An Anointed Wedding

On the 12th of July, the church in Gurugram and New Delhi hosted a wedding and testimony meeting of one of the full-time serving brothers who is also the son of one of our brothers in the church life. This plan for marriage was conceived a couple of months ago. From the very beginning of its proposal, prayers have been made fervently by the church and the family. As far as I know, the brother and the family have testified that this was the perfect will of the Lord as they also have been praying and resolving in their hearts to only do the perfect will of the Lord and not settle with God’s permissive will. In fact, one day as I was travelling in a car, the sister was with me along with other saints. I had a time of fellowship with her concerning seeking and doing the perfect will of the Lord. At that time, deep within, I had the feeling that she should be matched with this brother. But I would not take the step but place that to other brothers. Later, when his father told me about this proposal, I just confirmed that I also had the same feeling about this match. This is just one evidence of confirmation from the Lord.

About a month after that, we had the engagement meeting in Hyderabad where the practical details of marriage were fellowshipped. Out of that fellowship, the wedding and testimony meeting was decided to be held in Gurugram, and it was this held last Saturday. 

As strong and fervent prayers were offered by the saints in the church, and the family were fully and truly one with the fellowship in the Body, the Lord blessed the testimony meeting so much so that I even felt that this was the "best" wedding meeting I have ever attended, not "belittling others", but just stating the fact and feeling I have. I was very keen in my spirit and followed through all the items of the meeting. I just felt the anointing of the Lord was richly persent in all the practical details.

One solid confirmation is my own experience. As I was given the grace to minister the word in coordination with a brother, a few days before the wedding meeting, the Lord woke me up early morning. As I spent time with Him in prayer, He gave me five points to minister within the alloted time of ten minutes. Word by word, the Lord gave me the message to minster. 

First, marriage is ordained by God for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose which is to have His expression through His many sons who came forth into being through the propagation and multiplication by marriage. Second, once married, the two shall become one flesh, and this oneness has to be maintained by the couple's oneness especially by praying together daily and fellowshipping and doing everything together in oneness. Third, by the divine love of God they must love one another. And fourth, marriage is for Christ and the church!

Bible Verses 

Genesis 2: 

18 And Jehovah God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper as his counterpart. 

22 And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her to the man. 

23 And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called Woman because out of Man this one was taken. 

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

Ephesians 5: 

25 Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. 

28 In the same way the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his own wife loves himself. 

29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church, 

30 Because we are members of His Body. 31 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. 

32 This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church. 

33 Nevertheless you also, each one of you, in the same way love your own wife as yourself; and the wife should fear her husband. 

2 Tim. 3:1-2a But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self,… 

Rom. 7:3 …but if the husband (Old man) dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man (Christ). 

Rom. 7:4 So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that you might be joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God. 

Ruth 1:16 But Ruth said, Do not entreat me to leave you and turn away from following after you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you dwell, I will dwell; and your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.  

1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 

S. S. 7:11-12 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us rise up early for the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, If the blossom is open, If the pomegranates are in bloom; There I will give you my love.

Rev. 14:4b …These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

The hosting, the hymn singing, the testimonies, the ministry of the word, the consecration of the couple, and the prayers of the brothers for the couples, all items were anointed by the Spirit richly. I personally felt the rich anointing of the Lord. This surely is from the Lord and has been blessed by the Lord. This surely was an anointed wedding and testimony meeting. Praise the Lord!

May the Lord bless the newly married couple and may their consecration to serve the Lord as a family be a blessing to the Body.