What a Testimony

What a testimony is right! Sometimes (a lot of the time) it’s hard to see Gods plan for things until you are down the road on the journey. You have to just Trust Him and have faith. Since that is all we are supposed to do anyway, my wife and I have made up our minds to not ask questions, because it is not our job to ask questions. It is our job to act in obedience and have FAITH. So to be completely honest, and to fill you in on how we operate. We believe in the Lord. We believe that He created life and has intention and purpose in every life that He created. Therefore, it would do Him no Good to create life and not bring it to completion. (Meaning birth without complication) With that being said we go completely natural with our births, which means no medical intervention of any sort, short of the Doctors (in the twin case) and the midwife being there. At this point in life having walked in obedience and seen the things that we have seen, I am not going to debate or argue. I know what we have experienced and that is all. (Sorry if that seemed aggressive, but I have seen miracles with my eyes so I will not waiver) So when we found out that we were having Twins, and our midwife said "oh my gosh, I wish it wasn’t you guys." We knew that she said this because of the "High Risk" that twins bring to a pregnancy. Our midwife explained to us at the first appointment that we were possibly going to have to do things that we didn’t want to because of the "High Risk". Now for my wife and I, we didn't see anything "High Risk" about this pregnancy. Why would the Lord who LOVES us give us two beautiful blessings then cause problems and make it an incredibly rough pregnancy, No that’s not how God operates. So for us we were confident the whole time, in the wholeness of these babies. From the beginning the Doctor and midwife were prepping us for a turbulent pregnancy. While My wife and I continued to rely on the Lord and convince them time and time again that these babies were blessed and would be complete and whole. I can remember the visit we had after our first Visit with the doctor when we found out we were having twins. (If you haven’t read that story I believe it’s the first one of these blogs, take a look at it I think it’s a good one) Anyway, we saw our midwife and after she had told us that we really needed to pray that the twins were in two sacs with two placentas, we saw the Doc. let’s just say it was a little better, maybe from completely poopy to just a regular poopy pants visit. He was still Doctor downy, still explaining all the risks involved and what he would like us to do. Well we had another plan; it’s called Faith in GOD. They told us the interventions that they wanted to do because of the possibility of a "high risk" pregnancy, we told them we would intervene, and so we did, we talked to Daddy continually about it. And, as if I would have to convince you He came through. OF COURSE HE DID, EVERYTIME, without Fail. From the beginning when we prayed for two sacs and two placentas, and the next appointment that is exactly what it was. This was the continual process for us throughout this pregnancy. From praying for healthy babies, continual weight gain, heartbeat regularity, regular practicing breathing, to the birth, we have continually taking our concerns and worries to the One who can actually do something. Don’t get me wrong I know that the Doctors and Midwives have the best interest in mind for us, but our DADDY does to, and who can do more than Him. So I wondered why we are even having these babies at the hospital. When we can hire an outside midwife and have them old fashioned way, in our home. (I know that you thinking were crazy, and yes we are, but we have a protector, and a great Daddy that takes good care of us.) Instead of questioning this continually we just Trusted Daddy. Looking back know I can see the testimony of our pregnancy. The third appointment we scheduled with just the doctor, we (I) were going to straighten him out, let him know what was up, and how this pregnancy was going to be. I believe that our midwife knew of our intention and pre-warned the Doctor. When we met he seemed to have his dukes up approach and was ready to "throw down". Well God knew better. On the way, as my wife and I prayed about it the Lord told us to just Love on him, no confrontation, just Love on him. So that is exactly what we did probably to an awkward extent. We could tell that this caught him off guard because he kept asking us "don’t you guys have any other question", and we could politely answer "no we are just so thankful that you have taken time to see us and want our babies to be healthy and whole. We really appreciate you and all your doing for us and for our babies." It is incredible how far LOVE will go, I wonder why Jesus considered in the greatest. Anyway, this little meeting shifted our whole experience with the Doctor. After that meeting he seemed to have a different mindset about us. Although I know he considered us to be the "Amish" couple, he still seemed to have our backs from that point on. Another thing that helped our pregnancy is God continually answered our prayers about the health and vitality of our babies. With Twins you have a ridiculous amount of sonograms that you have to do for them to monitor the growth and all