Standing On The Promises Series

Most in-laws can mount so much pressure on their daughters-in-law to conjure babies from the sky by hook or crook after some years in marriage. It is more heartbreaking to note that even some mothers who gave birth to their daughters now give intense pressure on them for not conceiving after some time in marriage.

The pressure to get married and the pressure to give me a grandchild nowadays is much more severe from (own) mothers than mothers-in-law mounting that pressure. This is evil. It is so unfair to pressure someone to marry or give birth. It is God who gives marriage and it is God who gives children. Nobody know how to manufacture a husband, wife or baby.

Your daughter not married or given birth doesn't mean she doesn't want to get married or give you a grandchild. Marriage and children are good things to have in life and every growing and grown adult desires it. Your daughter that is of age to marry knows that she needs a man to marry her. You don't expect her to go all over the streets shouting for a husband or just accept any man that came her or sees on the streets simply because she wants to get married.

Yes, you are growing older, she knows! You need grandchildren, she knows. She's growing and menopause is a reality when you get to a certain age as a woman, She knows that one too. But she's not God, she knows and you know too.

Stop bothering your children over wife, husband and grandchildren because they are not God.

As a mother, your job is to keep supporting your children in love and prayer as they continue to wait on the Lord to give them a good marriage with children in it. There has been countless miracles and notable testimonies of men and women of faith from the Bible and our contemporary reflections who experienced delays in marriage and bearing children.

But the covenant-keeping God never disappoint them and even if He did, marriage and children are not the requirements to make heaven. Nothing in life to be desired and pursued more than working out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Nothing much to be desired than seeking first His Kingdom and righteousness.

A good parent encourages her children in this condition and shows great love and support. She doesn't frustrate them by giving them attitudes because they are not yet married or still don't have a child after years in marriage. No truly born again Christian mother or in-laws will treat their children this way because they are the only ones who are getting older but not finding a suitor or unable to conceive.

Everything works for our good according to time and according to God's time and grandmaster planning for our life. Delays are not denials. God is still in the miracle business of giving good marriages and children to all His children who are constantly asking and believing Him for it.

Everything works with time for the child of God. Carter purposed in his heart that even if God doesn't heal his heart condition, his faith and reverence for God will never change. God is supreme. He is limitless but not compelled or obliged to answer our prayer requests even though He has promised to.