RHEMA 5/17/2002 WHAT?  PREGNANT AGAIN?

 

experience:  Today Wayne drove through the McDonalds to get me an ice cream cone. Then we went on to Winco and I ate my cone in the car and rested while he shopped. When he came out, instead of turning right to go home, he turned left and said, “I hope you don’t mind, but I want to go back to McDonalds.” I thought this extraordinarily funny, as I was eating my cone in front of him and thought perhaps he could not stand it so he wanted to go get his own. He doesn’t like ice cream that much, so I was laughing and teasing him about it. But he told me very seriously that he had wanted one previously and knew he could not take it into Winco, so he decided to wait. I told him that I could have certainly waited if he had told me this. But I was still laughing. Somehow it struck me very funny that we were going back there a second time.

I asked him, “Doesn’t it embarrass you to go through the drive through line again?” He was very serious and said, “No, not at all.” And I laughed and said, “Well I would be embarrassed!” I teasingly said, “I suppose you could always tell him your wife is pregnant if he asks!” By this time I thought it was hilarious and was holding my tummy laughing.

So we drive through and he orders. When we get to the pull up window, the guy says, “Hey didn’t I just see you here?” And I am holding back my laughter until that point and I shriek in laughter, it is so funny to me!!! And my serious husband says, “Hey when your wife is PG, who knows?” That blew me away in peels of laughter and the poor fellow says, “Hey buddy, I know how it is.”

As we drive away, Wayne is laughing so hard and bright red. I am laughing so hard. I said, “Why did you tell him that?!”

“Because I was embarrassed!!!!” {More uncontrollable laugher.} Then he said, “Well it IS true, you are pregnant with the Word of the Lord!” And we belly laughed all the way home and I wondered if we were driving safely. I was still chuckling a half an hour later over this whole thing. It must have been the Lord because it was so out of character for both of us to act this way in public. We were totally out of control laughing so hard.

WORD TO PONDER: WHAT, PREGNANT AGAIN? 5/17/2002
“What! Am I pregnant again?” you ask. “Just how many children am I going to have?” Well, My love, as often as you consecrate your heart and life to Me, I consummate our love and union and give you another child. You ask how many children, and I say, “How about as many as the sands of the sea?”

Yes I hear your laughter, and I understand. Go ahead and laugh, for I am birthing great joy in your life and you shall laugh at the marvelous works I will do in your midst, and you shall also laugh that the enemy will be unable to stand against My work. Your joy shall be made full; ripe, plump and overflowing. Nothing shall stand against you in that day. So let the promise of joy begin and laugh all the way through your pregnancies.

“Then the LORD did exactly what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant, and she gave a son to Abraham in his old age. It all happened at the time God had said it would. And Abraham named his son Isaac. Eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded. Abraham was one hundred years old at the time. And Sarah declared, "God has brought me laughter! All who hear about this will laugh with me. For who would have dreamed that I would ever have a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!" (Gen 21:1-7 NLT)