How to Pray for Your Future Husband

           Many Christian singles often get advised, that while waiting for our future significant others, we should pray diligently for them. I, myself, am a huge advocate for this (within its proper context) and is something I've blogged about quite a bit.

          Recently I came across an article entitled "How to Pray for Your Future Husband" by the site The Overwhelmed Woman. The author takes this idea to the next level. She visually demonstrates to readers how they can specifically pray for their future hubby. I think it's a great little reminder how we, as single women, can be serving our future mate now (even before we even meet them).

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I highly (HIGHLY!!) recommend that you check this article out; it can be found here.


What do you think? Do you think this is something we singles should participate in?

Ten Days of Prayer

        Don't you just love surfing the internet? You're not looking for anything specific, then you come across little gems of wisdom! That was my day today! I came across this wonderful list that I thought I would pass onto my fellow single gals (and you married ones too!).

1.Pray for his relationship with God.

2. Pray that God would bless him.

3. Pray that God would lead him to become the spiritual leader of your (one day) household.

4. Pray that he will love you deeply.

5. Pray that he would have a heart for his children.

6. Pray that he would make wise choices.

7. Pray for his physical, mental and emotional health.

8. Pray that he would be able to resist sexual temptation.

9. Pray that he would prosper at work.

10. Pray that you will show him respect, grace and kindness.

         

         What I think I'm going to do is pray for one of these things each day, then I'll have 10 days of specific prayers for my future Mr.

Any thoughts? 

Characteristics of Future Mate

           I recently read a blog post about how we, as single ladies, should wait for God's best and not lower our standards in hopes of being fulfilled. This caused me to think, what characteristics do I want in a future spouse or significant other? I came up with this list of 5 characteristics that I think are important:

1. Committed to spiritual growth.

2. Think of others above himself.

3. Guard his mind.

4. Have a '1 Corinthians' type love.

5. Desire to be a spiritual leader of our household.

         These are the character qualities that I have diligently been praying that my future husband develops. When you get married, your life becomes a life of service. Service to your husband, and service to your family. Even though I'm not married right now, by praying for my future husband is a way of serving him right now, before I even meet him. A wife should be her husband's #1 prayer warrior, and by starting to pray for him now, it's preparing me for that role in the future. How cool is that? I thought it was a pretty neat idea!

CHALLENGE:

          But now I'm going to turn the tables to you. After you make a list of the characteristics that you desire in a future mate, reflect that back your own life. If these are the qualities that I desire for him to have, I need to make sure that I posses the same qualities in my own life. If I want my significant other to think of others before himself, then I should think of others before myself.....see how that works?

Are you in? 

Worth the Wait

Dear Future Husband,

Lately I’ve been coming to the realisation that maybe I spend too much time fantasising about the future; our future. I think that sometimes I can get caught up in the “one day” syndrome (or living vicariously through other’s relationships) and forget to live for today. I think it is fine to think about your future sometimes – but maybe I do it too much???

So, this is what I’m trying to do: to wait patiently. Sounds easy enough, right? God has a time and a place where we will meet, and it is my goal, from this day forward, to wait patiently for that moment to come. I don’t know when it will be, I don’t know where it will be. But I do know this, as long as I wait for God’s timing, it will be perfect. Psalm 27:14 instructs us to do just that, to wait on God – “Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.” You are worth waiting for.

I love you today, tomorrow and forever.

Your Future Wife,

Hardest One Yet...

            Yes, this is the hardest post I've had to write yet to date. I went back and forth deciding whether or not I should even post it. Finally I came to the conclusion that if I'm feeling this way, than so must other single gals (please tell me I'm not the only one!).

           Did you ever have such a crush on another person that you imagine yourself with them? You wonder what your dating relationship will look like, what your wedding will be like, your home, your family, and so on and so forth? I am guilty as charged!

         One of the reasons that I was so hesitant about writing this post, was because I didn't want to admit it to myself that this is what I've been doing. I've been holding this guy up on a pedestal in my mind, and finally I came to the realization that THIS IS NOT FAIR!

       What if one day I got together with this guy. We started dating, and he is nothing like I imagined he would be; I would be sorely disappointed. But working him up in my mind is not only not fair to me, it's not fair to him. It's not fair to my future husband. If I always hold this guy to an unbelievable standard in my mind, he is what I'm going to be comparing my future husband to. And furthermore, it's not fair to God.

"Although they claimed to be wise. they became fools and exchanges the glory of immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator -- who is forever praised. Amen." (Romans 1:22-24)

          When God teaches us against having idols in the Bible, do you think He meant guys too? I think it's safe to say, yes!!!! Guys can distract us from God; from doing what He wants us to do. I've slightly spoke about this before in my post The Error of My Ways, in which I look at the idea of elevating a guy above God. Check it out.

What do you think about all of this? 

Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this......