Our Happy Marriage Testimony
This is my marriage testimony, but I also recommend “The Weightiest Matter” MorningstarMinistries.org Prophetic Bulletin. It’s one of many great free bulletins & this one relates to the whole reason for romance & marriage. The writings by Rick Joyner have radically impacted my life along with Watchmen Nee & “Reise Howells Intercessor” by Norman Grubb & audio teaching by Mike Bickle of ihop.org.
My Marriage:
This is a great testimony of how “…eye has not seen & ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.” 2 Cor. 2:9 & Luke 18:29-30 “…there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of who will not receive many times as much at this time & in the age to come eternal life.”
Although I suffered most of the time for 30 years, since I was married at the age of 19 to a wife who was angry with me most of the time, because she couldn’t succeed at changing the source of her fears (my family leadership, provision & some mistakes, of course) & who, 13 years later, after she had experienced a dramatic deliverance, which came partially through my fasting for her, told me she was backslidden when I married her. After her deliverance we had a few wonderful months (at least I thought so) but she seemed to get even worse for the last five years, often saying, “I wish I could kill you.” and choosing to sleep alone for the last three years. I think she is greatly improved by now with many admirable qualities I have many times spoken well of.
God has answered my prayer & accomplished my written goals to find a good wife in a 3rd-world country & to help me lead hundreds of churches, though I had no Christian leadership position when I wrote those goals in the spring of 04.
Providence who I call Du (short for Dusabe) & I have had a fabulous relationship, since I arrived Oct 10, 07 & married her the 14th & we still have a long happy honeymoon with agreement on all the important things, which is really good considering her not so good English & the great cultural & age gap between us.
I wrote a long list of qualities I desired in a wife, like radical for Jesus, loving to pray, not afraid of men, a hard worker, intelligent, & disciplined. I saw these qualities, by phone & email, & by the testimony of my partners, Bienvenu, & Emanuel, after we really started communicating about 7 weeks after I met her. But she has gone beyond my list of requests, as my partners told me she was so zealous, she is physically perfect to me, not reluctant about intimacy, & amazingly humble & teachable, although I understand her personality well, since we are both independent, functioning like 3rd- born, of the same sex, children, intelligent & often opinionated, because of our gifts. I never dreamed I would find a wife of her age who is always ready to be alone with me & who is willing to change rapidly to please me.
She has begged me to tell her if she “makes a mistake” so she can change. There isn’t anything significant that I don’t like, so after some pondering, I told her, although it wasn’t a big issue, I would prefer that she not drink soda-pop (which is common even among the very poor) because it’s not good for you at all & is a waste of money you can use for the kingdom of God. She said, “Drinking soda is finished.” Although I did see her drink it once out of habit, she recently told me she has stopped drinking soda-pop & she has followed my example to start exercising regularly. So I’ll have to continue my effort to grow physically more youthful, since it appears she will succeed in preserving the youth she has.
I’m back to running 3 miles (5+ km) sprinting & jogging, since my ankle is nearly normal after my July 23rd, 2007 accident. I’ve also challenged her & all of you as well to avoid things made with sugar or white flour, since most common western diseases are caused by refined foods with those ingredients. When she comes here I plan to get her a good vitamin/mineral supplement, since it is difficult to get minerals, many vitamins, & omega 3 oils the way our food is produced. You can get a great supplement, “Healthy Advantage” at www.DrDavidWilliams.com & you might be wise to listen to me, since I think I know more about health & nutrition than most educated people, since I’m blessed with the interest, discipline to try it, & an almost photographic memory for what I read.
I encourage my wife & all of you that we must be like children to enter the kingdom of God, & children are open to new ideas, quick to change & learn, & happy when they don’t have much of anything, as long as they are loved. She & I don’t have much financially, so far, & we have to work hard & even sell our prized possessions (like the computer I sent her) to earn some income, but we are loved by each other & so much by our Father & Bridegroom, Jesus. But we are like happy children, always learning & eager to please our Father, one-another, & our bridegroom, Jesus.
Although I know she is devoted first to Jesus, she treats me like Him & says, “You are my life.” “You are my schedule.” “I have no schedule of my own.” & I know that I must be first devoted to Jesus, but by loving & sacrificing for her, I am loving Him, since He lives in her & as He said, “Whatever you have done to the least of these, my brethren, you have done it to me.”
I am quite amazed by the perfection of our relationship in areas I never dreamed to expect. Of course, I know that there’s times when it seems the honeymoon is over & you find something you don’t like, but I think it may be that we grow more practical & wiser, but our honeymoon may never end & one of my other goals will come to pass, which is that our marriage would be a good picture of the relationship Jesus wants to have with each of us.
I paid a large price of suffering, patience, & discipline to have what I’m enjoying now & I’m sure there are more of those things for both of us, but I don’t regret my decision in 1969 at the age of 11 to do whatever the Creator wanted me to do, even if it cost me my life.
I have died & been raised from the dead in my vision of church leadership, & family, with more to come in both, & am expecting to be raised from the dead in my vision to transfer the wealth of this world into the work of the kingdom of God.
Be encouraged if your vision is a dead seed in the ground. Your prison means you are on the right track like Joseph, David, Moses, & Jesus Himself. Death is not pleasant, but it is required for resurrection.
Rejoice with me & I hope you will follow my example of total commitment, endurance, self-discipline, & passionate love for Jesus, who deserves all our affection & sacrifice.
Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…
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He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ
(Known in the past as) Greg Cunningham
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Three New Waves:
? Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus
? Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King
? Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility