Our love Story
The story of a desert prince and a city girl
I had 3 specific requests to God, to know he was the one for me!
5 times I was asked in the mission organization I had traveled with for 6 years, I had been traveling around much of Europe, meeting lots of wonderful people, I just couldn’t find anyone potential for marriage, was there really such a thing as love? I felt it was impossible and it really meant a lot to me that God had chosen him, because then I knew it would honor God and be the best for me.
I had really fancied a guy, for quit a while, who also asked me. I then asked God about him, I got no answer to confirm it and the peace just didn’t come with it.
When I was 17 I had asked God to be 25 when I meet my husband, I had shown my mother and sister a solitaire ring in gold with a white diamond, which I thought my future husband should propose with, because then I knew that God had chosen him.
25 years old
Then he can come
It was June, I was 25 years old, when I stood in front of someone who has a prophetic gift, which means: someone who can convey or reveal a message from God. I was born in September, so I started to think that it was probably just a little crazy to be so specific and even get God involved in the plan of being 25 and soon meet my future husband, but what if it wasn’t my plans, but something God had made me think about, so that He could show me how great He is.
When will he come?
or is it wishful thinking?
I had felt for some time that I would soon meet my future husband, but was also afraid that it was wishful thinking, as my sister had said, it will be a miracle the day you find a man.
I was now standing there in front of someone who has a prophetic gift and felt a little funny, I asked my direct question, will i ever get married? He immediately began to prophesy; you will meet him while you are away, when he sees you he will think wow wow wow, you will not be flirting, were some of the things he just listed, as if he was reading it out of a book, it was so crazy to hear and I felt such joy and peace inside, often we can have the understanding that when you have received a prophecy it may well be a few years before it happens, so I rested in that thought, and now everything was as it should be, just happily wait to meet him.
I was going to a summer Bible camp in Thisted in June/July and a friend from the church had told me about her older brother, Søren, who she thought would be a great match for me, but when she showed me a pictures of him, I thought, no! not my type at all.
I got a strange feeling.
It wasn't at all what I had imagined.
When the time came for the camp, my friend had arranged for me to meet her brother and siblings, they were sitting playing cards in their caravan, I came in, Søren looked up and quickly looked down at the cards he had in his hand, after which he looked up again, I got a strange feeling inside, something in me really wanted to get to know him better, but no, it wasn’t at all how I had imagined it would be, it had only been a little over a month since the prophecy, could it really be true.
I wanted to get to know him so much, but every time I saw him, I didn’t dare show interest, if he really thought I was so wow he would have to take some initiative, so I became precious and showed no interest at all, he got the impression that I didn’t bother him and wasn´t interested.
I didn’t think about anything else but him, it was something I hadn’t felt before, but was it all just wishful thinking. The camp was over and we hadn’t really said a word to each other, even though we had seen each other for a few days.
Oh, now I had a stomachache, so he probably just wasn’t interested I thought.
Time passed, it was August, my friend called and asked if I wanted to come over? Without my knowledge, she and her sister had plans for Søren and I to meet, I had not told her that I was interested in him, but wow, an opportunity to see him again.
For the first time we had a conversation, but I didn’t think he seemed to have any interest, the months passed and I felt more strongly, that he should be my husband. I told my my Mother, to whom I told everything, I have met my future husband! even though but she had not yet met Søren.
Back to Israel
No, come back again!
It was January and he was going back to Israel where he had been back and forth for about 10 years, so it would be about a year before I might see him again, with these news I felt really bad, I would now have to wait a whole year to see him again, I started praying, yes I remember so clearly walking around my little apartment and telling my Father in heaven that he had to make the people at the border as stubborn as Pharaoh when Moses was not allowed to go with his people into the desert, so Søren had to return and marry me.
