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NOTE......I posted this on the message board a few days after my son was born on February 21st, 2003.
I had my baby!!! Do you want to hear about my baby, or do you want to hear, as the scriptures say, how GOOD the Lord is……or
do you want to hear about both?
I woke up at midnight Friday feeling contractions (or rushes as I prefer to think of them, it sounds less medical to me and
more ‘friendly.’) The rushes continued and at 12:30am I decided to get up and get things ready. We have our front
room which is the ‘boy’s room’ and it is here that my hubby keeps the piano, stereo equipment, guitar equipment,
etc… so I went right to the stereo and put on my favorite tape from Integrity called Shield of Faith. All the scripture
tapes from Integrity (there are 11 or 12 of them) are all WORD FOR WORD SCRIPTURE.
Then I went back to our family bedroom and woke up hubby and told him, we were going to have a baby by morning! He got up
along with our oldest daughter Hannah (10) and they started lighting candles around the front room and living room and got
out the plastic tarp and chuck pads.
By now, I was having rushes pretty strong and as I would walk around the living room I was continually saying, ‘My Daddy
is on the job, My Daddy is on the job,' over and over and over. Even when I could SEE no baby I thanked Him for my healthy
baby. That is what faith is, faith does not speak according to what it sees, hears or experiences (this is called the natural
realm) but faith speaks according to God’s Will, or God’s Word, and the scripture says in Romans 12:2 that God’s
Will IS PERFECT, GOOD, and WELL-PLEASING, so faith speaks His Word and His Will.
Well, before I knew it my knees were on the floor while I was leaning over the couch. And to my amazement I was still confessing,
‘My Daddy is on the job,’ He was so right there with me that I don’t even have words to explain it, but
it is rad! I needed wash cloths on my perineum but I had turned up the fire too high and hubby could not get them out of the
pot! I could feel with each rush that Hubby was pulling on something, come to think of it we never went over together how
the baby would come out on its own, but I figured the Lord was guiding him so I just pushed. What was coming out was a baby
still in his bag. My water had not broke and so my hubby was trying to get this baby in a bag, out, and before we knew it
the baby just slip right out onto the floor (he fell about 1 foot) and this broke the bag and got my hubby all wet. He then
turned the baby over and put his mouth over the baby’s mouth and nose and sucked out the mucous, then handed the baby
to me. Within 10 minutes the baby was nursing and all the children were around to greet and witness this totally blest event!
Elias John Schermerhorn was born at 1:45am, my labor was 1 hour and 45 minutes, my fastest yet (they are usually 4-5 hours.)
By 3:30am we were all tucked in bed.
Every baby I have had I have always had perfect births, but in the end I get sick or the baby can’t nurse. I have been
hospitalized after births, I have had breast infections, and in general I have just been sick with something or other. But
this time was going to be different. Deuteronomy 28 says all these sicknesses are a curse and Galatians 3 says we have been
REDEEMED from all the curses and yet we still get ALL THE BLESSINGS of Deuteronomy 28 because we are grafted into the blessings
of Abraham through faith. Please take time to look up these scriptures and find out for yourself!
So how am I doing? I am doing great! I am boasting in the Lord, it is ALL because of Him, all I do is believe Him and do my
best to STAND FIRM. There is nothing special about me, it is ALL because of Him. Elias nurses about every hour to 2 hours
during the day and at night he goes for about 4 hours, letting me get plenty of sleep!
I have NO sickness in my body! Elias nurses PERFECTLY! And our family is running so smoothly that on Monday we started in
again with schooling, no vacation till April.
When Elias was born my hubby and I noticed he was breathing rapidly. That night as we slept I noticed his rapid breathing
and his face would sometimes go from blue to pink again. My mom noticed it to and she started to check his pulse. Right away
I told her, don’t do that, the Lord has a plan for this baby, a plan to PROSPER this baby and NOT to harm him, a plan
to give him a FUTURE and a HOPE (Jeremiah) and I said to her, do you think if he died that would be God’s plan? No Way,
that’s what scripture says! Jesus in John 10:10 says that He came to GIVE LIFE and that satan came to STEAL LIFE. So
for the next 24 hours I spoke scripture over Elias and claimed God’s Word for him. There was NO FEAR what so ever!!!
Scripture says that perfect love casts out ALL fear (1 John 4 or 5) and it also says that JESUS HIMSELF is that PERFECT LOVE,
PRAISE GOD!!!!!
After 24 hours his breathing was perfectly normal, and will continue that way till Jesus comes back. Praise God there is NO
FEAR IN LOVE and we can BOLDLY come to Him with NO fear and COMPLETE CONFIDENCE that He is our Daddy and that He WILL answer
us ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, and His Will in Romans 12:2 is PERFECT, GOOD, AND WELL-PLEASING!
He is SO GOOD I just want to tell everybody, it has nothing to do with me, His kindness and tender mercies are for ALL His
children, He wants to do GOOD to us all the time, isn’t that what a Daddy wants for His children?! Isn’t that
what you want for your children? Matthew 6 or 7 says that we are evil and even so, we want to give GOOD THINGS to our children,
and then it goes on to say HOW MUCH MORE do you think the Lord will do GOOD for you!!! PRAISE GOD WE HAVE A GOOD DADDY!!!
FOLLOW-UP......
After my last birth (2000) I was hospitalized with a uterus infection. I had retained a piece of placenta the size of my pinky
fingernail. When I was 2 weeks post partum with Elias (the birth above) I was at the sink washing dishes when I felt ‘something
big’ come out of me. I went to the bathroom and found a huge clot between my legs. I ran it under the water and sure
enough, it was tough, fibrous, and I recognized it as placenta......it measured 4 inches long and 1 inch high. I was singing
PRAISE YOU LORD!!!...in the natural, I would have already been in the grave, but I was ALIVE and WELL!!! satan would come
and say things like, ‘this is a bad sign, you know what this means, a fever, pain will come soon, death is just around
the corner, you know women die from this all over the world, you better get to the hospital.’ But I just continued to
SPEAK what the Word said. A few days later I passed another piece 3 inches long and 1 inch high. I never had ANY symptoms
whatsoever come on me......the Lord is GOOD!
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