It's been way too long time since I updated this blog, but after seing the response her video is having on GodVine, I think its about time. I am so overwhelmed with how many views, likes and comments her video has had. I'm so thankful to my God Almighty for using my family to be the reason of so much praise around the world.
I want to share a little more about Faith's story: Faith was a promise to our family. Can you imagine telling your child that God answers prayers, and hearing him pray for years for a baby brother or sister, and nothing happening? What do you say? You say: keep praying, "Keep the Faith"
For seven years we prayed and waited for another baby. In August 2009 a minister came to our church for a youth retreat, my husband an I as counselors for the youth group joined them to such event. After a night service of so much blessing and annointing, about 1:00 am we were in the lobby of the dormitories, all the youth was still there just hanging out and talking. Between laughs and conversation, the minister, Rev. Cuautemoc Lopez, approached my husband and I and said: I got word for you sister, but I'll tell you when we arrive back in church the next day, so everyone could hear. I said: No! I want to hear it now! He began talking and said: God has heard your plead and within a year you will conceive a baby in your womb and you will hold this baby in your arms. After he said those words, the prescense of God filled the whole room and I felt in my womb like a tighting sensation, I knew God was working, and I took it as a promise and just believed.
Months went by, 3,5,7,9 and we were still believing, people would start wondering if the word the Minister had told us was real, others kept believing with us, even believers would make comments like: "He could've messed up and the word was for someone esle". But we continued to believe, 11 months later and nothing had happened yet, pregnancy test after pregnancy test, month after month. It was until August 2010 that we got a positive test. Praise the Lord!! God is Amazing!!
Lots of stuff happened between then and and Janurary 28, when I was exactlly 25 weeks pregnant, but I wont write them in this blog 'cause I want to get to the most important part. I went to a regular prenatal visit and the nurse checked my blood pressure, she dimmed the lights and told me to lay down and asked me how I felt. "I feel fine" I said, then she informed us that my blood pressure was 200/104. I was then told to go directly to our community hospital. I spent the night and the high blood pressure couldn't be normalized. In the morning I had an ultrasound where they discovered I had very low amniotic fluid. I was put in an ambulance and rushed to Spokane Deaconess Medical Center. On my way there I was meditating in the Lord and realizing the scripture I read early that morning was becoming a reality in my life. That morning I had read in Genesis 46:
And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied. “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.
If you understand, what I understood that day, then you'd know why I was so confident about what God was about to do in my life. Like Jacob, I was going to a place that I didn't want to go to, and I was afraid to go there, but God would be with me. And the promise I got from this is that he would bring me back with my daughter and that she would be with me 'till the day I die. That's what I read, that's what I believed.
I thought I was going to be hopitalized for months, while they monitored my blood pressure, I thought that'd be hard. Little did I know, that same day they would deliver my daughter to save my life, doctors said she had to come out, to normalize my blood pressure. They said I could die, they said my kidneys were already giving up. I held on to the rails of the hospital bed and said, NO! Don't take my baby out, she's too little, let me just lay here for a couple weeks and grow her a little more. Several doctors came in and tried to convince me to deliver her, they said otherwise we'd both die. Die? my promise die? No! God would not break a promise, lot's of people are watching and witnessing this miracle since before it was concieved. I then gave up and decided I needed to do whatever I could to not leave my son without a mommy and save my life. I knew somehow, someway, God would save my baby's life even thou ultrasound estimated she only weighed 13 oz.
Faith (by the way, we picked her name even before we knew this was going to happen) Faith, was born by c-section weighing 14 oz. I went thru the worst physical pain of my life during the operation, I felt like the doctors were ripping me open and yanking her out of me. Finally my husband sees her and says to me: "she's little". "How little?" I said. "Very little" he answered. After that, and for a few hours I was so drugged up for the pain that I don't remember but was told that my human self would say to my visitors that I didn't want to name her Faith, because what if she dies? I don't remember saying this, but what I do remember is when the doctor came in and told us Faith won't make it thru the night saying, we were going to wait on the Lord. I also remember lots and lots of people coming to visit us in the hospital and giving us words of encouragement and letting us know they had our backs on this trial, that they would be praying until we brought her home. I remember the doctor telling me that my uterus and insides are so messed up with scar tissue, he said: "I don't even know how you had a baby in there" Well, you and I know how. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the doctors and nurses that took great care of Faith and I, I pray that God continues to give them wisdom and blesses their lifes abundantly.
Four and a half months later, we walked out of that hospital and into our home with our healthy baby. Doctors and nurses had predicted she'd come home with monitors, oxygen, a g-tube to be fed, at least an eye surgery, they said she'd be in and out of hospitals for a few years, but to God be all the honor and glory!! A week later, we are at church thanking God with our baby girl. Faith is healthy and didn't need eye surgery, has not been back to a hospital, she's been healthy and growing beautifully. She is now 17 months weighs 15 lbs. She is very smart, understands some directions and imitates sounds and actions, crawls all around the house, praises Jesus with her tambourine in church when she hears music. Haleluyah!! I can go on and on, there's so much more to tell, day by day miracles that we witnessed while she was in the NICU, maybe one day I'll write a book, but for now my biggest joy is to know that my son believes is is sure that God answeres prayers. Please keep sharing Faith's story and giving God all the glory.
