06/03/2022
AT OUR WEDDING THERE WAS NO WEDDING CAKE; NO MONEY TO BUY...
Pastor EA Adeboye
Marry for love because if you marry for love that marriage will endure. How do I know? I've been married for 50 years I'm still on honey moon. Among those who were meeling round the lady I married the girl I married I was the poorest, I had nothing she knew it and there was even one of us one of my rivals who already had a car; he was a lawyer, he had a car I was still a student I had nothing and I'm telling you the truth I had nothing and I told her I have nothing but if you marry me then whatever I am and whatever I can ever become is yours and thank God she said that's what I've been looking for _ someone who will be hundred percent honest and I'm telling you things were hard initially but because we were in love we survived. Love, not money.
I graduated in June, I married in September I had only earned salary for barely two months (laughing). I don't want to tell you stories today but one day we will tell you the stories I know you want to hear. At our wedding there was no wedding cake no money to buy. Honey moon? get married you go for one week on honey moon.
We married today, tomorrow we resumed because I was a teacher she was a teacher as soon as we married I went back to work she went back to work but I thank God I told her I wasn't a christian just an incurable optimist I said don't worry tomorrow will be all right; thank God things are getting better. I've told some of you before; in those days we will be struggling over " kpomo " say ah ah darling this one is too thick for you to eat it alone let's cut it into two, kpomo (laughing). Today by the grace of God if we want to eat a cow God will provide. Marry for love; the marriage went through all manners of battlings. We married in 67; 68 the first baby came that's added responsibility because she's working I'm working so there was a need for a house help from the little salary we had not to talk of all the relatives that suddenly came to be living with us because now they have a graduate in the family. It was tough but we never looked at what was going on as suffering; we enjoyed every bit of it, we enjoyed the fact that we are married that we are one for the other because love bound us together... love...
I pray for those of you who are yet to marry the almighty God I serve will give you somebody who will love you.