Adefolake Ayotunde-Salami
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. Psalm 14:1
It baffles me when I hear people doubt the existence of God. Then you haven’t met a real Christian. They haven’t told you stories about Him. And if you still doubt after hearing stories about who he is and what he has done, then you need saving. My husband often jokes saying, “can’t you sleep without God showing you something”. Even as a joke, the truth is embedded in those words. I want God to perpetually talk to me in any way possible.
There is a saying in our church, “God speak to me openly, speak to me clearly, speak to me directly, do not speak to me with dark speeches”. Now I know the meaning, that is the story of how I found out I was pregnant.
In 2016, I was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and they said when I am ready to start a family, I should come back to the hospital but in the meantime, I should lose weight. Fast forward to 2018, I was diagnosed with Degenerative Bone Disease, and concern was raised about how I would carry a baby for nine months with a “bad back” affecting L2 and L5 in my spine. Both diagnoses came with their challenges but I refused to let them limit me. Somewhere at the back of my mind, I said when it is time to conceive a child; it will be easy, and that it was.
My husband and I always agreed to wait a year after marriage before having a child and we kept to the plan. A cousin asked me when I shared my testimony, why did you risk waiting to conceive even after such a diagnosis. I said I had this crazy faith that when it was time, it wouldn’t delay. December 2021 as I was watching an old message from my Spiritual Father Prophet Uebert Angel, he spoke about his visit to Heaven and how the angels showed him a room where spare body parts were made and distributed to people. As I went to bed that night I said one of the simplest prayers of my life. “God, your son Prophet Uebert Angel said there are spare body parts in Heaven. I want a new reproductive system and a new spinal cord in Jesus’ name, Amen” and I went to bed. I woke up the next morning energized like I had been given anesthesia. I told my husband, I got new body parts and we rejoiced. Prior to that, my period skipped for months even though it had become regular over the years since 2016 because of maintaining my weight. In the first week of January dark brown substances began coming out like a woman that was seeing her period for the very first time and afterward blood flowed the second week of January. In the third week of January, my husband and I decided it was time.
As I pause whilst writing this testimony, I pray for someone believing God for the fruit of the womb, before this year is over you will be pregnant. Believe it, confess it. I went about life as usual and was not perturbed for a second. It didn’t cross my mind. I noticed I started having afternoon naps which was very unusual but I attributed it to my prayer sessions with God in the early hours of the morning. In the fourth week of January, I had a vision that I was pregnant and told my husband but I said I would not check until God tells me clearly because I did a pregnancy test when my period had skipped the previous year so I had one pregnancy stick left. I said I won’t buy another one. The next test I do would be the one and only.
I had a second vision a few days apart and I was pregnant in the vision and repeated the same statement to my husband. I won’t check until God tells me clearly. Then God came in the person of my Spiritual Father in a third vision. In the vision I was pregnant and we were having a church event and I was drinking hot chocolate. Prophet passed by me and stopped. Turned back, came towards, picked up the hot chocolate tin on the floor, and said the baby in your womb told me this hot chocolate has expired. I then felt a kick in my stomach.
I woke up 100% sure I was pregnant and told my husband. He said let us still hold on before you check and I agreed. It was time for Friday prayer and I prayed along with the Prayer Custodian of our Ministry, Prophetess Beverly Angel. I began feeling dizzy and had to sit down. At the moment, I decided I would do the second pregnancy test once my husband got back home. He got back, we did the test and I was pregnant. That is not the shock of the testimony. When I went to the midwife for my first appointment, I was already six weeks pregnant. Dating the conception back to the week after my period in January, before the first pregnancy vision.
I would say this in closing, even after I found out I was pregnant the devil still tried. I woke up one of those mornings and there was blood on the bed, I rushed to the bathroom and more blood came out. I looked my husband in the eye and said I can’t start again. He looked at me and said, “Don’t worry, it is only bad blood coming out”. Without discussing any further, we both refused to google what could have happened and kept saying on Sunday we will go to the Solution Ground (church: Spirit Embassy London) and everything will be fine. When we got to church on Sunday, Prophet was preaching and shared his testimony of when the hospital told him and the Prophetess to abort their firstborn because he was going to be down syndrome and they refused the doctor’s report. My husband and I made up our minds not to dwell on it but we waited till the first ultrasound and to our greatest surprise not only was he fine, he was crossing his legs chilling. Nine months later, he came and we give God all the glory.
