The goal of most Christian single women is to be married. However, that does not mean you should wait until you’re engaged to start preparing to be a wife. Married women told me this for years before I began to heed the advice. However, once I realized God
prepares us to receive blessings I realized I needed to prepare to receive the blessing of my husband.
I love the way Ayiesha Woods puts it in her song, The Only One. My favorite line of that song goes...
"Oh out of all the people in this world, You were meant for me
And out of all the plans He has for you I'm a part of your destiny."
Doesn’t that just give you a whole new perspective? God has someone just for you and He’s preparing you to be a part of your husband’s destiny. With that being the case, ladies we need to get ready!
Here are seven steps I’m using to prepare for my husband. Use it to begin your Christian marriage preparation or let it inspire you to develop your own plan.
The 7 Ps of Christian Marriage Preparation
Christian Marriage Preparation Step 1: Pray for your husband
Many Christian single women pray to be married and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But this first P is not about praying to be married, but rather praying for your husband. I will admit, I had never thought of this until I read Stormie Omartian’s book, The Power of a Praying Wife. I can’t even remember why I bought the book, but I’m sure there was some reluctance (being single and all).
Nevertheless, I found valuable truths within the pages of this book. I first love that her husband wrote the foreword and in it he writes, ‘I can think of no better way to truly love your husband than by lifting him up in prayer on a consistent basis. It is a priceless gift that helps him experience God’s blessings and grace.’ A powerful truth, every woman needs to know.
This book gave me a new perspective that my husband, the one God is preparing just for me, needs my prayer. She shares how God strengthened her marriage once she began to pray for her husband. Key areas she mentions include, his spiritual walk, his emotions, his role as a father, leader and decision-maker, his security in work and finances, his health and physical protection, and his faith and future.
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Ask God to teach you how to be a Godly wife.
While reading this book, I realized my future husband is currently struggling or will struggle with these same issues, so what better gift than to pray for him and prepare for oneness with him.
Christian Marriage Preparation Step 2: Prepare
I read a book entitled When God Writes Your Love Story, by Eric and Leslie Ludy and yet another truth that I had never considered was revealed to me. Your family is your training ground for marriage. They share, you must train yourself to model Christ now to those most familiar and close to so you will be great at it when you get married.
This was really a shocker for me, but the more I thought about it, it really makes sense. We can’t treat our family poorly and then assume once we say ‘I do’ we will all of a sudden know how to treat our spouse.
They state in their book, 'family is our practice field'. We take into our future marriage what we learn in our life with them here and now. If we learn to snub or disown those closest to us now, we’re setting patterns for broken trust and emotional heartache in the future.
If we train ourselves now to be verbally abusive to our family members, we will be conditioning ourselves to bite rather than bless in the future.
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