The power of prayer

When I went into work this morning, one of the nurses said that a patient was looking for me and wanted to talk to me. When I went up to this patient, she asked me if I remembered her. I had no idea who she was, so I asked her to remind me. After she told me her story and I looked at her file, I recalled that I had seen her once several months ago as a patient in the gynecology clinic. She and her husband (a pastor at a church in the valley below us) had come in then because they had been married for many years and had been unable to have any children. She had had some tests run that showed blockage in both of her tubes, of a type that surgery couldn't fix. So, I really had nothing to offer her medically, except to refer her for in vitro fertilization in Nairobi. However, that is very pricey, and this couple already knew that they couldn't afford that. So, she basically had no options left for treatment and her odds of conceiving on her own were near zero. So, as I often do when there is nothing else we can do, I asked her if I could pray for her and prayed that God would bless her with a child if that was His will. So, this morning she was very excited to let me know that she is now pregnant! She is absolutely convinced that my prayer for her is the reason she has conceived, and she kept thanking me. Of course, I know that God could certainly have blessed her in this way with or without my prayer, but it is nice to get to be a part of a blessing in someone else's life.