You have walked through these pages with women who lived thousands of years ago. Their world was not your world. Their circumstances were not your circumstances. But the God who met them is the same God who is present with you right now.
He saw Hagar in the desert and spoke her name. He wove you together in your mother’s womb and wrote your days in His book before you lived one of them. He placed Moses in the arms of the one person who could protect him. He heard Hannah when no one else could. He provided for Ruth before she ever arrived. He saw a woman who believed inside the walls of a condemned city. He asked a frightened young woman to carry the Son of God, and she said yes. He placed Esther exactly where she needed to be for such a time as hers.
El Roi. The God who sees.
He sees you. He has always seen you. And He sees the child you are carrying.
You do not have to have all the answers right now. You do not have to understand the whole plan. Not one of the women in this book could see what God was doing in her moment. Every one of them carried something whose purpose was larger than anything they could imagine.
If you want to talk to Him, you can. Right now. Your prayer does not have to be polished or eloquent. Hannah’s wasn’t. Just honest.
You might say something like this:
God, I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid, and I don’t know how this works out. But You see me. You know this child. I’m asking You to help me trust You with what I can’t see. Show me what I need — even if it’s already there and I just can’t see it yet.
That’s enough. He hears you.
You don’t have to do this alone.
If you need someone to talk to — someone who will sit with you, not pressure you — there are people near you who want to help. They can walk with you through the questions about housing, medical care, financial support, and the road ahead.
National Resources
The National Pregnancy Helpline — 1-800-712-HELP (4357) Care-Net — care-net.org — 1-800-395-HELP (4357) Heartbeat International — heartbeatinternational.org — 1-800-550-4900
Your local pregnancy resource center is listed online at: optionline.org
These are real people. They are not there to judge you. They are there to help.
Listing these resources is not an endorsement of their teachings or materials. We believe Scripture alone is the authority in matters of faith. But these organizations can help you with the practical needs in front of you right now — and that matters.
One more thing.
This book was about you and the child you are carrying. It was about God’s love for you both and the stories of women who came before you.
But there is a larger story — one that stretches from the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelation. It is the story of why God made you, what went wrong, and what He did to bring you back to Himself. If you want to hear that story, we wrote it down.
It’s called From the Beginning: The Gospel from the Ground Up, and it is available free at noblemind.study.
When you’re ready, it will be there.