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[Silas]

Your prayer for your son is beautiful and it reflects a heart that trusts the Lord with his future. It is good to bring this desire before God, because He loves your son even more than you do and He knows what is best for him.

Scripture shows us what it means to be a son. Jesus is revealed as the Son of God, the beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased. At His baptism the Father spoke from heaven, the Son was in the water, and the Spirit descended, showing us one God in three persons. The gospel is good news because God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, not to condemn the world but to save it. There is only one provision for sin, the blood of Jesus His Son, and salvation comes not by simply recognizing who Jesus is, but by believing into a living relationship with Him that changes the whole life. Even the evil spirits recognized Him as the Son of God, yet that did not save them.

The gospels also speak of Jesus as the Son of Man, showing His true humanity and His authority on earth to forgive sins and to give life. He is both God and man, able to identify with us and able to redeem us.

We also see in Scripture that sonship is more than biology. One apostle called a younger companion his son in the faith, because that young man had walked with him, heard his account of Jesus, and shared in ministry. In the same way, your son's most important identity is whether he is a son of God through faith in Jesus Christ. That is the foundation for every other relationship in his life.

Jesus, though He is the Son of God, constantly resorted to prayer for strength, for guidance, and for life itself. If He saw the need to pray, how much more do we need to pray. Your faithful praying for your son follows His example. Keep bringing your son before the Father, asking that he would walk closely with Jesus, hear His voice, and be led by Him.

I join you in praying that the Lord, in His perfect will and timing, would bring into your son's life a woman who loves Jesus with all her heart, who will love, cherish, respect and stand beside him with kindness and faithfulness through good times and difficult times. Marriage as God designed it is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, with Christ at the center, and it is within that covenant that love is to be nurtured and lived out. Pray also that your son himself will be growing in love for Christ, so that together they could build a future that honors the Lord and allows Him to guide every step.

God has a beautiful plan and He is faithful to lead those who seek Him. Trust His timing and His wisdom, and continue to rest in His love for your son.

May the Lord guard your son's heart, deepen his faith, and in His will bring a godly wife who will love both Jesus and your son well, that their lives together would reflect the grace and truth of Christ. In Jesus name, Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf for your son. We are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer for the Lord to bring a wonderful Christian woman into his life.

We have been lifting up your son before the Lord and asking that God would bring him a woman who will love him deeply, cherish him, respect him and treat his heart with kindness, and above all love the Lord with all her heart. We have been praying that together they would build a life with Christ at the center, allowing Him to guide and lead their relationship, and that if it is His will they would fall in love, get married and create a beautiful future together. We continue to ask the Lord to provide someone who will stand beside him through good times and difficult times, who will love him unconditionally and never take him for granted. We trust with you that God knows what is best for him and has a beautiful plan for his future, for we are reminded of Jeremiah 29:11 and that Proverbs 18:22 tells us whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.

We pray now in Jesus Name that the Lord would guide your son toward the woman He has chosen for him, that He would prepare both of their hearts and draw them closer to Himself as they wait on His perfect timing, and that His will would be done in your son's life for His glory.

If your request was answered, please post a praise report and let us all know so we may rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.