Now after this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she secluded herself completely....
Luke 1:24 AMP
That was the Scripture the Lord gave me when my wife became pregnant after eight years of waiting.
I felt like rolling out the drums but that Scripture kept me. I told myself, “People celebrate babies and not pregnancies.” So my wife and I spoke to our Pastor’s wife about our conviction. I still remember her counsel till date. She asked us to take pictures during the pregnancy.
Then I told just one person from my own side — my younger sister. My wife informed only one person from her own side — her own sister. Both people were under strict instructions not to divulge the information to anyone. I did not inform any of my parents neither did she.
I did not tell any of my friends. My wife stopped attending our church and went to a church very close to our house where no one knew her. The moment each service was concluded, she immediately left for our home. She greeted no one and didn’t wait for any meeting after the church service.
I still remember how my friends would ask after her and I told them she was fine but could not come to our church. A very close friend of mine played a fast one on me one Sunday. He came to our house unannounced after Sunday Service.
He knocked at our door and when I opened the door for him, my wife was right in the living room with her big tummy. My friend screamed and asked if this was why I’ve been keeping her away. I begged him to keep the news to himself and his wife.
My wife went for her antenatal care one day and the doctor said they had to do a C-Section immediately. It was when my daughter was brought out that I called my dad and broke the news.
I still recall his response when I told him my wife just put to bed. He replied, “Which of your wives?” I asked him how many wives I introduced to him. My mum was very dramatic. She said, “Bimbo wo?” I replied, “Bimbo kan naa.” (“Which Bimbo gave birth?” to which I replied, “The same one.”)
You’ll save yourself a lot of trouble if you’ll just keep some emerging testimonies to yourself. It is not everything that is meant to be shared. Share on XWhen I told her it was not a joke, she screamed at the other end, threw her phone away and I heard her shouting at all passers-by to come and have a drink. She gave out free drinks to everyone in the market that day.
She would later get home and smash a ‘pure water sachet’ that a ‘prophet’ gave her to pass on to me. That ‘prophet’ had told her he saw me depressed with my hand on my chin. Me that my wife was “belleful.” She told me how the ‘prophet’ took money from her to pray for her.
You’ll save yourself from a lot of trouble if you’ll just keep some emerging testimonies to yourself. It’s not everything that is meant to be shared – some things are meant to be kept under wraps, only to be unveiled at the appropriate time.
Keep your mouth shut and keep your life. Don’t rush to share. Wait. Let it mature. Your celebration is not yet ripe. It doesn’t mean you’re afraid. I usually tell people that it was God who instructed that Baby Jesus should be taken to Egypt to protect him from Herod.
Could God not protect Him? Was God too weak to protect Jesus? There are some things in life that it is better not to waste energy praying about when simple obedience will save you all the prayers and fasting.
Keep your mouth closed and you’ll stay out of trouble – Proverbs 21:23 TLB