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Call of Destiny
00:03:07
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| Amber, you write in your book, when we continually make the choice to submit our lives and decisions to God, he becomes the Lord of our destiny. | |
| Can you talk about that? | |
| Well, all of us, God has great plans for all of us and all of you who are out there watching. | |
| And if we don't submit daily to what he has for us, though it may be hard, it may be something that we didn't expect, then we can't step into that destiny. | |
| And so, you know, joy is always on the other side of whatever hard things we're going through. | |
| But as we submit, I remember it felt like a call, the call of God to marry Daniel. | |
| And I was struggling. | |
| I wanted to marry him. | |
| He wouldn't want to marry him, but I was struggling over it because I did not grow up in a good, a situation where I saw marriage being a good thing. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I'm like, Mondo. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It reminds me of Mondo. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So I didn't know that. | |
| Marriage is a good thing, Mondo, right? | |
| Absolutely it is. | |
| Because he was a young man when he came to be our son, really. | |
| And he's lived in our family for 23 years. | |
| And he would say, well, I've never seen a happy marriage, so I'm not going to. | |
| And you found a lovely wife. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you have two twins. | |
| Two pair of twins. | |
| Are they 11 now? | |
| They are 11. | |
| 11 years old, and they were just born yesterday. | |
| I mean, that's how it seems. | |
| That's how it seems. | |
| Little, teeny, little, teeny twin babies. | |
| And what a joy they are to your life now. | |
| Oh, I couldn't live without it. | |
| I mean, the joy to understanding that God can take a traumatic moment of not believing in marriage and not understanding. | |
| It's difficult to marry into a preacher boy family. | |
| Well, the first thing that God, because I was nervous about all the things. | |
| I was worried that they would have expectations on me that, you know, I didn't, like, you know, my mother-in-law homeschooled six children. | |
| I never wanted to do that. | |
| And I did feel called to ministry. | |
| And one of my friends told me I should break up with Daniel. | |
| And so I did. | |
| It was my parents. | |
| And it was not a good trip. | |
| And some things happened that I saw. | |
| And I thought, Daniel will never do that. | |
| Daniel would never be like that. | |
| So whenever I got back to Texas from the trip, I thought, oh no, I've broken the preacher's son's heart. | |
| So they're going to kick me out of the church. | |
| So I don't think I need to. | |
| And he said, you know, you have a call like me, and you don't have to do what Pam does. | |
| That's Daniel's mom. | |
| And suddenly all the fear started to go away. | |
| And then as we walked out of the house, the Lord said to me, you don't have to marry Daniel, but I cannot complete, I cannot fulfill your destiny. | |
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God's Conditional Blessing
00:00:15
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| Your destiny will not be made complete without Daniel. | |
| And so I then saw that it was a call to marry Daniel. | |
| But God gave me a choice. | |
| And he said, I'll still bless you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But it won't be to the fullness. | |
| That's right. | |