By Funmi Komolafe

Get ready for your season of harvest in Jesus name.” With these words, we ended last week’s edition of Joyful Homes.  You and I did not know that God was going to confirm his words through his servants    .

JESUS

I had planned to focus on troubled homes in this edition but the manifestations and words of the Holy Spirit have  led us to still talk about couples waiting on the Lord for children.

Let me start with a word of knowledge from the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, at the last Holy Ghost  Service held on January 8.

Quoting the Holy Spirit, Adeboye said: “ Of the children    that will be born this year (2016), at least 1,000 of them will be significant”. He  added that he wished that his wife was still of child bearing age.

Now, what is the significance of this?   

Believe it or not, but I suggest that you believe it; it means that    barren wombs will bear children this year. How do I know? The same Pastor Adeboye,    in one of his    sermons, while encouraging women waiting on the Lord, reminded them that “ special children come from closed wombs”

How do we know?

Reference was made to the birth of Samuel, John the Baptist, Samson , Joseph  ,  etc.      If you are familiar with the stories of the birth of these men,    you will acknowledge that all of them    became great in different ways.

I refer to the story of the birth of John the Baptist as recorded in the    gospel according to St. Luke .An angel had informed Zacharias that he would have a child. “And Zacharias said unto the angel, “Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man , and my wife well stricken in years” (Luke 1: 18).

Verse 19 : “ And the    angel,  answering, said unto him, ‘I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and I am sent to speak    unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings’”.

In the case of Mary, the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ,    after the angel had told her of the imminent birth of the Lord Jesus, asked for a sign.

Luke 1 verse 34 records:  “ Then said Mary unto the angel, ‘How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?’”

In a    part of verse 35, the angel replied: “ The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee    and the power of the Highest    shall overshadow    thee…….”.

Did I hear you say, ‘but I am not Mary neither do we have angels these days?’

You are wrong.

The power of the Holy Spirit is still very much with us and it is accessible to all believers who strive to    live according to    the word of God.

The Spirit of God speaks

You have been praying.   Have you prayed to the point where you hear the still small voice?  When  he  speaks, his words are in accordance with the word of God as contained in the Holy Bible.

This is different from your mind speaking to you.

Have you prayed to the point that you are spiritually directed to pray with certain verses in the Holy Bible?

Has your prayer level taken    you to the point where you sing a song of thanksgiving from your dream?

Have you prayed to the point that the Lord Jesus himself gives you baby or babies?

Have you ever dreamt of caring for your children or having a naming ceremony?

There are thousands of ways in which the Spirit of God confirms that your prayers have    been answered.

Once you move up spiritually with fasting and prayer, then be    ready for the physical manifestation of what    has been revealed to you.

If you have not , then you must work harder on your prayer life.

My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will help you.

In the name of Jesus,    you will be alive to receive your miracle.

Remember and hold on to the words of the Lord in the book of Jeremiah 29 vs 12 . It states, “ For I know the thoughts that I think    toward you, said the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end”.

Six miscarriages,    then a baby

As usual, I share with you a testimony at the last Laughter Day    held at the Laughter Foundation International Ministry, Oregun, Lagos.

Lady G and her husband got married in 2007. Before then,    according to her, she had    six miscarriages.    She said anytime she got pregnant, she was told to avoid stress , which she did; yet she  had miscarriages.

She told the congregation that  2011 was quite traumatic.    She lost a pregnancy after five months.    Then she experienced a greater challenge.    The placenta refused to be expelled.    She became worried and called all men of God  she knew to pray for her .

God answered and the placenta was expelled.

Before  then,  doctors    had diagnosed her with fibroid but she was told it was not enough to stop her from getting pregnant . On the other hand, her husband was given a clean bill of health.

After her experience of these miscarriages, doctors told her that her womb  was so scarred that she would    be unable to carry a baby to full term.

She was advised to go for    surgery to remove the fibroid.    She    had the surgery .    Six months after, no conception took place.

Like any other woman, she became worried.

She also had three In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and two    Intrauterine Insemination ( IUI).    All failed.

Then her husband suggested that they move to another church.

Suddenly, the husband    tuned to LTV and saw Pastor Oso the General Overseer of Laughter Foundation preaching on women waiting on the Lord.    He advised that they should go to that church.    The wife  protested, saying it was too far from their home, but the husband insisted and they came.    That was in 2012.

By 2013 , nothing happened though they continued coming    for the church services. The wife suggested adoption but the husband refused.  Then she decided to see a doctor in Benue State for surrogacy in February 2014 as a means of becoming a    mother.

They then got information that Pastor Oso would be at a naming ceremony in Festac.    She called off work that day and the husband too rushed down from his office. He prayed for them and assured them they would be parents.

Her words as she prepared for the surrogacy option: “The God of Laughter that does not want his glory to be shared by anyone visited me.    I was pronounced pregnant.    This was the safest pregnancy I have ever had”.

On September 29, 2015,    to the glory of God, a baby boy was born.

Pastor Oso said, “ All miscarriages are attacks of the enemy”.   Do you doubt? Then refer to Exodus 23 vs 26: “ No one shall suffer miscarriage, nor be barren in the land the number of their  days I will fulfill”.

Pastor Oso told all women    who have been losing babies: “ No injection can destroy the work of the enemy, only God can.    Only the anointing of the Holy Spirit can destroy the work of the enemy”.

Do you doubt this?    I refer you to Isaiah 10 vs 27: “ And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder,    and his yoke from off thy neck , and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing”.

In this season, I pray that the Lord will visit you and  your expectation will manifest physically in Jesus name..