How and Why Satan Tried to Stop Our Baby Before It Was Even Conceived!

The family is the building block of all of society. Satan knows this and wants to destroy the family.

 

God has commanded the human race "to be fruitful and to increase in numbers" (Genesis 1:28). Satan knows this and wants to squash the joy of having children.

 

Every baby at the moment of conception is "fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). Satan knows this and tries to devalue the life of that child.

 

My wife and I encountered this spiritual warfare over the conception of our child. Here's how:

 

Over the past few months my wife was having some biological issues that we thought were going to keep us from possibly conceiving and having a child. Finally, in early March we called a specialist and they too agreed that my wife's symptoms were severe enough that they scheduled an appointment for us at the end of March.

 

That's when we decided to pray and enlist a core of family members to join with us in prayer sometime during the early part of March.

 

During the middle part of March I left for a week to participate in a module for my schooling at Capital Seminary in DC. Upon arriving home my wife mentioned that she thought she may be pregnant. That Monday morning she took a pregnancy test that revealed that she was 2-3 weeks pregnant!

 

We had been praying for a baby for years BUT our prayers had become more intense as we realized Kim's situation and had enlisted the prayers of other Godly people for us in early March. God heard our prayers, and the prayers of his saints, and opened up my wife's womb. That is the ONLY conclusion that we have come too!

 

My wife has now entered her second trimester and the baby and her are both healthy and well! Ironically, but in no surprise our baby's due date is on Thanksgiving day itself. What a great reminder it will be of God's goodness and faithfulness during that holiday season for our family every year.

 

Satan knows how a child can bring a family closer and how much kingdom advancement can happen when a family grows and is passionate about following Jesus. We faced spiritual warfare and as always our God came through!

 

 

Here is a picture of our little guy/girl! Excited to raise and then release this child into the world to be a kingdom advancer for Jesus.