when you're waiting for so long
You know, it's quick just to make a rash decision
But other than confirmations from God he was an answer to prayer he brings me joy
I cannot stop laughing and that's evident in a lot of our pictures
but also -
I
See and I fill the Lord more strongly than I ever have being with anybody else
I
Know I knew Daphne was the one
After the third confirmation that God gave us God had given us multiple confirmations
I think it was actually 40 confirmations, but I think that I was sold after the third one
He loves me
Like I've never felt love before and I felt like that's God's unconditional. Love a lot of
Patience and it makes me realize how much more I need to grow as a person and as a Christian
And who better to spend your life with than someone that makes you feel like that
I'm really excited about the wedding because as you know, and I want everyone that watches know
this has been such a journey and
As you know I was married before and was left and I just decided to focus on raising the kids
and on God and just doing all I could to serve the house and
In that God healed me of a lot of pain, but it was a hard journey and he asked me
would I dare believe him to have somebody one day and
That journey if I knew it was gonna take seventeen years. I would have quit a long time ago, but
He blessed me he was faithful when you came and so in the process
I told God I wasn't gonna love anybody but just him and just keep serving and
He said he's like you can't hold all your love in your heart for that one person
There's plenty of people. I need you to love on
So he started the princess ministry
So I could love on other women as they dealt with their brokenness in their hearts and them feeling like they'll never meet the right
one
so I felt like this wedding isn't just a
testimony
Of his faithfulness that you finally came
but that the other girls that I ministered to
Would say wow, it did really happen and it can happen for me and that's what our testimonies are for
So I used to write in my journal
All the time because God said journal writing would bring my healing and I have some since you decided to take a long time
I have lots of journals and
But my first journal was the hardest because it was out of sheer obedience, I did not want to write
But a lot of things came up out of that and one of the things was okay god and if you're real about this
then I'm gonna write what I feel that you would want me to ask you for and
Every attribute that I asked God for I never asked for anything in the physical I asked about heart I asked about character
That I truly wanted a man of God. I don't want just a man. I don't want just a Christian brother
I wanted a man of God that showed the fruit, (right)
And so as I went down the list. Oh
My gosh there's so many times you would meet somebody and you're like, is this the person you know
but it was all preparation and there was a lot of heartbreak even in that, but it was just
Gosh, there's just so much this journey has been so long
But in it
I
I think I've learned something right at the end when you came and that was when you believe God for a promise and
You were a big promise that I held on to
And I was ready to give up at the end
But I had a close girlfriend asked me
could I step out of the box and do something that I swear I would never do and I did and
That's when you came and I was even getting ready to move out of state and everything when God said no
He's in California
And I was just like you know my god
I've heard you've given me little hints in 17 years about what this man is like I'm about done and
As soon as I got off the plane I met you the next day
So I have had so many confirmations and all of the qualities I asked for
It was it was like a checklist in my journal
Every last thing so I knew that was confirmation, but I needed a lot, and I loved how God talked to you
you know and you would come to me and you would share I felt like God was like reading my mail to you and I'm like
God, that's supposed to be between us you know, and here he knows this stuff. And so but the last deciding
factors was 40 confirmations later, like definitely that's really him and
Sometimes I'm still looking at you and I'm like you're what I prayed for
You know
Because you can pray so long a wish or something and you think it's down the road
But when it's right in front of you you're like is this for real? This is for real and
but my last thing that I wanted is I used to talk about this book my dad and now that my dad passed away and
He wouldn't be a part of my wedding was really a hard
And so the only thing I received as an inheritance from my dad was his ring his wedding ring
And I knew that was him leaving that for me saying I bless your you know when you get married
And so I promised myself that I needed a Cinderella man
The right man would fit my daddy's ring. I wasn't gonna resize it if you didn't fit it
Then it wasn't you I mean I just I was so adamant
and then when I found out I never told anybody and you were on the phone with me, and you said I
Don't know why I'm telling you this but I like jewelry and my ring size is a size 10
I was like, oh that's my daddies ring size
and I was like, oh my gosh, how did he notice saying, you know and
So anyways, I'm just you know, God just kept confirming the hamburger story
That is so deeply personal and (confirmation after confirmation) and you say (on my side too) yeah
Well, and you said you know that God's telling me that you need a lot of confirmation, but I'm so patient
I'll wait I'll wait until you know, and so anyways, just thank you and you know what we didn't have to have this wedding
Because we you know, we do our own thing and we can we could just just be us and (right) we'll just be just as happy
(ya absolutely), I just felt like no
there's a bigger picture here and God told us to do this and we get to do it in the house of God and where
He raised me
You know my home church and where I believed I served until you came and I kept telling my pastors
The man for me is not in this church
I want him to be I save a seat for him by faith took them to church
But I said after 17 years no one's approached me. There's nobody here in this church, and then God's like No
Your man of God isn't here. He's outside and
When you're waiting for that big promise it comes with a high price and I never knew the price it was going to cost
And everyday walking this journey with you, and I know after this big wedding coming up then
We're gonna really see the worthiness of the cost. You know, I'm already seeing that it's worth it
