Excerpts of Remi's Testimony

We decided to go to an IVF specialist in St. Louis, USA. Several years earlier an acquaintance had suggested I see the particular Doctor as he was the one that pioneered the IVF process. I did register there, but never followed up. I was delighted when I returned there and saw they had kept my file. The first attempt did not work, but with hindsight I know why.

Please if any of you are holding anyone at all in unforgiveness, RELEASE THEM NOW! My miracle was right at my fingertips, yet because of the “small sin” of unforgiveness I did not receive it and my miracle was delayed for 2 more years. I shared the issue of the pain I had been caused by this person which was holding me bound with a pastor friend of mine and he prayed with me. A deep scream came from within me whilst we were praying and I knew that at last I had been delivered.

We must also be very prayerful when we are going through medicals. We must pray for God to take total control and the blood of Jesus to speak from beginning to end, so that He will lead the doctors to do what is right for you.

Apparently, on getting to the hospital a fibroid that had always been very small in my womb had grown very large and was sitting in the uterus exactly where the implantation of the eggs should take place. It was such a devastating news. After travelling all the way from Nigeria to the USA, the procedure could not take place and I had to wait for 6 months before the fibroids operation could be performed.

Another thing I would like to advise waiting women, particularly those going through medical procedures is that they must be completely relaxed. In the earlier years I was always so tense and stressed. I remember once I actually had to give myself pre IVF injections on a London bus once because I was so anxious to stick to the exact timing of the injections. I was that crazy. As I grew in the Lord, I began to relax and not worry so much anymore.

However, towards the end of 2006 when I realised that I would be turning 40 soon I became really depressed. I left Nigeria for London early December because I could not bear to hear the prayer “iwoyi amodun” (this time next year) for yet another year. On New Year's eve, I wanted to attend the Crossover Service of MFM. It was somewhere outside London so I booked a car on the internet so I could drive there. When I wanted to pick up the car I realised that the pick up point was by some crazy mistake in Scotland and as I couldn't get another car, I decided to go to RCCG Jesus House's watch night service which was nearer to me.

I was sitting in the overflow, but a friend of mine, a worker in the church saw me on the screen and insisted I must sit in front. As wewalked to the front, at the edge of every single row was a baby in a chair seat and it was as if my heart was cutting to pieces. I prayed with a vengeance that night and I resolved with the Lord, it will be the last year anyone would pray that prayer “iwoyi amodun” for me. I heard God speak, He said “I have heard you”. A peace indeed like a river, enveloped my soul and I began to dance like a mad person, moving from aisle to aisle, one auditorium on to another. Oh how I danced with joy and victory into the new year of 2007!

Earlier, in April 2005, Sis. Yewande had invited me to the dedication of her book God's Waiting Room. Pastor Bimbo Odukoya ministered to all the Waiting Women on that day and she spent an unusually long time with me. I had been a faithful attendee of the Fruit of the Womb Class of the Married Women's Fellowship in the earlier years of my marriage when we still lived in Gbagada. I decided on the day of that book dedication that my own story would also be told one day and to the glory of God, that day is now here. After Pastor Bimbo passed to glory, I saw her twice in my dreams, encouraging me to hold on and praying fervently for me.

When I got home that night after the book dedication my husband read the book in a sitting. He immediately requested for 20 more copies which he sowed into the lives of others still believing God for children. The book was a real source of blessing and encouragement to us.

Excerpts Of Modupe's Testimony

t was a period of tears every month anytime I saw my period. It got to a time that I started hiding my period from my husband because of the pain I saw in his eyes as soon as he sees me putting on a pad.

Through out all this period, as a believer I have been going to various church programmes and for those of you who attend RCCG, you will be familiar with the way words of prophecy come from the G.O. during Holy Ghost night, some with a particular person in mind. One prayer I used to pray was that God should address my case specifically to me alone and not a generic word of prophecy. Well this happened in August 2004 when I attended a church all night programme that a friend invited me for in a Foursquare Church. There was a guest evangelist ministering that night and during prayer time as he was calling out different prophecies, as usual I was pondering in my mind that "when will God address my case specifically" as he was callinew seconds after this thought came to my mind, the evangelist pointed to me where I was standing, and called me out. I have never met this man before but he spoke concerning my case. I will never forget the words he spoke to me that night and the first sentence was that God said "Now is the time for my glory to come, for my enemies to be put to shame" He asked me to place my hand on my belly and he prayed for me.

