{"id":899,"date":"2016-08-14T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martymachowski.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2016-08-14T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:20:48","slug":"love-story-worth-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martymachowski.com\/love-story-worth-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Story Worth Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emma<\/a>It is a resounding joy for a Christian father to give away his daughter in marriage when the hands to which he passes hers belong to a man of God. I experienced that delight about a week ago when I gave my Emma to Destin Mahalik, her groom, and resolute believer in Christ.<\/p>\n

I can still remember the day Emma pulled my wife Lois and me aside to seek our counsel. “I feel like God wants me to pray for Destin Mahalik,” she said, “because he is going to be my husband. What is up with that?” Destin at the time was but a few months in from recovering from a serious drug addiction and a gunshot wound from a drug deal gone bad. While Emma was attracted to his new found zeal for the Lord, she also saw how much he had to mature\u00a0before\u00a0he was husband material.<\/p>\n

As for me, most would say that I should have objected, or tried to redirected her thoughts. But how do you object to praying for a man in need of prayer? On top of that, God has moved in my life to guide my path in ways that would make some theologians uncomfortable; those who do not believe that God speaks or leads his people in any direct fashion. And yet as I pondered Emma’s words, I bore witness that the Spirit of God was indeed at work and told my wife as much. “I would not be surprised if God did speak to her.” I said, “for he has often led me in a similar fashion.” So I instructed my daughter to pray for Destin and allow time to pass to test the rest of her impression.<\/p>\n

As for the story, I’ll let the video tell more.
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