He is I AM, therefore, You CAN

We have our scriptures about how big our faith is.  We have our proclamations about how the devil won't win.  I do not discount that and, yes, you should have those things.  However, there are times when it is necessary to shut your pie hole and put all that stuff into action.  Very recently, that happened to me.
My wife and I got married in 2006.  She was diagnosed well before that with a condition that made child bearing next to impossible without EXTREME intervention from medical professionals.  As rare as her diagnosis was, she was a small percentage of the small percentage of women that had the same condition.  We tried every thing.  Clomid, progesterone, metformin, etc.  We've seen an infertility prescription or two.  We even went to a specialist, a reproductive endocrinologist.  With the insurance that is provided by my job, which is awesome, we could not afford to continue the treatment.  We got sick of her being sick from the medication.  She got sick of being some guy's petri dish for the next experiment.  So she said goodbye to what medicine had to say about her situation because obviously it was as clueless as to what to do next as we were.

She began doing a little bit of research on the food that she was eating.  We went to a presentation about food being fuel and how it effected the body, both positively and negatively.  We eventually adopted a vegan lifestyle, and cut out all the processed sugars.  Long story short, after doing that for a few months she started cycling ON HER OWN!!!  She was doing something that medicine said that she'd never do without medication.  On the 7th month, her cycle didn't come and come to find out that my wife, after the better part of a decade passing by, was pregnant with our child.  No medication was being taken, no doctor was involved, but that was just the beginning of our new journey.

Her pregnancy was as Awesome as it could be.  On January 26th 2015, My wife gave birth to a little baby girl.  Her name is Lily.  She was cute as a button and I was wrapped around her finger from the beginning!  I must stop here to help you understand that life has not always gone our way.  In the past, when bad things happened, they happened a lot.  Immediately after my daughter was born, she was whisked away to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for not breathing.  It was determined that she was having seizures due to swelling in her brain which was causing her to revert back to being in her mother and not needing to breathe.  She was put on a breathing tube and no answer on whether or not she would make it.  We saw doctors and nurses galore.  We got called to go out at 2 am because she needed a CAT scan.  She had a gauntlet of tests run on her and the actual cause of it all was not determined.
I said all of that to set up the spiritual principle in all of this.  I am getting real sick and tired of the devil's crap.  I can remember making my wife look at me as she's lying on the table getting stitched up from delivery and telling her, "This is all one of the devil's tricks.  Do Not Fall For It!"  All those proclamations that we had made over the years were suddenly and very violently put to the test.  What do you do when you see a precious child that you love enough that you'd die for her, she is only being kept alive by machines, and there is not a flipping thing you can do about it?  I can tell you that any religion in your body goes out the window real quick.  The kicker here is that they actually took her off the breathing tube fairly quickly.  I was thinking that whatever it was had been gotten under control.  I come back a few hours later and she's back on the breathing tube because she continued to have seizures.  Have no clue why.  After I saw that, my wife was in shambles, everybody around me was a wreck, I excused myself and went and had what I call "a David moment with God".  I got my anger out, we had a good conversation, as heated as it may have been.  Yes, I was mad with the One that created me.  We had our conversation, and because I wasn't listening to my Heavenly Father, my earthly father called me.  He let me get it all out, just like God did, prayed for me and wished me good night.  In my dad's prayer, I got my word from God.  He had my daughter in the palm of His hand.  He led me to Isaiah 49 around verse 13.  God begins talking about how He could never forget His children and "Can a woman forget her nursing child?"  He had not forgotten His promises to us concerning our child.  That was all we had to stand on at the moment because everything else looked bleak.  Intercessors that we know were contacted.  We knew that this was a spiritual battle.  The specialist that looked at my daughter's case had never seen anything like it.  He said, "It is very odd".  When my dad was at the hospital, the following phrase was formulated, "This isn't odd, This is GOD!"
You have to understand that the word from the Lord about Lily from the beginning was Jeremiah 1:5. "Before I formed you  the womb I knew you.  Before you were born I sanctified you.  I ordained you a prophet to the nations."  Do you really think that the devil was going to sit idly by and let someone that was going to put her boot on his throat live or have her parents all happy and hopeful?  Let me be honest here.  I fell to pieces when my little girl was lying on that table with all those tubes and crap going into her.  My wife did so more and I had to be a support system for her.  She asked me why many times.  I had no answers.  If our faith was being tested, this was that time.
The fact is that it is not EVER, EVER, EVER by human strength that we get through trials and tribulations.  Without the grace and kindness of Jesus Christ, we would snap in half under the pressure.  We had no answers why this happened, the doctors, had no answers why this happened.  However, Lily's story started to spread.  This little baby was being prayed for by people that do not even pray.  People were finding enough faith to make a small petition to God for my little almost 8 lb daughter.  My wife's OB/GYN asked her husband, who never even wants to pray with his family, prayed for my daughter.  A report reached us that someone did a devotional speech on Lily's story.  In all this, it suddenly became clear to me.  Lily is a prophet.  As she gets stronger and wins more battles, her story will spread.  I am a man undone at the privilege to be her father.  I am the father of a little girl that is bringing people to Jesus before she can even control her own neck.
I have called Lily a devil stomper ever since she was conceived.  I know that that kid has amazing destiny on her life.  If she is going to change the world, she is off to a REALLY GOOD start.  Why else would the devil fight so hard to keep her from being born.  After she is born, why else would he fight so hard to try and kill her.  You may ask, "Why did God allow it?"  Her story is leading people back to Him.  Prodigal sons (and daughters) are returning to the loving father.  People's faith in a God that this world has turned its back on is growing from our story of triumph!  Why?  Because All things work to the good of those that Love Him and are called according to His purposes.
He is the Great I AM!  His name is Jehovah Rapha (the Lord that heals)!  It is His undying love for His creation that makes us able to do what we do.  There's a word for life without Him: Hell.  It can be on earth.  I prefer to have Heaven all around me.  This trial has tested me in every way that I can think of.  It has tested my faith, it has tested my perseverance, it has even tested just how much I love my family.  I was surprised at myself with what I am willing to do for my family.  There is one thing that I have hardly thought about this entire ordeal.  It has been the one chain that i cannot seem to break: money.  Out of nowhere, God has had people bring us what we needed when we needed it.  Throw away your preconceived ideas about God, none of them fit Him.  Just rest on the fact that He is God, and you are not!  He is in control of everything in creation.  Rest assured, whatever His plans for you, they are possible.  You will carry them out, because He is I AM, therefore YOU CAN!

Grace and Peace Be with You ALWAYS!