Ever heard of Experiencing God?  It’s this old (1990) Bible study that describes God’s pattern of dealing with folks.  It’s good.  I did it once or twice in college (Yep!  THAT old!), and am back into it again because I thought it would help a guy I’m spending time with.  And it is!  It’s also helping me to revisit some of Blackaby’s foundational stuff.

One of the things Blackaby talks about is that, when God reveals himself in a new way, he gets a new name.  So, when he tells Israel that he’ll heal them, he says, “I’m JHVH Ropheh, The God Who Heals You.”  And they go, “OOH! So THAT’s what you’re like...” and they know him more.  Now, jump forward about 3500 years.

There is an Infertility Community Group at Crossroads, which is just what it sounds like: a support/prayer group for couples who're not conceiving.  Dora and I spoke at this group last year, before we were pregnant, and basically told these people that not getting pregnant wasn’t okay with us and that we were going to fight this thing to the death and that we would win and we would be pregnant because God said so.  Then we did get pregnant (! praise God!), and they asked us back in April to share our story and encourage the folks in this year’s class.  We did and it was good.

After the class, we prayed and prophesied with people, breaking off this infertile nonsense (it's anti-Bible, by the way, to think that it's in God's will that some people "just weren't supposed to have children".  Hogwash).  I prayed with two couples, and Dora prayed, along with another woman, with three.  We just got word tonight that, out of those five couples, THREE have since conceived.  Holy smokes. These are people who were told that, to even have a CHANCE of conceiving, they would have to do in vitro fertilization.  One of the couples was told that they would simply never conceive (but we've heard THAT one before.  Bah).

When God gave us our daughter in January, I came to know him as The God Who Makes Babies.  He is still on his delivering, body-fixing, baby-making throne today.  Praise him for it!