After Nine Years, A Baby Comes

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what He hath done for my soul - Psalm 66:16

They had wedded in 1998. In 2000, they joined the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement where they encountered God who through the mouth of the pastor at Watchman Fellowship Centre, Oshodi, Lagos, gave them clear promises that He would roll away their problem.  And so with absolute faith in the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God, John C. Ezeagu and his wife, Ifeyinwa Ezeagu, waited patiently on God to grant them their hearts' desire and bless them with the gift of the fruit of the womb.

 Now, their prayers have been answered, and recently they stood triumphantly before a large, lively, jubilant congregation of Watchmen and their visitors during a combined Sunday meeting at the Watchman Fellowship Centre, Aguda,  with their lovely baby, to share their testimony and tell everyone how good God had been towards them by removing the reproach of fruitlessness and putting songs of praises in their mouths. It was the new father that shared the testimony:

John Ezeagu With His Wife, Ifeyinwa,  And Their Baby

As He Shared The Testimony

OUR testimony is on the goodness of God towards us. The Lord has broken the yoke of childlessness in our marriage. We got married on October 17, 1998 and as should be expected, we looked forward to enjoying the blessings of marriage by having our own children. But after two years and there was no sign of what we were looking for, we began to search here and there for a solution.

.In the year 2000, we pitched our tent with the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. Before this time, we had attended some other churches and gone to some hospitals seeking solution to our matter.

 Series of medical tests had been conducted, but despite all the money and efforts invested, the situation remained the same. However, in the course of ministrations one day, after we had joined the Watchman, the pastor, by the Spirit of God, suddenly began to ask: 'Who is Ifeyinwa?' Unfortunately, my wife was not in church that day and when I got home I asked her whether there were other people also answering Ifeyinwa in the church.

She said she did not know, because by that time, we were still new in the Watchman. Later on, a brother came to us and said that my wife was the one the pastor was referring to.

In 2002, a similar prophecy also came from our pastor, and this time, he addressed my wife directly: 'Ifeyinwa, God is saying that at the appointed time, He will visit you and you will become a point of contact o other women looking for the fruit of the womb," he announced to her, by the Spirit of God, in the course of ministrations  that day.

 After last year's (2006) December Retreat, we decided to visit home but my wife was reluctant to go with me; her reason was that there was no baby to carry home to our people. But I encouraged her to take heart, reminding her that those prophetic pronouncements made on us, and in respect of our circumstance were not for nothing.

 But brethren, it never crossed our minds that by the time I was saying this, she had already taken in! The Immirimious God that takes people unawares had already visited her, and in spite of the hazardous journey to the Eastern part of the country due to the bad roads, God kept the pregnancy, till we returned and continued to keep it until September 13, 2007, when she was delivered of the baby,  after a whole nine years of marriage!

Indeed, God demonstrated to us that day that He is not a man. He is the able God indeed. Today, it has become clear to everyone that knows us that we are serving a true God.

Before God visited us, each time we travelled home, my mother would call me to ask: John, my son, have you seen anything? My in-laws would also pose the same question to me, but my words of consolation to them had always been that God had told us that at the appropriate time He would visit us, and His words to us must come to pass.

Today, we are all living witnesses to the fulfillment of that promise of God. And just as it has been said that my wife would be a point of contact to others in the circumstance  she used to be, my prayer today is that that prophecy will be fulfilled in the lives and situations of all those looking for the fruit of the womb in the name of Jesus. Amen.

 Praise the Lord!"