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On one fateful day in August 2022,
I just came home and my wife told me,
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‘Congratulations - you are going to be a dad!’
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I said, ‘What do you mean?’
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My name is Kenneth. Sitting beside
me is my lovely wife Evetha.
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And this one is our
beautiful daughter Krista.
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Originally we are from Tanzania but currently we are residing in the USA.
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So, our testimony is about how God gave us the fruit of the womb
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which, as a couple, we searched
for more than three years.
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It all started when we got married in December 2019.
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When we got married, we were really eager to have a child as soon as possible.
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But as the days and months progressed,
I noticed that my wife was not getting pregnant.
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We started noticing things that were not initially there or my wife never experienced
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when she was single and also I never experienced when I was single.
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My wife started experiencing irregular menstrual cycles.
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It reached a point where, for 2 to 3 months, she would not see her menstrual cycle.
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We started really getting frustrated.
We thought it was a medical issue
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and therefore we decided to consult doctors.
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Along with her irregular menstrual cycle, she also had yeast infections
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which she never experienced before,
so we were really troubled.
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We started praying, but at that point we concluded that it was a medical problem,
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not a spiritual problem.
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So, we consulted doctors here in USA.
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They did all the tests and then they said there was nothing they could do.
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They just gave us medications and she just continued taking those medications,
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believing that it would solve the issue and maybe soon we would have our baby.
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But it didn't go that way, so we became increasingly frustrated because
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that issue of looking for a child really took centre stage in our lives.
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We didn’t really focus much on prayer;
our focus was so much on it.
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Even me - I remember there were
times we couldn't sleep.
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My wife would keep on crying
in agony the whole night.
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I became so stressed and eventually,
I developed this body weakness,
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that came exactly at the point when we thought, if we met as husband and wife,
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my wife would conceive.
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I became chronically weak at
that particular moment.
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Plus, with what my wife was passing through,
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at times, we couldn’t even meet as husband and wife.
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Soon after that, I'd become very strong
as if nothing had happened.
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With those kinds of symptoms, we realised that it was more of a spiritual problem,
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rather than a medical problem.
So we started praying about it.
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We never fasted before as husband
and wife, but this situation
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prompted us to fast together
and pray together even more.
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After fasting in August 2021, in September, my wife actually conceived.
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We were so happy about it and we kept praising God, but our joy was cut short,
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because after just 4 or 5 weeks,
my wife had a miscarriage.
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It was an unbearable moment.
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Because it was something that we had been praying for over a year and a half.
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We didn't even have enough
strength again to pray.
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We said to ourselves - what is happening?
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We felt like God had answered our
prayers but now this had happened.
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After she had the miscarriage,
she was admitted and then we said,
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‘Let’s make sure the doctors take all the tests to understand the cause of the miscarriage.’
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But to our surprise, the doctor came
out and said,
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‘There is no indication of what might have caused the miscarriage.
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Medically, your wife seems okay;
her hormone levels are okay.’
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After taking blood tests, they said everything was fine.
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So, we went back home really sad,
contemplating our next steps.
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But after a while we kept on encouraging ourselves because we said life has to move on.
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We started to slowly improve our prayer life, asking God for mercy and forgiveness,
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and asking Him to deliver us from
whatever we were passing through.
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Because at that point, we were 100 percent sure that this was a spiritual case and not medical.
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Only God could solve the problem.
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In January 2022, just at the inception
of God’s Heart TV -
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we learned about God’s Heart TV
through watching YouTube,
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and we said this may be an opportunity for us to request for prayer.
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So we sent a prayer request
to God’s Heart TV.
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In February 2022, God’s Heart TV
replied to us saying that
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we were invited for a WhatsApp call
with Brother Chris.
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At that time, there was no live Interactive Service because it was just the inception
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of God’s Heart TV.
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We were privileged on that fateful day in February 2022 to receive prayer from Brother Chris.
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As Brother Chris was praying, we felt the mighty presence of God during that prayer.
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Suddenly my wife started feeling strange
and she started vomiting.
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We explained that to Brother Chris and
he told us that this
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was a manifestation that God was
working on our case.
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It really lifted our faith
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He is in the centre of our situation so we should not be discouraged.
