LISA: Well because He would never give me any warning. He’s saying subtle? He would never give me any warnings. We would be travelling with all of our kids in a car. I would be pregnant. And then he would go okay, come in from the service and say hey, I told the pastor you’ll do a women’s meeting tomorrow morning. I was like what?
SID: [LAUGHS]
LISA: NO! I’m not doing a women’s meeting tomorrow morning. I don’t even have a message. Are you kidding? No. He’s, he’s making it sound way more gentle than it was. It was TER-RI-FYING! Terrifying to me! I’d be up all night panicking, like on the verge of throwing up, just in terror. And, and, and John would just kept saying to me, he said he kept saying you are not your own. You are bought with a price. There are women out there hurting. You do not have the right to be comfortable when so many people are uncomfortable. And I would get mad. I’d be like I am not a congregation. I am your one-eyed wife. You need to be nice to me. You need to understand that this is scary for me and he’d be like I don’t, I don’t believe it. You just need to do it! And you know I did it afraid. I did it afraid. And then I would see that when John had well-positioned me then the blessing of God was on there. And there are a lot of young girls whose husbands you know they don’t know how to position them. They don’t know how to make room for them and then there’s other ones that are very ambitious and their husbands have asked them not to do it and they’re doing it. So I was really blessed to have a husband that saw what I didn’t see in myself and positioned me to do it. But it was scary. I’m just going to say it was terrifying!
SID: Okay, John. Tell me God’s view of marriage. God’s purpose of marriage.
JOHN: God’s purpose for marriage is absolutely amazing. He says in Malachi that He seeks Godly offspring. I do believe He’s talking about physical children but I also believe there is another application of that. That nobody gets closer to you than your spouse and so naturally what’s going to happen is that spouse is going to reveal the impurities in your life and almost be like a refining agent that God uses to make you into an offspring who’s like Christ. So in other words when He saw marriages He saw the purpose of it is to refine so then that when we were one we can be far more productive, I believe ten times or more than if we were by ourselves. So in other words I could have had a ministry without Lisa. I could have affected people’s lives but I believe it would have been ten times or more less effective had I not been married to Lisa and sought and fought through the adversity to be one with her. The other thing is
SID: Excuse me. I have to interrupt you John, and I have to say ditto for me. The same is true. I could have had a ministry without my wife Joyce, but it would never have been what it is today. Go ahead.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth