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Chapter 19 42 too important to let slide. This will make or break your Several people came up life; get you into ministry or keep you from it. Your students are dating based on the world’s standards, and to me at the reception they need HELP! and told me that our In reality, we actually think that who we marry is our own decision. It’s not! Did you sign up to serve God wedding was the most in his army or not? Then you don’t get to choose your spouse! It’s just that simple. anointed one they had As I shared earlier, I barely made it. I suffered having my dad move me from one country to another so that ever experienced. I wouldn’t fall for the wrong guy. I dated people that I knew I wouldn’t marry. I didn’t do the whole process own spirit. You are His sheep and you will KNOW. right, but when it comes down to my ministry today, none of that matters. The only decision that matters is who I actually married, and the fact that I managed to Why the long story? save myself for him. And that part, I got right. I had to tell you my whole story about how God stepped My life is forever cemented on the right tract because in and saved me, giving me the perfect marriage be- my awesome husband won’t let me swerve off of it. cause I see so many people failing in this area. It is just 19 The testing There seems to always be some testing between when few minor changes.” He was thinking I would edit the you sign on the dotted line to serve God in full-time grammar or something, but when I was done with it, we service, and the time when you make it as lead pastor or had a completely different plan on our hands! arrive on the feld as a missionary. I call it the time of Yea, you got it. We were not on the same page at all for testing, and for me, it hurt. what we would do once we got on the mission feld. When Dwight and I frst decided to become mission- So time passed as we had conversation after conversa- aries, we went to our pastor to share the good news. tion talking about what options we had, what city we He said he wasn’t surprised at all, and that the church would live in, what ministry we would do, and what the would back us fully. Next, our pastor asked us to draw whole plan would look like. It was hard to come up with up a business plan for our new ministry. That sounded the basic plan, let alone a 5-year one. good. We ended up with something that maybe looked ok on Back at home, Dwight decided to take a few days to paper, but basically had us doing a million things. We work on the plan, and then he passed it to me “for a