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Soon after Brother Chris ended the call,
my wife even continued vomiting.
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The odour was really bad and it’s not like
she ate anything before that prayer.
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After all, we were fasting before that prayer.
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So, we were really surprised where all these things were coming from in her body.
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But at the end, we gave God the glory because we knew these were
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from evil spirits operating within her
and they were coming out.
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After the prayer, we were really
expectant of God’s miracle.
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We knew the blessing was on the way but because our hearts were desperate,
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we thought it was something
that would come soon.
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We thought that in a month or two after prayer from Brother Chris, we would see the results
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but that was not the case.
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So, it started really troubling our hearts
and slowly we found ourselves
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going back to a place where we allowed
that situation to overwhelm us.
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So, I started experiencing weakness because we allowed that situation to overwhelm us
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and forget about God’s promises which
came through the mouth of Brother Chris.
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At one point I called my wife and said, ‘This situation is taking the central place in our lives.
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God has already promised us that
He is going to give us a child.
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So, let’s just forget about it. Let’s not try to be in control of the situation.
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Let us just completely surrender
this situation to God.
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Let’s live our lives as if this problem does not exist because God is aware of it.’
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We ‘missed’ a lot of life because that was
the only thing that we wanted.
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The minute we decided that,
God gave us the grace to release it.
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My wife became much happier;
I became much happier.
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We could talk about and do other things.
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One fateful day in August 2022, I came home
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and my wife told me, ‘Congratulations -
you are going to be a dad!’
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I said, ‘What do you mean?’
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My wife was pregnant again and
we were really happy about it.
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This time, it did not come out of
the stress we were having.
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It came out of the happiness we were having
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because we decided to
leave everything for God.
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Throughout that pregnancy journey,
there was no indication of a miscarriage.
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There was nothing apart from
normal morning sickness.
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It went really smoothly until nine months.
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There were some complications as the baby did not turn in the right position to come out.
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But at the end of the day, she turned.
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My wife had a long, painful labour experience, which is common for many women.
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And then in April 2023, this beautiful
baby Krista came into our lives.
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So, we are overwhelmed with joy and
we give God all the glory and honour.
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Up until now, she’s eleven months old,
going to her first birthday
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and she’s strong, happy and healthy.
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She hasn’t given us any problems -
no major sicknesses.
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We keep on enjoying her and thank God
for His blessings in our lives.
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In terms of your physicality, you said you were suffering from weakness in your body.
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How are you feeling right now?
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Now, I’m feeling great!
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That prayer we received from Brother Chris manifested physically.
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Soon after that, the general body
weakness left me.
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And since then, I have never experienced
any form of weaknesses in my life.
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My wife can also attest that all the
regular infections she was having -
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she doesn’t experience them anymore.
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From a medical perspective, we did
all kinds of tests and it was okay.
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So you think you are okay but
things were not happening.
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It was really bad and stressful and at
the same time unbelievable because
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before getting married, I thought I would become pregnant right after marriage.
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But it didn’t happen the way we expected.
So, it was really painful and stressful to me.
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We feel so happy and good.
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Since the time I noticed I was pregnant,
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it was like the door opening.
We feel so happy!
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We see the world from a different perspective.
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So, it has been a very life-changing blessing
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and up until now, we really thank God for that.
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The main advice I have for others
from this experience is that
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as much as we value God’s blessings -
such as the blessing of a child -
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we should also value God’s processing.
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After getting a child, I later had reflection
on what we went through
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and the spiritual journey we
went through to get a child.
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So at the end of the day, it was not just the blessing of Krista but us as a couple,
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we were also strengthened by that situation.
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Initially, we did not pray often
as husband and wife.
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It was difficult for us to agree together -
for example, to fast about something.
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So, our character in God really grew
and we came to appreciate life.
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God used this situation to actually
strengthen our spiritual lives,
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individually and as a couple together.
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So, for whoever is listening,
as much as you need God’s blessings -
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maybe today you have a problem
which you wish God to solve -
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you should also value God’s processing.
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Because once you value God’s processing,
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you will have the grace to wait for God’s timing without so much frustration.
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And I remember Brother Chris said
that the blessing we receive
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is not an end in itself but a means to an end, which is the salvation of our souls.