1. Don’t expect your spouse to be reasonable or sensitive consistently.

2. Don’t get married unless you plan to die many times.

3. Don’t expect to be great in heaven unless you die more times that you ever decided to.

4. Don’t usually believe what the “experts” tell you.

5. Look for expert info. anyway.

6. Even if you’re in better condition than most 20 yr old athletes, don’t expect at 50+ to sleep most nights without using the toiletJ

7. Plan on God answering your prayers in the opposite way you would expect.

8. Love is Patient, Patient, Patient, Patient, Patient, Patient, Patient,……

My comments on each of these:

1. Duh!

2. I found that out (the cross in marriage) more than once.

3. In my 40s I thought I’d died quite enough in 30+ yrs, but God didn’t think so.

4. Experts are often wrong.

a. They were wrong about peanuts causing heart disease (frequent consumption reduces heart attacks 50%.

b. Same story with eggs & other high fat items

c. You don’t get thinner with low fat diets. (95% of people are heavier after 1 yr.)

d. More classroom education doesn’t make people more productive. (It’s shown to reduce creativity & many great advances come from drop-outs.)

e. Low sodium diets actually increase mortality, depression, & suicide.

f. Prescription medicine actually leads to 95% of senility symptoms.

5. There are some good experts that don’t believe the other “experts”

6. Well, I’m almost like 20J

7. I thought a poor wife would appreciate me more, which in some ways could be true, but I’m so thankful for the provision & deliverance that have come through my wife’s Parliamentarian Father & wealthy (in Congo) parents & relatives.

8. I still have a very happy marriage, but some days till 2 weeks ago it was only 22 hrs a day. After a couple hours of being sure she wanted to separate she finally listens to the truth, instead of what she was thinking, loved me passionately & tells me funny stories about what her mother told her. But I gained a lot of patience from 30 years of no good marriage for which I’m very thankful.

Here’s some funny (well mostly funny) things my wife told me her parents & even New Wave members said:

1. Her Catholic Mama said, how can I help register New Wave Ministry? I don’t know any scripture to answer questions.”

2. The gov’t said, “Explain house church”. Mama said, “It’s my house” “What happens when you grow?” “We go to another house & another & another.” “It’s the best way of evangelism!!”

3. Mama said to Baba (Dad), “I’ll tell you your faults!” He said, “OK” She thought for a while & said, “You don’t have any.”

4. Providence said, “They love each other so much!!! I don’t know why”

5. Really funny—Mama said to Providence, “Your husband is a good Christian, but you. No-No-No-No!”

6. When the police took my wife into custody, because the pastor wanted them to kill her, they were afraid when they found out her father was in the Parliament.

7. Her parents are Rwandans & Rwanda is opposed by DRCongo, but the President of DRCongo paid 600 people to fly to her father’s funeral, many from other nations.

Hope you enjoyed this.

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy,  for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

(Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

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Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com

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Three New Waves:

Ø Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility