As former White House Press Secretary and current “Outnumbered” co-host Kayleigh McEnany, promoted her new book, Serenity in the Storm, she shared a particularly powerful moment of faith that helped her get through a hard time. While trying for a second baby, she and her husband felt discouraged by their multiple negative pregnancy tests. “The second pregnancy wasn’t coming so easily. It’d been several months, a little bit of a struggle. I mean, the months would tick by, the pregnancy tests – and I just got worried and nervous… it started to weigh on me that it wasn’t happening for me,” she said. During that time, McEnany found herself at CBN, giving an interview with Abigail Robertson. Robertson felt the Holy Spirit leading her to recommend Mark Batterson’s book, Draw the Circle. The book focuses on a 40-day prayer challenge. 

This was not the first time the Holy Spirit had prompted Robertson to speak to McEnany. The two first met about six years ago when the Holy Spirit prompted Robertson to introduce herself to McEnany, starting their friendship. Robertson continued to feel the Holy Spirit’s call to pray for McEnany throughout the years and even felt prompted to send a message to McEnany to tell her she was pregnant. “I even felt a strong sense from the Lord that she was going to have a baby boy, and I shared that with her, too. I had no idea at the time that she was indeed 6 weeks pregnant, and a few weeks later, she discovered she was carrying her sweet baby boy, Nash, who turns one later this year,” wrote Robertson. The story is shared in McEnany’s new book. “I started to tear up when I got the message. I sent it to my husband, and he was flabbergasted by it, amazed by it, because as it turns out, we did conceive a boy, no way of knowing that at six weeks pregnant,” she said, recalling the moment. 

Robertson’s recommendation to read Draw the Circle also helped to encourage McEnany when she and her husband were still trying for Nash. “I read this part of the book, and the book is about praying with anticipation, with expectation, and I’m paraphrasing here, but basically, you know, tell the mountains to move, you know, your God is bigger than the mountains,” she said. Seeing how God has continued to reach out to her in moments of discouragement and loneliness, McEnany shared how she believes He can help America too. “There’s such a yearning in this country, and you look around at the horrible things that we are seeing – school shootings, anger, animosity, crime – I mean all different forms of evil. But they are all symptoms of a much bigger problem, and it is a problem of evil that is loose in this country. We as a country and especially, unfortunately, among the younger generation have turned away from God.” She shared her hope for “revival” in the country and warned young people, “Don’t turn to Washington, don’t turn to corporate America, turn to Christ.”