Then it may appear strange to speak about making marriage important for somebody that is single, even so, the building blocks for your marriage is build throughout all of your life, well, i believe it is good to speak about ways to prioritize that before you decide to say “I do.”
One of the ways you may make marriage a priority prior to the ring is by a little time to sit and pray and have God showing you what to find in a mate. Then begin praying for your mate and that God will build up those characteristics in them. Most of you may know I started a summary of traits when I was living in Kenya and began praying for my future spouse then. God blew me out of the water with the husband he blessed me with. It’s amazing what prayer are able to do!
One other thing to do during this time period is to maximize this time and don’t allow yourself to become too consumed in what is to come but to live in the present state you’re in. I believe many of us are guilty of saying, “I’ll do better at ____ when….” Marriage is a HUGE blessing, but as a single you are more free than you will ever be after saying I do to serve our creator, so be about His business and not all that the planet would have you think you needs to be worried about. Besides, now don’t you need a husband who wants to marry a woman who serves the Lord?
Find married women to spend time with. Enable them to using home and family and grow from them. Whether here’s your own mother or another wife/mother you understand. You may bless all of them with your business and let them be considered a Titus two woman who’s training a younger woman to enjoy her husband.
Guard your heart! I suggest everybody reads Emotional Purity for additional on this topic. And a request I implemented that helped me to guard my heart was I purchased a journal and I wrote out the things I wanted to tell my future husband/boyfriend/fiance throughout our courtship. That way I could feel like I was sharing the situations on my heart that I wanted to tell him, but it helped me to not give away too much of my heart before marriage. The openness you have in marriage and the safe place marriage creates for sharing are some things we don’t always guard to keep before marriage. I want to encourage you to make sure to guard the emotional purity of one’s marriage.
And what type of listing of advice about get yourself ready for marriage wouldn’t include guarding the physical purity of your future marriage. My hubby blessed me a great deal by doing this well. I pray that my sons and daughters and in-laws to be will all do this well. And throughout it all, remember: “No temptation has seized you, except that which is common to man. And God is faithful. For if you are tempted He will provide a way out.”
