The burden just did not lift off quickly as I prayed that morning before going to work. As I tried rounding off, the unction to pray came on, and so I prayed on, detained in the presence of God longer than usual. Rom 8:26(ESV) Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. When the unction stopped flowing, I got ready and went to work at the Good Shepherd Specialists’ Hospital where I was a Medical Officer, entered the consulting room, and began seeing patients. That morning in 2013, a woman came to me with complaints I could not make head or tail of. She complained of sensations on her head, which flowed down her neck, sensations on her upper limbs and elsewhere. I tried to get her to characterise the sensations according to the patterns we had learned in medical school, but her description in Igbo just would not fit into any medical pattern I had been taught. Could they be psycho somatisation? A situation where there is anguish in the mind which, being suppressed, now manifests as (sometimes) bizarre symptoms in the body.
Then I heard deep down in my spirit, “Ask her about her children”. I knew it was from the Lord so I asked, “Madam, how are your children? Are they fine?” It was as though the dam burst and she began weeping. Her husband, who was with her, tried to control the situation and rebuked her, asking her no longer to weep. “Anytime the matter is raised she just cries and cries.” I urged him not to restrain her, that that was where the problems lay. Eventually it was the man himself who told the story. They had been married for ten good years without an issue. No child. She had not even conceived so much as to have had a miscarriage. All attempts at conception failed. Her mother-in-law would have none of that and had moved in a year ago to ensure she delivered a child (as if she had the power to force in a baby and cause her to give birth). And so, she was distraught.
The Holy Spirit said to me, “This is the reason why I detained you in the morning while praying. Her miracle was being downloaded. Pray for her, and she will give birth.” I walked over to the door of the consulting room and closed it. I told them the answer lay with God, and as we held hands I prayed. She fell under the anointing there, and I asked her husband to help her up, and we concluded the prayers thereafter. Being a doctor, I still prescribed for them before they left - basically multivitamins - and then continued the morning’s work
About a year later in 2014, when I came in for afternoon duty, I was told some people had been waiting for me since morning. A man came forward, familiarly smiling at me. Not recognising him but trying not to show it, I smiled back, wondering who it was. A lady followed him with a baby, and an older woman behind her with another baby. “I was the man that came last year to see you; we had infertility, and you prayed for us. This is the result. We have twins! I have been hearing about miracles in churches but believed them to be arranged events. Now it has happened to us. I have come today to give my life to Jesus Christ.” Acts 10:38 (ESV) how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Dr Emeka is a consultant at UNTH
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