnancy, I might add, so she's very naive and doesn't know what to or not do. You can now begin to imagine what God is capable of. Back to a few months and a week before all this happened.

         Just a couple of months back, the lady came into church sick, weak, downtrodden, all tears and so fearful. A neighbor of her's had threatened to deal with her and her unborn child, hence, she practically deserted her home and took solace in the church premises. She was accommodated by the ministers who understood her predicament and decided to shelter till her baby is due.                                                                                                                                          By and by, weeks passed, the church kept praying for her. She was called out on almost all service days and prayed for and she'll cry and weep all the time. We kept encouraging her and she was always listening to God's word till fear left her and then of course faith began to rise in her spirit. We basically have two ministers, with one staying permanently in the church premises. 

        
         Few days to the day she had her baby, the permanent residential minister had an emergency that required an urgent attention, so she prayed for the pregnant lady and instructed her to go home. The minister told her that she'll be delivered of her baby by the Thursday or by weekend that same week and then she left. The lady after that, prepared her bag and left for the hospital, she spent two good days in the hospital whilst under observation. On the third day, they asked her to go home and return the preceding week as she'll be due then...funny. Anyway, she got back to church and called the minister to inform her of the development and she vividly said to her, "okay then, it's alright, if you have your baby in the church, fine". 

        
         Then the night passed, giving way for a brand new beautiful Saturday morning, and then the anticipated started. She went into labour in the wee hours of that Saturday morning. She called her little brother to get a wrapper for her and when he did, she placed the wrapper on the floor and lay on it...imagine her confidence. Few minutes later, baby was out, there was no excessive bleeding, and no complications and did I mention that she was a novice in child bearing? At dawn, a mid wife was sent for who on her arrival couldn't help giving thanks to God for His amazing wonder. She then observed the mother and child while cleaning them up, and to her astonishment mummy and baby were healthy and strong. Praise God!

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