This is the beginning of a series I decided to do for my husband and in honor of him for Valentines Day. The plan is to do a post every day for 14 days about my wonderful husband, whom I consider a gift from God. I love him so very much and hopefully it will show through these posts. The posts will cover different aspects about him and what a great husband he is to me. I can hear you now, "Oh please, spare us"! I do hope that maybe it will be a blessing and and encouragement to someone.
Day one - I love the way my Valentine is so passionate about serving the Lord and preaching the gospel of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
In this post, I want to tell you a little about how that came to be.
It goes a long way back. First of all, I prayed for him to be a preacher! I know that may sound crazy, but from the time I was a young girl, I prayed that the Lord would let me marry a preacher. At the same time, Lonnie was growing up clear across the county from me, and he says that pretty much all his life he knew that the Lord wanted him to be a preacher! He also says, that does not mean that he surrendered to that "call" early in life. He actually says that he really didn't want to be a preacher. He grew up in a preacher's home and his family went through a lot of hardships throughout the years. He knew what it was like for his dad to have to be on duty 24/7. Because of the crime in the area in which they lived, many times those "calls of duty" for his preacher-dad were very difficult circumstances to deal with. Many times, due to situations beyond his dad's control, his family's safety was at risk. So, you can understand how as a child, you would not necessarily want to have that as your everyday life. So, he didn't answer the "call" of God on his life right away.
He actually did not answer the "call" until after we were married!
We were married at a young age. I'm not going to say how young; there may be young girls reading this and they don't need to know! Things were just different back then! Lol!
Anyway, after we got married, I never thought that the Lord hadn't answered my prayer. I knew that Lonnie was going to be a preacher someday.
We were married in August and in November of that same year during a missions conference at the church we attended during Bible College, my husband surrendered to be a preacher. He says that as he knelt there and the pastor asked him why he had come, that he heard himself saying, " the Lord has called me to preach"! He said it seemed as if someone besides himself was saying those words! The preacher had him stand and announce to the church what he had just told him, and Lonnie says, that since that day he has never looked back.
I knew that night that the Lord had answered my prayer and had given me my "preacher man"!
I'm so thankful for that and the fact that he never looked back but has, stayed true to this verse of scripture: Php 3:13 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Day one - I love the way my Valentine is so passionate about serving the Lord and preaching the gospel of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
It goes a long way back. First of all, I prayed for him to be a preacher! I know that may sound crazy, but from the time I was a young girl, I prayed that the Lord would let me marry a preacher. At the same time, Lonnie was growing up clear across the county from me, and he says that pretty much all his life he knew that the Lord wanted him to be a preacher! He also says, that does not mean that he surrendered to that "call" early in life. He actually says that he really didn't want to be a preacher. He grew up in a preacher's home and his family went through a lot of hardships throughout the years. He knew what it was like for his dad to have to be on duty 24/7. Because of the crime in the area in which they lived, many times those "calls of duty" for his preacher-dad were very difficult circumstances to deal with. Many times, due to situations beyond his dad's control, his family's safety was at risk. So, you can understand how as a child, you would not necessarily want to have that as your everyday life. So, he didn't answer the "call" of God on his life right away.
He actually did not answer the "call" until after we were married!
We were married at a young age. I'm not going to say how young; there may be young girls reading this and they don't need to know! Things were just different back then! Lol!
Anyway, after we got married, I never thought that the Lord hadn't answered my prayer. I knew that Lonnie was going to be a preacher someday.
We were married in August and in November of that same year during a missions conference at the church we attended during Bible College, my husband surrendered to be a preacher. He says that as he knelt there and the pastor asked him why he had come, that he heard himself saying, " the Lord has called me to preach"! He said it seemed as if someone besides himself was saying those words! The preacher had him stand and announce to the church what he had just told him, and Lonnie says, that since that day he has never looked back.
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| Victory Baptist Church in Rossville, GA, where my husband anwered the call to preach. |
I'm so thankful for that and the fact that he never looked back but has, stayed true to this verse of scripture: Php 3:13 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus".
I linking this post to Dear Lily's Valentine Linky Party.
Gail
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Gail
Oh, I laughed at loud when I read, "We were married at a young age. I'm not going to say how young; there may be young girls reading this and they don't need to know! Things were just different back then." Girls at those *young* ages today just aren't ready for marriage like they were before. I totally agree.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to these Valentines Day posts, because even though they are about your husband, they also give me a closer peek at you! :-)
*Hugs*