Single & Married Ladies – Blinders?

Hi Ladies,

To receive the mate God has ordained for you, it may be necessary to remove any blinders keeping you from seeing the truth of what our Father has spoken to you. Depending upon where you are in your faith walk with the Lord, you could be questioning His directions, or wondering exactly what He has planned for your life. It can sometimes seem as if you are struggling ahead blindfolded. But HE knows every step of your pathway, and a faith walk with God requires exactly that…that you trust Him and exercise your faith. He has everything under control!

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BB’s testimony last week from my first book, A Good Man is Hard to Find…Unless You Ask God to Be Head of Your Search Committee, shared her wisdom as a recently wed mother of three on hearing the voice of God about the right mate. She met her husband at a ministry meeting when a spouse was the furthest thing from her mind. Now continuing…

JP – Did the Lord clue you in that this was to be your husband?

BB – Yes, He told both of us. I found out from him later that the Lord told him the night we first met, “Meet your wife.” The Lord had given me a word concerning him about two months earlier. Then, a few days after I met him, I heard the Lord say, “This is that C___ I was speaking of.”

JP – Had you given up hope of marrying before this happened?

BB – I had been on my own for about eleven years and I felt like I was a veteran of the single life. There were definitely times when I gave up hope, followed by times when hope would rise up again. I went through several cycles where my hopes would be high, then after a while I’d say, “Forget it,” and ask the Lord just to clear my mind and take these feelings away. But He would never do that.

I always desired to be married, to have a husband who loved the Lord and could minister with me. But it seemed like, in times past, whenever I started praying for a husband, all kinds of people would come out of the woodwork who were not of God.

I always struggled with my weight, and I had slacked up on my diet and exercise. But about a year before I met C___, the Lord had told me to start working on myself and start losing weight because He was going to send my husband. I just left it alone because I thought it was flesh talking and I didn’t want to put any hopes in the voice of the flesh. You get tired of struggling with whether God wants you to have a mate or not. You want to put your mind to something else. So, I found myself not even giving in to that because I didn’t want to be disappointed. I had been disappointed many times but God is faithful. In due time, if we’ll be patient and faint not, He’ll send us what we need.

JP – How long was it from the time you met C___ until you married?

BB – We met in July and he proposed in October, but it took till May, a total of eleven months, for the wedding to take place. It was the longest time of my life. I’d get mad at him regularly. I was ready to get married. I knew I loved him and I knew he loved me but he still had a lot of things to deal with. I was the one who was always saying, “Don’t worry. We can work it out.”

Finally, my prayer partner and I went to work on the situation. One morning we prayed about it, and C___ told me later that afternoon that he’d had a dream that morning in which the Lord was directing him to go ahead and get married. I smiled and told him, “Yes, we were praying about that time.” After that, he was ready…

Conclusion next week…hope BB is encouraging to you! Joy and Shalom!