November 4, 2017
2:00 0'clock PM
Hilton Hotel Ballroom
Ocala, Florida, USA
Reception Welcome Exultation
Mom-
Today, We remember the Lord.
In the Mighty name of Jesus Christ, With Jill & Kevin, my husband Felix and I, we, the proud parents of Dustin and Sarah,
Welcome you all!
My husband and I stand here today in this momentous occasion of celebration, as Sarah and Dustin enter into the institution that God started in the garden, in awe of Him our Creator.
It is written: “Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.” Genesis 2:22 NLT
We take pleasure with gratitude to see this moment, as our beautiful Baby Daughter gave us the honor and opportunity to fulfill God’s design in marriage. It is with a grateful heart that we gave her away to her handsome husband, in the luxury of your presence, our physical and spiritual families, brethren and friends.
Dad -
So, today, we remember The Lord! We give Him honor, in this very significant event as Dustin cleaves to Sarah and Sarah cleaves to Dustin.
And, we, together with you all our family and friends, my wife and I, stand here to give God all the glory.
We give glory to the Sovereign God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and everything in it...
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...
The same God yesterday today and forever...
The same God our Father, who gave His only Son Jesus ...
We give glory to God who led Abraham to the land He showed him. Who is the same God who showed the land where my family and I now stand - the greatest Nation the world ever had and will ever have – this is our promise land.
We give glory to Him, who took Moses to the wilderness of Midian. Who is the same God, who took me and my family to the same land of Midian, the present day Arabia.
We give glory to Him, the same God who Moses encountered at the burning bush in Midian. He is the same God my family and I encountered on the burning sand in Arabia.
Not minimizing Moses, but magnifying the goodness of God the Great I AM, I give Him glory for the contrasting parallel I have been privileged to encounter Him, as Moses did in the land of Midian.
He took Moses to Midian pursued by Pharoah.
He took me to my Midian pursuing the enticement of oil money.
Moses left royalty in Egypt.
I left adversity in the Philippines.
We give Him glory for making us see He is a God of the ordinary, as He allowed us in our ordinariness to witness and experience many things in the extraordinary – He kept my family and I safe as we lived and watched intense persecution (even to the brink of execution for some) in the land of Arabia.
We give glory to Him who protected my family, as He privileged us to be instruments of planting underground churches in the perilous land of Arabia.
We give glory to Him who protected us, when He humbly used us to establish Christian Schools and touch lives for Jesus in the middle of the Islamic stronghold in the land of Arabia.
We give glory to Him who led us to where we are today, standing in the midst of you our friends and our families, boasting of God's abundant grace in Christ, here in our promise land, as citizens of this greatest nation on earth, the United States of America.
Yes, we give glory and remember the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who led my Wife & I from the small islands of Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines, to truly encounter and personally know our Lord Jesus Christ the most unusual way in the anti-Christ land of Arabia, in the Middle East, then led us here in Ocala, in Florida, in the USA, in the Western Hemisphere, in the World, in the Universe and in the heart of the Almighty.
We give glory to The Sovereign God and Lord Jesus Christ as Mae and I give away in marriage, our baby daughter Sarah to be united as wife to Dustin, her husband.
We give glory to The Great I Am, as we declare Sarah and Dustin are one in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.
Again, welcome all of you, in Jesus Name, AMEN!
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