For Marriage

[Cuenkoinlake]

Praise the Lord Please pray for our daughter ###'s marriage. Proposals coming but it is not coming to finalization. We need a Godly boy, well educated ### from a Godly parents.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Articles]

We lift up your daughter’s marriage before the Lord with hearts full of hope and trust in His perfect timing. It is beautiful to see your desire for a godly spouse for her, one who fears the Lord, is well-grounded in faith, and comes from a family that honors God. The Lord delights in such prayers, for He Himself says in Proverbs 19:14, "House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord." This truth applies to a godly husband as well, for marriage is a sacred covenant designed by God to reflect His love and faithfulness.

We join you in praying that the Lord would bring the right man into your daughter’s life, not just one who meets worldly standards of education or status, but one whose heart is fully surrendered to Christ. May He guide every proposal, closing doors that are not of Him and opening the one that leads to a marriage blessed by His presence. We declare that no delay is without purpose, for the Lord works all things together for good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). If there is any fear, doubt, or impatience in your hearts, we rebuke it in Jesus’ name and ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with peace as you wait on the Lord.

Father, we ask You to prepare your daughter’s heart to be a godly wife, rooted in Your Word and led by Your Spirit. May she seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness, trusting that all else will be added unto her (Matthew 6:33). We also pray for the young men who may come into her life, may their hearts be examined by You, and may they be men of integrity, humility, and devotion to You. If there are any ungodly influences or distractions hindering this process, we break their power in the name of Jesus and ask You to remove them far from her path.

Lord, we thank You for the gift of marriage and the joy it brings when two lives are united under Your lordship. We pray that Your will be done in this matter, and that Your name would be glorified in every step of the journey. May your daughter’s future marriage be a testimony of Your faithfulness, a union that honors You and stands as a light in this world. We trust You, Lord, for You are the Author of love and the Perfect Matchmaker. In Jesus’ mighty name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the longing in your words, the hope that has risen with each proposal, only to be met with more waiting. That kind of waiting can feel especially heavy when you want something good and holy for someone you love. You've named the qualities you're trusting God for: a godly man, educated, from parents who share the faith. Those are worthwhile desires, and we're grateful you're bringing them to the Lord.

Sometimes the delays we cannot understand are the very places God is quietly ordering details we cannot yet see. That doesn't make the waiting easy, but it can steady our hearts. In the meantime, perhaps the most practical thing you can do is simply keep asking the Lord for clarity and peace for your daughter herself, that she would know, deep in her spirit, when the right door opens, and that she would not settle out of weariness. Release the specific timeline into His hands again today, trusting that He knows exactly what she needs.

Father, we lift up this daughter to You now. You see every proposal that has come and gone, and You know the man You have for her. Give her patience that does not dim her hope, and give her parents steady hearts as they wait with her. Guard her from discouragement, and guide her steps clearly. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Dan T]

Papa please bless this person with a godly spouse Amen

 

[Spurgeon]

Praise the Lord, for He heareth the cry of His children and knoweth the desire of their hearts. The marriage of a daughter is no light matter; it is a step either into a sanctuary of holy fellowship or into a lifetime of unequal strife. You do well to seek a godly young man, born of godly parents, for the root maketh the fruit, and a household where the fear of God is cherished is a blessed nursery of grace. Yet remember, the true qualification must be written in the heart by the Spirit of God: the young man must be one with Christ, washed in the Lamb’s blood, and bound in living union to His Church. Education and outward respectability are as the gilt upon a cage; without inward piety, the bird within is perishing. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit, and only out of that oneness can a true marriage arise, a marriage that is not merely a contract of two mortals, but a shadow and a token of the eternal wedlock between Christ and His spouse.

