The joy of the Lord is the strength of Barrister Emeka Etiaba, former governorship aspirant in the 2010 governorship election in Anambra State and that of his wife, Barrister (Mrs.) Joy Etiaba, as they and other members of their families are still basking in the arrival of Emeka and Joy’s first child after 15 years of marriage.
Emeka and Joy are happily married and have been living happily since their wedding in 1994, asking and looking onto God for what they have now. Their son, Neluchukwu Mmelichukwu Chiedozie was born on the 8/11/2009 weighing in at 9 pounds, 5 ounces.
The arrival of BMC Jnr(acronym for Emeka’s late father) came a month after Emeka’s bid to secure a governorship ticket of the Progressive Alliance (PPA) for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra was frustrated. If Emeka had been losing sleep over his unsuccessful bid to become governor in 2010, the arrival of BMC Jnr. will make him sleep like a baby. Congrats Emeka and Joy. They have started coming!
SOURCE: COMPASSNEWS
To those undergoing so much distress and pressure because of their current (it's temporary!) situation, you will also give your own testimony as these couples have done. Please wipe your tears. God is not partial. Year 2022 will not pass you by and you too will laugh last.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING
TESTIMONY
20 Years Barrenness Broken!
“My wife and I joined the commission in 1997, and since then it has been from glory to glory. We are one of those couples, whose stories have been changed via this ministry and specifically, prophetic declarations from the bishop. To god be the glory!
During the ‘Night with the King’ programme held on November 7, 2008, you prophesised by the leading of theHoly Spirit ‘By this time tomorrow, you will have a new song’ At the meeting, I received these words of prophecy by faith; my entire being was transformed and eventually twenty years of barrenness and marital spells were brought to an end.
My wife and I can now boast in the Lord of a male child – Emmanuel Imo-owo Solomon Abai.
By this development, shame, reproach and tears have been terminated in our marriage. This is indeed Divine intervention.
I count it a privilege to be associated with this great Commission.
Dcn.S. Abai
CANAANLAND FAITH TABERNACLE
KM 10 IDIROKO ROAD, OTA
DATE: FRIDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER 2009
TIME: 10.00 PM
20 Years Barrenness Broken!
“My wife and I joined the commission in 1997, and since then it has been from glory to glory. We are one of those couples, whose stories have been changed via this ministry and specifically, prophetic declarations from the bishop. To god be the glory!
During the ‘Night with the King’ programme held on November 7, 2008, you prophesised by the leading of theHoly Spirit ‘By this time tomorrow, you will have a new song’ At the meeting, I received these words of prophecy by faith; my entire being was transformed and eventually twenty years of barrenness and marital spells were brought to an end.
My wife and I can now boast in the Lord of a male child – Emmanuel Imo-owo Solomon Abai.
By this development, shame, reproach and tears have been terminated in our marriage. This is indeed Divine intervention.
I count it a privilege to be associated with this great Commission.
Dcn.S. Abai
CANAANLAND FAITH TABERNACLE
KM 10 IDIROKO ROAD, OTA
DATE: FRIDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER 2009
TIME: 10.00 PM
It was hell looking for a child for 15 years - Oshiomhole’s aide
He is a top notch politician, very influential and generally successful. But for Hon. Omon Ezomon and his beautiful wife, Bridget, there was a painful snag.
For 15 years, the couple had no child. Recently, however, God wiped away their tears and removed their shame. After 15 harrowing years of waiting on the Lord, Ezomon and his wife were blessed with a bouncing baby girl.
Hon. Ezomon, is the Special Adviser on Legislative Matters to the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole. Thrice, he contested and won elections to represent Owan West constituency in Edo State House of Assembly. Despite being elected the Deputy Speaker of the House in 2003, a position he held until late 2006, Ezomon and his wife lived with a vacuum in their lives.
But all that changed with the arrival of a baby girl, Favour, Ehabi (Destiny) Ezomon. And since the arrival of the bundle of joy, the Ezomons’ home in Benin City has become a house where joy dwells. According to Mrs. Ezomon, when the doctor told her that the result of the pregnancy test she took was positive, she could not contain her joy. Excited and nervous, she put a call through to her husband who was on his way to China and informed him about the good news.“In tears, I told him that by the time he returned from his trip, he should start preparing to be a father,” she told Daily Sun. With a precautionary advice from her doctor to take some rest, she confessed with a glint: “To me, rest was an understatement. I immediately took a sabbatical leave from my business.”
For a woman who had been called heartbreaking names by even her loved ones, carrying the baby to the due date was one challenge she prayed fervently to surmount, especially as age was no longer on her side.Despite being in the U.S, an environment that boasts of the best medical facilities, her fears and anxiety continued to mount. “I was shaking with fear on the day of the delivery. At a point, I asked one of the nurses if I was going to die”, she recalled, a smile playing on her lips.
