There are three areas I'd like to cover in this chapter: marriage, money, and spiritual pride. These three things have caused more failures in Christians' lives than anything else I know of.
I don't mean to say that marriage equals failure. A successful marriage is a blessing of God. God created the institution of marriage. He compares marriage with Christ and the Church. Many great and glorious things can be said about marriage, but a bad marriage can be disastrous for believers and ministers.
Many people, when they are thinking about marriage, neglect going to God for His wisdom in the matter. They never get His answer about whom they should marry because they never ask! Many ministries have been destroyed because the minister married the wrong person. Others had many problems because they didn't seek God about their marriage.
Kathryn Kuhlman was one of those ministers with marriage problems. Her marriage almost destroyed her and her ministry. During the Depression in the 1930s, she held revival meetings in Denver, Colorado. Thousands were saved in those meetings, and the people begged her to stay and start a church. Denver Revival Tabernacle was built, and she stayed there for several years.
In 1938, she made the biggest mistake of her entire life. Against everyone's advice, she married a man who had divorced his wife and left two children to marry her. They sold Denver Revival Tabernacle, traveled north to Iowa, and not much was heard of Kathryn again until 1946.
Those eight years were horrible years for Kathryn. She suffered tremendously. Then, in 1944, she left her husband and went East. In spite of all her mistakes and weaknesses, the mighty compassion, mercy, and grace of the Lord flowed through her again. She began holding services in another old tabernacle building in Pennsylvania and started a radio program. From that day forward, her ministry began to take off again.
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