One night, my wife and I were sitting in our apartment in our office / living room / spare bedroom. We were watching some movie or TV show on Netflix, probably Poirot, but who knows for sure. When all of a sudden, I heard a voice in my head. Only not like a voice-voice, like I was hearing it with my ears and processing it with my brain. It was like it was being spoken directly inside me. It reverberated through every part of me, and I could feel it as well as hear it.
Everything around me faded away, and I was completely drawn into that voice. It was clear and powerful; a whisper, but drowning out all other sound. It uttered one single phrase, but those words changed my life forever. I had no doubt that it was God speaking to me, making a covenant with me, promising me that something was coming. He was going to do something in me that I couldn't do by myself.
As quickly as life had faded out, it rushed back in, and I slowly turned and looked at my wife. She said, "What?" And I replied, "You will never believe what God just said to me." She tentatively said, "Uh...ooookaaay...what?"
"He said, 'You will be a father.'" And that was the beginning.