Mrs. Ezomon, who is still relishing the joy of motherhood, said that even in those traumatic days, she believed that God would not disappoint her.She noted that her positive stance propelled her to make preparations for the babies’ arrival, even though she was not sure of when it would be. She decorated different rooms for her expected male and female children.“Every day, I would enter the rooms I prepared for my children and say, ‘this is the boys’ room and this room is for the girls. See today what my belief has done. The Bible says it would always be unto us according to our confessions,” she stated.
On the psychological trauma her barren state inflicted on her, she remarked with a smile: “It is only those who wear the shoe that know where it pinches. It is when you feel the pains that you would fully realize what it means to be a mother after 15 years.” Speaking further, she said: “It is a feeling you cannot explain. The humiliation and the stigma were too much to bear. Sometimes, I found myself crying for days. During those trying days, it was the grace of God and the love of my husband that kept me going. I also drew strength from the book of Exodus 23 that says: ‘There shall be none barren in the land, not even among animals.”
Just as his wife, Ezomon is still bubbling with joy months after the arrival of the baby. He told Daily Sun that the birthday of his daughter would remain the greatest day of his life.The former parliamentarian said none of his political victories has given him the type of joy and sense of fulfilment he is now enjoying. But how does it feel to be married without a child for 15 years and still carry on as if nothing was wrong?The former legislator said it was a very sad memory. “The joy of seeing my first child after 15 years of marriage wiped away the pains and agony of the past. It has brought jubilation into the family. The joy of every couple is to get home every day and be welcomed by their children. When it doesn’t happen, it becomes a nightmare.
Our 15 years of childlessness were years of torment. It is difficult for someone who has not travelled that road to know how it feels. It is a very sad memory indeed.”As it is well known that pressure is mounted on a man in the African society to take a second wife after the first fails to have a child, Ezomon admitted that his case was not different. He is, however, grateful to God that he did not succumb to the pressures.“It takes the grace of God to withstand family pressure. I didn’t see the reason for a second wife because I had the kind of wife that I needed from God. Even with that problem, she remained a pillar of strength. Whatever glory that I may have achieved today politically can be attributed to her understanding and co-operation. I never lost hope of her being able to give birth one day.”
Recalling the pomp and pageantry that laced their wedding 15 years ago, the Special Adviser to Governor Oshiomole said their wedlock had the seal of heaven. According to him, the ink had hardly dried on their wedding certificate when the former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, sacked the Interim National Government’ headed by Chief Ernest Shenokan, thereby returning the country to the dark days of military rule.
Consequently, Hon. Ezomon, who incidentally was a first time legislator at the Edo State House of Assembly, lost his job.The couple who believe that their beautiful daughter would open the gate for more children could not but encourage those now travelling the path they once treaded not to lose faith in God.“Those that are still hoping and waiting upon God for the fruit of the womb should hold on to God firmly. I am a living testimony that God can revive dry bones. People thought that there was no hope for me. But I kept telling myself that there is hope. I knew it was just a question of time,” Mrs. Ezomon said.
For 15 years, the couple had no child. Recently, however, God wiped away their tears and removed their shame. After 15 harrowing years of waiting on the Lord, Ezomon and his wife were blessed with a bouncing baby girl.
Hon. Ezomon, is the Special Adviser on Legislative Matters to the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole. Thrice, he contested and won elections to represent Owan West constituency in Edo State House of Assembly. Despite being elected the Deputy Speaker of the House in 2003, a position he held until late 2006, Ezomon and his wife lived with a vacuum in their lives.
But all that changed with the arrival of a baby girl, Favour, Ehabi (Destiny) Ezomon. And since the arrival of the bundle of joy, the Ezomons’ home in Benin City has become a house where joy dwells. According to Mrs. Ezomon, when the doctor told her that the result of the pregnancy test she took was positive, she could not contain her joy. Excited and nervous, she put a call through to her husband who was on his way to China and informed him about the good news.“In tears, I told him that by the time he returned from his trip, he should start preparing to be a father,” she told Daily Sun. With a precautionary advice from her doctor to take some rest, she confessed with a glint: “To me, rest was an understatement. I immediately took a sabbatical leave from my business.”
For a woman who had been called heartbreaking names by even her loved ones, carrying the baby to the due date was one challenge she prayed fervently to surmount, especially as age was no longer on her side.Despite being in the U.S, an environment that boasts of the best medical facilities, her fears and anxiety continued to mount. “I was shaking with fear on the day of the delivery. At a point, I asked one of the nurses if I was going to die”, she recalled, a smile playing on her lips.
Mrs. Ezomon, who is still relishing the joy of motherhood, said that even in those traumatic days, she believed that God would not disappoint her.She noted that her positive stance propelled her to make preparations for the babies’ arrival, even though she was not sure of when it would be. She decorated different rooms for her expected male and female children.“Every day, I would enter the rooms I prepared for my children and say, ‘this is the boys’ room and this room is for the girls. See today what my belief has done. The Bible says it would always be unto us according to our confessions,” she stated.
