Must Read: Couple have Child after 13-solid years of marriage...

The Nwanebu's with their miracle baby

When people get married, they rightly expect children to start coming almost immediately. New born babies are usually welcomed with relish. Parties are lavishly thrown to herald their entry into any family.
The joy of parenthood equally push parents to dedicate their children to God in church each time a new baby arrives.
Conversely, childless couples do everything possible, including going to medical doctors and undergoing all manner of tests, visit native doctors, churches as well as spend their last kobo to get babies. Many couples get swindled by fraudsters as they keep searching for babies. As a last resort, some prefer to adopt babies but the criminally-minded ones go the extra mile to steal babies!
A pastor of Assemblies of God Church Nigeria, Reverend Bethel Nwanebu and
his wife were among the not-so-lucky couples. For the couple, the situation was so tense and most trying despite the palpable love they have for each other. They fasted, prayed and visited several hospitals for 13 years in search of a baby! When the baby eventually arrived, the happy parents gladly called her Faithfulness, Oluomachi, Ebube.
There was the sad side of their suffering. Within this same period, some people were heard querying why Reverend B, like he is fondly called by his parishioners, should waste his time praying, laying hands on children who were not his own and blessing other childless couples when he had nothing to show for his long years of marriage.
Another sad thing is that these nasty statements were sometimes made to the hearing of the couple. As human beings, these careless talks worried the soft-spoken Reverend Nwanebu.
Hear him: “Parents who had no problems in making babies may not fully appreciate what my wife and I passed through for 13 whole years. It was not easy for  us at all. People said all manner of things about us but we kept waiting anxiously on the Lord,” the pastor recounted.
Continuing, Reverend Nwanebu said: “I must tell you the truth. As a human being, I must confess that our sorry situation periodically discouraged me, my being a pastor notwithstanding. I was almost asking if God was still there for me”.
He affirmed that they went for all manner of medical tests in different hospitals and were repeatedly told that they had no problems. Why they remained childless was a huge problem to the couple; indeed, it remained their cross.
Pastor Nwanebu recalled that he was gladdened when his wife, at a point, was confirmed pregnant, adding that their joy was, however, short-lived because “she had a miscarriage three months after”, adding that it was akin to saying that they had buried their first child.
“My wife was so devastated and refused to be consoled. As a remedial measure, I planned a vacation and took my wife away to the United Kingdom. We came back in August last year and to the glory of God, she conceived the following month. Today, I am a happy father,” Nwanebu said with glee.
The pastor’s wife, Ngozi, was so overwhelmed and short of words when Vanguard Metro visited the family. She put her account this way: “God has blessed me with a beautiful baby girl after 13 years of my marriage. I feel excited about being a mother. You may not appreciate what it means to wait for the fruit of the womb for 13 years. Honestly, I was in a wilderness of tears but today, God has wiped away my tears”.
At the child dedication service, the District Superintendent, Owerri District of Assemblies of God Church, Rev. Mishell Ashiele, drew a thunderous applause when he advised the couple to “fire on, especially now that God has opened the door”, adding that it will not be a bad idea if people are invited again for another child dedication service in the next six months.

-Vanguard
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....lol, Couple abeg fire on joor!
Heyyy! did i hear somebody crying now? Never worry your own miracle is on the way for God has not forgotten you.