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How I Met & Married My Man Of God First Lady, Lashon Cochy, Life Church Brooklyn, Ny T his year, my husband and I will celebrate 16 years of marriage. Sixteen years filled with laughter, tears, triumphs, challenges and memories. We each had our own ideas of “marriage material” until God side swiped us on the New York Baruch City University campus back in the year 2000, where we first met. I was a college student on a search for something that was missing in my life while in a 5 year relationship with my boyfriend that was slowly ending. 18 Subscribe to Optimal Living Magazine: www.optimal-livingmagazine.com
When I first encountered my husband, he was a freshly ordained minister and a sophomore in college. At the time, he was looking for a wife, which was why he began a conversation with my girlfriend I was walking with! As I look back on that season of my life, I laugh about how God worked in us, to prepare us for each other. At the time, I didn’t know that my soul was searching for Jesus! Ernst was settling into His call as a young Pastor. We became friends, bumping into each other once a semester. We would talk about many things, including Jesus once he found out I wasn’t saved. I wasn’t interested at first, trying to figure out my own life. But, then one day it clicked and I knew I needed Jesus to figure out my life. My then friend led me to Christ. Jesus began stripping me of unhealthy relationships, establishing His love and acceptance of me. I was excited about trusting Him with my love life. As a newly saved young woman, I was pleading with God to get closer to Him and the very first clear direction He gave me was to break up with my boyfriend. One of the hardest things I had to do was to break up with my boyfriend of 5 years. I loved him. He was a good guy but he wasn’t a saved guy. I had to trust God with my love life, even if that meant I wasn’t going to get married at 25 (or so I thought). The breakup was hard and emotional but despite the tears and moments of loneliness, at the center I felt the peace of God. I knew I did the right thing and that sustained me. After a while I was enjoying my single life. I was getting to know my God better, no interruptions, no hindrances. Ernst was a good friend encouraging me to press deeper into Jesus. Months went by until the Lord showed me in a dream that Ernst had the Lords approval. I remember waking up from that dream thinking, “ Lord, I’m not trying to get into a relationship”. I was enjoying my single season with God. But soon after my feelings started to change towards him, and came to the surface, I loved him and wanted to marry him. I knew Ernst was different because I never had the desire to be married or thought to stay married to any other man. One year after being friends, we were courting. One and half years after courting he proposed to me after a New York City Broadway play, dinner and a limo ride. One and half years later, we were married at the tender age of 25. After 16 years of marriage, I have learned one thing that remains true. Let God lead you in your marriage and your single life! There were many things we needed to grow in and are still growing in individually and together; from communication to sex. Marriage is a living breathing relationship that grows and evolves with unique nuances in respect to each couple. The Holy Spirit can show you what to do and how, but we need to keep our hearts constantly open and engaged to hear him. First Lady Cochy is a loving wife, mother of 3 beautiful children and a native New Yorker. She is a graduate of New York business school at Baruch City University of New York. Today, she co- pastors alongside her husband Ernst Cochy at Life Church in Brooklyn, NY, which they launched in 2010. She will release her first book entitled “He Sees You” in 2020. Subscribe to Optimal Living Magazine: www.optimal-livingmagazine.com 19
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