On 22nd May 2011, which was a Sunday, my family and I were going for the Family Outreach Group (FOG) meeting when I started experiencing abdominal contractions. By then the pregnancy had exceeded the Expected Delivery Date (EDD) by about two weeks. I had to drop my children at the FOG venue to go to the hospital with my husband.

At the hospital, the contractions stopped and I had to stay for observation till the following day. By the following morning, there were still no contractions and my doctor had still not arrived but his assistant said he would perform a Caesarean Section (CS) as he suspected that the baby had entangled himself with the cord. He explained that if we waited any further, the baby could get strangled to death.

At that stage, I remembered a message Pastor Nkechi preached in one of the combined services of Boaz and MoThaRs collection, where she talked on, “The Power of Agreement.” I held hands with my husband and spoke in other tongues for a few minutes and agreed that the delivery was a done deal. We started talking and laughing in the delivery room and suddenly, I started having contractions coming in quick succession. When a nurse came to check my progress, she was amazed that I was ready for delivery.

During the delivery, I was asked to push, and then I was asked not to push for sometime. Finally, I was asked to push and the baby came out. After the delivery, my husband told me that our baby had a cord round his neck and that when I was asked to stop pushing, the nurses had to cut the cord off his neck. The doctor told us that it was the cord that stopped the contractions but God’s power brought him out right at the appropriate time.

The most interesting thing was that a few months into my pregnancy, God had given me a name, “Ohiosimuan.” I asked my husband what it meant and he said it meant, “God is our Saviour and Deliverer.” Praise God. Amen.