"If God wanted my parents to have more kids, it would have happened naturally by now"
How it sounds in your head: They've been trying for months or years with nothing. People say 'if it's God's will, it'll happen' like the delay itself is God's answer. Maybe He's saying no. Maybe they should just accept it and move on. Fighting for it feels like fighting God.
"And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily."
-- Luke 18:7-8Source: Religious passivity disguised as 'surrendering to God's will' that makes waiting mean 'no' instead of warfare, turning believers into victims instead of warriors
Long delays feel like divine silence, and silence feels like 'no.' Religious teaching equates passivity with faith and fighting with doubt, making spiritual warfare feel like rebellion against God's secret plan.
Hannah's womb was closed for YEARS while her husband's other wife had many children - the delay was long and painful. She refused to accept it, prayed with bitter weeping, and God opened her womb IMMEDIATELY after her prayer of faith.
I REFUSE the lie that delay means denial or that passivity is faith. IT IS WRITTEN that God avenges His elect who cry out day and night - persistence is BIBLICAL. My parents are elect, chosen, Abraham's seed. IT IS WRITTEN that the kingdom suffers violence and the violent TAKE IT by force. We don't accept closed wombs; we COMMAND them open. Hannah didn't surrender to barrenness; she FOUGHT until breakthrough came. I decree the spirit of barrenness is BROKEN over my family NOW. Delay is OVER. The womb is OPEN. Conception is IMMINENT. We receive the promise by FAITH, not passivity.
The Father isn't saying 'no' through silence - He's waiting for violent faith to TAKE what He's already provided. He loves when His kids refuse to quit, when they pound on heaven's door until it swings open, because that's the faith that moves Him to show off His power.