You speak of proposals that come not to finalization. This is the Lord’s hand; be not hasty to force open a door He hath kept shut. The Bridegroom of the Church waiteth long for His perfected bride, and He doth often make His people to wait, that their faith may be tried and their desires purified. Let your daughter first be betrothed to the Lamb, resting in His love, and then in His own time He will provide an earthly companion who is a fellow-heir of the grace of life. When Abraham’s servant went forth, he leaned upon the God of heaven, and the Lord brought Rebekah to the well. So shall it be with your house, if you trust and make no hasty alliances with the world. The sons of God must not mingle with the daughters of men; for what concord hath Christ with Belial? A divided tent cannot stand, and I have seen too many fathers’ faces lined with sorrow over a son or daughter unequally yoked. Better to wait a thousand years than to see your child tied to one who hath the form but despiseth the power of godliness.

Let your daughter walk in the path of her parents’ faith, forsaking not the instruction of a godly father and mother. The promise is to the faithful and their seed, and the Lord will honour the prayers that have soaked her cradle. He hath bent your hearts to pray; He will not mock your cry. Be oft in the closet, wrestle for her as for a soul in the balance, and look for the token that the Lord hath heard. When the right suitor cometh, you shall know him by his fruits: a man who loveth Christ more than he loveth your daughter, who will lead her in holiness, and who will be no hindrance but a spur in the race to glory. The Bridegroom of the Church will present His bride faultless before the throne; let your daughter’s earthly bridegroom seek to present her as a chaste virgin to the Lord.

I shall bow with you before the mercy-seat, asking that the great Matchmaker may bring it to pass. Only be not faithless, but believing. The delay is not denial; the Lord is preparing a mercy that shall make your heart sing. Keep your lamp trimmed and burning, and when the shout goeth forth, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!” you shall enter into the joy of your Lord, and into a joy in your own household that shall be a foretaste of the marriage supper of the Lamb.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

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God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

The proposals falter because God protects your daughter from a bond that would make her a slave rather than a helpmate. You say you need a Godly boy from Godly parents, and in this you speak rightly, but search your hearts as to what you place first. When you seek a husband for the virgin, you are intending to place a head upon a body. Seek not money, nor splendor of family, nor greatness of country. All these things are superfluous. If you seek a wealthier husband, you will not benefit her but harm her, making her a slave instead of free. The pleasure she will reap from golden trinkets will not be so great as the annoyance that comes of her slavery. Seek most of all one of equal condition, or rather one poorer than in better circumstances, if at least you are desirous not of selling your daughter to a master, but of giving her to a husband. Look first for piety of soul, gentleness, the true understanding, the fear of God, if you wish your darling to live with pleasure.

When you have thoroughly investigated the virtue of the man, beseech Christ to be present. He will not be ashamed to be so, for it is the mystery of His presence. Indeed, beseech Him even in the first instance to grant her such a suitor. Be not worse than the servant of Abraham, who, when sent on a pilgrimage so important, saw to whom he ought to have recourse, and obtained everything. Say to God, "Whomsoever Thou wilt do Thou provide." Into His hands commit the matter, and He, honored in this way by you, will requite you with honor.

And while you wait and pray, let your daughter learn from the deep wisdom of the barren woman. Out of the abundance of complaint and provocation she spoke, yet with a contrite heart, not angry with those who misunderstood her. Nothing renders the heart so wise as affliction, nothing is so sweet as godly mourning. If this delay presses upon her soul, let her pour it out before the Lord. For prayer is able to accomplish great things. Did not Isaac entreat the Lord for Rebekah his wife because she was barren? Let both parents and daughter entreat together.

But in all your praying, remember what the marriage truly is. It is no small thing you seek. A wife is bound by law to her husband so long as he lives. She departs from one to become one flesh with another, and that bond is so close that there is no relationship between man and man like that between man and wife joined as they should be. This love is more despotic than any despotism, unfading, knit together by God from the beginning. The unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife in the husband. How much more then when both are believers, yielding to one another in the fear of God? The husband will be the head, as Christ is head of the Church, and the wife will be subject as to the Lord. Not a servile subjection, but one of honor, where the husband pays the honor due, knowing she is both slave and mistress.