He came with the white airplane
and not with the white horse :)
To my great surprise, my friend calls me up and tells me that something crazy has happened, Søren has not been able to enter Israel for the first time in 10 years, he even got a 5 year quarantine were he was not allowed to enter the country. Wow it was almost incomprehensible, my Father in heaven had surely arranged that, I cheered inside, but sounded cool on the phone.
When Søren got the news in Israel and boarding the “white plane” to go back to Denmark he thought to himself; Now I can get to know Jeanette better.
Back in Denmark he helped me arrange some practical things in my new apartment, but we hadn’t had the big talk yet. My mother hadn’t met him yet either, she was the only one who knew how I felt. One day we were sitting out in the kitchen and joking about how I could meet him again, I felt like a little teenage girl, in love and not knowing what to do, so my mother suggested that I should invite him over for buns tomorrow morning, since I had just gotten a new oven. A bit crazy I think, but we fooled around and wrote a text message with this suggestion for fun, I hadn’t intended to send it, I was being precious and preferred not to open up about my feelings to him, it was the man who had to take such initiatives.
“Dut” said my mother after pressing the button, to my great surprise she had sent the message to Søren, no no no I cried as I jumped around like a kangaroo in the kitchen totally embarrassed about what he would think about, it wasn’t long before he wrote back that he really wanted to come, so my mother was quickly forgiven 🙂
But what we hadn’t really thought about was that I didn’t have yeast and I guess I had never tried baking buns before, yes it may sound funny, but I only learned to bake and cook when I got married, I hadn’t really had time for that before LOL. So the next morning before the shops opened I had to finish the buns, so I had to go down to the baker and ask for yeast and got the biggest lump of yeast I’ve ever seen.
Now Søren was aware that I was interested in him, and that made it a little easier, cause He thought I wasnt interested. Yes, I had my entire 100 times 100 question list lined up to find out who he was and even that when my husband knows that I am the one for him, he should propose, I don’t want that time of flirting.
Engagement
He came home from Israel in January and in February 2009 we really got to know each other, on March 21 he asked me on a romantic walk in the forest if I wanted to get married.
I was working in a jewelry store and had prepared the staff in the store, that if a guy came in and wanted to look an engagement ring for me, I had selected 3 alliance rings for him to look at, they looked at me strangely, they hadn’t even heard me talk about any guy or boyfriend, so straight up engagement, that’s probably far in the future.
Søren knew what days I worked in the store and when he came in to see the 3 rings I had selected, there were problems getting one of them in the right size, the other in gold instead of white gold and he didn’t like the third one, so he chose a completely different kind of ring, he selected a gold solitaire ring with a white diamond in it instead, without knowing anything about the ring I had asked God for. I had even forgotten it, and therefor chosen 3 other rings.
The Right Ring!
My third wish to God!
I had completely forgotten about my prayer that he would propose with a solitaire ring and one day when I was at work and had to deliver some rings to some others. I realized my request to God, I even asked my mom and sister if they could remember it, and they could. I now have the ring he proposed with ( A solitaire ring ) and marriage ring ( A alliance ring ) to join the solitaire ring with.
I must say that the peace of God was the most important thing for me, and before I had all the signs I followed the peace God gave me, I am just so greatful that my Father in heaven has such a great humor and love for me, that he chose to confirm all my requests in such an amazing way!
Wow God answered all 3 of my requests.
1. That I would meet him when I was 25 years old. So I did, we just didnt talk much. 🙂
2. He would propose with a gold solitaire ring. He amazingly did, even after having 3 choices of what I had picked out.
3. He would come home with the white plane to Denmark so we could get married 🙂 The people at the border wouldnt let him into the Israel, so he had to return to Denmark, and just a few months later, we got married.
Later I saw the bible story of Rebekah and Isaac, where Abraham’s servant, who is sent out by Abraham to find a bride for Isaac, was also with 3 requests made by abraham, totally direct answers to prayer to know that it was her that God had chosen for Isaac.
I got my Søren and could not have thought of a better man for me, Thank God, He gets the honor and we get the blessing!
