Carmela and Zacharias have been living together for a few years in a house we built for another family several years ago and they bought it two years ago. They both started going to church and both accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. Two months ago we baptized both of them in the canal with several other people from a few different churches. It was a great day. Well as we got to know them better, they told us that that were not married. We asked them what was preventing them from getting married and the response was that " that they could not afford to get married". We told them that they could not afford "not" to get married, and that God takes sexual sin very seriously.So Saturday after a two month engagement, they were married in the Community Center with about a hundred people present to witness the event.
We bought a few dresses at the resale shop for Carmela and she picked out the one she wore, complete with a beautiful train. Several people helped decorate and prepare all the food, Pastor Victor officiated the service, Tasty treats in Mccallen donated one of the cakes and we bought the chicken, paid for the permit and civil service. So all told, the whole wedding, dress, food, drinks, band, rings, decorations and everything else, costed about $500.00. Well worth the price to see the joy on their faces as the day unfolded.
So we believe that by doing the "right " thing and getting married, that God will bless their lives together and reveal His plan and assignment for them as a couple. You know it always costs you something to be part of Gods plan for other people, and I believe we are entering a time when everything that we "trust in" apart from dependency on God is going to be stripped away. God is getting ready to "shake" the so called church out of their complacency. I go through Facebook and see some people so self absorbed and life is all about me, myself and I, and very little about reaching out to a lost and dying world with the Gospel and a helping hand. Jesus said that if you "really " want to be my Disciple, you have to DENY yourself and follow Me.
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