Despite your relationship status at the current moment, pray ceaselessly for the person that is behind one of God's big doors.

Lord, allow this man and I to be a catalyst for growth in one another. I hope so dearly that You guide us in fellowship and prayer together. Let there never be a day of dullness in faith. I am not seeking perfection here, merely asking for the ability to flourish and love You together.

I pray that you place this man into my life at your discretion. I may be madly in love already, wondering if this is the man that you have willed me to spend the rest of my life with, but I may also be maturing, watching my close friends celebrate love with marriage. Let me see clearly that you are in control and that my time will come, whether that time is in the next year, or 20.

Prepare our hearts to love one another. Demand consistency and growth in my relationship with You prior to placing a man in my life. Show me that from my heart to the Heavens, Jesus is the center, but He is accepting and willing to bring a man into my life when my heart and soul are mature.

Lord, allow me to forgive and be forgiven by this man. Open my heart to his thoughts and actions, even when I am confused or hurt by them. Let this man see my flaws and accept me at my most vulnerable core. Let there be honesty in this relationship and let us have eyes that are not blind to imperfection. Guide us to love unconditionally and giggle at our flaws.

Lord, guide this man on his path and remind him ceaselessly that I long for him to love You more than he loves me. Keep him close to you and speak to him on the days that a thief of joy presents itself. He may fall short on his actions or be lacking in his conversations with you, just like me sometimes, but I pray that You will shed light on him and his talents and pull him closer to you daily.

Let him know that he is Yours and remind him of his worth.

Guide me to keep an open mind to new adventures. I know in my heart that I am a habitual woman, stressed out immediately by the thought of change or unfamiliarity, but I pray that you let this man lead me gently and earnestly.

Let your will be done to us. I pray that You present us with situations that we, upon first glance, feel incapable of surmounting. A strange request, but it will allow us to understand that You will give us more than we can handle alone. Lord, let us lean on each other through our most trying moments and let us trust in You to grant us strength, peace, and guidance through what feels like too much.

Guide us, together, to focus on our lives in the moment. Allow us to walk humbly with one another in order to soak in the true joys of life. Steer our hearts away from fixating on looming changes of the future and steer them closer to You and the Gospel.

I pray that you place a man into my life that makes me feel guarded, as you do. My heart is delicate and longs for a man that will protect me from fear and anxiety in the moments that I forget to relinquish my burdens to You. I also pray so continuously that you speak to this man and let him understand that he can place his full trust in me.

I pray that you remind this man that he is never a burden. Remind him that the love that I hold in my heart for him is bigger and stronger than any issue.

Amen.