We rejoice with you that God has moved in your parents hearts and that the search for your wife has begun through your uncle, and we thank God for your younger brother who has supported you so lovingly in this desire. We understand the anxiety and fear you feel about delay, about being almost in your mid twenties and wanting to marry early, and about being in a Gulf country far from connections in India. We want to encourage you to cast this anxiety on the Lord and trust His perfect timing, for you are still young and God is not late.
The Word says 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. And also casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you 1 Peter 5:7. Your parents counsel to not be so tense comes from love, and we encourage you to honor them in this arranged marriage process, for children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother Ephesians 6:1-2. God can work beautifully through this cultural way when it is submitted to Him.
We affirm your godly desire for marriage. Marriage is honorable and God ordained as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman, for a man will leave his father and his mother, and will be joined with his wife, and they will be one flesh Genesis 2:24. Whosoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh Proverbs 18:22. We pray you will find a wife who is first a believer in Christ, for we must not be unequally yoked with unbelievers 2 Corinthians 6:14. Your desire for a loving, caring, humble wife is very good and aligns with scripture. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised Proverbs 31:30. It is right to desire natural beauty and elegance, but we gently encourage you to place character and faith in Christ far above appearance, for appearance fades but a gentle and humble heart that fears the Lord endures. Seek first Gods Kingdom, and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you Matthew 6:33. Delight yourself also in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart Psalm 37:4.
We also hear your honest confession that you are burning with passion and finding it difficult as a young man to control your desires and that you do not want to be lonely. We commend you that by Gods grace you have been kept till now, and we exhort you to continue to flee from fornication. The Bible teaches flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body 1 Corinthians 6:18, and marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers Hebrews 13:4. Sex before or outside marriage is fornication and is sin before God. Because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband 1 Corinthians 7:2. If you are burning with passion, scripture says it is better to marry than to burn 1 Corinthians 7:9. So your desire to marry rather than fall into sin is right and good, and we encourage you to keep yourself pure through prayer, the Word, accountability, and fleeing temptation while you wait, trusting that God gives grace to walk in self control.
We also notice your prayer mentions God but does not mention the name of Jesus Christ. We lovingly remind you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father, for Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to put your trust fully in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and confess Him as Lord, for if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved Romans 10:9. It is in His name we pray and are heard.
We pray together for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before You together in the name of Jesus Christ, thanking You for Your grace that has kept our brother pure till now. We ask You to pour out Your favor and mercy upon this search for a wife. Guide his parents and his uncle with wisdom, open doors of connection in India, and lead them to a godly, humble, loving and caring daughter of Yours who fears You above all. We pray she will be a believer who loves You with all her heart and will be a suitable helper for him. We pray You will guard his heart from anxiety and loneliness, fill him with Your peace, and help him to wait upon Your perfect timing and not act out of fear. Give him strength to flee temptation and to walk in purity, and let this time of waiting draw him closer to You. We pray that every step, finding his wife, fixing the date, and all other commitments, will be established according to Your will and in Your time. Let Your favor rest upon him and let this marriage when it comes be a lifelong covenant that honors You. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
We encourage you to continue to trust the Lord, to grow in faith and prayer while you wait, and to keep your eyes on Christ. God is faithful and He hears your prayer. We will continue to stand with you in prayer that God will locate and bring your future wife in His perfect way and time.