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GOD & BABY AFTER CLIMACTERIC

Climacteric also known Menopause,is the time in most women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and the woman is no longer able to have children.Menopause typically occurs between 45 and 55 years of age.Medical professionals often define menopause as having occurred when a woman has not had any vaginal bleeding for a year.[ It may also be defined by a decrease in hormone production by the ovaries.In those who have had surgery to remove the uterus but still have ovaries, menopause may be viewed to have occurred at the time of the surgery or when hormone levels fall. Following the removal of the uterus, symptoms typically occur earlier at the average of 45 years of age. Baby after climacteric??? uhmm !!! That sounds strange but take time to read through this story and see how great our God is.
 Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible
On December 6, 2012, 59-year-old Mrs. Oloruntoyin Adeola Alabi repeated the biblical Sarah’s feat when she gave birth to a healthy baby girl five years after reaching menopause. This educationist and proprietress of Praise Children’s School, Okota, Lagos proved science wrong and reinforced the belief that with God nothing is impossible. She laughed, just like Sarah did when the prophets told her she would conceive and bear a son. In Mrs Alabi’s case, the forebear didn’t tell the exact sex of the baby as Sarah was told. Alabi, a native of Owu Local Government Area of Ogun State, got married on December 19, 1981, to 62-year-old Pastor Samuel Olasukanmi Alabi from Ibadan Southeast Local Government Area of Oyo State. When Sunday Sun visited the couple’s residence at Okota, Lagos, Mrs Alabi whose joy as she narrated her marital journey turned into misty eyes, said the 31-year-old inter-state marriage had passed through rough times, including three miscarriages in 1982, 1983 and 1984 before the tortuous journey of childlessness. Narrating her ordeal, she said: “I am 59 years and four months old now; I’ll be 60 years by August 2013. I got married on December 19, 1981; that is 31 years ago. It was that I had problem conceiving, because immediately we got wedded, I got pregnant but I had miscarriages. In April 1982, I had the first miscarriage, it was a girl. In 1983, I had another miscarriage, this time it was a set of twins. In 1984, I lost another pregnancy. After that, pregnancy ceased and that was the beginning of my agony.” Extended family pressures Though she could not conceive again after three consecutive miscarriages, she said her in-laws were understanding and co-operative, but her own immediate family members were the ones that gave her sleepless nights. She said her family members wanted her to opt out of the marriage as they felt she might not be compatible with her husband, but as a devout member of the Deeper Life Bible Church, she turned down their offer. When she refused to divorce her husband, her people said she try a herbalist, who they believed could help her get pregnant, but she held on to her faith. She said: “I remember my maternal uncle telling me that maybe it was not the will of God that we should marry, and advised me to end the marriage and look for where I could get pregnant and have a baby. But, as a member of the Deeper Life Bible Church, I told them whatever God has joined together, nobody should put asunder. They made several suggestions, but we turned all of them down because they were against our faith as Christians. It was in the same 1984 that they left us to our faith after they had reminded me that my husband could get married even at the age of 100 and still bear children, but as for me, I have a limited time. In 1994, exactly 10 years after their last visit, they came back again and told me that since my God had still not given me children, I should go with them to an herbalist so that I could have children, but I still rejected the idea. I told them that God would do it and even if He didn’t, there was no cause for alarm, because your children cannot take you to heaven. If you have 10 children and you die, nobody will bury you with any of them; just be good to others so that when you die without a child, there would be people to bury you. So, it was my family that worried us. As for my husband’s family, they were only praying for us. They believed the God we serve would surely answer us.” Medical trip abroad According Mrs Alabi, when all efforts to get pregnant after visits to several hospitals failed and her people were still pressuring her to find solution to her problem, her husband’s younger brother, who lives in the United States of America, invited them over for further medical check. Speaking on their trip to America, she said: “When the pressure from my people became unbearable, my husband’s younger brother who lives in America took us there for assistance. According to the young man, stress in Nigeria was responsible for our problem. He made provision for my husband and I to be together for four months doing what husband and wife do to produce children, but when nothing happened after four months, he decided to take us to hospital. We went to one of the best hospitals in California, and at the end of the day doctors said the drug I was using in Nigeria, Clomate, had damaged all the eggs in my system. I used Clomate for more than 10 years just to conceive as prescribed by my doctor in Nigeria; although my doctor prescribed it only once, but I kept using it each time I saw my menses, hoping I could achieve pregnancy with it. The American doctors said I was old and that there was no live egg in my system again. I was 46 years then.” So, with the verdict of the American doctors, they came back to Nigeria and consigned their fate to God. However, in 2007, at the age of 52, God blessed the Alabi family with a baby girl, Ayomide, but then, the 52-year- old educationist was still menstruating. The prophecy Having had Ayomide, Mrs Alabi looked forward to having more children before the cessation of her menstrual flow, but that did not happen. In 2007, two years after God blessed her with Ayomide, she reached menopause, thus signalling the end of her child-bearing age, according to scientific postulations. Although she had wished for more children, she decided to console herself with Ayomide. So, in January, when a woman prophesied that she would conceive and bear a child this year, she did not believe the woman. Speaking about the prophecy, she said: “I am a member of Deeper Life Bible Church and every January we have a covenant prayer with our General Superintendent (GS) Pastor Kumuyi. It is a one-month programme and when I came back one day from the programme, a woman, whose children attend my school, greeted me and said God had given her a message for me. I offered her a seat and listened to the message. She said she was praying when God told her in a vision to go to ‘Mama Praise’ and tell her that He would visit her with a baby this year, 2012. I just laughed and said okay; but she said I should not laugh because it was a message from God. She started raining curses upon herself if the message was not from God, but I intervened and stopped her. She is a member of another church. Immediately, she left, I went to my pastor to narrate what the woman had told me. That was because I didn’t believe what she told me. If I believed her, I wouldn’t have gone to tell my pastor again. But my pastor said well; let’s believe because there is nothing God cannot do. I still didn’t believe. As we were praying during the second Sunday of that January programme with our GS, I went into prayer mood. I was praying with my assistant pastor who has about nine children and as the prayer went on I held on to the woman and was saying, ‘God, this month should not pass me by. Let what you have said come to pass.’ Knowledge of pregnancy When asked how she knew she was pregnant, she said she went to hospital when her body was aching. She didn’t go to hospital for pregnancy test because she didn’t suspect anything; she had only gone to know why she was feeling pain all over her body: “When I began to feel pains all over my body, I went for a medical check. After examining me, they asked if I wanted to be the biblical Sarah of today; I didn’t believe what they were saying. They told me I was five months pregnant.” Life after medical check up