This was a very emotional night for me as it was just falling right into my own plans (1) that finally God spoke to me directly and assured me it will happen (2) my hubby was going for a one year masters programme in the UK the next month September 2004 so I thought what a perfect timing for me to get pregnant since we will be seperated from each other for a full year.

In my human thinking, I was like ok, I was going to get pregnant that month and then it will not matter so much that my hubby will be away for a year. My sisters, that did not happen and I was so disappointed. The day I saw my period, I was devastated, I was like, “Can God say something and not bring it to pass. I was in tears driving home from work that day, but a song that was playing in the car ministered to me strongly. The song said "God had not forgotten, what He said He will do will surely come to pass" I was really touched by this song and I brushed off the disappointment and just held on to that prophecy of that day and used it to pray everyday bringing it to God's remembrance since I know that God cannot lie.

My hubby travelled to the UK in September 2004 and I decided to go for herbal treatment during this period as I was tired of medical treatment. A severe pain I got in the office one day convinced me to get the surgery done for the fibroid. More so that I wanted to eliminate all known factors that could affect my reproduction in any way. I did the surgery for the removal of the fibroid in April 2005. The surgery was successful and we both looked forward to my getting pregnant after the surgery. Still nothing happened; at this point we decided to give ourselves a break from all medical intervention for at least a year. It was at this time that a friend of mine who attends Fountain of Life Church told me about the book 'God's Waiting Room" and got me a copy of the book. I devoured the book in a short time and was really encouraged by all the testimonies in the book. When I travelled to visit my husband in the UK in 2005, I coincidentally came across Sister Yewande in the UK when she came to minister in the church we were attending in Milton Keynes. I was so happy to meet the woman that wrote such an inspiring book, I went to meet her after the service and she prayed for me after telling her my story.

After my husband came back from the UK on completion of his masters, his new job required him working from Abuja for like a year on a project. I also got a new job in 2006 in an oil company that was to take me out of Lagos to Port Harcourt. My hubby and I discussed at length about it and he encouraged me to take the job being that he was also out of Lagos during this time and he also wanted us to be out of circulation from those that knew us so that we could avoid pressures that were existing around us. A lot of people thought we had gone crazy or something.

Anyway, we decided to take a drastic medical intervention in 2007 and we started the IVF process in June. After spending so much money, not to talk of the pain and emotions experienced during this process, the IVF was not successful; we had a false positive result. I called Sis. Yewande from the hospital where I was admitted for bed rest in an effort to stop the bleeding which began the same day I tested positive to a pregnancy test. We prayed together on the phone and she encouraged me to hold on to God. I left the hospital after a week as the pregnancy did not hold and we decided to take a break and later think of what to do. One of the plans was to relocate to the UK where we may get better medical attention.

My hubby resigned from his job in September 2007 and was to travel to the UK in November 2007, get another job and then send for me. The day before my birthday in the month of September, I was driving home in my new official car and I was pondering the state of my life, after 7 years of marriage. I told myself that there was nothing to rejoice about even though I had all the good things of life, good salary, new car etc. I told myself that the poorest person on the street with children had more reason to be happy than I with all my worldly possessions.

However, thank God for the Holy Spirit. He ministered to me that I was focusing too much on things that God was yet to do for me. He asked me what I had done about the things that God had done for me, that I should focus on those things which God had done and give him praise for it. With this in mind, I pulled myself together and had a cheerful day on my birthday. I was happy through out the day, I praised God and put a smile on my face contrary to the way I have been celebrating it in misery the past years.

That same day I had to travel to Lagos for a business meeting, so I was with my husband in Lagos the evening of my birthday and was in Lagos with him till the weekend. My sisters, I believe my miracle came that night because I obeyed God as he instructed me, because out of the blues, with no medical intervention in any way, I got pregnant in October 2007!!! In the month of October, the day my period was expected, I had seen traces of blood and had even used a pad, however two days after I saw the traces and my period had not started flowing, I knew something was different. I also was feeling somehow, so I went to the pharmacy shop on my street and bought a home pregnancy kit. On using it at home, I saw the second line form on the stick (take note that in all my 7 years of marriage, I have never seen a second line in any form, either faint or otherwise).

I was excited and scared at the same time. I went back to the pharmacy shop and bought another one. The lady at the shop was looking at me somehow on showing up to buy another kit. I used it and the second conformation line was even darker in colour and quicker to show this time around. My heart started beating, I drove out of our estate to another pharmacy shop so that the lady in the first shop will not think I had gone crazy or something.

