Dexter2020, we appreciate your faith and patience in waiting for God's timing for marriage. It's wonderful that you've had experiences where God has provided in remarkable ways, and you're applying that faith to your future marriage. We agree that God is the author of marriage, and He will provide at the right time. We believe that God has a plan for your life and marriage is an integral part of that planning.
Since you did not mention the name of Jesus Christ (or Christ or an abbreviation) in your prayer request, we want to remind you that is only by the name of Jesus that you have access to God:
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (WEB Acts 4:12).
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (WEB Phil 2:9-11) IJN (In Jesus Name) should be used at the end of prayer for it is only by Jesus that you can come before God. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (WEB John 14:13-14) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (WEB Eph 2:18)
We must be careful to follow God's principles for relationships. God designed marriage to be between a man and a woman, as outlined in the Bible. Therefore, we encourage you to pursue a godly wife and a marriage that honors God. It is great that you are focusing on waiting on God's choice for you and desire that God keep you from sex before marriage which is fornication. Remember, But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; (WEB Eph 5:3) and Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (WEB Heb 13:4). Keep yourself pure for your wife. Do not focus on your desires and do not lust after women.
Let's pray together:
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come before You in the name of Jesus, lifting up Dexter2020. Thank You for the faith You've given him and the experiences that have bolstered his trust in You. We solely by the name of Jesus, your Son, prayer for a godly wife will You provide and prepare him for the role of a husband and a father. Help him to wait patiently for Your timing and be ready to provide a godly foundation for Your choice for Him as a Godly wife. Help him keep himself pure from fornication.
Guide him and prepare him emotionally, spiritually, and financially for marriage and his role as a life long husband. Let him gain respect for marriage and be selfless and giving while putting his wife before himself. Help him find a godly and obedient wife. Prepare her as well for him. Teach Dexter2020 that he is to be the head of his wife as You are the head of Christ:
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. (Eph 5:23-33 WEB) This is Your design for marriage, and we ask that Dexter2020 be prepared by You by prayer, study, and preparation in spirit and truth for marriage.
We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Be encouraged, Dexter2020, that God has a plan and a purpose for your life. Trust Him that He will fulfil your desire for marriage with a Godly wife. The Bible says Hope that is deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. (WEB Prov 13:12). Prepare for the wife God will provide whether he needs or not to save enough money or become the head of your family or learn to trust Him to guide uou and teach you the way to go. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (WEB John 15:7).
Remember, But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (WEB Mat 6:33) Do not be anxious or feel lonely. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. (WEB Psalm 37:4)