Love Story : Divine Love Pastor Quoizell & Shawnta Gilliard
Shanna : How many years were you two married ?
Pastor Q : ( looks up in the air to think ) Shawnta : We have been married over 3 years babe . Pastor Q : That ' s right . We got married on August 3 ,
2013 .
Shanna : Where did you guys meet ?
Pastor Q : We met in high school . Shawnta : ( jokingly ) Did you meet me or did I meet you ?
( laughing )
Pastor Q : In high school , I heard the name Shawnta
before but I didn ' t know we were classmates . We may have been to middle school together .
Shawnta : I was one of the quiet girls .
Shanna : Pastor Q , how did you know Shawnta was the
one for you ?
Pastor Q : My prayer . I prayed for certain things in a
woman . Shawnta embodied all that I asked God for . I saw her on Facebook , mind you , I knew she was from Georgetown and her posts were always about God and they were quite encouraging posts . I kept seeing her inspirational posts on Facebook . So , one day I checked out her pics and was like , ' She looks good '!!!!! Then I thought , ‘ I am going to marry her ’. She was what I specifically asked God for . She loved the Lord and that was the deal maker . Right then I knew she was going to be Mrs . Gilliard .
Shawnta : When I was single , I wrote the Lord a letter
in my phone about my future husband . I asked Him for the spirit of discernment . I asked the Lord to please give me a sign when I meet the man who would be my husband . I asked the Lord to have him to compare me to roses . That would be the sign I would recognize him by . I wrote the letter in my phone and I never told anyone or shared it with anyone but God . When Q and I started talking , he still was living in Virginia . We would talk on the phone every day . One day , he took a picture of a bed of roses . It had to be hundreds of them and he sent it to me and said the roses were so beautiful and they made him think of me . It was at that moment , I knew I was going to be Mrs . Gilliard .
Pastor Q : When I moved away from Georgetown in
1994 to Virginia , I had no intentions of moving back to Georgetown . My aunt moved me there for bigger and better opportunities . But God had a plan for me here in Georgetown . God set me up . I never wanted to move
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