On the psychological trauma her barren state inflicted on her, she remarked with a smile: “It is only those who wear the shoe that know where it pinches. It is when you feel the pains that you would fully realize what it means to be a mother after 15 years.” Speaking further, she said: “It is a feeling you cannot explain. The humiliation and the stigma were too much to bear. Sometimes, I found myself crying for days. During those trying days, it was the grace of God and the love of my husband that kept me going. I also drew strength from the book of Exodus 23 that says: ‘There shall be none barren in the land, not even among animals.”
Just as his wife, Ezomon is still bubbling with joy months after the arrival of the baby. He told Daily Sun that the birthday of his daughter would remain the greatest day of his life.The former parliamentarian said none of his political victories has given him the type of joy and sense of fulfilment he is now enjoying. But how does it feel to be married without a child for 15 years and still carry on as if nothing was wrong?The former legislator said it was a very sad memory. “The joy of seeing my first child after 15 years of marriage wiped away the pains and agony of the past. It has brought jubilation into the family. The joy of every couple is to get home every day and be welcomed by their children. When it doesn’t happen, it becomes a nightmare.
Our 15 years of childlessness were years of torment. It is difficult for someone who has not travelled that road to know how it feels. It is a very sad memory indeed.”As it is well known that pressure is mounted on a man in the African society to take a second wife after the first fails to have a child, Ezomon admitted that his case was not different. He is, however, grateful to God that he did not succumb to the pressures.“It takes the grace of God to withstand family pressure. I didn’t see the reason for a second wife because I had the kind of wife that I needed from God. Even with that problem, she remained a pillar of strength. Whatever glory that I may have achieved today politically can be attributed to her understanding and co-operation. I never lost hope of her being able to give birth one day.”
Recalling the pomp and pageantry that laced their wedding 15 years ago, the Special Adviser to Governor Oshiomole said their wedlock had the seal of heaven. According to him, the ink had hardly dried on their wedding certificate when the former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, sacked the Interim National Government’ headed by Chief Ernest Shenokan, thereby returning the country to the dark days of military rule.
Consequently, Hon. Ezomon, who incidentally was a first time legislator at the Edo State House of Assembly, lost his job.The couple who believe that their beautiful daughter would open the gate for more children could not but encourage those now travelling the path they once treaded not to lose faith in God.“Those that are still hoping and waiting upon God for the fruit of the womb should hold on to God firmly. I am a living testimony that God can revive dry bones. People thought that there was no hope for me. But I kept telling myself that there is hope. I knew it was just a question of time,” Mrs. Ezomon said.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
HOW I CONQUERED BARRENESS AFTER 14 YEARS
LEFT: PASTER CHARLES ORIGHA & WIFE MARY WITH BABY
Imagine a home without a baby for about 14 years. Imagine a minister of God praying for barren women to receive the fruit of the womb, yet he cannot have a child to call his own.
This picture aptly captures the dilemma Pastor Charles Origha went through with his beautiful wife, Mary. It was a very tough period in their lives and they kept waiting on the Lord for a miracle.
While family members, well wishers and many others were worried about the state of the pastor’s fruitless marriage, God told him to be calm. For 14 years he lived with the pain of childlessness, he believed God for the fruit of the womb.
God did not rescind on His promise to Pastor Charles Origha. Like the Biblical patriarch, Abraham, Pastor Charles Origha’s wife conceived and bore him a son. The child was named Emmanuel with means ‘God with us.’ “This is the beginning of many good things to come. God is faithful to his promises and will give us more children,” he enthused.
You could see happiness deeply etched on his face during the dedication of Emmanuel, his son, at the Apostolic Church, Ikorodu Road, Ilupeju. The couple danced like David but their clothing did not fall of their bodies.
In a traditional African setting, succession is a very serious issue. Every family wants a male who they believe will carry on the family’s name unlike a female child who will marry and bear her husband’s name. Mr. Origha’s family amazed him when they did not react like most families by accusing the woman of being the cause of their childless marriage. He revealed that “my parents rather prayed and believed God as the giver of all good things. Even as the first son of my parents, they were worried but did not interfere with our marriage.”Before the birth of the child, some people had speculated that his childlessness was an act of God, having divorced his first wife. Such people emphasized that God had visited his sin on him and that he would die childless. “But God has used the foolish things of the world to stun the wise. His thoughts are far from that of man, just as heaven is far from the earth.”
According to him, “God is not a man. He does not act on speculation. I got married to my first wife by mistake. She was my senior and the marriage was contracted in the dark. After I saw the light and we both found out our incompatibility, we had to part ways,” he submitted. With regards to my wife, after periods of medical examinations, the doctors discovered that she has a growth that had affected her womb. She underwent a successful operation and God was so faithful to us.”Having experienced the sad side of marriage, he advised youths to always look before they leap especially in matters that concern choosing a life partner.
Pastor Charles also enjoined those who are married and have not had the fruit of the womb to wait on God rather than resorting to self-help through the black power. “God has promised that there will be no barren among His people. Believers in God ought to seek God’s intervention in their entire situation. There are no impossibilities with Him as He specializes in things which we think are impossible. God intervened in Hannah’s situation. He did the same with Abraham. And He has promised to do even more,” he averred.
SOURCE: NATIONAL LIFE
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