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.
“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 cum
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?”
Source: 24/7NewsUpdate
Source: 24/7NewsUpdate
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