![]() “You might think, ‘what a sad story that is,’ but not really, in the sense that God had a plan. She was taken to the hospital when discovered, and it was there in San Diego on Jan. She attempted an abortion to end that pregnancy and to end my life.”Īnd for that, she suffered greatly. “Having two younger children, she basically caved into the pressure. “At that time, my mom was living in fear,” Hibbs says on this video from his ministry, Real Life with Jack Hibbs. Hibbs says she “hadn’t received the nurture and love that a young child so desperately needs.” She married Hibbs’ father at a young age, thinking it would be a way out for her and the life she had lived. Hibbs’ mother was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Hawaii for most of her life previous to being in California. He told her that “when he returned, he didn’t want to see a third child in the home.” He was told that his father was frustrated that his wife was pregnant again and that he wanted to get away. Hibbs’ father had left California months earlier to go to work in Alaska, leaving behind a pregnant wife and his two older siblings. ![]() 15, 1958, “God saw fit to let me come into a world where I wasn’t wanted.” ![]() On Christmas Eve in 1957, Hibbs says his mother “put her two older children to bed in their apartment, boiled a metal clothes hanger and proceeded to lie down on the kitchen floor, where she attempted to abort her third child.” Hibbs told “Calvary Chapel Magazine” that “fortunately, someone came to his mother’s rescue and the abortion failed.” She went to the hospital, and 21 days later, on Jan. While Hibbs says he wouldn’t hold himself up to be as important as the prophet Jeremiah, the megachurch pastor says he knows for a fact that God has “called me from the womb.” The Scripture reads: “Now the Word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.'” Jeremiah 1:4-5 has always held a special significance for Jack Hibbs, the lead pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino Hills, California. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |