Why Praying For Your Future Spouse is the Key to a Lasting Relationship
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Why Praying For Your Future Spouse is the Key to a Lasting Relationship

The solution to the modern day destruction of dating

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Why Praying For Your Future Spouse is the Key to a Lasting Relationship

If you take a look around at today's relationships, you would probably be disappointed. Today hookups, and dating "just for fun" has run ramped among today's teenagers and millienials. As a result of this trend growing over the years, as "old fashion" dating seems to be dying out, divorce rates are higher than ever.

Why are so many of today's relationships ones that struggle to survive, or simply, are built on nothing but fun times, leaving people hurt? My theory, is that people have lost the concept of praying for their future spouse, or even lost the concept of looking for a future spouse, not just a fun time.

Ever since I was 5 years old, I have been praying for my future spouse. I prayed for God to lead me to a man who would respect me, protect my heart, body, and mind alike, would be hardworking, honest, chivalrous, faithful, and would love not only me, but God himself as well. I not only prayed for my future husband to obtain these qualities, I also asked God to guide my future husband, to protect him, and to keep his heart and mind guarded. By doing this I held a respect for myself out of love for my future spouse, the man God had planned for me.

After over a decade of praying for a man I did not even know, I met a man who displayed every aspect I had spent years and years praying for. A man who displays honesty, integrity, faithfulness, truth, honor, patience, kindness, chivalry, respect for himself, and love for God. A man who not only loves me more than himself, but who also loves God more than himself. A man who is everything and more a true man should be. The most amazing thing? My boyfriend had spent his whole life praying for me too.

It's time that people open their eyes to the true beauty that comes with praying for your future spouse, and the beauty that comes with trusting God to guide you to that special someone, the one who has been praying for you too.

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