Single & Married Ladies – Texas Proud/Houston Strong!

Hi Ladies,

Our governor declared this photo to be the perfect depiction of Texas versus Harvey! And with God’s grace, we are standing strong and moving on with our lives here in Houston.

This week I’d like to share another marital testimony from a young lady who is a living witness that it can be done God’s way, all the way. God can take us and deal with us from wherever we are, both in our personal lives, and in our relationship with Him. He doesn’t care where you’ve been, only where you are going.

Let Go and Let God

            RB has had no traumatic divorces, no wild ex-husbands, or children to raise alone, but she does have a vibrant witness of the faithfulness of our Father to His Word in the life of a woman who was faithful to His Word.

JP – “How did you and David meet?”

RB – “We lived five doors from each other. We both had a dog, and we met while walking them. I used to tease him that my dog who weighed seventeen pounds could beat up his dog who weighed seventy pounds. But David’s dog developed degenerative arthritis and after a while, he couldn’t walk anymore and David had to put him down. He’d raised the dog from a puppy and he felt really bad about it. He was grieving and needed a friendly ear, so one evening he came to my apartment and knocked on the door at 10 pm. I actually let him in. We talked for a couple of hours, then he went home.

We became really good friends. He’s the kind of person you meet and immediately feel as if you’ve known him for a long time. If you needed to talk to a friend in the middle of the night you could always go to him. He always had friends in his apartment, visiting and watching sports.   Shortly after we became friends he started going to my church, and we would talk for hours about the Lord.”

JP – “Was he a Christian?”

RB – “Yes, but he was looking for a church. No, actually he was looking in the church for a wife. We would talk about that sometimes too. One evening he came up and was telling me how he’d gone to church looking for his wife, and how he would usually see a woman and think, ‘Maybe this is the one, Lord,’ so he’d go up and introduce himself. He’d be disappointed when she’d say, ‘Hi, how are you’, and go on about her business. While we were talking about this I told him, ‘You shouldn’t go to church to look for a wife; you should go to church to find God.’ I remember him looking at me real strange, and suddenly he had to go home. It was like he’d suddenly gotten sick or something, and he had to leave right then. I wondered what had happened.

Later on, he told me that when I said that his eyes opened and the Lord said to him, ‘This is your wife.’ He had to go home and talk to the Lord. He told Him, ‘She is not my wife – she’s my friend.’ He went back and forth with the Lord about that but he didn’t win. A couple of weeks later he told me what the Lord had said. I was not at all prepared for this, so I told him, ‘If I was your wife, the Lord would have told me first before He told you.’ I felt I would know before he would know because I was more spiritual.

So, he agreed to remain just friends. David was very patient with me. He knew what the Lord had told him, and he waited patiently for two years before I came around. The Lord just left the decision up to me. It was as if He said, ‘R____, this is your decision. I’m not saying a word to you.’ Because if I followed Him, I was going to make the right choice.”

The surprising twist to RB’s story…coming next week. Joy and Shalom!