Six Words I Will Never Forget

 

When I saw this picture for the first time. I cried and cried.

The words that came to mind was that of an Evangelist, who preached a message I will never forget. The title: "Impending Danger." If the title alone didn't put the fear of God in me, a true story from his sermon did. 

The Story

One morning he had a vision of a Pastors daughter who was keeping her pregnancy a secret.  When he awoke from the vision he was  terribly disturbed. He was scheduled to preach at this Pastor's church that same evening.  

When he got to the church there she was; the young woman he saw in the vision.  Instead of calling her out before the crowd he finished his sermon and spoke to her in private. He had small talk and then asked if she was pregnant. Her answer "no". He then proceeded to tell her that the Holy Ghost showed him that she was pregnant and if it were true she should bare the shame and have the child. She repeated again, "I am not pregnant."

The Evangelist then left her alone hoping and praying in his heart that she would take heed to the words given to him by the Holy Spirit.

Days later he heard the bad news. This young woman was pregnant, but, she chose to end the pregnancy to avoid the shame. Shortly after her decision,  she lost her mental state of mind completely.

Back to the Service

The Fear of the Lord came over us all.

Then he said..”Saints, do not lie to the Holy Ghost, lest something worse happens to you.”

Read what happened to Ananias and Sapphira here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_and_Sapphira

Why did I blog this story?

Christian singles who are in dating or courting relationships could succomb to temptation and become pregnant as a result of it. 

The truth is this, no matter how we may miss the mark along this Christian journey God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. 

(1 John 1: 9) If you are pregnant, or know of someone that is, won't you share the words of this evangelist with them or share this blog. Who know's it could help to save a life.

 

Here is a closer look at the story behind the picture seen above.

"A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope." The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life."

Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person" Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful."

Bare the Shame Have The Child!