It’s not a big secret that I’ve been praying for my future husband for years. That’s one reason why I was thrilled when I was given the opportunity to review a book called Praying for Your Future Husband… It’s a powerful book that may light a stick of spiritual dynamite under your heart as you read and ponder how you can pray – or pray better – for your future husband.
I wonder what God would do if the young women of this generation got down on their knees and prayed that faith in Jesus would be the “one thing” that defines their future husbands – and thus the young men of this generation?!
I don’t know how old I was when I prayed for him first – all I can remember is praying for him “all my life”. I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve covered in my prayers in the hope that, if you don’t already pray for him, you’re inspired to pray for “him who is to be your husband”.
Praying for our future husbands is a wonderful way to follow the example of the woman in Proverbs 31:12 and do our future husbands “good and not evil all the days of our lives.” But how do we do that in reality? How do we make it practical? It can be daunting! We don’t know the guy’s name, his age, his family, church, education and work situation – we don’t even know if he’s a Christian yet! Here are some ideas …
Some women are born with a child-shaped hole in their hearts. The hole is meant for a child – or a lot of children – of their own. Why try to pretend it’s meant for anything else? In Becoming God’s True Woman, Dorothy Kelley Patterson writes: “If you are a woman, whether you are married…
“The preoccupation of seventeen-year-old girls don’t seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation, there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.” (Elisabeth Elliot in A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael) The thing I love most about women…
“God’s women, down through the centuries, have enjoyed a freedom the world will find difficult to understand – the freedom to be and to do that which God intended.” (Ruth Bell Graham, endorsing Believers: Lessons from Women of Powerful Faith by Gien Karssen) I think I started wondering what it meant to be a woman…
Sometimes I miss the beautiful ordinary in life because I’m looking for the extraordinary. I don’t know what the extraordinary looks like in your life. In my life it looks like an intimidating combination of The Duchess of Cambridge and Katie Davis. Seriously! I was fourteen when I was told that God had a unique…
Sometimes the pressure from the rest of the world to do “big things” for God leaves me feeling insignificant and overwhelmed and weak. Is it possible, however, that God smiles when His daughters to do little things for Him with hearts overflowing with faith, hope and love? For me this has been a year of little things….
Beloved Friends, give yourselves, first, to God and afterwards to His Church … cheerfully and promptly, without pressure or excitement. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) At one time, I was one of those twenty-somethings who “loved Jesus, but not His church”. I was raised to go to church on Sunday as a matter of course.When I was…
What if devotions are intended to be less of a chore and more of a gift…like a walk in a garden? I love the verse in Genesis 3 that says, They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day… (Genesis 3:8) In this verse “they” are…
Sometimes I make my life unnecessarily complicated. Okay, let’s be honest, sometimes I make my devotions unnecessarily complicated! But what if simple is beautiful for devotions as well as the rest of life and faith? The dictionary explains that devotion denotes affection and loyalty to an individual or cause as well as piety – and…
Friday, 29th April, 2011 was a never-to-be-forgotten day. I wasn’t interested in the media reports of Miss Middleton’s relationship with Prince William. The royal wedding, however, was different. I was deeply interested and (to my surprise) deeply moved. I was fascinated as I watched an ordinary girl, Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, become Princess William of Wales:…
I’m stitching a wedding sampler for a couple (literally) of family friends at the moment. The sampler features a classic verse that happens to be a personal favourite of mine too. “But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13) I think it’s sad that this…