A Miracle Baby

Hi there, before i tell you what God has done in my life i just want to say that God can answer your prayers too if you trust in Him and His Word. God bless, Katie Ledgeway.

John and I were married in October 2005. We knew before we were married that we wanted children. I had known problems with my ovaries and knew conception would be difficult. We did not know however that John also had medical problems.

We prayed, and were prayed for, and looked into IVF and went through the initial screening. After going though the screening we were informed that we had less than a 1% chance of conceiving by ourselves. Even though we knew God could use IVF, we wanted a baby naturally. I was upset and my prayers became very inward looking. Talking to my mum and dad I realised I needed to change the way I prayed. Instead of asking all the time I needed to be thankful to God for all he had done in mine and John’s lives, and what he was going to do. I changed my prayers from why can’t I have a baby, to thank you God for the baby you are going to give me.

God gave me a word from Isaiah 54 “Sing of childless woman, you who have never given birth! Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, you who have never been in labour. For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband says the Lord. Enlarge your house, build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense! For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities.”

At Bible Week 2007 in the 1st meeting, Matthew Ling said that if anyone had any problems or issues in their lives to lay them before God and let them go. In that moment John knew that he had been healed. He came out of that meeting that night and said he knew for a fact that God had healed him. Later on in the week we were called out for prayer. Two prophetic words were given to us. Mine was to let things go and stop worrying about situations, and John’s was that we would be bursting at the seams, just as it said in Isaiah 54. 5 weeks after returning from Bible Week I found that I was pregnant.

Jonah Daniel Ledgeway was born on the 21st May 2008.

This 1% impossibility, in God’s hands had become the reality.