If you describe Mrs Oluwakemi Adeoye as the Biblical Deborah, you won’t
be mistaken. She told TAIWO OLANREWAJU how she got a revelation and the
names of her baby three days after marriage but did not see the
manifestation until 14 years after.
Oluwakemi was born into a
Baptist family and is very conversant with the word of God. Maybe her
greatest assets are that she truly believes in God.
Fortunately
also, her husband, Gbenga, belongs to the same Baptist denomination. She
and her spouse are from Abeokuta, Ogun State. Their positions in their
various families, however, before coming together in holy matrimony on
Saturday, April 3rd 1999, seemed to add to the pressure of the need to
have children soon after marriage.
Mrs Adeoye is the third of
five children, but the first daughter while her husband, Mr Olugbenga
Adeoye, is the first of six children and the only son. His five sisters
are happily married and blessed with children.
Being a child that
was brought up strictly with Christian doctrines, Mrs Adeoye, a
graduate of the University of Jos, knew that she would have a baby, more
so as God, according to her, had revealed to her in a vision that she
would have a baby and gave her the names of the baby on April 6th, 1999,
three days after her wedding.
Having met when Oluwakemi was in
Form Four, and Gbenga in the polytechnic and had courted for 15 years,
both understood each other and did not take the issue of not having a
baby immediately after marriage too seriously.
It was not until
the fifth year that they considered it a challenge and decided to seek
medical and spiritual assistance. They were invited to churches for
prayers. Their parents, especially Pa and Ma Adeoye, invited them to
meet with pastors who ministered in their church, especially during
special programmes. For a while, Mrs Adeoye attended deliverance
programme of a church at Aremo area of Ibadan and was also invited by a
colleague at work to attend God’s Voice Ministry programmes at Alakia
area of Ibadan.
Her words: “I went to God’s Voice Ministry in
September 2010 and I had menstruated that month. So, the woman in charge
said I should wait till I see my menstruation in October to enable her
to know my ovulation period. Alas! My menstruation refused to come that
October.
“I visited big hospitals, mission hospitals and
privately owned hospitals in Ibadan and they all said I was not
pregnant. I had urine and blood tests including scan tests but they all
turned out negative,” she revealed.
In December, however, Madam
Evangelist Oluwasola, asked her to have a special test in her laboratory
wherein the red blood cells were separated from the white blood cells,
and that was it – the result revealed that she was pregnant. But by
January 15th, 2011, she started bleeding and when she prayed, God told
her that nobody could query Him and that the issue was long concluded,
she would have a child.
By May 2011, she had bought all her baby
things although she did not know the sex of the baby because God did not
show her, so she bought unisex materials. She was becoming fatter but
her tummy was not too big. By July 2011, she had contractions, felt the
baby’s movement but the hospitals declared that there was no baby in her
tummy. In fact, a particular doctor told her that her fatness was
obesity precipitate menopausal sign.
She sought spiritual assistance
when she wrote Pastor Enoch Adeboye in September 2011 and he replied her
through a SMS that she would soon share her testimony.
Mrs
Adeoye became an object of ridicule when the baby refused to come in
spite of the change in her physique but she was not bothered. By January
2012, she contemplated having a surgery to bring the baby out. She
prayed and God gave her the go-ahead, warning her, however, that the
doctors would be reluctant to carry out the surgery as there was no scan
or test result to back the surgery. And so it was.
But as from
March 2012, she had her menstruation regularly. Friends invited him and
his wife to visit America, get some medication from India, consider
remarrying or adopting a baby, but in it all, he was not led to take to
any of the options because he believed they had not exploited all
options.
His parents were constantly falling sick and he knew it
was because of the issue. So, he advised them to put all their hope in
God to behold the miracle as he was certain that God would bless them
with children.
Mrs Adeoye menstruated till January 2013 and
vomited everyday in January till she had the baby on January 15th in the
night at the mission house.
“The delivery, though painful, was
simple. I was not in labour for too long before I had the baby, may be
three to five minutes and the baby came, a girl. And we christened her
Emmanuela, Opelope-Jesu, Ite-Oluwa-kii-si Adeoye,” the new mother
stated.
Mrs Adeoye, who noted that there was no rancour between
her and her husband or her in-laws throughout their challenging period,
urged all Christians to put their hope in God, adding “Whether you win
or whether you lose, God is God. No matter how good or bad your
situation, it will not change the fact that God is God. You cannot push
God and He has no second in command. So, why not put your trust in
Him?”Fmi
To God be the Glory
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