The following resource is from desiring God.org.

Six things that I would do if I were 22 again in 20 minutes.

Number one, if I were 22 again, I would marry a radical risk-taking, go anywhere for Jesus, world

Christian woman.

In fact, I would marry Noel Henry. Not long after we met when I was 20, I was head over heels in love, already

talking about marriage through weeks into this relationship and said, if God called me to be a missionary to Africa would you go?

She said yes I would see myself called to be by your side wherever.

We married when I was 22 and my first job was teaching in college and when I was 33 I felt the

irresistible call to be a pastor and I asked her the morning after that meeting with God if she would

support me in that and she said yes.

One year into that ministry, I was so discouraged. and she was in the

was so discouraged I put my face in my hands at the dining room table

she was in the bedroom

and I said out loud pretty serious

I think I'm going to Africa.

And she didn't miss a beat from the other room

and said, tell me when to pack.

This really, this is. This is really significant that you marry the right woman. Four years into that ministry, we we weathered that discouragement.

I said to her one day when God had met us in world missions powerfully at the church,

I said, what if we invited everybody from the church who was interested in missions to come over on Friday night,

they was to put them on the living room, dining room,

and see if we can inspire them.

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