My sisters, I bought like 3 this time around and all were positive. But fear was still in my mind, I did not tell my hubby. I kept it all to myself till the next day. I tested again the next day and it was still positive, then I had the courage to call my hubby and show him the latest kit I used.

Note that I was taking pictures of all the test kit results with my phone camera. I was so paranoid that I thought I needed evidence to show that I was really pregnant incase anything happened to me!!! Staying so many years without getting pregnant not even once made me so paranoid. My husband did not even doubt it, as he took me to the hospital right away and then it was confirmed with a blood test. My sisters, for so long, it was like I was in a dream or movie until the morning sickness kicked in. I must have used a zillion Home Pregnancy Kit even after I had confirmed it in the hospital.

To the Glory of God, although I had a rough first trimester, God saw me through the whole 9 months of pregnancy. He was my strength and my shield from all that could result into complications. I had no complications or serious illness throughout and only had my baby via CS operation because of the fact that I had done a previous surgery on my uterus during the fibroid operation I did in 2005.

My promised child arrived June 24th 2008, a beautiful baby girl just a month shy of our 8th year anniversary. We named her OLUWADEMILADE AMARIAH (meaning "Whom God has promised) AJAYI.

My life is a living testimony and it proves beyond doubt that God is alive and He truly answers our prayers. I had two friends also waiting on the Lord for the fruit of the womb that we used to pray and fast together every Monday. The one living in South Africa had her baby in March 2008 and the other one living in the US just called me yesterday to share the news of her pregnancy with me. I am so so happy and can shout it from the mountains that God is a faithful God and He never forgets His own children no matter how long our miracle may look delayed.

I look at my baby every day and bless the name of the Lord, every minute.

Olorun dada l'Olorun mi (2ce)
Ose mi dada
O tun hu wa dada si mi
Olorun dada, l'Olorun mi.

Modupe Ajayi

Excerpts Morin's Testimony

Cycle 3 was the most traumatic of all, we had 9 eggs, BUT 7 were immature and only 1 of the good 2 had fertilized. The embryologist said to me on the phone, you only need one! So, off we went to Grand Rapids, Michigan this time and prepared for the transfer. On the morning of the transfer we went in as scheduled at 7.30am, we waited and waited and no one called us. Eventually at 9am the Doctor asked to see us and told us that our embryo had failed to divide further overnight therefore technically had died; so, there was nothing to transfer. The world was about to end, I was shattered, and we went back to the hotel and I cried ALL day. Bola & Tayo on the phone in Lagos kept me through the day with “DON'T GIVE UP, get ready to do another, you will succeed”. Hard to believe, but with my poor exasperated husband joining that “Let's keep trying” message, we pulled through the time. It was October 2004.

As we had done earlier in the year, we started another cycle right away. This was going the dominant egg route, one good one and manymedium performers. The cycle went fairly O.K. but on the day before that scheduled for retrieval, my husband (1) missed his flight out of Lagos as the traffic was horrendous that day (2) Arrived at the airport to discover that his wallet had been stolen therefore he had no Green Card nor Credit Cards anymore. In short, there was neither retrieval nor transfer, the eggs just slowly went away. The frustration led me to decide that the U.S. was too far for this process and the cross-world travels were killing my spirit. I returned to Lagos after a long time away.
Meanwhile, the fateful MRI film showing the tumour was sent to Dr Bola Oyesiku in Atlanta to review and give a 2nd opinion managed never to get back to me thanks to UPS who lost it in transit on its return journey! The evidence evaporated. The hospital meanwhile could not reproduce it as the film had been taped over. The beginning of God telling me that the mountain had been removed.

In December 2004 I attended the Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp on the Friday Night of the Congress and I received my healing while the Intercessory prayers were being said. You know the sensation after you swim and water fills your ears; after you come out of the water, you can feel the “pop” as the water releases. Having not swam or gone anywhere near water that day, my ears “popped” during the prayer session and I shivered, that moment, I knew the tumour was gone. I shared this with my in-law Sis Kofo and we prayed in agreement that this disease of the Egyptians we shall see no more. The Lord was faithful to Exodus 15:26 I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE”. (Today in June 2008 my MRI scan showed no trace of the tumour whatsoever!)
I faced my program and kept my own counsel not discussing the challenge with people but looked unto God who said, “BE STILL.