when she came back from hospital with the result, she said: “I was only eating. I stopped going to church because the distance is far and I was having pains. I was attending the church in my house. I stopped working completely. I needed adequate rest and I was eating lots of vegetables and fruits. I discovered that I consumed more food than before. So, when the pregnancy finally showed, I was filled with joy; I had the joy of the Lord, but I sent for many pastors to pray for me because I still did not believe a baby was inside me. Could it be a disease? I was confused. “When it was time for delivery, the baby only took about 10 minutes and it was through the normal virginal delivery. Her name is Oluwatobi Ayomikun Victoria.” On her husband’s reaction when she told him of the prophecy, Mr Alabi said: “I just said, let the will of God be done, because there is nothing God cannot do, especially with the gift of our daughter who has been a great blessing to us. It’s like she was prophesying when she said, “mummy give me a sister.” We tried to tell her to ask for a brother, but she kept saying sister and that statement touched me because I didn’t want her to be alone. She is now seven. Today, God has answered her prayer and she now has a sister. To me, our God is so good; a God that can bring life out of death. So, it’s like God is bringing life out of death and that’s what really gives me joy.” Like Mrs Alabi, who said her Christian belief never gave her cause to fear that her husband could take a second wife, Mr Alabi also said: “There was nothing like taking a second wife because of my background. I got married in Deeper Life Bible Church. We have been taught that marriage is for life and we believe that. We understand each other.
.................................................................. What a story!!! The same God that did it for Sarah,Rebecca,manaoh,Elizabeth Hannah HIS still alive till date..NEVER CONCLUDE ITS

TOO LATE EVEN WHEN MEDICAL FACT COMFIRMS IT.stay blessed

GOD IN ULCER

DRUG ADDICTION AND GOD 2

 
‘O Lord, listen to my
prayer
And let my cry for help
reach you.
Turn your ear towards me
And answer me quickly
when I call.’
– Psalm 102
Drug abuse causes
multiple problems for
countries and
communities. The
medical and psychological
effects are very obvious. Addicts cannot function
as normal members of society. They neglect or abuse their families, and
eventually require expensive treatment or hospitalization. The second
effect
is on crime. Huge police resources are needed to fight smuggling and
dealing. Criminal gangs and mafia underworlds develop with the money
from
drugs.
WHAT CAN I DO
Take seriously the bondage in which you are involved. God cares about
you
and has a solution.
Your real problem is not an incurable illness, but sin. And Jesus came to
deal
with sin ( I Corinthians 5:11 ). You need to be spiritually reborn and
baptized
with the Holy Spirit. You need to change your life patterns. You also may
need
help for deliverance from drugs and healing.
It is said that it takes thirty-one days to break a habit. Drug addiction is a
“life
dominating” problem, so radical changes must be made regarding
associates,
social atmosphere, places frequented, etc. Replacement, not abstention, is
the
key.
You need to keep busy and occupy your mind with new things
( Philippians 4:8,9 ). Learn to yield yourself to Christ rather than to drugs,
old
friends, self-pity, guilt, fear, etc.
How To Be Spiritually Reborn:-
God has a plan for your salvation. Call on the Lord to save you mind, body
and
soul ( I John 1:9 ). Receive Him as your Savior and Lord ( John 1:12 ).
Believe
Him. He said He would not turn anyone away. He loves you and gave His
life
for you ( John 3:16,17 ).
Pray this prayer right now:
Dear Lord Jesus,
I know that I am a sinner and need your forgiveness. I believe that You
died
on the cross for my sins and rose from the grave to give me life. I know
You
are the only way to God so now I want to quit disobeying You and start
living
for You. Please forgive me, change my life and show me how to know
You. In
Jesus’ name. Amen.
If you av really prayed the prayer
,you need to work in the light therefore by say no to the drug

.Here are some verses of the bible that can help you with the temptation

Proverbs 6:26-29 “ For by means of a whorish woman a
man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress
will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his
bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go
upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that
goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth
her shall not be innocent.”
Proverbs 20:1 “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Isaiah 5:11 “Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue
until night, till wine inflame them!”
Matthew 6:9-13 “ After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us
our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
John 8:36 “ If the
Son therefore
shall make you
free, ye shall be
free indeed.”
Romans 6:16
“Know ye not,
that to whom ye
yield yourselves
servants to obey,
his servants ye
are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?”
Romans 13:14 “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts
thereof. ”
1 Corinthians 6:12 “ All things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but
I will not be brought under the power of any.”
IN CONCLUSION OF THIS DRUG
ADDICTION AND GOD series….you have toThank God for His love, concern,
and power to save and deliver. Renounce the
drugs, old friends, and hangouts connected with your drug problem. Yield
yourself to Jesus. Thank Him for coming into your heart and filling you
with
the Holy Spirit. Take Him at His word and thank Him for delivering you
from
drugs.
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