Christian Courtship And Dating Sample

Pray About It

In concluding this 7-day devotional plan, I want to say that you will not attract to you what you are not. I hope you say, “I want to marry a person one day who loves the Lord loyally, who will love me faithfully, who will be pure in this relationship with me, and will guard the sanctity of our marriage.” If you desire that kind of spouse, then you need to be that kind of person. Like attracts like. You reap what you sow. If you put certain seeds on the ground, that’s the crop you get. You and I can’t go out tomorrow, plant tomatoes and get apple trees. If you plant tomatoes, what are you going to get? Tomatoes! If you sow a life of disregarding the Word of God and disregarding His plans for relationship and marriage, don’t be surprised when you reap the whirlwind in your own relationship. 

Pray for your future husband or wife. We’re certainly not a model, but it is a joy for my wife to be able to tell our children that she prayed for God to give her a husband who would love Him and as a result love her. She had not been in church very long (she first set foot in a church at the age of 16 and married at age 18), but she practiced that very early on when she was taught that at her youth group. Pray that you can gain discernment to know between right and wrong when it comes to deciding who you want your spouse to be. Pray for God to give you wisdom and discernment and to send that person your way, in His timing. 

In the book of Ruth, we see how she is submissive and obedient to her mother-in-law’s orders and plan for her when she requested marriage. Yet even when she did everything her mother-in-law, Naomi, asked her to do, Boaz still sent Ruth back home. Naomi’s response to Ruth after she came home to tell her everything was, “Sit back and relax, my dear daughter, until we find out how things turn out.” As difficult as it can be, sometimes we need to do the same: sit and relax. Wait on the will of God to be done. He knows the desires of our hearts. He hears our prayers. Let’s wait for the Lord’s way to be revealed. 

If you would like to find out more about this topic, we invite you to listen to the episode of the Straight Truth Podcast called “Christian Courtship and Dating” on YouTube https://youtu.be/vQby8idaOoM  or Vimeo https://vimeo.com/273575633