It's hard, (absolutely) but it's worth it. (Absolutely worth it)
But I just want to be an encouragement to whatever ministry God has us to and I just feel like I was gonna have us
Just speak life into the singles and speak life into marriages and family
And so but right now this is our time for us, you know
So just to get establish more in him and figure out how do we combine all the gifts and the talents, you know
So and there's nothing wrong with slowing down and just enjoying one another, you know
So I think that's the season we're in and I just wanted the video just to say oh my gosh
I don't know what to say really now that it's time to say something. You can plan everything you're going to say
but I
Just I hope the girls
That have been in this journey since starting this princess ministry 16 years ago
We've seen 35 marriages of singles that didn't believe I kept watching them get married
Everyone's like when's your return to like I know you know, so now it is, you know
And so I think that's why everybody's so excited
And even though they haven't met you or know you as well and stuff
I just
knowing that they know my heart and my character and seeing this journey and I asked is this too fast is this too soon and
they're like daphne 17 years waiting really is it too fast and I was like
Okay
And to see the love and the support of all the people that are gonna come and even the ones that couldn't but are sold
Behind you because God told me he said Daphne I want you never to forget
All that Mark has given up for you
He left his home his family his friends his church his ministry his business his job
He left everything not knowing where he was going
But that he waited (ya, absolutely) and he says as much as you love him, and you remember he gave up everything
You don't forget that I'm first I'm your first love and I died for you. So
Yeah, so I just want you to know how much you mean to me and I've never felt more comfortable in my own skin (thank you)
And I just I've never felt love like I know
Now how much the Lord really loves me by how you love me and I've never felt that before
And I have gotten so much more confident and everything in it
and I've never been able to really truly be myself and someone be so accepting of me and that
You can't put a price on and I just want to say thank you
(your very welcome) thank you so much
but
I think that's all I really needed to say and let everyone know just hold on that God really has somebody for you when you
Persevere, you know
You're my fairy tale. ( and your mine) That's
that's what I asked for, I want the fairytale
I've waited a long time, you know, and I was just I just had that hope you know that
that God was gonna bring me that one the one one day and I
just had hope and I was just hoping and trusting in God and there you are, you know and
confirmations for me to you we met and just started talking and I had confirmations to on my side you
know especially you know when you when I was telling you about my mom and how much she loved roses and
and that she had that special rose that Purple Rose and you already knew the name of it, you know, and I just
It was so amazing. You know, (like how did you know so much about roses)
No, no, I just you know, but I love how our parents even though they're deceased
there's still so much a part of this big day like we've
Everything is being done with a reason behind it. And those that really know us will picked up on it
And those that don't we'll share with them, but I just love how there's so much love
That's amazing, it's been an amazing journey so far and I'm looking forward to
to the journey
Thats yet to come and spending the rest of my life with you. I
Love the way you make me feel the way you listen to me
The way we get each other the way we fit it's so awesome and it's so God (Amen)
Will you pray with me really quick and then we'll be done
Ya, (ya, so I'll open and you close?) Ya
Father I gotta just thank you so much God for I feel like I'm always praying and thanking you for mark, but God
Thank you again, because I can't thank you enough and thank you for our families and our friends and our church homes
God and I just thank you so much even for all the people behind the scenes that even made the
Photos in the video the wedding possible even with all the obstacles God you have been faithful and so father
I just ask that you cover us
With the hedge of protection cover us and the blood of Jesus and God you go before we give you this marriage
We've we found each other because of you
So this the relationship is founded on you and God we give it to you
We give our hearts our lives are our gifts our talents God our future everything belongs to you
and we ask you and invite you to be in it, and we ask that you bless our wedding God and
God and those around us and God let our relationship
Just be a testimony to others God and that we will surround them whether the goings are good bad hard
Whatever it is God, Lord We thank you the same way. We're committed to you
We are committed to each other and to the body of Christ. And so God, we just thank you for this beautiful
opportunity just to see love show love and be loved God and we thank you for who you are and
That the love shown and Felt and received is nothing more than the love
You've given us and we want to be good stewards of that with each other and with others God, and we just thank you
So much that we get to pray
And I'm just gonna turn it over
Yes, thank you. God. We thank you
We thank you for all your blessings Lord
We just thank you Lord, and we just ask you God just to be the the cornerstone of our relationship Lord and God we just ask you to bless this our wedding Lord to come in October Lord it just and may we just continue to?
To walk down the path that you lay down before us Lord and just help us
Just continue to bond Lord
Just continue to love each other and grow in our love Lord and we've already started doing that Lord
we just
We just ask you to just continue to bless us bless our love may we have the agape love love that
Just flows out of us to one another Lord and to all the people around us Lord
May we always be your hands and feet Lord. Thank you Lord
Jesus bless our relationship bless Antonio the photographer and his friend Lord and
Thank you, Lord, Jesus for everything Lord
Thank you, Lord, Jesus and we just welcome you here amongst us Lord and in you name Jesus we pray Amen (Amen)
Thank you for sharing our fairytale with us!

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