Praying for your Future
Husband:
I am privileged to
have grown up in a good home, my parents had a great marriage, for some
people, that is reason to want to get married and have something like what
their parents have, now do not get me wrong, like those other girls, I want a
good marriage like the one my parents had. But for some reason, I didn’t ever
dream of getting married, I was never the commitment kind of girl, my exes
can testify to this, I was never serious about anyone, always had a boyfriend because my girlfriends had one, and maybe I would have
been serious about some guy I related with when I was in my mid twenties but as
I was getting serious about him, he told me he had a kid and that was a deal
breaker for me. So, until I met someone recently that I blogged about here. I hadn’t thought of settling until i met this wonderful man.
You know how most of
you dreamed of “The One,” your future husband, when
you were little, well for some reason; I didn’t have those fairy tale dreams, about
what it would be like to be a bride.
So Ladies, are you wondering who that special guy is and when you'll find him? Instead of
dreaming like a little girl, which you
are not anymore, maybe to your daddy you still are, but as you wait to find a
husband and get married, one of the best things to do right now while waiting is to pray
for your future husband. BUT again, you shouldn’t just look for a
husband. I want to challenge you to evaluate your desires and ask yourself what
your dreams of the future are. Do you desire to get married just because you
want a husband? Do you just want a guy in your life? Do you just want a
boyfriend? (Any boyfriend!) I am sure you don’t want to marry a guy just
because you want a husband. In the big picture, it’s just not worth it. We have
all seen and watched from other peoples marriages that the fun, excitement and
romance waxes and wanes. When that happens, I am sure you don’t want to wake up
next to a man whose biggest goal in life is his own happiness. You want a guy who puts God at the top of his
priority list. I hope that you will start praying over the desires of your
heart and ask God to help you desire a A Godly Man And don’t forget to
pray that God will help you become the type of woman that a godly guy would
want to marry.
Being
Christians, we depend and live on these verses and we tend to think are
promises that God will give us whatever we ask for.
Verses
like Jeremiah 29:11:
'For
I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare
and not for
calamity
to give you a future and a hope.’
And
verses like Psalm 37:4:
Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the
desires of your heart.
Or, Psalm 84:11
The
Lord God is a Sun and shield. The Lord gives grace and glory. No good thing
will he withhold from those that walk uprightly.
But, honestly, there
are no magic verses or biblical formulas or even promises that God will give
every woman a husband.
But I will say this: “Love Jesus with all your heart, soul and
mind and tell him if he is all you ever have, that will be enough.” That does
something to your heart — and to His. And when God becomes all we want, then we have all we want. When he becomes our First Love, we
will be satisfied with only that love. When he becomes our
all-in-all, we will have no need to look for anything or anyone else to
complete us.
Another, amazing mystery is that, when we pray for
someone else, we change. All of us were made to be loved, to give and to
receive love. When your heart connects through prayer to the One who is the
source of true love, you'll find that praying for your future husband will
wondrously result in your heart being changed. And when your heart is changed,
your life is transformed.
Perhaps you've prayed and prayed, but God hasn't answered. Your
prayers seem like bulbs planted in a winter garden. Each time you check for
results, all you see is barrenness, debris and frost. You doubt the warmth of
your faith when you first planted the prayers in a season of light and hope.
Patience, my dear sister, nothing is wrong with your prayers.
Leave all of them safely hidden with the Lord. Hold fast to the hope that He
has heard and is at work in the garden of your heart. One bright morning you
will be stunned when you see what God’s resurrection power has done with those
requests buried so long ago.
Will you get married one day? Statistics say that you will. We
all know that staying married is a whole lot more important than just getting
married. How you spend this stretch of waiting and allowing God to develop His
patience in you will only benefit you during the difficult times that all
married couples go through.
And just as there are two people in every marriage, there are
two people who are learning patience as they wait for each other. If you're
having a hard time, your future husband most likely will, too. Your prayers
will make a difference.
Here are 3 specific things you should pray for your future husband:
- Pray that God keeps him from counterfeit. Especially counterfeit that looks good to him. Men always
want the real deal, but there’s a lot of counterfeit. It’s hard for men to
distinguish between counterfeit and the real thing?” There’s a lot of
counterfeit. There’s a lot of it out here”. Ladies, men are moved so
often by what they see. Not that we aren’t. But men in particular are. So pray
that he’s able to distinguish between you (the real thing) and someone that is
counterfeit.
- Pray that he’s open to God’s leading. I say it like this because your guy may not have an
especially strong relationship with God when you meet him. May be your destined to meet your husband at a prayer meeting, in your local church, a conference, your cell group, i do not know, but God knows. So pray that he’s
open to God’s leading in his life and in those things concerning you.
- Pray that God is developing his character and his heart. So often we get caught up in externals. We get picky over how
a man looks, the kind of job he has, the kind of clothes he wears, the car he
drives. And as a result, we miss the true condition of his heart and character.
A man with a good heart can easily buy new clothes if they’re outdated. Only
God can change a man’s heart.
John 14: 13 – 14 says that we can ask for anything in Jesus’
name and he’ll do it to glorify the father. So you’ll never know the
possibilities in store for you unless you pray for your husband and pray over
him in such a way that your request is for God’s glory. So identify what’s in
your heart concerning a husband and keep praying! Keep praying and ask God to
speak directly to you and give you a fresh understanding of dating to marriage
– in His way and timing.
So my
sister, you may have been hurt in past relationships, rejected, or
mistreated. God’s timing is perfect and when it’s time your husband will
come.
Focus
on the Lord, and NOT just to get a man, but also to truly seek Him & get to
know Him. Have you ever thought that the reason why you’re still single is
because God knows that the moment He brings you someone they will become your
God? Think on that!
God has
a beautiful romance prepared for you. Prayer is the key to unlocking the love
story… with your future husband and with God, the lover of your soul. Pray, Pray and Pray some more.
Check these out, they will be very helpful as you pray for your
husband:
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