Boosting Daughter's Growth Through Speaking
When my daughter, Ella, was born, she was a big baby in the 98-percentile at four kilograms. It was a glorious natural birth, as the delivery took only 55 minutes. Since my wife was also quite small in stature, the gynaecologist was amazed and called it a “miracle” birth.
However, in the course of the next six months, due to our busy working arrangements and irregular feeding, Ella's height and weight progressed really slowly. Very soon, she dropped from the 98-percentile to the 15-percentile. She was not growing well, and we felt extremely condemned. We felt that we were to blame for “stunting” our little baby's growth.
At that time, I had just resumed serving at the church’s youth ministry, The Zone. It was that Sunday when I bumped into a fellow server who was hanging out with his youths and I decided to join them.
One of his youths was a particular girl whom my wife and I had gotten to know some years ago on our trip to Israel. She and her family were on the same tour bus as us and I remembered their parents, who were quite short in stature. Something caught my attention that day. I realised that their son is tall and big, and now their daughter is also tall. They were very unlike their parents.
That was when I asked the daughter, why the strange difference between them and their parents. She then shared that her parents had prayed and spoken over them since they were very young. I was encouraged, and when I returned home, I started speaking over my daughter, that she would eat and grow well.
Almost two years have come and gone. Our daughter, Ella, is now back in the 80-percentile in height, and almost the 90-percentile in weight. We speak over her every morning and night.
The Lord is so faithful. When she did not sleep enough, we would include that into our prayers, and she started sleeping more in the day. When her language learning was behind her peers, we prayed, and in almost the same day, she was able to speak a coherent sentence. When she didn't like to make friends with children younger than her, we prayed and spoke over her as well. Now, she doesn't mind hugging and shaking hands with children she meets for the first time.
Thank you, Pastor Prince, for teaching us to speak forth what we want to see in our lives. Praise the Lord!