the other things that they are checking for. Well like I said each week we prayed for specific things, one week it was baby A's steady growth, another time it was for baby B to flip over and go head down. Just like I mentioned above, weekly we say testimony to the GREATNESS of our FATHER. Continually these babies scored perfectly on all their test. This makes life way easier, because the Doctor was seeing our God at work, so now our words had validity because he couldn't argue with his test results. Even at 33 weeks we had a small conference with the Doc and our Midwife because they were concerned that we would go into labor between 33-35 weeks. We reassured them that this was not the case and that the Lord intended us to go full term. Then at 37 weeks we had another appointment with similar intentions to talk about labor and delivery, again we assured them that these babies were going to go FULL TERM. I understood where they were coming from legally and as responsible people with what they thought my wife’s life and the babies’ lives in their hands. Little did they know that without God they wouldn’t even be breathing at that very minute, and that was who we had entrusted these babies to. At our last appointment I got to see the whole picture as to why the Lord told us to go to this particular place to have these babies. A pregnancy that we truly were not anticipating, not even on our radar, the Lord had Kingdom purposes. I remember talking about what birth was going to be like and typically the Doctor had to go over all the variables. Including wanting to do birth in the OR, having my wife hooked up to and IV, all the ins and outs, just in case. We politely told them that none of that would be necessary because these babies are blessed and will come out on their own. They said "yea we know, but....." Again we assured them that these babies were going to be okay and come out naturally. The doctor then said something that completely took both my wife and I off guard. Right after he had gone through the possible risks he then said "well Hun, (speaking to my wife) there is nothing to lead me to believe that these babies wont just fall out, your pregnancy has been nothing but perfect and that is what I expect you labor and birth to be, "then he patted her on the leg. This was the same man that dropped the poo bomb on us the very first meeting, and now he was advocating for us. Unbelievable. Our midwife seemed to have taken a shift though, possibly because she was so involved and truly cared for us. We assured her that these babies were fine and that they would come when the Lord wanted them He appointed it and has tended to them thus far He won’t stop now. She said" I wish I could have the faith that you guys have, you truly are and inspiration and I wish that I could not worry about this like you guys." After some convincing we assured her that we were not confident in us but in the Lord who has done nothing but bless this pregnancy. She settled down and gave us some medical advice and we proceeded to schedule a follow up appointment just in cases these babies wanted to hibernate some more. Once we got up there I became overwhelmed with what was told to my wife. As a husband this was truly one of the proudest days of my life. In life my whole goal is to bring Glory to the Father. The ultimate, is when someone sees your life and realizes there is something different and desirable about it. This is the Gospel not that there is anything special about me or my wife (although she is the GREATEST), it is that God Loves us so much He wants to bless us and take care of us like a Daddy. When we were making our next appointment the Ladies who were scheduling us made the same comments that we had heard so many times before. "Oh girl how is your back?" " I feel so bad for you." My wife responded " my back is fine truly, I have truly not had any pain in it, I must look more miserable than I am." Then it came, the ladies said with all sincerity "there is something different about you, of all the women who would have an excuse to complain it would be you. And I have never heard anything but positivity comes from you. And you have never had anything but greatness throughout this pregnancy. You are TRULY BLESSED." I cried, and had to hold off from crying the whole way home. I was so unbelievable blessed that the woman whom the Lord had given me was truly walking out Christ, so that others could see. It was an unbelievable testimony to me as we reminisced on the way home about the last nine months, and how the Lord had had his hand on the whole bit. We didn’t question, we didn’t wine, we continued on the path that He had made strait. We don’t waiver unless He directs in a different way. I cannot say that when people, especially Doctors say things about the possibilities of what "could" happen, it is easy to disregard it. No it is very hard, but death to self is Hard to. These Boys have been blessed to this point and why would I waiver from the unshakable, undeniable, trustworthy, loyal, loving Father. Who has promised GOOD to us. He will see this through, and they will be born Supernaturally. God has purpose and intention for our boys lives, they have kingdom value to him. It would be a shame for me to get in the way of the King of Kings when He is shaping something to be supernatural.