Not too long after we brought Alexis home, Kim was cleaning out her purse and found a scribbled note that read:
Boy, blonde hair, blue eyes.
Girl, brown hair, brown eyes.
By Christmas 2000.
It took her a moment to recollect what it was about. Then she remembered. Several years before I was preaching on prayer. I instructed everybody to write a prayer request down on a piece of paper and basically give it to God. Save the piece of paper and give God the praise when the prayer was answered.
She had forgotten all about that piece of paper and I had long forgotten that sermon, but God had not forgotten the prayer. Nathaniel Shane Hewett was born on April 1, 1999 and Alexis Michaela Ranae Hewett was born on June 2, 2000.
There were several lessons learned from this experience. One, God remembers even our forgotten prayers. Two, my wife does listen when I preach. And three, those two previous children were no doubt a gift from God.
Honestly, this prayer was no new prayer. We had said we were having four children, two boys and two girls, when were engaged and newlyweds. We had prayed over this long before it came to pass. We had no idea the path we would take to get there, nor how long that path would be. Here we were though. We had our four children. God had been so good to us. Our family was complete....so we thought...
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