Day Two of 21 days of prayer
Day Two of 21 Days of Prayer
| 14 December 2023
Dear future husband,
I’m praying for you…everyday.
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Ever since I was little, I have been praying for my future husband. It all started out when I was about four years old—maybe younger. I have this clear picture in my mind. It’s dark out with only a pink or soft yellow nightlight on. I’m snuggled in my bed under covers. Mom stands at the head of my bed while dad kneels down beside me. We are praying for the baby mom is going to have (my sister Scarlett not yet born) and near the end my dad prays something new. He prays for my future husband and that he would know God and that God would lead him and be a part of his life. Years later, and now I’m eighteen, and I still haven’t shook the memory—that prayer.
Since then, I have been praying for my future husband. I don’t know who he is, only to pray for him. I haven’t always been perfect at it. I know there have been days I have forgotten. I know there were years when I was stuck in a bad place that I didn’t pray for him or even pray at all. It took years again to get to a place where I was solid with God and solid in prayer. Just over a year ago, I started praying for my future husband again. I believe he is out there. I believe it is important to pray for him.
A week or two ago, my mom and dad were talking about this—praying for me and my siblings future spouses—and it put more…urgency in my heart to pray more and be more specific in my prayers for him. I had always prayed that God would be a part of his life—leading him, guiding him, speaking to him, etc—and for him to be protected. Sometimes I would feel like I should pray for healing or I’ve waken up after a nightmare needing to pray for him—I have no idea if those prayers meant anything or if they were needed but I think it is better to pray even if it’s unneeded then not pray when it is necessary.
I still pray those kinds of prayers but I have started to pray something new because of my parents.
We have this amazing ability to pray for others, on behalf of others, and to fight for people in prayer. Our prayers are and can be powerful. Not because we are powerful, not at all, but because God is. We have the gift because of Jesus to talk directly to God and He listens. We can directly go to God to pray for others—their healing, protection, salvation, God’s plan, His comfort, his peace, His love and more. If the enemy can distract us and get us focused on other things or plant seeds of doubt so that we don’t pray then he is winning.
I believe that if you feel called to be a mother and a wife and it’s something important and deep in you this desire then you need to be praying about it now. You need to be praying for that future husband of yours because he may need your prayers. If the enemy can make you doubt yourself, doubt you even have a future husband and family, doubt that your prayers will help or do anything then the enemy for that moment wins. You have no idea what effect that could have. Maybe nothing…but maybe something huge.
If our future spouse can lose our prayers then who knows, maybe our prayers were the one things standing between him staying safe and victorious or him losing a battle or falling into temptation. Maybe he is struggling—in life, faith, job, calling—and needs someone on his behalf praying for him.
Prayer is powerful.
When I was going through my darkest times, I needed people on my side praying for me. I needed people who believed in me and who loved me and who would fight for me and go into battle for my life and soul. Even now, today, we have that ability to fight in prayer for those around us and for our future spouse. We have the ability to make a positive impact in their lives because prayer in powerful. We don’t have the power but God does. We get to talk to Him and pray and speak to Him on others behalf.
I don’t know if my prayers will make any difference or impact on my future husband’s life. I don’t know. Maybe that is something I will never know. But I feel this is important. I would rather pray everyday for my future husband even if it amounts to nothing I can see or know but to be praying and one day tell him I was praying for him since before I knew him then to not pray at all because I don’t know if it’ll do anything and find out years later that maybe those years I could have been praying would have changed his life and would have helped him and I failed. Maybe this is a bit dramatic (I know it is) but this is just how it is for me.
I want to pray with intention for my future husband. If he is in a battle or facing hardships or temptation or fear or loss then I want to be praying believing God will use my prayers. I want to pray and fight even now for our future marriage—its like I’m practicing for that day when I know it will count because I will be able to see him and pray with even more intention than I am doing now because I will know him. I want to have that ability to one day tell him that I have been praying for him, believing for him and in him, for years even before I knew him or his name or his face.
Maybe I’m a bit of a hopeless romantic in this way but I like it. I think it is truly a wonderful thing to pray for.
Just think, wouldn’t you love it if you got married and your husband tells you that since he was a little boy, before marriage was ever a thought and before he even knew who you were, he had been praying for you?
Anyways, I’ve gone on a tangent so I think I’ll close this now. If I can give you one piece of advice: pray! Even if you don’t think anything will happen or you don’t think it matters, pray because it does matter.
Faith Strengthens:
Wake up 8:13 am and start Bible & Prayer time
- Get with God first thing in the morning before ANYTHING else
- Read my Bible | Isaiah 54
- Prayed & Prayer Journaled
- Talked to my mom about being intentional with prayers and obeying God in what He says no matter what others say or do
- Listen to Worship & Christmas Music (my fav today was “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”)
- Record a podcast episode about prayer <3
- Get encouraged by a friend
Goals with this challenge:
- Know God more
- Get stronger/encouraged in my faith
- Get clarity
- Put God FIRST
God bless us, every one!
I’ll see you tomorrow friend!
I LOVE THISSSS. It's so relatable & in my thoughts almost constantly.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite (& most frequent) conversations I have with God daily is about my future husband. I pray for him multiple times a day & I cannot ait for the day I can tell about all these conversations🙏🏻🤍
Ahhh! Thank you so much Madi!!! I’m so glad you like this post and that this is also one of your prayers!!! <333
DeleteI cannot wait for the day I too can tell my future husband that I have been praying for him for all these years! That will be so special!
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