We promise not to let our daughters marry the pagan people of the land, and not to let our sons marry their daughters. Neh 10:30
Today is our anniversary!
33 years ago Linda and I became husband and wife at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the Norwood Community of San Augustine County, Texas.
However, it did not begin there.
Before I met Linda, I dated a few other girls but none seriously. I started to yearn for the right person that God wanted me to have. This became especially true after I surrender my life to the ministry of the Lord on April 18, 1976.
Though Linda and I dated off and on, and in the interim I went out with a few others, she was always on my mind.
She believed in the Lord Jesus like I did.
She attended the same church like I did.
It was during one of those times that we weren’t together that I did my first fast. I was seeking God’s will for my life and she came back into it.
That was 3 years before we got married.
It was a awesome experience to know who God had picked out for me during that time. It took Him a bit more to convince Linda of the same but, thankfully, she said yes to my proposal.
I think a lot of young people don’t take the idea of marriage seriously these days. It seems that many go into a marriage with the idea that if it doesn’t work there is always divorce.
Or many just skip the marriage altogether and live together with no real commitment, no bond, and no strings attached.
When the Israelites returned from the Babylonian captivity they made the promise not to entangle themselves with the pagan’s around them.
Though God can and does miraculous things in people’s lives; I counsel anyone that is has Jesus as Savior to seek out/date/court someone else who also knows Him as Savior.
Though many marriages last many years with some that don’t, I believe it is a more joyful and fulfilling marriage when both husband and wife are building their relationship and home on the foundation of Christ.
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Cor 3:11
If that verse works for life – it will work for marriage!
Morning Thought with Pastor Tim 
Carol and I never had any doubt that we were hitched for life.
DIVORCE was not in our vocabulary
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Neighter of us knew the Lord at the time. Although I can now see where His hand was guiding me. We had been married less than two years when God moved us from Illinois to Texas. Three years later I asked Jesus to be my Master. He said Yes! Nearly twenty years later my better half sought God’s help. A doctor told him I would die…I didn’t. And God honored his call to the Almighty. Life is hard, but God has been good to us through all of it. Most assuredly Gods hand ha been on this marriage.
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