We join you in this beautiful and tender prayer for the man you love on your one year anniversary, and we hear the depth of your love and devotion for him and your desire to lift him before the Lord. We thank God that you both have chosen Jesus Christ, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is only by His name that we are saved, as it is written Acts 4:12 and John 14:6. We rejoice that you are sealed and covered by His blood and that you desire a union that honors Him.
We pray together for him and for you and for your future marriage. We love your heart to see him as God sees him, beautiful and fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14. We understand his insecurities about being bald, about his weight and his age, and we pray that the Lord will renew his mind and show him that his worth is not in outward appearance but in being created in the image of God and being a new creation in Christ, 1 Samuel 16:7 and 2 Corinthians 5:17. We pray that he will know that man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart, and that he is loved and valued deeply by God and by you.
We lift up his mental peace and anxious thoughts to the Lord, for you both have carried pain through dark times. We pray that he will experience the stillness and calm that comes from trusting God, Psalm 46:10. We pray as Scripture teaches, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:6-7. We cast all our anxiety on Him because He cares for us, 1 Peter 5:7, and we pray that healing will come to his heart where it hurts, for He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds, Psalm 147:3, and that the Lord will be near to him when his heart is broken, Psalm 34:18.
We pray for his physical healing, specifically for the veins in his testicles, that the Lord would touch his body, untangle what is tangled and bring wholeness and remove worry about his health. We trust that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, and that God is able to heal and restore. We also pray for his need for work to help his mother and to provide, that God would open the right door for employment in His timing and provision, for we know that God has plans for us, plans for peace and not for evil, to give hope and a future, Jeremiah 29:11, and that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose, Romans 8:28.
We are encouraged by your desire for marriage and for being side by side as husband and wife. This is God's beautiful and holy design, that a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife and they will be one flesh, Genesis 2:24, and what God has joined together, let no man separate, Matthew 19:6. We strongly affirm and endorse marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman before God, and we see your courtship as moving toward that holy covenant. We encourage you both to continue to pursue purity and to honor God with your bodies and your love until that covenant is made, for marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, Hebrews 13:4, and we are called to flee sexual immorality, 1 Corinthians 6:18. We gently encourage you not to call yourselves husband and wife before the vows are made, but to cherish this time of courtship as preparation to become a godly wife and godly husband who will stand together, stand with and stand by one another in Christ. Love is patient and is kind, love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
We also pray for you, that God would protect you from your own anxious thoughts so that everything he needs and desires from you in your relationship may freely flow from a heart at rest in Christ. May you both be strengthened to encourage and uplift one another daily while it is called today, Hebrews 3:13, and may you find refreshing energy and growth together in unconditional love.
We pray together now, Father in heaven, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ and we lift up this beloved man to You. Lord, You know his name, You know his heart, his insecurities, his health, his longing to provide for his mother and to be reunited in marriage with the woman who loves him. We ask that You pour out Your perfect peace upon his mind, that You quiet every anxious thought and fill him with new thoughts and new ideas as he meditates on Your goodness. Let him breathe deeply today and know You are with him, loving him. Heal his body, Lord, touch the veins that concern him and bring complete healing according to Your will, remove all fear and health worries. Provide for him the job You have prepared for him, open the door that no man can shut and give him favor. Show him how beautiful he is in Your eyes, that he is fearfully and wonderfully made and deeply loved. Strengthen this sister who loves him, calm her tears and her anxious heart, use her as a true helpmate to adore, uplift and encourage him in a way that honors You. Lead them both in purity and holiness as they wait upon You for marriage, and bless their union for Your glory, that through their love others may see Your healing, Your encouragement and Your pure and unconditional love. Let Your will be done in their lives and let Your peace guard their hearts. We ask for refreshing energy and growth for them both and that You would elevate them together for Your purposes. We pray all this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus Christ, amen.