After 24 years of marriage, a Nigerian Pastor could not hide her joy as she hauled adorations and praises to God Almighty for the gift of a set of twins.
During the June 2025 Power Must Change Hands programme at Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, International Headquarters, Lagos, Pastor Funmilola Abraham held the congregation spellbound with the earth-shaking testimony that rattled many naysayers.
“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,” Mrs Abraham who was clutching one of the twins noted.
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Flanked by her husband and another woman, the 58-year-old in a viral MFM TV on Saturday said “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.
Mrs Funmilola, the Regional Overseer at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries who later granted interview to The Punch narrated “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.
“But five months into the pregnancy, the doctors said the babies had a heartbeat problem. Their hearts weren’t functioning properly. So, I had to evacuate the pregnancy. They did a D&C for me, and I lost the 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.”
On how she conceived, she narrated; “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.
“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.
“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.
She revealed that her twins were born on March 12, 2025.
“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,” she added.
The husband, Mr. Abraham thanked God for the miracle and for sustaining them as a family, saying he never gave up hope about having children even in his old age.
He said he believed God and glorified Him for showing up at the last hour despite the challenging years of childlessness.
