Yes my wife Aida and I are standing in front of a peacefull backdrop, Lake Junaluska North Carolina, but for eight turmultuos years our marriage was anything but that.
My wife, always a believer, and I constantly argued as I challenged her or criticized her belief in God, something I hope I will be forgiven for when I stand in front of Him one day.
I have been angry, hostile, hateful, spiteful or almost any other immoral behavior short of murderous towards my loving wife. That changed not too long ago.
Towards the beginning of November, 2008 the Lord called to me and told me to repent, to come back to Him and believe in Him as I had when I was a child.
Immediately I told my wife and asked that we work on our marriage. I was stunned when she first said no, that it was too late. Why, I questioned, I discovered she had been talking to a long lost childhood sweetheart with hopes of meeting up with him. I researched the man online and called him to tell him I was working on my troubled marriage and to please leave us alone, Satan was working to tear us apart but God told me to "fight for my marriage". She asked that I leave the house but God kept telling me to fight.
A week before Thanksgiving of 2008 I attended service at my church Concord First Assembly located in Concord, North Carolina and was touched by God when the church choir performed "God Is Here" followed by the Lead Pastor asking that people looking to come to God go to the front of the Church so he could pray for them (me). I was immersed in the Holy Spirit and sprinted down the stairs, leaving my 6 year old son who had attended with me, making my way to Pastor Rick Ross. It wasn't until he was done praying over me that I realized I had left my son alone in the balcony! When I looked up I noticed that my wife's friend was watching him. Praise God.
That was only three months ago but I feel years removed from my bad behavior. I am a new man, my wife sees it and my two boys see it and now I hope someone sees it here and fights for their marriage using God's words found in The Bible and other Christians and their experiences. Far too many give in, but remember Matthew 19:6 "...what God has joined together, let not man seperate" (NKJV).