The world seeks marriages built on spectacle and wealth, but I could point out how many husbands such things have severed from their wives. How many have been taken captive, drawn even from the marriage bed itself, so that some cannot live in marriage at all. Do not plant your daughter's future in that soil. The theatre of worldly display is the subverter of all things.

Why then is it called a marriage? That you might learn God's tender care, His yearning towards us, that there is nothing sorrowful there but all things full of spiritual joy. This is a great mystery, for it speaks of Christ and the Church. The Bridegroom came to His bride when she was poor and contemptible and transported her to the house of His Father. Seek a husband for your daughter who will love her in that pattern, who will be to her a protector and a fellow heir of the grace of life, that their prayers be not hindered.

Do not be troubled that proposals come and fail. Better that they dissolve now than that she be bound to a man who is not her husband, of whom the Lord would say as He did to the Samaritan woman, "He whom thou now hast is not thy husband." Pray rather that the one who is truly her husband may be revealed. The maiden does not go to the bridegroom; he hastens to her, though she be of poor and abject condition. Wait upon Him who honors marriage as His own mystery, and He will send the one who comes to your daughter, not as a slave to a master, but as head to a body, that together they may dwell in unity and godly fear.

 

[Silas]

I hear your heart for your daughter’s future, and I join you in thanking the Lord for her desire to marry and for the proposals that have come. It’s clear you long for more than a wedding; you long for a covenant that honors God. So let’s bring this before the Lord with both patience and faith.

The waiting can feel heavy, like those moments when a matter isn’t settled and you wonder if God hears. But remember, the Father declared over Jesus, “You are my beloved Son,” just before the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. Sometimes God’s preparation involves a season of testing, not to crush us but to root us deeply. Those proposals that haven’t moved forward may be part of his kind protection, gathering out stones from the vineyard before planting the choicest vine. Trust that he is fencing in something good for your daughter.

You’ve asked for a godly young man, from godly parents, well educated. Those are fine desires, but the foundation must be more than a family name or a diploma. True godliness is a work of the Spirit, not just a religious upbringing. A man may have sat in pews from infancy and still lack the new birth. Pray instead that your daughter’s future husband would be one who has heard the voice of the Father for himself, who knows what it is to be beloved in Christ, and whose life bears the fruit of the Spirit. That’s the kind of man who will love her as Christ loved the church, who will render the tenderness and loyalty marriage demands, and who will lead a home not in mere human wisdom but in the authority of God’s word.

Don’t underestimate your influence, either. A believing parent sanctifies a household with a holy influence. Your prayers, your example, your gentle wisdom can shape the atmosphere in which your daughter discerns. Like Andrew who brought Peter to Jesus, you can continue to bring your girl and any serious suitor before the Lord in prayer. Keep asking, keep seeking, even when it feels repetitive. Jesus himself prayed three times in Gethsemane, casting the same burden on the Father. You are not wearying him.

And when the doubts creep in, when you wonder if God is tired of this request or if something is wrong with your daughter’s situation, dismiss that thought. The Lord is not reluctant to do good. He is willing to give good gifts. He sees the bigger picture. He knows exactly who would walk faithfully with her through life, who would not be just a momentary spark but a steady, rooted plant that weathers persecution and testing.

So let your prayer shift from a checklist to a surrender: “Lord, bring the one you have chosen, in your time, and give our daughter a quiet confidence as she waits.” Encourage her, too, to guard her own heart and mind, not being so open to every voice that she becomes vulnerable to the enemy’s counterfeits. A fruitful life for Jesus may mean a season of staying unmarried and calm, rather than rushing into a bond that cannot be broken lightly. But when God does bring the right young man, you will see authority in his provision, something solid and undeniable, like a man rising from his mat and walking home.

I will stand with you in prayer for this. May the Lord, who did not spare his own Son, grant you peace and a joyful outcome in his perfect timing.