Pastor Funmilola Abraham, a 58-year-old Nigerian woman who recently gave birth to twins after 24 years of waiting, shared that her husband remained committed to her and declined taking a second wife throughout their years of childlessness.
In an interview with The Punch, Mrs. Abraham, who serves as a Regional Overseer at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, expressed gratitude for her husband’s unwavering support.
She said …
“I got married on March 31, 2001. It has been 24 years since then, and I was 57 years old when I gave birth to my children. I am 58 years old
“In 2002, I had surgery to remove fibroids. The doctor assured me that everything looked fine. My husband also went for medical checks, and everything was perfect. But since then, we’ve had no comfort; we kept moving from one hospital to another, hoping for a solution.
“I’ve done the procedure known as ‘flushing’ almost 10 times, but still, no comfort. Eventually, in 2019, I decided to go for IVF. By God’s grace, it worked, and I became pregnant with triplets.
“Later, I tried another round of IVF, but it didn’t succeed. At that point, I just looked up to God and said, ‘Lord, I’ve done everything humanly possible, but nothing has worked.
“So, I put my full trust in God and focused entirely on my ministry. From the beginning, I never backed down from my calling. I continued doing what God asked me to do.
“I forgot about myself and the problem. But as a woman, my mind still went there from time to time. Whenever it did, I would cry—sometimes openly, sometimes silently. Often, I would just sit quietly and stare into space.
I’ve never seen it written anywhere in the Bible that a woman must have children to enter heaven. That truth comforts me. If I can still make heaven without children, then it’s okay. That’s what gives me peace now—I no longer look back.
“All I pray for now is that in my old age, God will take care of me. That’s my constant prayer: ‘Lord, just take care of me.”
Speaking on how she conceived, she said …
“At the 2023 crossover into 2024, while people were shouting Happy New Year, I would be on my knees, crying to God. I would tell Him, ‘Lord, I want to carry Your presence into the New Year. I’m standing between the old year and the new, connecting to great things.
Eventually, I told the woman I prayed for to go and try. Within a month, she came back to me and told me she was pregnant. She didn’t even know I was also trusting God for a child.
“I later went to meet the matron. That’s how the treatment began. She inserted some medicine into my body, both orally and vaginally. It wasn’t cheap either; it cost money. But she continued with the process.
“That day, we also prayed. It was just prayer. When I slept with my husband, within two weeks, I started feeling different. In fact, before the love-making, because of the drugs she gave me, I could already tell that my ovulation was active.
“Within that period, a woman came to me. She was also seeking the fruit of the womb. I prayed for her and encouraged her.
“Later, someone mentioned a place where a matron lives. They said she had helped many women. I was very cautious because I didn’t want to go anywhere that would bring future problems.”
“Thank God for my husband—he’s a born-again Christian. At a point, I even told him, ‘Go and get another woman from the village, like Sarah did.’ But he said, ‘What do you mean? Didn’t I see the village before I married you? I’m not going anywhere.”
