Boaz

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We join you in bringing your heart's desire for a godly marriage before the Lord and we hear your longing for a Boaz, a man of character and faithfulness like the Boaz in the book of Ruth, and for a blessed life together.

We also want to lovingly share some biblical correction regarding speaking life into existence and claiming a hundredfold blessing and loosening a verse with the blood of Jesus. We understand the passion behind those words, yet Scripture teaches that it is God alone who speaks things into existence. Rom 4:17 tells us that God gives life to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they were. Our words have influence, as Prov 18:21 says death and life are in the power of the tongue, but we do not create reality by our declarations or by using the blood of Jesus as a formula. The blood of Jesus is precious because through it we have forgiveness and reconciliation with God, as Eph 1:7 and Heb 9:14 teach, not as an incantation to make verses work for us. We are called to pray according to God's will, for 1 John 5:14 says if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us, and James 4:3 warns that we ask and do not receive because we ask amiss to spend it on our pleasures.

Regarding Deut 28:13 where the Lord says he will make you the head and not the tail if you listen to his commandments, that promise was given to Israel under the old covenant in the context of obedience to God. Our greatest blessing now is in Christ, and God does desire to bless his children, but his blessing is not a guaranteed hundredfold return on our declarations. Jesus did speak of a hundredfold in Mark 10:30, but that was in the context of sacrifice and even persecution for his sake, not a formula for getting whatever we name. What God does promise is that as we delight ourselves in him he will give us the desires of our heart as they align with his will, Ps 37:4, and as we seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, all these things will be added to us, Matt 6:33.

We also want to affirm God's beautiful design for marriage. We believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman that honors Christ, as Gen 2:24 and Eph 5:31-33 teach. If you are praying for this man to be your husband, we pray that this courtship would be with the clear goal of godly marriage to a fellow believer, for 2 Cor 6:14 warns us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. We encourage you both to pursue purity and to honor God with your bodies, for Heb 13:4 says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, and 1 Cor 6:18 calls us to flee sexual immorality, which is any intimacy outside of marriage, whether fornication or adultery. A Boaz is a man who will lead, protect, provide, and honor you in a Christlike way, and a Ruth is a woman of noble character, Ruth 3:11, who trusts the Lord's timing.

We pray together for you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before you and we thank you that we have access to your throne only through him, for John 14:6 says Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and Acts 4:12 says there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. We lift up this daughter to you and her desire for a godly husband and a blessed life and marriage that glorifies you. If this man she has mentioned is a believer who loves you, we pray you would make your will clear to both of them, that you would lead them in wisdom, purity, and counsel, and that if it is your will, you would establish their courtship toward holy marriage in your perfect timing. If he is not walking with you, we pray you would guard her heart and help her to wait for a man who truly seeks you. Help her to trust not in spoken formulas but in your sovereign goodness and to seek you first above all desires. Let her find her identity as the head not in worldly success but in obedience to Christ, knowing she is blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ, Eph 1:3. Give her peace as she waits on you, and let your will be done in her life. In Jesus name we pray, amen.

We encourage you to continue to pray and to seek the Lord in his Word daily, to involve trusted pastoral counsel, and to let God write your love story in a way that honors him and reflects the faithful love of Christ for his church.

 

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Thank you for sharing what is on your heart so openly. We hear how deeply you desire to see God's blessing in your life and to see the relationship you are praying for come to pass. That longing for love and for a secure future is understandable, and we are grateful you brought it to the Lord.

We join you in wanting God's very best for you. We have found that when desires feel so urgent, it helps to keep bringing them to Jesus honestly while also asking Him to shape our hearts to want what He wants for us. He loves to hear you, and He is faithful to lead you step by step as you trust Him, even when the answer or the timing is not yet clear.

One thing that has helped others in a similar season is to set aside regular time to pray not only for what you hope for, but also for wisdom, peace, and clarity to walk in God's will, and to share that journey with a trusted pastor or mature believer who knows you and can pray with you personally.

We pray for you:

Father, we lift our friend to You in Jesus' name. Thank You for Your love and care for every detail of her life. We ask for Your peace to guard her heart, for wisdom for each decision ahead, and for a deeper sense of Your presence and goodness each day. Lead her in Your perfect will and help her to trust You with her future. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your words show a deep desire to be blessed and to know that the Lord's favor rests upon your life, and for that desire I give thanks. It is right to want the blessing of God, for every good gift comes from His hand. Yet the Scriptures teach us what that blessing truly is and how it comes.

No spiritual blessing comes to any man by chance, nor does it come by our own declarations or by speaking things into existence. We are taught to sit and keep on blessing God, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. The double blessing of grace and peace comes from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us just where we needed blessing, where we were poorest in spiritual things, not because we loosened a verse as an incantation, but because He is gracious. The blood of Jesus was not shed to serve as a formula to claim a man or a circumstance, but to cleanse us from all our filthiness and from all our idols, to give us a new heart and to take away the stony heart out of our flesh. That is the covenant blessing we most need.

You quote the promise that you shall be the head and not the tail. That word in Deuteronomy was given to an obedient people walking in the statutes of the Lord, and its fulfillment is found not in repeating words one hundred fold, but in being made willing in the day of His power to walk in His ways. Faith first receives the blessing and then produces holy work.

Herein also is the hypocrite discerned, he does that which he could not ask a blessing upon. We must take heed to mingle prayer with all our thanksgiving, and not ask God to bless what His Word does not call holy. For this reason I cannot affirm or celebrate or ask God to bless a relationship outside the lifelong covenant of marriage between one man and one woman, nor to bless living together or any union that presumes upon His grace without obedience. What God has joined together is holy, and all that lies outside that covenant, however earnestly desired, must be brought under His Lordship and His cleansing.

If the Lord has given you affection for another, bring it honestly before Him in continued prayer, for to continue in prayer is the very test of sincerity. Will he always call upon God. Do not give runaway knocks at the door of heaven, but wrestle as Jacob did who said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Ask not first that you may have your heart's desire fulfilled as you have imagined it, but that you may have Christ and be found in Him. First you must get the blessing yourself, for until it can be said to you, I will bless you, it cannot be said, you shall be a blessing.

My prayer for you therefore is not that God would grant a declaration spoken into existence, but that He would grant you the true covenant blessings. May He cleanse you and give you a new spirit, may He cause you to walk in His statutes, may He give you grace and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, and may He make you content to be blessed where you most need blessing, and to be made a blessing to others. If it be His will to give you marriage, may it be in the Lord, in purity and in holiness, for His glory. If He withholds, may you still bless Him from the first word to the last, till the last hour of life, and find Him to be your exceeding portion.

May the Lord add His blessing, for Jesus' sake.

 

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Lord Jesus please richly bless, protect and guide them. Please help them in accordance with your perfect will Father. Thank you and praise you. In your holy name I pray. Amen.