The woman had no idea what would happen when she texted an encouraging Bible passage to the incorrect phone.

In 2009, Brenda Rivera intended only to encourage her friend by quoting the Lord, who advised her to

‘do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.’ Instead, she ended up encouraging a complete stranger by the name of Isiah Stearns.

‘Amen to that, who is this?’ was Isiah’s reply. Brenda immediately acknowledged that she was using the incorrect number and apologized. It was not how Isiah viewed it, though.

He told TODAY that he saw someone attempting to support him in his spiritual journey and made the decision to not let the incident go unnoticed.

Brenda was ‘a little creeped out’ when he contacted her the next day, but she still hoped the stranger would leave a message, which he did, saying the Bible scripture truly made his day.

‘His sincerity was evident to me. Brenda added, ‘So I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to give him a call back.’’

She also mentioned that she found out he was only 50 minutes away from her parents and sister in Ohio. ‘I mentioned that we might get together when I went to see my relatives. We clicked right away.

Thus started a brief online affair between Brenda and a type of man she never imagined she would be with: a bare-chested, non-dancing white guy.

However, love has strange ways, and Isiah consented sportingly when Brenda offered to arrange for an interview with her mother and Isiah.

After lunch, her mother gave the suitor an 11 out of 10, saying her daughter she would ‘marry this guy.’

After 13 years of marriage, Isiah and Brenda Stearns have six children today: Victoria, 11, Veronica, 10, Samuel, 9, Vanessa, 7, Benjamin, 4, and Ezra, 1.

In the meantime, Isiah gave up the skinhead appearance in favor of a thick salt and pepper hairstyle.

Brenda expressed that she couldn’t fathom raising a family of that size without Isiah by her side, and that the Lord operates in mysterious ways.