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Hello friends, I have something a little different for you today. Actually we've

done this before, but when I'm away from the studio we've had a special event.

In this case it's an episode of our shorter podcast, hashtag STRAsk, where Amy

Hall and I respond to questions that you send to us through Twitter or through

our website. So if you like this show we hope you'll subscribe wherever you get

your podcast to hashtag STRAsk. And now here it is, hashtag STRAsk.

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I'm Amy Hall, I'm here with Greg Kogel and you're listening to the hashtag STRAskPodcast.

Welcome. Hi Amy. Hi Greg.

Let's start with a question from Marie. My husband and I have struggled with childlessness

for several years. Exodus 121 says that God gave the Hebrew midwives families because they feared

him. Does this mean that we are not fearing God enough to be given families or was this a

specific blessing for these midwives only? No, this is God bless you Marie. I know this

is a tough circumstance that you're in. It's one of the hardest things that I think a married

woman has to face if she is, if she's not able to have a child at least at the moment and

there were a number of people in the Bible that were like that. Elizabeth was one, Hannah was

another and they ended up being heard by God and having children all late in life that were

magnificent. God used them in a magnificent way but that is by no means a promise that that's

going to happen to anyone else in the same situation who prays the same way. In this particular case

God was giving a particular blessing to a particular people in a particular circumstance.

He does not always do that. So there could be all kinds of faithful people,

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