Wanted! Oh, how I longed to hear that word when I was a child! I think all of us have the need to know we are not here by accident, that we are wanted. That’s why I loved the verses Mr. Chan shared with us in Jeremiah 1:4-5, “The Lord came to me saying, ‘ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart: I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.’ “
When I was a teenager I met God and was so blessed to find out through His word that I was not a mistake, I was WANTED! It was threaded throughout His word as proof!! I was actually planned!!!
When my husband and I married we actually wanted a dozen kids! Really!! When nothing happened for almost 2 years, we went in search of answers. My doctor tested both of us and came back with the devastating news…we would never have any children! My husband and I, not really serving God as yet, cried in each others arms. We were heartbroken. Then my husband said three words that I will never forget. Speaking of the doctor, he said, “He’s not God!”
Now we had both had an encounter with God when we were young, but we were never discipled and so fell away from God. I always knew God was there, I just hadn’t figured out how to serve Him. So we both decided we’d pray about having children. Come to find out God was at work all along! I was pregnant even during the testing. I just didn’t know it yet. Isn’t that just like our God? When we left it up to God how many children we would have, He took care of it. We were blessed with two daughters and a son. That was God’s plan all along!
I’m so glad I have a Heavenly Father, aren’t you? I don’t have to worry about what to do from day-to-day; He will direct my path. In fact, He wants to! He loves us so much. He planned for us and wanted us and has a plan for us. He even made a way for us to spend eternity with Him if we just accept His FREE gift. We don’t have to work, because our works are as filthy rags to Him. All we have to do is accept Him.
Thank you, Father for Your free gift of eternal life with You!!
Be Blessed,
Donna
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Let’s Pray:
Father, I praise You from the depths of my being for wanting and planning for me. I am not worthy, but You made a way for me. I pray for any ladies who are reading this who have not accepted Your free gift of salvation. May they do so today by just praying and asking You for it. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Your Assignment:
I love reading in Scripture how God has wanted me from my formation in my mother’s womb. Read these verses and meditate on them for a while. Then tell us how they are speaking to you today.
1 John 4:19
Leviticus 26:12
Jeremiah 1:4, 5
Jeremiah 29:11
Psalms 139:13-16
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What an amazing testimony, Donna! I just love to hear stories like this! Our God is a big God, an awesome God! God bless you and your ministry!
He certainly is!
Awesome testimony, Donna. Makes me think of my own daughter who went through infertility treatments, 4 miscarriages, but today has two beautiful children. Yes, God had a plan. The scriptures speaks to me: "He knew me and loves me before the foundation of the earth." Good post.
Thanks you Martha! Thanks for sharing about your daughter too!
Since I was a teenager, I wanted kids! As a matter of fact my goal in life was to be happily married with children! Crazy, but back then a college degree wasn't that big of deal, although I did go on to get my social workers degree (God planning for my future!) I was married for 4 yrs, no kids. Then I was married again for 4 yrs, but still no kids. I was saved during that period and God knew my hearts desire. Then I met my husband. He knew how desperately I wanted kids, so we saved and adopted our 2 boys from Russia (that was 15 yrs ago). I know God had this planned from the beginning. I know that my 2 boys were supposed to be ours, from the start of time. Then a couple of yrs ago, we became treatment foster parents (the toughest kids). Even though I was never able to have my "own" children, I continually see His plans unfold before my eyes. In Psalm 113:9 it says, He settles the barren women in her home as a happy mother of children.
Now I do have a house full of children! God's plan is ALWAYS better than ours!!! We have an AWESOME God!!
Rae Ann I'm so glad you were blessed with these boys! I would have adopted too if that was what God put on my heart as well. Those boys were meant for you and Praise God you finally were able to get them!! We DO have an AWESOME God!!!
I love this so much, donna! Our kids were rejected by their bio mom at a young age and now, as young adults, we see the results from it. Some of them have gone through really tough stages from their abandonment and rejection. Those feelings blind us sometimes even from the people God brings us to fill those spaces as Jesus with skin on <3 Thank GOD we iontroduced our kids to Jesus and He wooed their hearts!!! He loves them so much, as He loves each of us… we just need to let Him in to those hurting places and let him work His supernatural love 🙂
I agree totally Megan!!! Only He knows what is best for us! You are blessed!!! 🙂
Love this, Donna! I too was told that I would not have children (highly impropable) but God had a different plan. Even through the amazement of doctors, some even saying they don't know how it happened, God delivered me a baby girl. Then 6 years later, He gave me the privilege & honor of being "mom" to my husband's kids. It's amazing to see how His plans work out and how blessed we are that ours didn't!
He knows best Amy! We just need to trust Him! It's hard but He is faithful!!
Just wrapping my mind around how much God loved me that he took the time to even think about forming me brings me to tears. But it didn't stop there God created a plan for my life. He placed me down right where He knew that His plan could executed. I am so thankful for the life I've been given. For such a time as this.
Me too Anne! I was brought up in a not so ideal home and always thought I was a mistake! Thank you Jesus He proved me wrong! I am so Humbled and blessed!!! It draws me to tears too!!!
Not too long ago I had a talk with my mother about an abortion that I had in college that sent me in a depression. We discussed that I never gave her the opportunity to stop me, although I secretly wanted her to. I THOUGHT she would encourage me to, because of the situation, but she told me that she would never had done that because my grandmother wanted her to abort me. I have never really felt "unwanted" by my mother, but reading this section made me realize that He knew! He knew that He had a plan for me, and He caused my mom to go against her mothers wishes. Of course, my grandmother loved me….and I have no ill feelings toward her but it does remind me that you never know how you will honestly respond to a situation until it comes up. All I have ever known my entire life is that we don't believe in abortion, but then to find out it was suggested…..I even thought that because I had an abortion I wouldn't have kids. Of course God isn't like that. I have 3
OMIGOSH! I was so blessed when I read this story!!! Loved it!! God is so faithful!
Wow, Samele!! This gave me goosebumps!!! We serve an AMAZING God!!!
All I ever wanted was to be a wife & mother. A career was never important to me, but to my father it was. So I went to college & got a degree that I never used b/c that just wasn't who I am. I always wanted 9 children, but after a difficult 2nd pregnancy, that wasn't going to happen. Instead God put in my heart to start a daycare. Over the years I have "raised" 17 children…and counting! I am so happy in my "job" that doesn't even feel like a job. I'm just "mom", like I knew I was meant to be all along. 🙂
Those families are blessed to have someone as dedicated to their children as you Sarah!! If I worked when my kids were little I would want to have you for a caregiver!! Bless you Dear!!
You are so precious to me! Thank you!
Psalm 139–"fearfully and wonderfully made!" Interesting how I totally embrace that when I think of our daughters and our grandchildren, but when I think of myself my first instinct is to say, "Me?!" In spite of being reared in a very loving and accepting family, I still have to talk myself into accepting that our God Almighty personally cared enough to create me "wonderfully." Thankfully, with the maturity of my relationship with Him and my understanding of Him, I accept this truth more easily, and bow in awe.
Me too Clella, Me too!!